Camping & RVing
Radio Camping & Caravaning: This page is about camping and caravaning by Amateur Radio Operators with their families, using portable and mobile radio communications. Mobileer is our Northern California e-mail discussion group on this subject
Elsewhere, caravan may mean a camping vehicle, but we mean traveling together, with or without an RV. Camping can be in a tent, SUV, or RV, with or without caravaning. RV (Recreational Vehicle), can mean any type of camping vehicle, trailer or motorhome.
Ham Radio Trip
Reports and Photos:
*now restored | ||
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| 2009 | Announcement - Calaveras Big Trees Campout - July | |
| 2008 | Mineral / Lassen Park Campout - July | |
| 2006 | Casini Ranch Campout - June (newsletter) | |
| 2005 | Joshua Tree Spring Desert Trip | *Dunsmuir Campout - July |
| 2004 | Lone Pine Spring Desert Trip | *Cromberg Campout - July |
| 2003 | *Twain Harte Campout - July | Fall Trip - Durango - Lone Pine |
| 2002 | E-mail from Quartzsite - January | Pahrump & Lk McClure - April |
| *Redwoods Campout - July | Arizona - Fall Trip & Lone Pine | |
| 2001 | Mojave Desert Spring Trip Report | *Hat Creek Campout - July |
| 2000 | Quartzsite - Sam's & Q2K - Jan-Feb | Mojave Rd & Lk McClure - April |
| Colorado-Utah Train/4X4/RV Fall Trip Report & Lone Pine | ||
| 1999 | Quartzsite & Organ Pipe - February | Mojave Desert - Spring Trip Report |
| Utah-Colorado 4X4 - Trip Report | Organ Pipe RV Trip - Trip Report | |
| 1998 | Death Valley - Spring Desert Trip | |
| 1997 | Lone Pine - Spring Desert Trip | Nevada Ichthyosaur Trip - June |
| New Mexico Fall Trip - Silver City & Socorro | ||
| 1996 | Anza-Borrego Desert State Park | Dino-Train Trip - UT-CO-NM |
| 1995 | Arizona Mohave Road | Canyonlands & Escalante |
| 1984 | Canyonlands - See 1984 paragraph in 1999 Utah-Colorado 4X4 Trip | |
| 1979 | Four-Corners - 1979 - Example of all our trips before and after | |
| 1971 | Durango 1971 - Colorado Run - Our very first extended caravan trip | |
| *July campouts, 2001 through 2005, were posted on another site but
deleted, resulting in broken links until restored on this site in March 2009. | ||
RV Mobile Radio: Ham RVers need mobile radio more than others. VHF FM is not a convenience for caravaning, it's a necessity. HF is more popular among Ham RVers than with Hams in general. RVers put up HF antennas when camping that are mobile-not-in-motion!.
RVs are for retirees? Where did that idea start? In the '60s and '70s, a lot of reasonably sized RVs were sold to young families. Sizes have grown, but the generation that took RVing for granted stayed with it. But smaller hybrid and lite trailers are going to young families again.