[MRCA] On patrol after action report

[Rob Flory]

That new Green Bank Telescope is so cool. I took my son there last summer.
  Multiple beam receivers impressed me as one of the coolest upgrades from
when I was a summer student there in the 80s.

Back then they didn't have all the computers locked up in a shielded room,
and staff used to operate on the premises with medium power.  I hooked up a
TS-530 transceiver to the Karl Jansky antenna replica and not only recorded
bursts from Jupiter, but worked DX on 15 meters.  Now you are not even
allowed to use a digital camera close to the telescopes.

The big interference fight then was oscillating TV antenna amplifiers.  Now
it is wireless modems.

RF

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:39 AM, walter.skavinsky <
walter.skavinsky at comcast.net> wrote:

> 11 June thru 13 June ka3rmm, wa3wsj and i was on patrol on top of bald
> knob in West Virginia.  The location is accessible via steamtrain using
> shay locomotives.  The train dropped up off on the mountain on Sunday and
> during the next few days we stayed in a caboose built in 1949.  The
> elevation was 4730 at our location and made for some interesting who's.  As
> we were operating in the national radio quiet zone we were restricted to 5
> watts and below 30 mhz.  The green bank telescope is approx 5 miles away
> and they were very accommodating giving us permission to operate so close.
>
> I made 67 qso's using the elecraft kx3 and an inverted l and a homebrew
> dipole.  The farthest was Puerto Rico on 10 meters.  I was able to make
> contact on all  bands even 160.
>
> Our trip was ended with a tour of the green bank radio telescope.
>
> I tried to check in on tuesday but i dont think i was heard band condx
> were lousey.
>
> 73
> Walt
> Kb3sbc
>
>
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>
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