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British Hams Mark Longest-Ever Bicycle-to-Backpack Transmission
(Dec 3, 2007)
-- Dave Starkie, G4AKC, of Blackpool, Lancashire in England, and Keith Sharples, G7LPW/ZL3, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, have been working for the past two years on a backpack and bicycle mobile system for the HF bands. At 0900 UTC on November 15, Starkie in England and Sharples in New Zealand had a first -- a QRP contact on 20 meters from bicycle to backpack and backpack to backpack, each with good signals at both 5 and 50 W. Their route was along the greyline and took the longpath at a distance of 22,100 kilometers (13,724 miles). According to the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), this was the result of two years work to improve and develop a high performance HF backpack that was used at both ends of the contact. The contact has been declared the longest radio transmission using backpacks by the World Records Academy (WRA).
