[DSP-10] Any other DSP-10 operators in SoCal up for QRP tests?

Courtney Duncan cbduncan at earthlink.net
Tue May 9 15:46:53 EDT 2006


I'm finally up to the point of studying the various weak signal modes 
available in the current DSP-10 software and wonder if there are 
other DSP-10 operators in Southern California who would be interested 
in some weak signal tests.

I'm located at DM04vf, about 400 meters MSL overlooking Los Angeles 
from the foothills to the north.  The DSP-10, two meters only, runs 
the Brickette at 5.0-5.5 watts to an M^2 2M12 that is steered in 
azimuth only.  In the various QSO parties I've routinely worked DM12 
(San Diego / Tijuana area), the locals DM04, DM03, DM14, DM13, and 
CM94 way out west.  I've also copied the 144.294 N6NB beacon in DM05 
in the waterfall and occasionally on audible CW.  Anyone in these 
grids, and possibly others, depending on location with respect to 
local mountains, would be a candidate.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty solidly blocked to the northeast, most of 
DM14 and all of DM15, DM24, DM25.

I'm going to try EME2 at moonrise for the next few evenings.  Since 
the antenna doesn't steer in elevation, I can only hope for results 
for the first ten or fifteen degrees elevation (an hour).  Being a 
single beam, there may be no hope but I'll try anyway.  Have people 
done PUA43 EME with "modest" 2 meter stations?

How would these modes do over long tropo paths?  Any DSP-10s in Hawaii?

73, Courtney, n5bf/6


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