[NLRS] Cabrillo question

Richard Clem clem.law at usa.net
Sun Jun 14 22:11:42 EDT 2009


First of all, thanks for W0ZQ for the loan of the 10 GHz rig! I didn't do a
lot of operating, but there are eight more 10 GHz QSO's in this contest, as
both me and XYL KC0OIA handed out a few contacts from both EN34 and EN35.

I was amazed how easy it was. Our home QTH has too much foliage, although we
could probably bounce a signal off downtown St. Paul in the winter. But from
the Ridgeway Parkway QTH, I had good copy even with the antenna pointed away
from W0AUS, with the signal apparently bouncing off nothing but trees. From a
nearby site in EN34, I basically made a random QSO with AUS, since I had the
antenna pointing the wrong direction back toward Ridgeway, but with a strong
reflection off a nearby office building, AUS called me first.

I do want to make sure that the Cabrillo log is correct. The robot seems to
have accepted it, but I had to guess as to how to enter it on the b4h web
form. The b4h site wouldn't accept 10368 or 10000 or 10G for the band. 
Finally, I tried just using "10", which it did accept, and it generated the
following log entry:

QSO: 10G PH 2009-06-13 tttt W0IS/R ENxx W0xxx ENxx

(I deleted the details here, even though I'm pretty sure I'm already in their
log). 

Does that look right?

TNX & 73,
Rick W0IS




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