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

[Frank Kelly]

Hi Courtney,
I live in Thousand Oaks and run a DSP-10 on the microwave bands.  Nothing on VHF/UHF yet although I have used it for monitoring distant 2M stations during the winter rains.  Doppler returns off of distant airplanes are also fun to watch. 

There are DSP-10's in Palmdale and Ridgecrest, but none other around that I know of.  I would be interested in knowing who else you find is around.
Good luck.
Frank WB6CWN


>From: Courtney Duncan <cbduncan at earthlink.net>
>Date: Tue May 09 14:46:53 CDT 2006
>To: DSP-10 <dsp-10 at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [DSP-10] Any other DSP-10 operators in SoCal up for QRP tests?

>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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