[NLRS] Rain scatter reflector for the Upper Midwest

[Zack Widup]

I thought I was on it but that may have been with my old defunct Prairienet
address. I resusbscrbed.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for the email - no, Im not familiar with the rain scatter
> reflector but I'd sure like to join this group.
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> Mike, the address to join the 10GHz rain scatter reflector is
> https://www.chris.org/mailman/listinfo/10gigs
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> The reflector has membership from VE4MA/NT0V/W0PHD to the northwest to
> VE3KRP/K0AWU to the north to K2YAZ/K8EB to the east to N4PZ to the south
> east to KM0T to the south.?? During the winter months its very quiet with
> very little traffic.? During the summer months it becomes more active (for
> obvious reasons).? Its not uncommon to have twenty or thirty emails during a
> prime rain scatter event on some summer evenings when "things are good".?
> This reflector has been one of the primary tools that has contributed to
> some of the recent long haul near record or record breaking contacts on the
> uW bands.? Check out some of these long haul contacts on the ARRL's website
> for VHF/UHF/uW records at
> http://www.arrl.org/qst/worldabove/dxrecords.html?and scroll down to the
> uW section.? Please note that the purpose of the reflector is as an alert
> tool, to coordinate, and to promote activity so it is NOT a good place for
> gabbing or sending long messages .... I do believe that the text length i
>  s limited AND some of the guys have this linked to their Blackberries,
> etc, so this is not the place for long messages nor off topic messages.??
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> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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