[NLRS] 10 GHz NS

[Mike]

Hi all,
I have to say I had a good time.  I was on the north shore team.  I had 
a hard time getting started up on Thompson rest stop.  Being rather 
inexperienced at this it took me a while to get the knack of aiming the 
dish, there are some mods to be made here!  Tuning around sure gave my 
tuning knob a workout, again though, once I got the hang of it, it was 
much easier.  John JT has describe the conditions we had to put up with, 
really great weather from my perspective ;)
My equipment worked well in general, the xstal heater helped alot I 
think, not much drift.  All of the batteries worked great, never needed 
the main spare.  Doug NAS had a good idea that I have adopted, just run 
an extension cord out of the back of the truck and to the rig.  This 
really worked well as I didn't have to turn the rig off from 10am on Sat 
until I quit working on Sunday  4:00pm.  Got to love that 50 AH battery!
I have several mods in mind for future use.
I do have some questions for the UP people when they get back and rested 
up.  Namely on Sunday when conditions were tough I'm wondering how my 
signals compared to Jon ZQ for instance (or others).  Was his greater 
power out and larger dish a big plus???  How did my signal sound, are 
there any improvements you'd recommend I make there?

Well, again this was fun but tiring, it's a good thing the 2 weekends 
are a month apart!

Thanks all

Mike
KB0ozn