[MAMS] Microwave Sprint

[Zack Widup]

Hi David,

They drift around a bit, but these are the frequencies where I was
receiving them yesterday:

903.082
1296.057
2304.017

There are also beacons that are supposed to be on:

3456.015
5760.000
10368.045

These drift around a bit, too. They are in a room at the Motorola
facility in EN52wb that has no temperature control and I guess it gets
pretty hot there in the summer. I can sometimes hear the 3456 beacon
here but I have never heard the 5760 or 10368 beacons down here. I can
hear them if I'm set up somewhere in the Chicago area.

73, Zack W9SZ

On 9/30/12, David DeVos <kf8ql at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Zack,
>
> What are the frequencies of those beacons in Chicago?
>  Dave KF8QL
> http://www.davedevos.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
> To: Mid-America Microwave Society <mams at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sat, September 29, 2012 4:49:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [MAMS] Microwave Sprint
>
> I got a late start, partly because I forgot my 2m transverter last
> night (which was in a storage space I rent). I had to wait till they
> opened at 6 am to fetch it.
>
> I got set up around 8:30 am and listened for the 903, 1296 and 2304
> beacons in Chicago. At that time they were all pinning my s-meter. I
> took that as a good sign. I then managed to finally contact AF4JF and
> N5MU in St. Louis on 10 GHz. We were unable to work on 1296. That was
> a little after 9 am. I tried working KO0Z on 10 GHz with no luck,
> either.
>
> I then pointed my antennas north and worked N9LB on 902 and 1296. We
> tried 2304. I could hear him just fine but he couldn't hear me. He
> suspected a blown FET in his preamp. I also worked WB8BZK/R on 1296
> when he was in two different grids. Meanwhile, Lloyd had replaced the
> FET and suspected a bad T/R relay, so we tried working again on 2304
> with him switching from transmit to receive by moving the antenna
> connector between transmit and receive. We were able to work on 2304.
> I was his first QSO ever on that band!
>
> The bands deteriorated later in the morning. By 10:30 AM I could not
> hear the 2304 beacon and the 902 and 1296 beacons had settled to just
> above the noise.
>
> I could've tried to work you, Danny. I forgot you were out there. I
> could've pointed my antennas your way. Hopefully next time!
>
> Notably missing this morning were W9ZIH, K2DRH and W9SNR. I asked a
> couple people in the Chicago area and no one had had heard any of them
> today.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On 9/29/12, Danny Pease <dpease at adams.net> wrote:
>> Well, not much to report. I set up on the hill just outside of Mound
>> Station, IL (EN40na) and I was able to work W9LEM (EM49px), (5 miles
>> away)
>> on 1296 and that was it. I heard a couple of weak stations on 144.260
>> that
>> I
>> could not copy. N9NJY was loud on 2 meters but we were not able to work
>> on
>> 902 or 1296, it did not seem propagation was helping at all. I did start
>> to
>> hear radar on 1296 about 1330 UTC, nothing prior to that.
>>
>> Danny NG9R
>>
>>
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