[NLRS] 2023 10GHz & Up and the 222 & Up Distance Contests results

[Zack Widup]

I found those results interesting. I think my best DX on 24 GHz so far is
about 200 km. I am using DB6NT bare-bones harmonic mixer boards on 47 and
76 GHz with no power amp or preamp. Power out is ~ 100 uW on those bands. I
have made QSO's with another station at about 40 km on 47 GHz but he had
the amp and preamp with about a watt out. So far I have only made about 1
km distance on 76 GHz.  I'm curious what the stations who got the best DX
on 47 and 76 GHz were using for equipment.

I was with the group led by K9PW in September last year, roving up and down
the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan. There is one path we get to fairly
early in the morning on Saturday that is a little over 1 km and I worked a
couple people on 122 GHz on that path. It's earlier than the people on the
Michigan side of the lake usually get to set up, so we have some time to
work on 47 GHz and above. There is another path on Sunday of about 5 km
that we could use but we're usually so busy making QSO's with people a lot
farther away on 10 and 24 GHz that the higher bands have to be neglected.
Maybe some year I can try for QSO's farther than 1 km on 47 and above.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:38 AM Jon Platt via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> While I have not seen the 2023 contest articles (nor the extended
> articles) posted on the Leagues website yet, the abbreviated contest
> results have been published in the most recent QST.  Congratulations to
> N0UK and K0HAC for placing 1st and 4th nationally in the 10GHz Contests
> 10GHz Only category, good show !  They also receive the most Q's per cubic
> feet of car space award.  Fellow club members keeping them company in the
> same operating category were W0ZQ in 3rd place and WB0LJC in 6th place
> nationally.  Congratulations to all.
>
> While we did enjoy excellent tropo for that contest, the best DX was
> happening just to our east with W8BYA making a 945 km contact with WQ0P.
> Best DX on 24 GHz was 293 km (W6BY), 47GHz was 140 km (K2DH, VA3ELE,
> VA3TO), 75GHz was 58 km (KB8VAO, K8ZR), 123GHz was 5 km (VE4MA, VE4SA), and
> on 300+ GHz it was 8 km (AF1T, W1MKY, K1RZ, K1WHC).  Impressive DX on what
> is "line of sight".
>
> In the ARRL 222 & Up Distance contest we had only one club member showing
> in the top ten rankings for any category and that was KC0P/R and N0HZO/R
> who finished in 7th and 8th place respectively in the Rover category.
> Congratulations to Mel and Carol for keeping the NLRS flag waving.  The
> club did finish in 5th place (out of 9 clubs) in the overall club
> competition with the 3rd highest number of club logs submitted.  Also,
> congratulations to Bill, K0AWU, who led the way on club scoring.
>
> Lots of fun for all, 50 MHz to Light.  Next up will be the band specific
> CSVHFS Sprint Sprints with the first one, the 2m Sprint, on Monday evening,
> April 1.
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
>
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