[NLRS] K0AWU Unsucessful RS attempts

[Bill K0AWU]

For those interested in 10Ghz RS

  Yesterday afternoon there were several TS systems that afforded 
attemps on 10Ghz RS with W9ZIH and also VE3KRP. Nothing was 
heard on either attempt, sorry to say. It was my first attempt with both.

  Gary W0GHZ had worked Ron-ZIH Saturday night on 5&10Ghz RS 
and we had a cell with tops in the 40k to 45k range NE of EauClaire 
early Sunday afternoon. I used ARGO to look for Ron's signal after 
not hearing anything and saw/heard nothing on the 433mile path. The 
cell was big enough and close enough to midpath to be worth a "shot".

  Then last night shortly after 5pm, Eddie VE3KRP and I tried. Not as 
large of cell, but still tops in the 40k range SE oy Ely almost directly in 
the path. Again nothing heard or seen on the 220 mile path.

  Gary and I worked several times yesterday with signals as good as 
5-4 SSB even if we never had a "big" cell between us. Five tropo and 
five RS contacts last week with Gary on 10Ghz were logged.

  Argo has proved to be a helpful program when 10Ghz signals are too 
weak to hear or copy comfortably. It allows at least verification of the 
signal for conditions are not good enough for a contact. Argo provides 
an audio frequency "waterfall" that was developed for the LF crowd for 
extremely slow CW . It sure allows documention of freq stability, or 
lack there of! Free download at  http://www.weaksignals.com/


  Looking forward to next weekend!!  Between Gary and I 432 has 
been better that 2m very often in the last couple of weeks. It will be 
VERY interesting to see what kind of conditions we have for the "test".

Good DX .... Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed