[NLRS] Fwd: 2017 August 10G Cumulative weekend

[wb0ljc]

Sorry, but it is US-20 not I-20.

LJC

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Subject: 	2017 August 10G Cumulative weekend
Date: 	Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:53:27 -0600
From: 	wb0ljc <wb0ljc at comcast.net>
To: 	NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>, 10GHzContest <10ghzcontest at www.chris.org>



Hi everyone,

Planning for the Nebraska eclipse trip started more then a year ago
when Donn said he was going to view the eclipse. Then the realization
came that the 10 G Cumulative was the Saturday and Sunday before the
eclipse. The result is that people decided to bring their 10 G equipment.

I started thinking about where we could go and still be able to work
both Buck Hill and the Neb ops. The result is, I plan to rove in West
Central
Iowa starting near the Ellsworth site Jerry has mentioned and traveling
generally west on I-20. The Neb groups plan to run North and South
routes. On Saturday the North group starts near Norfolk and ends the
day near Ainsworth, while the south group starts near Beatrice and ends
the day near Holdrege. I have looked at the distances from Ellsworth and
they are workable, 330 and 350 km. Buck hill has been worked from there
many times. If the rovers end the day near Holstein, IA the distances
are longer, 350, 400 and 310km. The last is to Buck Hill. Workable, but
getting a little long. One of the WSJT modes should make the paths to Neb.
I would like to run with the Neb ops 4 to 6 times on Saturday and maybe
1-2 early Sunday morning. The Sunday rover path would have us heading
back East, probably 20 miles North of the Saturday route. We have been
to this area before and worked the hill.

The alternative, if weather and conditions allow, is to continue further
West and end Saturday to the East of Souix City. The distances here
are a little shorter, 300 to Ainsworth, 350 to Holdrege but 340 to BH.

Weather could change everything. In that case we will have to see what
the weather conditions allow.

The problem with an I-20 route is that we will need sites that are good
to BH from 0 to about 45 degrees and 270 to 230 degrees to the Neb ops.
I was hoping that we could find overpasses but I haven't seen to many
of them when going west.

For September I would like to run nearly the same route that we did last
year. We know more about the route now so I would like to try with
YAZ and the other Illinois fixed ops. We didn't get much of a chance
last year.

Lake Superior has on the calendar for 2018 for some time. Fast
Eddie requested that we go back to the Lake at Aurora last year.
I would have pushed for it this year, but there was the eclipse trip.
Barry, there hasn't been much interest around here in getting the
bands above 10 G going. A number of us have parts, etc, but with
no one else to work there has been no progress. The only working
units that are capable of working a good distance are on loan to ZQ
from KMØT. The most likely paths for bands above 10 G are
from the UP to Canada or UP to the MN North Shore. Most of the North
Shore sites are blocked to the Marathon and Terrace Bay sites you
have used in Canada. Also, unless conditions are bad we should be
able to span the lake to Wawa from a number of sites on the NS.
August is definitely the preferred month. We have been up there
in September, much cooler and a lot more wind. If we went to Superior
this September we wouldn't have the Michigan ops. They spend the
weekend on Lake Michigan. Airplane scatter across the lake is of
limited use. I have looked with the Airplane scatter program and don't
seen very many planes passing through the area.

Who would like to join me in Central Iowa?

73, Gary WBØLJC