[NLRS] NLRS - 10 GHz Club?

[Mike King - KM0T]

Hmmmm...Rich, you missed the posts on 24 ghz operations, failures,
rainscatter, etc. :)  Maybe that was last month, I dont remember exactly.

Here is what I have going on here....

Im building a transverter for 902 Mhz, used to drive and test 902 amps for
distribution.  Needed to generate high power signals on our band to combat
the part 15 devices and expand activity there.  I have never built one a
transverter, so I thought it would be a neat project.

Im working on a 24 Ghz beacon project, but currently having trouble with my
brick 12 ghz occillator, working on a more reliable power supply for it.

Worked some 6M Es from the mobile the other day, always on and waiting when
Im cruizing around, which has been alot lately for work.

Answered a request for a 432 Mhz schedule....

Working on a power point presentation for CSVHF...

Dealing with VHF contest committee items....

Just set up a meteor scatter schedule for 2M....

I came across 2 pallets of Airspan 2.4 ghz wireless internet patch antennas,
rf access modems, power supplies, etc that could possibly used for our use
in some fashion.  I have so much of the stuff I dont know where to start.  I
was going to reaserch it a bit and post to see who might want some for
experimenting.  Stay tuned for details...NLRS gets first dibs.  Earl, do you
copy?  Help me sort it out?

I watch for AU and band conditions every day, on the propagation loggers,
various wx maps and Heburn, etc.  If something is brewing, I typically drop
what Im doing and get on.  If the openings are very general, I dont get on
due to constraints in time.  I have to pick and choose what I do for the
next year or so due to family committments.  I guess one other thing is that
I dont get to take more time posting stuff.  That sure adds to the illusion
that EN13 is dead...

Granted, I have been on the bands very little recently, probably only a
smidge more than you Rich.  I too wonder what is going on.  But its the way
it has to be for me now.

Will be on in full force for the June contest.  50 mhz thru 24 ghz.  Just
had not posted anything official.  Working out the details to remove or
reduce the local QRM in the house for the weekend :)

So, I have lots on my plate, everything is local QRM dependent.....

What is everyone else up to?  Besides waiting for the next F2 6 Meter DX
season!  I think Rich's idea is a good one for everyone take a minute and
think about it and post to the reflector about what your up too!

73

Mike - KM0T EN13

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <N0HJZ at aol.com>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: [NLRS] NLRS - 10 GHz Club?


> Hi All -
>
> First, I'm not writing this to stir up trouble but to point out a
direction
> our club has taken.  Over the past few years I've felt that we've taken a
> subtle shift in our club from a VHF/UHF club to a 10 GHz club.
>
> It was all kind of a "gut feel" and I couldn't quantify it.  To help see
if
> my feelings were correct, I decided to track our reflector activity for
the
> month of May.  I figured our email posts would be indicitive of our
activity.
> Here is what I found:
>
> There were 147 email posts in May that I saw.  Here are the topics that
were
> posted:
>
> 10 GHz Propagation & Propagation Software - 37 emails
> 6M Openings - 21 emails
> 10 GHz Equipment - 20 emails
> W0ZQ 10 GHz Trip - 13 emails
> General Parts - 6 emails
> 10 GHz Net - 5 emails
> Windbreakers - 4 emails
> Sunday Night Net - 4 emails
> Equipment Questions - 4 emails
> Reflector Issues - 4 emails
> For Sale - 3 emails
> Expedition To EN55 - 3 emails
> 10 GHz General Comments - 3 emails
> 2M SSB - 2 emails
> UHF Contest - 2 emails
> Dayton - 2 emails
> 14 other emails touched on 10 GHz For Sale, Breakfast, 1296, 47 GHz, QRM
on
> FM, MN QSO Party, VE3 Operation, States Above Totals, General Propagation,
etc.
>
> Of the 147 email posts, 79 were about 10 GHz.  That's 53.74% of the
traffic
> on the reflector.  Even emails about other items, like the UHF Contest,
had
> comments about "Bring your 10 GHz, etc."  If I were a newcomer to the
reflector
> without any past knowledge of the club, I could come to the conclusion
that our
> club meets on Friday nights to bounce signals off the IDS building and we
> wait for storms to bounce signals, plus we have a trip each year to Lake
> Superior.
>
> I'm not meaning to rip on anyone operating 10 GHz.  I think the research
and
> experimentation the group has done in the past few years is commendable.
I'm
> wondering if there is anything else going on in our club?  Is anyone
working
> meteor scatter anymore, building a kit for any band below 10 GHz, working
on
> any beacons, looking for any aurora, working EME, etc?  What really got me
was
> that we are less than two weeks from the June VHF QSO Party and no one has
> announced any plans.  If we were two weeks from the 10 GHz Contest, we'd
have all
> sorts of plans floating on the reflector.
>
> Is VHF/UHF dead here?  I know that, due to my move last year, I have been
> sporadic on the bands.  I'd like to hear what else we have going on in the
area.
>
> 73  Rich N0HJZ
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