[OKDXA] VU7

[Gene Lewis]

That's a wonderful idea.  All donations gladly accepted!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] VU7


> Spring for a steppir yagi.  Then you can do the 180
> degree reversal mode and not have to worry about
> whether you are stuck at SP or LP :)
>
> 73s John W5TD
>
> --- Gene Lewis <w5le at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>> My tower is a 55 footer.  I think setting it on
>> short path is what I'd
>> better do and I'm also going to make it a point to
>> rotate it a couple of
>> times just before I go to bed and see if that'll
>> help keep it from freezing
>> up during the night.  Do you recall the heading you
>> were using for short
>> path Bert?
>> Gene
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bert Aaron" <k2ba at cox.net>
>> To: "'Discussion of OKDXA'" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:17 PM
>> Subject: RE: [OKDXA] VU7
>>
>>
>> > Gene,
>> >
>> > I would put it on LP. It was easier to hear them
>> LP this a.m. at about
>> > 13Z.
>> > and it will probably be 15Z before you can hear
>> them SP. By that time your
>> > rotator may be thawed out. How high is your
>> antenna?
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> > On Behalf Of Gene Lewis
>> > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 4:53 PM
>> > To: Discussion of OKDXA
>> > Subject: [OKDXA] VU7
>> >
>> > I've strained my ears all day trying to get enough
>> of a signal from them
>> > to
>> > warrant calling them.  I'm starting to think that
>> Oklahoma is in a "black
>> > hole" when it comes to VU7.  I heard Carmen work
>> them this morning but, as
>> > luck would have it, my rotator was frozen short
>> path and I think she and
>> > Bert worked them long path.  I had to wait for the
>> temperature to rise
>> > enough to thaw my rotator out.
>> > Now I can swing it again but I suppose by tomorrow
>> morning it'll be cold
>> > enough to freeze it again.  With my luck, if I
>> left it on long path
>> > through
>> > the night then I'd need it short path!  8-(
>> > Gene
>> >
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