My first time in this contest. I only worked one station - W9ZIH - from
EN62cc on Sunday morning and then from EN50rl on Sunday evening. Both on
10 GHz. My total points for the first weekend were 100 + 92 (km) + 160
(km) = 352.
I set up in EN62cc on Saturday evening for an hour but heard no one on
from 144.230 through 144.260 and no one on 10G. A large thunderstorm to
the east produced no rainscatter QSO's.
I set up at the same site again on Sunday morning and worked Ron, then
tried to work several others to the east who were on 144.260. Neither I
nor W9ZIH could hear most of them. I believe they had propagation to the
east but not to the west at that time.
My tripod then fell down and bent the feed to my 10G dish. I drove back
to Champaign and repaired the feed. Then in the evening I worked W9ZIH
from EN50rl. Signals were pretty decent, so we also worked each other on
3456 and 5760 just for fun. I listened for others on 10G but dd't hear
anyone from there and no one else on 144.260 either.
By the way, W9ZIH has a 5760 beacon at the QTH of WB9Z (I think that's
EN60br). It is almost exactly on 5760.000 and I think Ron said it is
aimed to the northwest. I could hear it in EN50rl to the northeast last
night.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Bill Burgess wrote:
> The first half of the 10 gigs and up 'test has now passed. Lets start seeing
> some results here.
>
> Did anybody exceed past results for the first weekend oin the contest?
>
> Bill VE3CRU
>
> Email: ve3cru@rac.ca
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