[NLRS] 10 GHz KM0T

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:33:44 -0500 (CDT)

I hope it's open much of the time - I still don't have my transverter back 
from DEMI!

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Donn Baker wrote:

> Very, very good, guys!
> As Jon, W0QZ asks, Just often is the path to Mike open ?  Two successive
> weekends, but basically the same WX... hot & humid... is the path there
> because of WX conditions, or is it forward troposcatter, or maybe WX
> enhanced FWD scatter ?  We'll have to try more times.  (Getting Mike up at
> all hours of the night shouldn't be a problem.  I mean he's aready up
> feeding the new baby, right ?  :-;
> 
> Also, maybe we can do so real DX in the contest after all!   
> 
> 73 Donn
> WA2VOI/0
> 
> 
> At 11:32 20-07-02 EDT, [email protected] wrote:
> >Hi all
> >Today 07/20/02 Had a schedule with KM0T EN13vc @ 7:30 AM local
> >Gary WB0LJC And I went out to Flying Cloud Airport EN34gt
> >We arrived a little early around 7:00 AM
> >We got are compass headings. Around 7:15 
> >We were warming things up. Gary turned his system on and started tuning
> >I thought it may have been a birdie, It was Mike testing output
> >Gary called but nothing heard
> >At 7:30 I put on the beacon for the first 2 Minutes stopped sending Output @ 
> >1.8 Watts
> >BANG S-9 SSB Worked him no problem
> >Mike was drifting up so I just followed with RIT 
> >Gary then worked him, During his Qso 
> >I started to play with the dish for scatter & bounce paths Nothing!
> >I found that 1 degree I would lose him all together
> >We drifted 8 Kc from were we first made contact
> >Thanks Mike 290.73 Km New distance for me
> >Would like to try The Vasa site sometime after Central States
> >Thanks again
> >73 K0SHF
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