[NLRS] Rain Scatter on 10G tonight...

[Donn Baker]

Congratulations, gang !  Good show.  Especially to Bob, W0AUS.  That's a
real good shot, as you say, from his "hole."

I got homke somewhat after 9PM... Gary, W0GHZ had left a phone message for
me, but....  Thanks, Gary.  Next time!

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0


At 22:00 09-07-03 -0500, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>W0GHZ put in a call to KM0T to see if he was available to light up the same
>piece of sky.  Within a few minutes, he was on the air and Gary and Mike
>banged away to find each other.  They found a water shaft about 20 degrees
>south of the one we had been using for Twin Cities to Twin Cities Q's.  They
>used CW initially but switched to FM.  Jon ZQ had to take down because rain
>arrived in Burnsville.  Bob, W0AUS, from his dock/backyard was able to work
>KM0T on FM.  Then lastly, I was able to pick up Mike on 10G FM.  I was
>operating from my apartment porch.  Quite thrilling to work 3 grids (and 2
>states) within a few minutes all on 10G!!!!
>
>Then Gary and Mike switched to 5.7Ghz.  They worked within a few minutes off
>of the storm.  Again they noted the doppler distortion and the beam headings
>were not direct but rather about 25 degrees off of direct.  The sigs on 5.7
>were not as strong so FM was not successful.  They settled for slowly spoken
>voice on USB.  So Gary has two states already on 10G for the new year.
>
>Later in the evening, K0FQA, W0GHZ, and I tried again to work off a smaller
>cell that was in the Wilmar to Alex area.  We never did hook up but I'm glad
>we gave it the effort.
>
>Bruce Richardson - W9FZ
>
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