[MAMS] 4 States Lookout Point (Kansas)

[Zack Widup]

Wow, looks like a promising location! I'll have to download the data
for a few more grid squares to look at the path via Radio Mobile but I
hope it's fairly unobstructed to Illinois.

I wish I could operate from the hill where the WD9BGA beacon is. It's
on a hill at at about the same elevation.

My 10 GHz transverter had a phase-lock problem recently. I was using
one of those little ceramic half-turn trimmers to adjust the LO for
phase-lock. The cap eventually went bad. They are notorious for that.
So I replaced it with a 10-turn ceramic piston trimmer. I think that
cured it!

73, Zack W9SZ


On 12/17/12, Dave Calvert <kb0pe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello to the group,
> I had been wanting to make a trip over to the top North East corner of
> Kansas to try and find a location to
> operate the microwave bands from.  A spot that would be high and above
> everything and as close to the
> Kansas state line so that I could possibly give out a contact to the ops as
> far as IL. and surrounding states.
>
> Bingo, found it while I was visiting Garth - W0GR/EM8ax and his wife Allie.
> I got to spend my
> Thanksgiving week at the microwave farm!  The Monday after Thanksgiving, the
> three of use got in the car
> and drove 287 miles round trip from Odessa, MO. to a small town of White
> Cloud, Ks.  It was like we
> drove straight to it.  In the town of White Cloud looking for a restroom we
> drove right to the 4 States
> Lookout Point.  It was snowing heavily and I did not take any pictures but
> did take a GPS reading.  At the
> lookout site it was EM29ix and the elevation of 1120 Ft.  This is higher
> than most of the hill-topping that
> I have done in the past!
>
> This lookout is built on the old concrete base of a power tower that use to
> come across the Missouri
> River and supply electricity there.  Hopefully this summer I will make a
> trip over there and try to spend
> a week operating just the uW bands.  I will have .902, 1.2, 2.3, 3.4, 5.7,
> 10 & 24 GHz.  Oh, one other
> thing.  This location only has a South to East to North ONLY shot. You can
> see MO, IA, NE & of course
> KS from this location!  I did take several readings with the GPS in other
> spots that have a full 360 degree
> shot to everyone.  Dam, I grew up in Wichita, KS. but I never new that
> this area had hills like this!!!
>
> This was like a vacation for me to get out of town and to be there for
> Allie's 93 rd Birthday and two cakes
> & a punkin roll was a lot of fun.  Saturday was kinda a group get together
> with Ed - N0DAG and Randy - WB0JQQ visiting for a continuing Birthday
> party.
> 73 for now,
> Dave - KB0PE
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