[NLRS] 10G & Up Contest - N0KP Results

[Scanner.Kleindl at VerizonWireless.com]

Well another 10 GHz contests in the history books. This year we try some thing new by staying local with a one fix group and of course a rover group. THANK YOU ROVDERS. The site we used was with in 45 min drive from the cities permitting more local users to play and boy we did. This is a good thing.

	Some of the sites that we use were Lonsdale just a mile east of town, Buck Hill and a Business park just west of flying cloud enough room for us all, But the weather was some thing else. First weekend was windy but warm enough for sun tanning. Okay second weekend was the opposite one could say a wet weekend, to add cool and oh ya very windy. Just ask Bob WØAUS.

	For me I tried a different setup this year, I start out with 2 watts with a 750 cm meter dish it worked fine except it was nose heavy and was hard to set elevation. So the second weekend I used a different configuration. A 1 meter dish with 8 watts and one totally out of the box setup.  I used a 3 inch channel to set the dish on and all other equipment. The neat thing about it was finding the center point of balance that made it easier to point. "No Winch Required".  So in the end I had 75,000 watts of ERP with 1.5 degree beam with. Oh did I say one need to build a over the board mount for it. Wind proof.  

To wrap things up the dish worked great in every way. I was ready to drop back to a 18 inch dish, But not now I am spoiled by it.  Can one say 1.8 meter dish and oh 250,000 watts of ERP.  EME any body.  Dave NØKP  73's

              1st week end   2nd week end      Grand Total
# QSO             214            130               344
Longest Q         238            291
Dist point        39,351         26,478            65,829
Unique            21             3                 2400
Total             41,451         26,778            68,229 = Total score



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