[NLRS] 10 GHz & Up Cumulative Contest, 2004

[John P. Toscano]

Hello, all you NLRS and Badger Contester members, and listserve lurkers.

I have been working on my writeup about my journey to 10 GHz, 
culminating in the 2004 contest.  The web page is far from done, but you 
can see a lot of the work has been done by checking out this location:
  http://www.qsl.net/w0jt/2004-08-10GHz/index.htm

Unfortunately, I love pictures, and QSL.NET serves up pictures slowly, 
so it may take quite a while to load.  And if you have a low-speed 
connection, that will make matters worse.  I am concentrating on getting 
the content completed.  Once that is done, I will work on making a 
version of the page that is more friendly to low-bandwidth connections.

I do have a few requests from specific recipients of this message (sorry 
for boring all of you with them):

1) Bob, W0AUS:  I would like to have a picture of the 10 GHz transverter 
loaner rig you let me use in 2003, if you have one (or more).  Also, I 
would like to know the specs on the unit, e.g. how much power output, 
and what the gain of the horn was.  This will go into my section on the 
prior years' experience.

2) Donn, WA2VOI:  I would like to have a picture or pictures of the 
loaner WBFM rig that you let me use in 2002, if possible.  Also, 
pointers to web sites that had the building instructions, for the sake 
of historical documentation, and who knows, someone might still want to 
build one!

3) Jon, W0ZQ:  You sent me 3 photos, MVC-005F.jpg, MVC-012F.jpg, and 
MVC-013F.jpg -- may I have your permission to use them?  Do you have the 
original (un-shrunk) pictures? (I would like to post them in several 
resolutions, as with my other pictures.)  Can you tell me the locations 
from which they were shot, or the original date/time info from which I 
can infer which stop they were taken at?

4) Bruce, W9FZ:  I would like to refer to your web page for the "Twin 
Cities Technique" for building systems with a link on my page, so could 
I get the URL from you again?  Also, I believe you had a web page about 
your Red River Valley run of this year, but I can't seem to locate it 
now, and I'd love to refer to that also.  Also, I shamelessly lifted 
your annotated Radio Mobile map of Lake Superior (with attribution, at 
least), and since I failed to ask for permission in advance, I'd now 
like to ask for forgiveness after-the-fact.  I still might make my own 
map for this spot, with "just" the paths that we worked this year, but 
that takes time, which is something I sorely lack these days.

5) Anyone else who participated:  If you have a web page describing your 
participation, I'd be interested in the URL so I can refer readers of my 
site to your site via a link.  (There's my justification for sending all 
this to EVERYONE!)

73 to all DE W0JT