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

[Courtney Duncan]

>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.

You may be near my buddy W6GL.  I've been trying to talk him into a 2 
meter SSB or CW QSO but he doesn't think we will make it on 5 watts. 
We have worked on 10 meters direct and had a 90 minute Rockmite to 
Rockmite QSO (3/4 watt, 40 meters) so I'm pretty sure we would.  (We 
do argue whether that was groundwave or skywave.)  He did a packet 
beacon broadcast test once in which he transmitted every couple of 
minutes for several days.  We got a few packets across on airplane 
echoes.

If you're using the DSP-10 as an IF to 10 GHz etc., you still have a 
2 meter rig at 30 mW.  That would be great for tests over our 30-ish 
mile range, but you'd still need some sort of outdoor 2 meter 
antenna, preferably a directional one, and probably a lot of 
patience.  Some DSP-10 modes are designed with this sort of situation 
in mind, but we'd probably want to coordinate on 75 meters or some 
repeater or something.  Hmmmm, I guess the Santa Susannah pass and 
accompanying ridge are between us.

>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

Palmdale and Ridgecrest are both blocked from here.  Do you know how 
active those guys are?  I would have to take my DSP-10 on the road 
which I'm willing, but not equipped, to do.  (No compatible laptop.) 
When I have a significant improved capability like that I'll re-post.

Courtney

>
>
>>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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