[MAMS] Good condx this AM (July MAD)

[Zack Widup]

Hi Dave,

10 GHz conditions weren't so good on 10 GHz at least toward St. Louis last
Saturday. W9ZIH was so loud on 10 GHz that we worked on SSB but I couldn't
work St. Louis. I didn't take the 24 GHz with me after Jim W9SNR said he
couldn't make it out for MAD.

The K9MOT beacons are the former K3SIW beacons at the Motorola plant in
Schaumburg, EN52xb. The callsign was changed I think mainly because Garry
doesn't work at Motorola anymore. They have all been fixed up a little or a
lot by Pete K9PW. There is no full station at that site; they are just
beacons, no capability for a full QSO.

Not sure what my tone of voice was at Dayton but I usually go to the
Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan for the 10 GHz contest on the September
weekend and work people on the Michigan side. It's a bit much time-wise and
expense-wise for me to travel very far for both weekends. I thought there
was a big group planning on going to Lake Erie for the August weekend.
That's just a little too far for me to drive. Maybe I was thinking of that.
I might just operate from EN50rl in August. Not sure. It's still up in the
air.

73, Zack


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Dave Calvert <kb0pe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Zack,
> I tried to call you to see if the conditions were good enough that you
> possibly did work on 24 Gigs.
> I guess sense you were late getting out there that you probably left the
> 24 Gig at home?  I learned
> one thing from this MAD, to call you at 5am until you answer your phone hi
> hi.
>
> Yes, it was hot out and St. Louis got to 105 on Sat.  I noticed that the
> Hepburn ducting maps had
> a lot of the broken dashed lines in it that makes it really unpredictable !
>
> I noted the K9MOT, NG9R and K9CT to look up there info and get ready to
> work them on 902/3.
> Hope to be ready with the next MAD with a better setup for switching the
> bands.  Now have 902/3,
> 2304, 3456, 5.7, 10 (loaner unit) and 24 Gigs.
>
> I wanted to talk about the Big 10 Gig and up gathering in Wisconsin in
> August and to hear your reasons
> why you do not participate in this?  When I asked you at Dayton I noticed
> the tone in your voice that
> set a flag off on not going myself but would like to hear from you on
> this.  It will not go any further than
> our conversation here - OK.  Are you home now so that I can call you?
> Your home # I mean?
> 73,
> Dave
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
> To: Mid-America Microwave Society <mams at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [MAMS] Good condx this AM (July MAD)
>
> I got a late start for MAD. I wanted to get up at 5 am and be set up
> by 7 am. I slept through the alarm and got up at 6:30. Whoops. I don't
> think I got to sleep till 2 am though. It was just too hot overnight.
>
> Anyway, got to the hill in EN50rl and got 10 GHz going by 8 am and
> tried to work AF4JF in EM48sq, St. Louis. Nothing heard either way. I
> also could not hear the St. Louis beacon on 10368.900. So we tried
> 1296. Great signals both ways on 1296. Then worked WB9PNU, also in St.
> Louis, on 1296 with great signals.
>
> I worked W9ZIH next. We had great signals on 1296, 3456 and 10 GHz. It
> seemed there was a little enhancement. This was around 9 am. I was
> also copying the K9MOT beacons on 903 and 1296 about S5 to S8. I then
> worked Danny NG9R in EN40na on 902 and 1296, with decent signals both
> ways. I was his first QSO on 902 MHz! I tried to work Marcel N9NJY on
> 902 and 1296 around 10 am but by then the band conditions were
> deteriorating and I heard him briefly on 902, then he disappeared. No
> QSO on either band with him.
>
> I then worked Craig K9CT who is just west of Peoria on 902 and 1296.
> Very good signals on that path but he was only about 70 miles away.
>
> It was really starting to get hot by then so I tore down, packed up
> and drove home. Sorry I missed you Dave. If I'd gotten up when I
> wanted to, we probably could've worked.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> On 7/7/12, Dave Sublette <k4to at arrl.net> wrote:
> > K8TQK and I are finding excellent propagation on all the bands from 902
> > thru 10G this morning. I hope it holds for a few hours anyway.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Dave, K4TO
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