OT: Hobbies besides 914's, what do you do for fun? Options

[Aaron Cox]

well. i guess i'll go first.

in my spare time i usually go dawn patrol (surfing in the wee hours of the morning, anyweather im there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)), i skateboard, and snowboard. Trying to get involved in AX this year. i also help my uncle build hotrods.....

what about you?

[TonyAKAVW]

The 914 hobby for me is really secondary to my other hobby, which is even more unusual. I'm relaly into a particular form of amateur radio. Specifically microwave communications. Each year for two weekends, we (about 150 people in the US) get up on top of mountains and try to talk to each other on strange contraptions we've built. Our goal in this contest is to talk to the most number of other people over the longest distances. Since the microwave signals are inherently line-of-sight we have to be on mountaintops.

Here's a picture of my latest radio, its a 47 GHz radio. The wavelength of the signals is 6 mm, which is actually considered beyond microwaves (millimeterwaves). The rifle scope on the side is actually used for pointing, the beamwidth of the antenna is around 1 degree.

-Tony