[NLRS] 10 GHz Cumulative results
Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
geraldj at netins.net
Fri Sep 22 20:19:40 EDT 2017
Jon covered the first day in Nebraska very well. We did get some rain
scatter to the south rover group from Basset, NE SAturday afternoon. We
stayed together unto lunch time Sunday. Then while Jon and Charlie
headed south, Arlis, Holly, and I headed north from Valentine to a spot
they had picked out and worked Radar Hill. Going east on gravel we
happend upon a perfect spot with a few hundred feet fall off in the
first 3 miles looking south and worked the southern rovers as they were
planning to drive more than make contacts early in the afternoon. We
never heard from Jon and Charlie all afternoon. We worked the hill a
couple times, then set up to work the hill a third time and found the
hill abandoned. We went on east a bit and I went south and Arlis and
Holly headed north and then east. We worked each other twice as we
split. They went home and I overnighted in O'Neil NE and then headed
east on US20 for home.
Our first spot Saturday morning was about 8 miles north of one suggested
by Gary and was located Friday by Jon. EN02HH IIRC. It was beautiful.
Looking north to NW it was down hill over a valley a couple hundred feet
deep and 5 miles or so across. Looking NE to east is was down hill over
a valley a bit too far away to see how deep but the next ridge was 10 or
15 miles away, far enough it was gray. Same thing South, while SE to
Missouri stations it was nearly flat for a while then a deep wide
valley. Better than Buck Hill because of greater height and more
directions without moving the operating position.
Gary described the NE Iowa rove accurately below.
I haven't figured my score yet, I missed some contacts, mostly KFC last
weekend at times, just too weak to copy on SSB. When I went to CW I
copied Jim. I did get through the 9 pages of logs to enter all the
distances but I haven't decided how I'm going to propare a log for
submission, either paper by hand, or by computer, or a simple spread
sheet. About 215 Q's for the two weekends. I submitted a log for the
Iowa QSO party from last Saturday for 14 Q's in two states. QRP portable
class, might be the only entry in that class.
I'm in Sioux City tonight for an Iowa hamfest state convention in the
morning.
73, Jerry, K0CQ
On 9/22/2017 1:57 PM, Gary2 wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I operated both weekends of the contest, different propagation every
> day.
>
> The first weekend was at "Radar Hill, SD", actually about one mile
> East of the Ft Randall Casino that is now occupies the former radar
> site. Thanks to Jim, KØKFC, for telling us about the site.
>
> Saturday we had great signals in most directions, except to the cities.
> I missed the MN stations as I was having trouble with the elevation
> on a 75 cm dish. I had a note telling me where to set the elevation,
> but it's been so long since I used the dish that I had forgotten what
> the note means. After I got the elevation corrected signals were fine.
> While I was figuring things out both Jim's, KØKFC and KØMHC worked
> NØKP, NØUK, and I think WØGHZ, at increasing distances. They
> will have to correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Our best DX was 613 km to Bill, KØAWU, in EM39ac. Signals were
> S9+. Great tropo enhancement. Unfortunately we couldn't get any
> of the other Missouri ops to return a phone call. There was a thunder
> storm over northern Iowa. I don't know where the front was located,
> but signals on the south side of the storm were enhanced, while those
> back to MN were weak.
>
> We worked the north and south rover groups with good signals
> at each stop. We also worked AD7OI and KI7GVT in Iowa a few times.
>
> Sunday we worked the rover groups again until they stopped for the
> day. I also worked Dave, NØKP, at a distance of 397 km. We tried with
> NØUK, but nothing was heard this time.
>
> First weekend totals: 119 Q's 113 Q's on 10 G 6 Q's on 24 G
> Best DX: 613 km on 10 G
> 122 km on 24 G.
> Distance points: 22,577
> Uniques: 19
> Total points for the weekend: 24,477
> Number of unique grids worked: 12
>
> Second Weekend.
> I was with the rover group consisting on Holly, KØHAC, Chris, NØUK,
> Jerry, KØCQ, and me. We started in SE MN and traveled south into
> NE Iowa on Saturday. Signals were good as the distances were on the
> short side and we had rain scatter enhancement. One of the fixed
> group ops told me that they didn't have to move their dishes, they
> just kept it on the rain.
>
> Sunday morning, well before sunrise, we had a thunderstorm come
> through. I looked at the radar when I got up, there was plenty of
> rain over central Wisconsin. If it held together we would have a
> good chance to work the Michigan ops and maybe the Wisconsin
> ops on the western side of Lake Michigan. Unfortunately the storm
> dissipated before we were on the air. With the rain storm and cold
> front now to our east conditions deteriorated. Signals that are
> usually S5 or better over the distance were in the S1-2 range most
> of the day. Signals only improved when we got much closer to the
> fixed stations. We traveled west from Oelwein, IA to US 63 and then
> north from there.
>
> Second weekend totals: 114 Q's all on 10 G
> Best DX: 302 km on 10 G with three
> different stations
> Distance points: 24,120
> Uniques: 5
> Total points for the weekend: 24,620
>
> Totals for the contest:
> 233 Q's 24 uniques
> 46,697 distance points
> 49,097 Total score.
>
> This is better then I thought.
>
> Thanks to everyone who was on both the first and second weekends,
> and to those who could only get on for a few contacts.
>
> Lake Superior next August 18th and 19th. Put it on your calendar.
> We hope to have stations on the MN North shore, the Keweenaw
> peninsula (Mt Brockway, etc), the Canadian North Shore and on
> the far East end of the lake near Wawa. The plan is to have bands
> that include 10 G, 24 G, 47 G and 78 G. Barry, VE4MA, has said he will
> bring his high performance equipment for the higher bands. If you are
> interested in any of the higher bands, now is the time to get to
> work building or improving those bands.
>
> I will keep everyone informed as plans progress.
>
> 73, Gary WBØLJC
>
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