Comments on: Importance of Ham Radio in the Chaser Setup http://www.stormchase.com/blog/2009/04/importance-of-ham-radio-in-the-chaser-setup.html Storm chasing team blog from StormChase.com Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:23:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike Urich http://www.stormchase.com/blog/2009/04/importance-of-ham-radio-in-the-chaser-setup.html/comment-page-1#comment-31 Mike Urich Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:15:01 +0000 http://www.stormchase.com/?p=187#comment-31 Its always sad when any mom & pop can't compete with the big box outlets, but Burghardt not selling new radios means the decline of the hobby. I would also imagine the chase teams would primarily use itinerate radios (151.625, 154.570 154.600) or MURS because of their license free status and will produce the same performance simplex as amateur radio will. I would also imagine that a fair number of the teams would be hams so as to be able to monitor skywarn nets on local repeaters. Mike, KA5CVH Its always sad when any mom & pop can’t compete with the big box outlets, but Burghardt not selling new radios means the decline of the hobby.

I would also imagine the chase teams would primarily use itinerate radios (151.625, 154.570 154.600) or MURS because of their license free status and will produce the same performance simplex as amateur radio will. I would also imagine that a fair number of the teams would be hams so as to be able to monitor skywarn nets on local repeaters.

Mike, KA5CVH

]]> By: Mike KA5CVH http://www.stormchase.com/blog/2009/04/importance-of-ham-radio-in-the-chaser-setup.html/comment-page-1#comment-30 Mike KA5CVH Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:01:10 +0000 http://www.stormchase.com/?p=187#comment-30 It is truely unfortunate that the mom & pop store can't compete with the likes of HRO, AES, Gigaparts and so on but that does not mean the hobby is in any state of decline and will only last 10 years or so because one store can no longer compete on that level. I do see chase teams depending as heavily upon MURS and even itinerate radios (151.625, 154.570, 154.600) because they are license free and with the exception they are entirely simplex will still give similar mobile to mobile distances as amateur radio. It is truely unfortunate that the mom & pop store can’t compete with the likes of HRO, AES, Gigaparts and so on but that does not mean the hobby is in any state of decline and will only last 10 years or so because one store can no longer compete on that level.

I do see chase teams depending as heavily upon MURS and even itinerate radios (151.625, 154.570, 154.600) because they are license free and with the exception they are entirely simplex will still give similar mobile to mobile distances as amateur radio.

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