222 Night was quite an experience. It was the shakedown cruise for the
newly repaired diesel generator. Happily it ran solid for the entire
evening with no trace of speed instability. It was steady all evening.
It was also the evening that KA6U had planned to test out his new
portable 222 EME setup that he takes out on the road in warmer months.
He has been rebuilding things with a new vehicle and was hoping to test
out his dual 16 el yagis on the EME circuit. He can operate the whole
system remotely from at his house with the car out somewhere else! I
showed up a bit early looking for KA6U who is now in EL97, Florida. We
worked via EME with great signals each way. He was running 600 watts for
our contact. A few more folks showed up and I split my time between EME
and terrestrial paths. At times it got confusing. Here is my log page.
DATE TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE
PRO.REMARKS QRB (miles)
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10/04/2022 22:09 KA6U EL97 O O 220 MHzJT65
EME 1230+-
10/04/2022 22:30 W5EME EM32AI O 220 MHzJT65
EME 1460
10/04/2022 22:59 W1XR FM19 55 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 410+-
10/04/2022 23:01 N1JEZ FN44AR 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 105
10/04/2022 23:04 WZ1V FN31 57 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 165+-
10/04/2022 23:05 KV1J FN42FI 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 78
10/04/2022 23:06 WW1Z FN42 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 60+-
10/04/2022 23:08 WA3NUF FN20 57 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 286+-
10/04/2022 23:10 K2RMX FN20 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 286+-
10/04/2022 23:19 K1PXE FN31 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 165+-
10/04/2022 23:39 W1GHZ FN34 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 126+-
10/04/2022 23:43 WA1PBU FN42JG 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 79
10/04/2022 23:44 KE1LI FN41 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 130+-
10/04/2022 23:47 W9KXI FN12NE 57 57 220 MHzSSB
TR 311
10/04/2022 23:53 K2AEP FN32OW 55 55 220 MHzSSB
TR 98
10/05/2022 00:10 W4ZST EM84AO O O 220 MHzJT65
EME 923
10/05/2022 00:20 WA4NJP EM84 O O 220 MHz JT65
EME 930
10/05/2022 00:31 K5QE EM31 O O 220 MHzJT65
EME 1452+-
10/05/2022 00:38 N1DPM FN32 59 59 220 MHzSSB
TR 118+-
10/05/2022 00:51 K7KQA DN06GF O O 220 MHzJT65
EME 2347
10/05/2022 01:13 WA3EOQ FM09JO 429 FM09 220 MHzCW
TR 500
10/05/2022 01:29 N1MIW FN41 -4 -4 220 MHzFT8
TR 120
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Number of QSO listed: 22
For my try with WA3EOQ, I turned my directional array towards Howard in
extreme western Maryland after working K7KQA in Washington State, and
started calling. I went for several sequences of calling Howard, and was
hearing absolutely nothing. Only then did I notice that I had forgotten
to lower the elevation on the array and it was pointing up about 22
degrees. I was hearing nothing while Howard was barely detecting me on
frequency. When I figured out my error, things got much better, although
WA3EOQ was quite a bit weaker than normal even with the array pointing
at the horizon. I wonder if Hurricane Ian swirling around in mid path
had something to do with the weaker signals.
I hope to be on Wednesday for the 432 night Sprint.
73
Dave K1WHS
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