[NLRS] 6m and 10gigs

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Happy Easter to everyone.  Well, the ham is ready and now I'm just  waiting 
for the family to show up, so time to play some radio.   I did  work N8S (Swain 
Is) on 15m CW for a new country.  I also just put  up a second Par-loop for 
6m, a stack of two, the top one at 48', the bottom  one at 36'.   It will be 
interesting to see how they do this  summer.   I'm not expecting miracles, but 
its kind of interesting to  be able to hear in all directions more easily.   
 
I then broke out the 10gig dish and set it up in the driveway.  Yup,  the air 
is still cold, but the sun was nice.  I can hear Dave's beacon, but  the 
direction has always made me wonder what I am hearing.   From my  house to the IDS 
Tower, the bearing is 355 degrees, but I can hear nothing on  that path 
(remember that I am in trees).   The bearing to the beacon  is 318 degrees, and I 
can hear nothing on that path either.  But at 335  degrees with 10 degrees of 
elevation, the beacon is S1 to S2 .... nice  CW.   So I suspect that I am not 
hearing any scatter off of downtown,  but that I am hearing scatter from a 
common volume of illuminated  air.    I'm looking forward to Dave's other beacons 
becoming  operational to see what happens on the other bands.

73, Jon
W0ZQ



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