[MAMS] Lightning repair progress

[Zack Widup]

I might be able to try on Sunday some time. Let me know!

73, Zack W9SZ


On 8/21/12, Dave Sublette <k4to at arrl.net> wrote:
> 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
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