[NLRS] 10GHz & Up Contest First weekend

[Kleindl, Scanner]

Hello Everyone   The weather was great this last weekend. Love the fact
that NO Jacket was required. Saturday morning was 51 degrees and it was
great hear good signals from Duluth starting a 0600 but as some of you
know that the north shore does not all was favor all directions and from
scouting the lake line it was hard to find anything to the U.P.

Okay now for Sunday again weather was great it did rain during the
night, not a lot 1/8 inch or so, Still everything was wet on the hill.
That morning the weather to the south and south west was stormy and the
wind was out of the south but by 10am it switch from south to north and
watching radar you could see that back scatter was become less and less
and by noon it was gone. 

 Speaking of Noon that's where it was even more fun. Working Grand
Marais. Let's talk about this the overall distance is 410km, But 257km
was over land. So looking at weather data at Grand Marais temp was 61
and Pressure was 30 inches No wind readings, Buoy 45006 on Lake Superior
reported air temp 64, Water temp 61,Presure 30 inches, Wind N/W 3-6,
Wave Height 12 inches. Duluth Harbor, Temp 68, pressure 30 inches, wind
East 4-7. Buck hill, Temp 70, Pressure 30 inches, wind North 5-15. And
last radar showed nothing to the north east.

  I do have a wave file of the Contacts with W0ZQ/N0UK. Jon had No Meter
reading at all but it was a nice CW tone with noise, N0UK again no meter
reading and his tone was good but needed the CW Filter and DSP and HEAD
Phones. Oh did I say size matters ?  YES!  I am sure that we would had
to go back and forth many many times and the dish pointing was tight,
Very Narrow, But thanks to the DownEast freq marker that helped and W0ZQ
found my signal in seconds. 14 hours on the hill.

Enclosing bring a Big Dish and Power and let's do this again. Dave N0KP