[NLRS] 10Ghg Operations from EN36

[wb0ljc@juno.com]

I'm interested in trying with you Bill.

I will check e-mail later tonight. If you confirm that
you will be on the air, I will be at the Burnsville site
ready to go at 8AM. You transmit for 2 min starting
at 8AM. Then we will alternate for 30 minutes or so.
You can decide how long you want to go. 

Bearing from EN34is to EN37fg for  me 356�T for
you 176�T. Distance is 173 miles.

No cell phone but I will check e-mail before I leave in
the morning. If Gary,GHZ, is on we can coordinate between
ourselves of 146.46.

73,  Gary  WB0LJC

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:22:11 -0500 "Bill  K0AWU" <billd@2z.net> writes:
>Hello Gang
>
>  Just got back from a 125 mile round  trip down to north central EN36 
>to a 
>couple sites I had been watching (on the map) for a couple years... we 
>all 
>know the difference between the map and real the real world .... 
>Worked 
>Gary W0GHZ twice on tropo, both over 110 miles on 10Ghz tropo, mid day 
>
>.....
>
>  Site#1  Big Sandy Dam (really a playground 300ft south). The 
>playground is 
>about 10 or 12 ft above lake level and nice shot south across the lake 
>until 
>you reach the shore about a mile or so away, then a good tree line. 
>Called 
>Gary on the pay phone back by the dam and we start at 12:30pm local 
>.... I 
>hear Gary's first sequence on CW 5-1 no QSB ... Noon tropo!  EN36is -- 
>126 
>miles  from Gary... (DNR provided the Lat/Long) nice contact, no 
>problem. 
>
>  Site#2  The LookOut Tower at Rice Lake Game Refuge ..... NOT WHAT I 
>THOUGHT!!  10 miles of gravel road ( just washed the car yesterday)!! 
>The 
>Lookout tower the DNR told me about 3 yrs ago is a lookout 
>PLATFORM!!!,
>10ft high overlooking the rice choked lake. ARGH!  Well the opposite 
>shore 
>is at least 2 or 3 miles away, but no way to get ahold of Gary or 
>anyone else.
>The nearest phone is McGreger about 15 miles away. Try the Aitkin 
>repeater 
>... nothing ... try the Grand Rapids repeater... barely into it. 
>Reached 
>KC0JEZ, will you send an e-mail for me??  He did .... Gary was away 
>from 
>the computer but returned shortly... by the time I reached the radio 
>Gary was 
>calling. S-1 CW with QSB now (19:27z)  EN36in  111 miles, we completed 
>
>and switched to SSB, on QSB peaks good enough for a SSB QSO by not for 
>
>conversation. JEZ was gone from the repeater and I could not get Gary 
>to 
>understand that I was wanting to know if others were around. After we 
>completed I called and beaconed until 19:45z in case there were 
>others. 
>Beaconed on the "evens" moving the dish 3 or 5deg each 20sec between 
>Gary's and FQA's heading ... Nothing heard ...
>
>   I am considering trip to a 200ft or 250ft mine dump EN37fg  north 
>of town a 
>few miles for MORNING tropo tomorrow. Operate from maybe 8:00am to 
>9:00 
>or so.. would be interested in knowing who is interested. Would like 
>to try to 
>work EN35,34,26 from that site.... can see for MILES ..... every 
>direction ... 
>need to run the numbers for Don ...  I can use the phone patch and XYL 
>to 
>coordinate or try 2m SSB... Long way for 2m, 10Ghz is better :>)) 
>Still 
>having fun!
>
>73 Bill K0AWU
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