[NLRS] Early Bird gets the Q'

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:14:10 -0500

Oops, qso was at 1223 UTC - sorry.

73
KM0T

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike A. King - KM0T" <[email protected]>
To: "NLRS" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: [NLRS] Early Bird gets the Q'

> Hi all, Worked Gary, W0GHZ on 5.7 Ghz this morning.  Pretty exciting stuff
> to have my first good DX on that band!
>
> I heard him on 5.7 during the contest, but condix were pretty poor and no
> hope of him hearing me.
>
> We tried last night and signals were considerably better from him, but
> again, he could not hear me.  At that point, one begins to wonder if its
> working!
>
> Then, we went at it again this morning, I have him logged at 1823 UTC.
5x7
> SSB!  with 5x1 signal report.   Just over 200 miles or so.
>
> My dish at this point is 250 mW output.  The exterior superflex feedline
> made by K0PW (thanks John!) has a .4db loss.  Also, there is internal
piping
> and relay loss.  I figure around 1 to .75 db total loss from the 250 mw
> before it hits the feedhorn.  Copper pipe feedhorn and 2' dish for 5.7
from
> K1WHS at Directive systems.
>
> We actually had a little chat on 5.7, pretty neat.  Hoping to add more
power
> soon.
>
> Gary is running 20 watts from the shack, up to his dish via waveguide.
> Wonder what the loss / lenght of the waveguide is to make a comparison?
>
> Pointing was not too much of a problem.  Could hear him +/- 3 to 5 degrees
> with the M2 digital readout rotor.  The Dishes are mounted on a Yaesu
> elevation rotor, kinda neat to tilt the dishes up and down to peak the
> signal, not much play there however, would loose the signal pretty quick.
> Resolution on the Yaesu rotor did not appear to be an issue.
>
> FYI!
>
> Oh, picked up Rhode Island on 6M last night, 50 on 6M for the CSVHF.  Now
> praying for good tropo for the high bands.
>
> 73
>
> Mike -KM0T en13vc
>
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