[NLRS] [10GHzContest] Temporary RST 10GHz beacon

[Melvynkc0p at aol.com]

Donn your mapping software is doing a good job (must be operator  
technique).
That AT&T tower is a known good site, can see the areo beacon for the  RST
airport from there. I have operated from there for EN34. I know W0ZQ has  
also.
Good spot when coming home from St Charles because they even have a 
security light in the parking lot. Never had any trouble there with  
visitors.
 
I will check the profile. It may be LOS to the water tower in the Mall.  
Where
are you planning to put the Dish Pond and when ?
 
Mel KC0P/R 
 
 
In a message dated 6/18/2016 6:59:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
10ghzcontest at www.chris.org writes:

Good  iddea, Chris.  Had not thought of it myself.

Mel... What about  looking (more or less) due east down the valley that 
US14 runs in ? 
Some  map work shows that out ~7-10 miles there are some potential sites 
for a  
beacon/"other end."

10th St SE + 100th Ave SE (44° 0.370" N 92°  16.764W  10 miles to Kahler 
Apache.  Google 
Maps shows farm  building on three corners, but going a little west on 10th 
brings you in  
the clear.

CR9 + CR102 (1 mile west of 100th Ave, ~1 mile  north)  NE corner has an 
"AT&T" tower in 
it.  Open fields to  SW.  ~9mi & maybe LOS.

CR9 ~ 4000' East of CR119 (70th Ave  NE).  This one is not that good, 
according to Google  
Maps.

Best site from map work is CR9 & CE102.  Tower has  parking lot that can be 
used.  Don't 
think we could leave a car  there, but...,

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

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Subject: Re: [10GHzContest] Temporary RST 10GHz beacon


Hi  Chris, short answer, possible but difficult.

Conference site, Kahler  Apache is down in a hole, surrounded by trees and
other
buildings. Best  chance is a scatter path from a water tower about 300
meters away.
This  would force the dish pond to be set up where operators could see  the
water
tower. I can find some place where I could set up my system  for an hour and
beacon
and make contacts back to the conference site. I  would think somebody could
bring
a weak signal source to put right at  the conference Dish Pond.

First thought on a beacon for longer would be  to rent a room at a motel
maybe half
mile away and put the beacon in a  second story window facing the Water
Tower. I would
have to check it out  if that is a clear path. Maybe someone with more
imagination
could think  of other ways to do it. I am willing to do the one hour thing.
Not  during
microwave antenna gain measurements. No extraneous  transmitters,  please..

73 Mel KC0P/R

message dated  6/18/2016 3:01:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
chrisc at chris.org  writes:

I don’t  know if anyone else has thought about this  already but I remember
my very  first experience of narrowband 10GHz  activity was back in the 
early
‘80s at  the national RSGB  rally/hamfest in London where there was a static
display by  members  of the UK microwave group which had a homemade
transverter system   tuned to a beacon in the area.

I was thinking of the possibility  of  someone setting up a temporary 10GHz
beacon somewhere in the  Rochester area  that we could tune our 10GHz dish
rigs to at the  Central States conference in  the rover pound.

Seeing a real live  example of equipment in use could  be a great catalyst
to get others  interested in the band.

Mel, would  you have thoughts on possible  locations maybe a few miles away
that would give  good coverage of the  conference site?

73 all

Chris

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