[MAMS] Lightning repair progress

[Dave Sublette]

Good evening,

Well I guess I didn't miss any good conditions on Saturday. I suspect 
the cold front from Canada had things stirred up too much to sustain 
microwave propagation.

I am ready to put the four band microwave back up at 185 feet. Well, not 
me, but two very kind guys in the form of Terry, W8ZN and Denny, W4FVQ 
have volunteered to show up Saturday and do the heavy lifting.  And I do 
mean heavy.  The box weighs 52 lbs.  I plan to pull it up to them with 
the lawn tractor.  The rope and pulley are already in place. A heartfelt 
thank you to those guys.

I measured sub- 0ne dB Nf on 2304 and 2 DB on 3456 and 10G and sub 2 dB 
on 5G. That is about as good as I've ever seen this box do. Conversion 
gains are 22-29 dB, depending on which band you look at. Power out is 26 
watts on 2304, 36 watts on 3456, 4 watts on 5G and 5 watts on 10G. That 
should do very well.

I also refurbished the dual 5/10 feed for my .9M dish.

I hope it will be at least another 4 years before I have to take it down 
again.  That's how long it has been since the last time I had the box 
down to do the GPS locked LO mods on 2304 and 10G.

So, if things go as planned, I will be looking for microwave skeds by 
Saturday evening.

See you on the microwave bands,

K4TO