Hi all,
The week before July 4th, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we experienced high winds and lots got destroyed here again at ARS KM0T. Mostly the HF stuff I spent building back the last 6 months all got trashed…. Large multiband HF yagi, 40/30 yagi, etc., 62’ 80 rotatable dipole. Basically most of the things that got destroyed in the Late July Derecho last summer got trashed again.
Hence, no 6M and 2M for some time yet. The 222 EME system is rebuilt but needs to get on the tower yet, as I did not reinstall back on the house where it got trashed last July. The 10GHZ EME 1.8M dish survived again, which is great, what a trooper that system is.. just needed to recalibrate the Az heading again.
Anyway, the terrestrial microwave / 222-432 tower did not get damaged this time and I managed to eck out a few contacts during the opening the last number of days, although no real DX as we were shut out of the major tropo to the east coast.
With that I managed to get my 5.7GHz dish back on the tower, where I spent some time over the winter getting it locked with a bodnar so its digital ready. I got it all installed yesterday and tested mostly today, but I think its ready. 20 watts solid at the feed. (sorry Barry, no 24 GHz yet back on the tower, that rebuild is getting close)
So those of you asking recently for 5.7GHz contacts, let me know. I could use a few new grids too… The WIFI interference here is minimal from what I can tell, so that’s a good thing.
Would like to test with some Q65 as well for those set up for it. Please get hold of me.
See you all at CSVHFS
73
Mike -KM0T
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Km0t
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