[NLRS] Fw: Back to Lake Superior for August 2018 10G Cumulative

Thu Nov 9 21:41:19 EST 2017

I'm fairly sure it wasn't 2014, or 2012 for that matter, but maybe, but Sunday operations at a campground were from Sunset Bay Campground. 
www.sunset-bay.com
I know that is where we stayed Friday and Saturday nights one trip, and I remember carrying out to the point to operate. 
As for our plans, we'd love to return, and have it on the calendar, but we can't commit, even that far out - too many questions about the future here.
Tnx & 73,EdWB0VHF

-------- Original message --------
From: Mark Korroch via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> 
Date: 11/09/2017  19:33  (GMT-06:00) 
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: [NLRS] Fw:  Back to Lake Superior for August 2018 10G Cumulative 

Sorry Jerry, 

I had intended to send this to the whole group...
Mark

----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: Mark Korroch <wb8tgy at yahoo.com>
 To: "geraldj at netins.net" <geraldj at netins.net> 
 Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:29 PM
 Subject: Re: [NLRS] Back to Lake Superior for August 2018 10G Cumulative

The ownership of the top of Mt. Brockway has changed.  I believe the top is now public and owned by a nature group or the township.  The gift shop is gone.  The road going up to it is the same.   I don't think there would be any problem with us operating up there as in years past.  

On Saturday of the 2014 weekend we setup at Great Sand Bay for most the day, not Eagle Harbor.  Eagle Harbor is the small town between Great Sand Bay and Mt. Brockway.  Eagle Harbor to Mt. Brockway is a nice LOS path for any of the higher bands you want to try.  I don't remember what site most of the MI based operators were at most of Sunday, as WA8VPD and I setup on Brockway again, stayed there all day,  and everybody else went to a different site.I have no idea if the cell phone coverage is any better up there now.  For anybody interested in camping there is the state park that Jerry stayed at and also a small private campground closer to Copper Harbor.  I've never stayed at the private campground, but the state park is nice.
I hope to make it up to Copper Harbor again for Aug 2018.  I have 10, 24, and 47 working now.   On 24 I can only TX on CW right now, but hope to have a transverter working by next summer.  Still working on a station for 78 or 76 GHz....

73,Mark WB8TGY

      From: Dr. Gerald N. Johnson <geraldj at netins.net>
 To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net; NLRS Regional 10GHz Contest mavens <10ghzcontest at www.chris.org> 
 Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 6:13 PM
 Subject: Re: [NLRS] Back to Lake Superior for August 2018 10G Cumulative

Eagle Harbor and Mt. Brockway were interesting operating locations in 
2012. I turned in a score of 54,801 good for 8th in the world and the 
certificate says 8th call area winner. A few of us at the end of the day 
on Sunday on Brockway worked K2YAZ in lower Michigan. We had to move 
east on Brockway to get around higher hills to the south. I did see some 
long distance contacts made from Brockway on 24G and failures on higher 
bands. Has the management on top of Brockway changed since then? Are we 
still welcome? Brockway's height made up for avoiding lake effect that 
we took advantage of from Eagle Harbor.

I drove 2200 miles for that weekend in 2012. I started out on Thursday 9 
days before the contest, visited threshing shows at Almelund, Rose City, 
and Blackberry near K0AWU who I also visited. The show at Almelund was 
very large, the show at Rose City very small, and the show at Blackberry 
in between. Then I went north and east and visited a few museums up to 
Ely and then went south east to the north shore and over nighted at 
Grand Marais. And then went down the north shore missing some of the 
tourist attractions and visited museums, ships, and aquarium at Duluth, 
and Superior. Then I headed for the Keneewaw Peninsula and camped for 
the weekend at the state park east of Copper Harbor. It took two full 
days to drive home after the weekend. At the moment the Airstream is 
without an axle sitting on blocks but I do have a replacement axle that 
looks like its going to take some considerable work to get it to fit. 
Not a winter project with no heat in the machine shed where its parked.

I have plans for 24 GHz but haven't made any progress that I can detect. 
I'd wish for 10 watts and a good preamp for the 10 GHz rig because I 
know from roving beside Gary that he works stations I can't detect, same 
thing with Bruce on Brockway after many had left late on Sunday. The 
preamp is more likely to be accomplished in the next 9 months.

Last time I brought along a Honda generator to do battery charging, but 
only an empty gas can and I found no gasoline available in Copper Harber.

The pickdup gets 16 mpg without the Airstream and 15 mpg with the 
Airstream. Roving with the Airstream won't work well because unless I 
make some changes in the hitch area I can't open the pickup tailgate to 
get to the rig in the bed and making a U turn on a country road with the 
Airstream is not possible. So pulling the Airstream doesn't make for a 
rover rig. When I have had it on a rove, its been park it for three 
nights in the middle of the roving area and rove without it. Like at the 
state park east of Copper Harbor.

Lots of time to make plans and reservations. That state park was fairly 
popular for campers in 2012.

40 meters or 2m SSB might be workable for alternatives to cell phones. 
Since 2012 I changed my Tracfone from GSM to CDMA and I haven't found a 
place it doesn't work. There were many places the GSM didn't work. I do 
have a power cable for an FT-857D for the pickup and Hustler mobile 
antennas and a dual band (144/432) halo mount on the pickup. I don't 
have the Hustlers mounted though. I have used that particular FT-857 for 
UHF contest roving the past couple years.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

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