[NLRS] 10 GHz Rain Scatter Tuesday nite ?

[John P. Toscano]

W0ZQ@aol.com wrote:

> What a hoot Barry !   I could not believe how loud you were, your 50 watts 
> sure helps !!!!.   I was real worried that you may not hear my 1 watt.   My 
> subgrid was EN34is .... to EN19lu it appears to be 393.7 miles or about 635 
> kilometers if my math is right.

Using the GL program on the Palm Pilot, it says that the distance is 
632.1 Km or 392.8 Mi, bearings 334.72 and 151.96 degrees (grid center
to grid center, and using the WGS84 ellipsoid model of the Earth).  My
GridLoc program is a bit simpler, assumes a spherical Earth, and 
estimates 392.5 miles or 631.7 Km.

If you used the "usual" Burnsville location, 44:46:19.3N, 93:17:06.5W, 
instead of the subgrid center, GL gives a distance of 632.2 Km.  Did 
either of you bring along a GPS to pin down the locations more exactly 
than this?  Might be worth a few more Km.

In any event, my most hearty congratulations on a job well done!

> Rain scatter    738 WB9SNR (EN62ac) -- W2DRZ (FN02la)   16-Aug-1997 
> Rain Scatter    596 K4EDF (EM78bh) -- W4DEX (EM95tg)    02-Jun-2002 
> Rain scatter    515 W5LUA (EM13qc) -- W5ZN (EM45dh) 17-Jun-2000 
> 
> Looks like we may have bagged a second place rain scatter DX record Barry.

Hmmm, a quick punch in of the coordinates for Barry and Mike (KM0T) 
comes up with a distance of 754.9 Km, which ought to be good for a new 
first place record!  Looks like one more goal Mike should shoot for, not 
that I want Jon's new 2nd place record to fall quickly!

In any event, 10 Gig sure isn't the "uncharted territory" it used to be 
just a short time ago in NLRS-land anymore!  Good show!

73 to all
W0JT