[NLRS] 10 GHz Contest

[Zack Widup]

Wish I had more people to work in this area. There seemed to be some
enhancement on Saturday but nothing spectacular. Worked W9SNR, KB0PE, K3SIW
and W9ZIH. That was it. Closest QSO was W9ZIH at about 100 miles. Best
distance was KB0PE at about 150 miles. Both were very loud here. I tried for
K2YAZ in MI and WA9O in WI with no luck. Also tried to work WB9PNU in St.
Louis who didn't have a clear shot to me. He tried bouncing off a TV tower.
That didn't work.

Conditions on Sunday were worse. On Saturday K2YAZ was quite loud and
workable on 144 MHz. On Sunday I couldn't hear him at all on SSB and we
managed a weak CW QSO, tried 10 GHz with no luck. I only worked W9SNR in a
new location on Sunday.

Nothing heard down here from Minnesota at all on either day.

I slept in my car on the hill in EN50rl both Friday and Saturday nights
and woke up with about 3 hours sleep both mornings to set up at 5:30 am. I
need to get caught up!

I hope the September weekend goes better.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Scott <acepilot at bloomer.net> wrote:

>
>
> Had fun this weekend...haven't done up the log yet, but I managed 25
> QSOs and 6 grids.  Highlight was being able to work K0AWU from EN45eg
> and EN44dv.  No go from EN45fa (home) which is not a great surprise with
> my hills ;)
>
> For the rover types, EN45eg is the rest stop on the Northbound side of
> Hwy 53 about one mile South of the Chetek (WI) exit.  View is pretty
> good from about 240 to 320.  Even so, we couldn't work K0KFC with a
> bearing of 278 degrees and something like 55 miles :(
>
> --
> Scott N0EDV
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