[NLRS] 10 GHz Report

[Eric and Angie Shook]

That is awesome!  Congratulations guys!  It is a great
was to start the 10 Ghz season.

-Eric KT8O


--- W0ZQ@aol.com wrote:
> Both Dave, N0KP and I were successful in working
> Mike, KM0T, from the 
> Lonsdale location on 10 GHz this late morning right
> around 11:35 am or so.    Using 
> BD, the distance from EN34hl to EN13vc is 170.5
> miles (274.5 km).   I noticed 
> some multi-tones on Mikes signal ... perhaps from
> multipath ?
> 
> We had worked Mike from this location last summer
> and signals were only 
> somewhat weaker this time around  .... local weather
> conditions were 43 degrees, 
> about 75% RH with a south wind that I guess was
> around 10 to 15 mph and pretty 
> steady .... you could see a fair amount of haze in
> the air.   Mike runs around 
> 6 to 8 watts, Dave had his new 2 watt DEMI unit and
> I was using my 1 watt 
> DB6NT system.  
> 
> I am inexperienced in using my DB6NT system in the
> cold, so I was prepared 
> for more tuning & drift.   I was surprised to find
> Mike pretty much where I 
> always find him and drift was only slight more
> obvious than it is in the summer 
> time but definitely manageable via changing VFO
> tuning (ie; no RIT).   I think 
> that as long as its not numbing cold that stability
> & drift isn't an 
> insurmountable problem.
> 
> We then coordinated with Gene, N0DQS, who was out in
> the mud in EN04qa, South 
> Dakota.    Using BD, the distance from EN34hl to
> EN04qa is 262.4 miles (422.3 
> km) so we were somewhat doubtful about making the
> contact.   Gene found a dry 
> spot and called us on my cell phone around 1900 and
> started his CW beacon up. 
>   Much to our delight, both Dave and I found him
> within a few seconds, peaked 
> our dishes, then sent some CW his way so that he
> could peak on us.   Gene did 
> not hear my CW at first so Dave went with his higher
> power and made a two way 
> on CW .... I then tail ended Dave and we had two
> good 10 GHz contacts !   
> Signals were what I call "good cw" signals which
> means just above the noise floor 
> but pleasantly readable.   We noticed slow QSB,
> measured over tens of seconds 
> or a minute, that took signals up and down .... on
> the QSB peaks signals were 
> "good cw" copy.   Gene is running some more power, I
> think 4 watts or so, 
> which helps.   
> 
> All in all a very good start to the 2004 10 GHz
> season.   Wahoo .... one 170 
> mile QSO and one 262 mile contact.   Thanks Gene for
> going out ... hope the 
> mud wasn't too bad.   Thanks for the coordination
> help Mike.
> 
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
> 
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