[NLRS] Not a bad weekend here in EN13

[Mike A. King - KM0T]

Hi all,

Since I did not go to Dayton, was given the opportunity to chase Gene -
N0DQS around up in ND.

Friday night we made it on all bands in EN15 (Just above the borderline)
through 3456 Mhz with good sigs.  Then 5.7 took a few minutes.  However 10
ghz took 45 minutes of sequences back and forth, lots of QSB and very weak.
However, it was good for the state and new grid.  Distance was 202 miles.

The next day, Gene ran around to EN05, EN06 and EN16.  We worked easily all
the way thru 10 ghz in those grids.  In fact, the farthest away, 221 miles
was north dakota again....5x7 signals.  Pretty wild being so different from
the day before.  So 4 new grids on 5.7 and 10 ghz.

Sunday morning worked into texas on 222, 432 and 1296.  EM04.  Heard him on
2304 almost all the time, I was heard briefly.  He was running 300+ watts on
that band!

Worked VP9GE on 6 Meters...1639 UTC on sunday.  Very short lived double hop
opening.  I had the rig on his freq with the beam swung that way just in
case.  And it happend.  Not a new country, but could not get a QSL out of
VP9ID.

Rest of 6M was buzzing all day.  Nothing new, but worked a few others.

Worked on the 24 ghz project on and off this weekend.  All prototyping is
done.  Tested sequencing circuit, relays, pa and pre amp.  All working well.
Measured 1.97 watts to the feed horn!  (and the preamp still works!:)  Hope
to be done in a month.

Honey do list got done too, but it kinda got in the way :)

Glad Jon had a good time with the 10 ghz stuff over the weekend.  Perhaps I
should have pointed up there, but the winds on sunday down here were blowing
pretty good and the high band stuff was shut off.

73

Mike - KM0T en13vc