Mobile operating and this awful weather...

**2E0JTP** · Tue 30th Nov 2010, 18:44

So, who here is making use of their mobile radios when they travel during this foul weather?

I just spent 9 hours going nowhere very very very slowly.

Guess who forgot to pack the radio today.

**G6NHU** · Tue 30th Nov 2010, 19:51

I spent two and a half hours driving to work, only to give up just five miles from my destination and then another couple of hours back home. Although I had the radio in the car, my aerials were at home where I took them off when it went in for an MoT a couple of weeks ago and I'd not put them back on yet

**2E0JTP** · Wed 1st Dec 2010, 11:45

Ironically ... I had the antenna in the back.

**G6NHU** · Wed 1st Dec 2010, 12:56

Did you do better today? I called through GB3CL as I left home at 07:00 this morning and had a nice chat with G4TVP/M who was on GB3CE (the two repeaters are linked together) who was on his way from Colchester to Ipswich. After that, M1EAK called in and after that G7BKU appeared and kept me company until I got to the Witham bypass on the A12.

I called a couple of times through GB3DA after that but there was nobody on.

**2E0JTP** · Wed 1st Dec 2010, 17:15

Well, after spending 9 hours not getting to where I wanted to go yesterday. I decided to not even bother trying today.

Road conditions are atrocious around my way (and where I have to go to) so I erred on the side of a nice warm sofa and easy access to the kettle.

**AE6ZW** · Mon 6th Jun 2011, 19:21

here in US, when I used to live in place they have a lot of bad weather, I often chit chat fellow driver on simplex 146.520 MHz FM frequency. also, CB radio is useful.