[HCARC] Local 10 Meter Propagation Test - Tonight - 6:30 to 6:45 -28.365 Mhz

[galeheise at windstream.net]

Kerry-

  Thank you for such a great and thorough recap of your participation in the 
Local 10 Meter Propagation Test and venturing away from the CW key to SSB in 
a number of years.  You as well as a great number of others in the club have 
a tremendous amount of information to share with others in the club. 
Plethora is a word that comes to mind.

  Terry Hipskind,  offered to run some tests with me in the next few days to 
check out the bands.

  My thinking is that I need to run some preliminary tests before expending 
anymore energy of participates.

  I really appreciate the efforts of everyone to find a band and time that 
is conducive to a wide coverage of seasoned hams as well as those newly 
licensed.

Gale
KM4DR

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kerry Sandstrom
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 3:36 PM
To: galeheise at windstream.net ; HCARC Reflector
Subject: Re: [HCARC] Local 10 Meter Propagation Test - Tonight - 6:30 to 
6:45 -28.365 Mhz

Distances from K5KS to 10 meter participants:

    K5KS - K5HV        21 miles

    K5KS - K5XA        23 miles

    K5KS - KM4DR    11 miles

    K5KS - K5YB        17 miles.

KM4DR was by far the strongest  ~ S5.

K5HV was second at  ~ S3

K5XA on the high beam was  ~ S2, but very readable.  On the low beam John
was ~ S1 and marginally readable.

K5YB was ~ S1 and I could copy his call and a word once in a while..

Since K5HV and K5XA are approxmately the same distance and in the same
direction from me, I'm surprised that K5HV was so loud compared to K5XA.
K5XA with the high beam was easily workable and was also workable on the low
beam but noticeably weaker.

Not sure why K5YB wasn't louder since I think he was using a vertical and I
think is on the hill behind Wal-Mart.

Station here is an OMNI D, yes a D, ~ 30 years old, with 70 W output and a
Butternut HF2V fed through a homebrew antenna tuner.  It has 16 radials each
55 feet long and is 80 feet or so from trees or buildings.  By the way, my
first SSB QSO with the OMNI D and my first venture on SSB since I worked
W3XO on 6 meters several years ago.

I would like to try this again with more stations in Kerrville and
Fredericksburg to see if K5HV is what I should expect or if K5YB is the more
typical signal..  I should be able to work W4WJ and perhaps AC4CA, but it
would be nice to know.

Are we going to try this again?

Kerry