Ham Radio Caravaning & Camping

This is about caravaning and camping by Amateur Radio Operators and their families, using mobile and portable radio communications. In some places, "caravan" can mean a camping trailer, but we mean traveling together. Camping may be in a tent, SUV, trailer, or motorhome.

Ham Radio Trip Blazer Reports and Photos:
2013 Announcement - Lone Pine Campout - Sept.
2012 Willits KOA Campout - July
2011 Olema Ranch Campout - July
2010 Sierras/Twain Harte Campout - July
2009 Calaveras Big Trees Campout - July
The following links are being moved to this page and may be missing for a while.
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
64-97 Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park - Nevada - Ham Radio Trips 1964-1997.
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

RV Mobile Radio: Ham RVers need mobile radio. It is not a convenience for caravaning, it is a necessity. Especially VHF FM. HF is popular among Ham RVers who put up antennas while 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. That generation took RVing for granted and stayed with it. But smaller hybrid and lite trailers are now going to young families again.

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Update: June 24, 2013 - Moved from HF Mobile page: June 15, 2002