[Fourlanders] [GARS] Microwave Activity Last Saturday 3/19

[Jeff Townsend]

I guess I should post here too. :-)

This is something that has just started evolving.

A couple weeks ago a bunch of us got together to play on 1296.
We ended up with 11 or 12 stations on from northwestern Alabama through Georgia to Greenville, South Carolina.
There was SSB, FT8 and maybe Q65 in use.

Everyone loved it so much we decided to do it the first Saturday of every month and expand to 222mhz and up.
There are some Florida stations interested this time around too.

Saturday the 2nd of April will be the first of those Saturdays.
Some of us portable ops have decided we would be on at 10am EST / 9am CST.
Others may show up before or after.

Everyone is welcome to join in.

Coordination is on Slack VHF-Chat in the fourlanders channel.

Jeff
WB8LYJ
wb8lyj at gmail.com

> On Mar 26, 2022, at 11:00 PM, John Kludt <johnnykludt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Maybe you already know about this?  Sounds likea great chance to exercise those new IC-9700 in terrestrial mode, especially on 1296.
> 
> Johnny
> 
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> From: Jeff Townsend <wb8lyj at gmail.com <mailto:wb8lyj at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [GARS] Microwave Activity Last Saturday 3/19
> To: <GARS at groups.io <mailto:GARS at groups.io>>
> Cc: BRMS at groups.io <mailto:BRMS at groups.io> <BRMS at groups.io <mailto:BRMS at groups.io>>
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> 
> I think the plan is to gather at 10:00am EST on Saturday the 2nd.
> Home stations will be on from northern Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
> We may also have some stations in Florida listening for us.
> 
> Portable stations will be Don, Greg K4NO on Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, Chris NV4B in NW Alabama, and myself on a high point in EM72.
> Possibly one or two more portables as well.
> 
> In addition to 1296 and 10ghz we will be doing 222mhz and 432mhz.
> 
> Jeff
> WB8LYJ
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Don Woodward <dbwoodw at w-ent.com <mailto:dbwoodw at w-ent.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a blast last Saturday in the parking lot at Brasstown Bald (BTB) (EM84cu) even though I was only able to make one contact via CW with Bob kV4PC at 156+ miles away (EM64rr) on 1296.1 MHz - we tried SSB but unfortunately lack of experience on my IC-705 IF radio prevented me from completing that QSO - I came home and tested reception on HF of weak signal SSB and discovered what I was doing wrong.
>> 
>> I was able to receive the 1296.305 beacon in EM85cg but was unable to receive the two beacons in Virginia that I had hoped to receive.  The view to the north from the parking lot has the 600' summit blocking it, so when I can get on the top I am sure I will be able to hear them and work stations to the north easily.
>> 
>> I had taken and setup 10GHz there but the wind early in the day was so strong I took it down - the wind at one point blew my 1296 antenna over - luckily, I caught it before it made contact with something solid.
>> 
>> Hopefully the shuttle will start running again at BTB in a few weeks and I can get up to the summit with my gear where I will have a 360-degree clear view.
>> 
>> Next Saturday 4/2 should be a microwave activity day here in Georgia so I will most likely be back up on BTB with my 1296 setup at the parking lot then.
>> 
>> 73's
>> 
>> Don W.
>> KD4APP
>> 
>> https://kd4app.blogspot.com <https://kd4app.blogspot.com/> 
>> 
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> Jeff Townsend
> WB8LYJ
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