[MAMS] Conditions this morning

[Zack Widup]

Wish I had a tower at home with microwave bands set up on it! [sigh]

Great news Dave! I haven't been pointing your way during the MAD operations.
Maybe we can make it some time. I have a clear shot in your direction from
the hill in EN50rl.

Maybe we can make some skeds for other times before the weather gets too
cold. There are some mornings when I can get set up on the hill around 6 or
6:30 am and then pack up at 8 and be at work by 9 am.

Conditions were pretty miserable last Saturday. As Jim W9SNR noted, if we
can't make it on 10 GHz when I'm in EN50rl and he's in EN62cc, conditions
are pretty bad. Neither of us heard the other on 10 GHz. He did hear me on
2304.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to at arrl.net> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Band conditions were enhanced this morning, at least up through 5760. I
> didn't have any means of checking 10 ghz.  I copied the WA4PGI 5760
> beacon. I sent the following report to him:
>
>
> Good morning,
>
> I am happy to report that I am copying your 5760 beacon this morning on
> 5760.071.36 mhz with excellent signal strength. With QSB, your signal is
> 10 to 35 dB above ambient noise. I am using my GPS locked signal
> generator on 5760 to check my calibration and I am running linrad to
> check signal strength.  Both methods seem to be quite accurate.
>
> My location is EM77wx and elevation is 1120 ft ASL. My equipment is
> mounted 185 feet up my 200 foot rotating tower and my radio horizon is a
> long way off, since I am on the highest point in Clark County, KY.
>
> This is the first microwave beacon I have heard in a long time. K8TQK
> brought my attention to another beacon and I saw your machine listed on
> my beacon list. When I tuned for it, there it was!
>
> Congratulations on a fine beacon and thank you for supplying this
> valuable service to our microwave community.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
>
>
> Which brings me to the second reason for this email to my microwave
> friends.  I am almost fully recovered from my hospital stay this summer
> and would welcome skeds on 902mhz through 10ghz any morning from 6 to 9
> AM EDT. I have listened and participated to the MAD activities and
> haven't heard much going on.  It seems that propagation doesn't
> cooperate on these scheduled days, so I believe it is going to depend on
> individual skeds on days with enhanced propagation if I am ever going to
> increase my grid square totals.
>
> K8TQK and I are on 144.135 just about every morning and check the higher
> bands. The propagation forecast pages often do not predict the good
> conditions that Bob and I find these mornings. Again, this tells me that
> persistent skeds are the way to go.
>
> I realize that many, if not most, of you work for a living and do not
> have the luxury of retirement as I do. However, I am willing to sked
> with you any time that we can mutually agree on. Mornings are usually
> better.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
> EM77wx
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