[NLRS] 10gigs snow scatter

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Last night, around 5:30 pm or so, I worked W0LMS and N0UK on 10gigs local  
snow scatter.   I had my portable dish system set up in the  garage pointing out 
the open garage door.    I found W0LMS first  and we worked with 55s signals 
on CW, then N0UK tail ended.   I then  listen to Chris call for Russ and 
discovered that my dish was peaked up on a  side lobe and after repeaking found him 
at 59s where we then made a SSB  aurora like contact.    My dish elevation 
was 20 degrees up and  the azimuth bearing was true (once I figured out which 
way north was  !).    No spectacular DX as both guys live about 5 to 6  miles 
away, but its a totally obstructed path and the first time we've worked  from 
home-to-home.
 
Some fair aurora on the low bands last night too with activity on both 6m  
and 2m where I picked up a couple of new States.    Too bad all  this happened 
24 hrs too early !
 
Good luck to everyone in the contest this weekend.  
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ