[NLRS] New grid on 5760!

[Mike A. King - KM0T]

Hi all,

Been busy here, not been able to be on much.  However, after I got the
little one to sleep the other night, I managed to work a new grid on 5760
Mhz.  I have had my hands full as Colleen took Patrica to NYC for a week and
I have been on serious dad duty with Jenna on my own :)

I had been in QSO the last few nights with N4PZ - Steve in EN52.  Steve has
a 7.5' dish up 60 feet with elevation control as well.  He is running 10
watts at the dish too!

With such a big dish, the beamwidth is very tight, so it took a few nights
of listening before I even heard him.  He spent a few days scoping the sun
to get an accurate beam heading.  We started at 10:00 PM Wensday night and I
started hearing him about 10:20.  We then went on 2 minute sequences and
completed at roughly 11:00 PM.

Conditions were such that I could hear just above the noise about 70% for
the RX sequece (but not able to copy what was being sent) with a few bursts
of tropo enhancement.  On a few occassions the band scope also showed the
signal, but it was short lived.  Perhaps it was airplane scatter?

Anyway, its 350 miles and not too bad for virtually little enhancement.  We
tried again last night, but only heard a few brief bursts again, no just
above the noise continous signals.  So I would venture that there was no
tropo, but some more airplane scatter.

Conditions both nights on 2M for liasion were varied.  5x9 signals for 20
seconds then mostly just above the noise S1 signals.  Wide swings in the
enhancment.  Made it pretty tough to coordinate.

Anyway, it was fun and good to see another station on 5760.  Steve says he
has plans for 10 ghz as well.

73

Mike - KM0T