OT: QRP rig for Hawaiian Cruise..Saturday- Heath HW8/9 or ??

[Allen Jones]

The other thing to keep in mind is that the majority
of cruise ships are not of U.S. registry.

I would probably check with ARRL.  They normally have
some info available.

There was a horror story published in the letters
section of QST several months ago regarding a fellow
that tried to operate while on a cruise.  Security on
the ship confiscated part of his gear and generally
made his life miserable

Allen, W9DZ

--- Don Melcher <don at HFRADIO.COM> wrote:

> Remember - The FCC rules say that you MUST have
> permission from the captain
> of the ship before you operate.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heathkit Owners and Collectors List
> [mailto:HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV]
> On Behalf Of W5EUQ
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:43 PM
> To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: [HEATH-TEMPE] QRP rig for Hawaiian
> Cruise..Saturday- Heath HW8/9 or
> ??
> 
> Any ideas?
> This Saturday morning I fly to Honolulu, with my
> beautiful wife, for a 
> seven day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands.  Plans
> have been to take my 
> Icom 7000/LDG Z11Pro, Astron power supply and gear
> to support, such as 
> antennas/miniature iambic key/keyer and laptop.  
> After much soul 
> searching I have decided to not take the above gear.
>  Reasons are many 
> however here are a couple.  One, I'd have to carry
> the heavy bag ( I'm 
> not a young feller any more) through the air ports
> and it all weighs 
> over 50 lbs.
> Two, if the ship would not let me take it on, I'd
> have to find a way to 
> ship it back to myself.  The gear is expensive gear.
>  I have no problem 
> with a couple of hundred dollars lost but close to
> $1,800 worth of 
> gear........ No....
> I have emailed the ship lines, months back and no
> answer.  I called the 
> ship recently, even talked to an officer of the
> bridge on the bridge. He 
> was very helpful but no one said okay.   I could not
> get in contact with 
> the purser and no one would tell me anything but an
> emphatic NO!!!  
> (then when asked if they knew what ham radio
> was...the answer 
> was..."no"...)
> 
> If I had been able to predict this, I would have
> planned to take a QRP 
> CW rig with a battery on ship... used a wire hanging
> off my balcony and 
> if I contacted one ham, just one QSO,  then I could
> say I had done 
> it..... and it would be great.
> 
> KH6ZM, Max, said he would meet me at the ship on the
> first day out.  
> I've tried to figure out how to get a QRP rig at
> this late date and get 
> it to him to give me to take on the ship.  If anyone
> has a complete 
> outfit, CW would be fine, and get it to Max by
> Saturday, then I would 
> make sure you got it back.  OR ship it overnight, at
> my expense to me in 
> Tampa by Friday.  I have a very small electronic key
> that works off a 
> watch battery.  I can make my own antennas... eg..
> 32 foot piece of wire 
> and counterpoise the ship...
> Any takers?  thank you,  Bob Hardie-  W5EUQ-  Tampa
> 


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