[NLRS] Fun with rain scatter

[Scott]

Man, you guys are making me anxious to get my 10 Gig up and running.  A 
group of us over near Eau Claire ordered a few of those DEMI 10 Gig 
transverters last week, so hopefully we will be able to get in on the 
action too!  I wonder if what you guys were hearing on FM is doppler 
shift caused by the raindrops being blown away from or toward you at 40 
MPH more or less???  Is that a possibility???  Why do you use FM instead 
of SSB?  Maybe someone only has a 2M FM rig as an IF?  I think 10 Gig is 
going to be way more fun than I even initially thought!!  =:O  Is it 
possible to have TOO much fun?

Scott, N0EDV
EN45something


jcplatt1 at mmm.com wrote:

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>Yesterday afternoon several of us locals were playing 10GHz off the
>approaching storm.   I was setup in the usual spot in Burnsville (EN34is)
>around 4:30 PMish.   We were able to have a nice hour long rag chew on
>10368.100 FM with W0GHZ, W9FZ, W0AUS, and K0SHF, all from their home QTHs
>in and around the greater Twin Cities area.
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>A couple of interesting things to note that we were all discussing.   One
>was that there was a loud roar heard on everyone's FM signal.   It sounded
>much like standing next to a water falls while having a conversation.    We
>have work a bit of rain scatter before with some interesting affects on FM,
>but nothing as dominating and consistent as this was.   The second thing of
>interest was that we were able to swing our dishes east and west a fair
>amount (15 to 20 degrees) and everyone could then re-peak up on the new
>heading ..... I think we had a broad rain front to scatter off of and it
>was a matter of everyone illuminating the same spot .... the rain cloud was
>bigger than our dish illumination.    Everyone's signals were very very
>strong as most of the time they were pegging my S-meter.   We all had to
>elevate our dishes some 10 degrees or a bit more but I suspect that we
>could have aimed just about anywhere as long as we were all aimed at the
>same spot !
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>Looks like tomorrow afternoon and evening we may have another change for
>thunderstorms and an opportunity to work both north and south depending how
>any storms take shape.   As of today, the slight risk area for tomorrow
>extends from far northern MN down through NE and points south.
>
>73, Jon
>W0ZQ
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