[VHFcontesting] Re: [Mw] W3HMS Sprint Result, Comments, and Fire Report!

[W3HMS at aol.com]

Hi Bill and guys.......It was fun indeed as a Rover and my contacts were with 
Bill and almost a dupe with Steve KB8VAO as Bill noted below.  Many thanks to 
Bill and to Steve. 

I chatted with K2SMN (NG on 1.2 Ghz) and AA2UK on 2 meters. I quit at 1100 
tired es hungry and EOCP (see below).   I had worked each from the same site 
in past on 1.2 Ghz with good sigs on 2 m. This time the super lousy WX made 
contacts but a dream. I hated to miss K1RZ and W4SW but had no choice after 
1100. I really needed to make some QSOs to prove to myself my eqpt on 2/3/5 
GHz was working OK as my results with W4SW on 5 Oct suggested I needed a 
brand new station, HI!.   

As Bill noted on the air, I was also amazed at the good signal strength on 10 
Ghz I had with Bill and with Steve from more than 45 miles. This was inspite 
of the band of wet trees I shot through worth an estimated -30 db...or more. 
The scatter was so band that I could not really point my very sharp 24 inch 
offset dish on 10 Ghz.

One interesting thing to pass on.......my QSO with Steve on 3.456 was his 
first on that band with FB sigs at each end so we tried a ragchew in FM for 5 
minutes or so. About 1100, I handed my field strength meter to Nick, KB3IJH, 
a frequent young ham visitor with us in FM19av and said, "What meter reading 
do you have? 
He said "it was smoking". I thought that was a new teen age "jazz speak", 
HI!!!   But ,no he said, "your feed is smoking"!!!

My on-site inspection showed that the thin film food wrap WX cover on this 
tri-band WA5VJB 2.1-6 Ghz log-periodic feed was indeed burnt near the outside 
edges. 
On closer inspection at QTH, my 40 watts had charred the PCB to a depth that 
it now needs replacing with a fresh one in hand. 

For Kent, please, what do you recommend as a ray-dome et al... ...and I 
promise to use SSB only on 3.4, HI??

See you all on Activity Day 2 Nov 02
    
73,


John
W3HMS/R in FN10 es FM19
13 Oct 02 


In a message dated 10/12/2002 6:58:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, w3iy at fcc.net 
writes:


> 
> Yo,
> The microwave sprint was fun, and activity was decent,
> although conditions were even worse than the Sept contest.
> There wasn't much signal strength coming in from far-out.
> K2SMN coulndn't even hear the CCX beacons this AM!
> (and he's close!)  Conditions were really that poor.  We
> looked NW, SW, & S, quite a bit, to no avail....sri.
> It's kind of fun to see what you can work under adverse
> conditions, once in a while (in preparation for Jan VHF SS...
> hi).  Here's what we worked from W4RX's awesome
> mountaintop station in FM19bb:
> 903        K2SMN       FN20
>               W4SW         FM18
>               K3DNE        FM19
>               K1TEO         FN31
>               K1RZ            FM19
> 1296      K2SMN        FN20
>               W3HMS/R    FN10
>               W4SW          FM18
>               K3DNE         FM19
>               K1TEO         FN31
>               W3HMS/R    FM19
>               KB8VAO/R  FN00 (on his FM HT!!!)
>               K1RZ            FM19
> 2304      K3DNE         FM19
>               W4SW/R       FM18
>               K1RZ            FM19
> 3456      W3HMS/R    FM19
>               W4SW/R       FM18
>              KB8VAO/R    FN00 (on 1/2 of his 112 looper!)
> 5760     KB8VAO/R    FN00 (solid SSB)
>              W3HMS/R      FM19
>              W4SW/R        FM18
>              K1RZ              FM19
> 10368   KB8VAO/R    FN00 (solid SSB)
>              W3HMS/R      FM19
>              K1RZ              FM19
> 24192   W4SW/R         FM18 (r = 43.4Km, S9! thru dense fog and mist)
> 47088   heard W4SW 539, one-way, (he has BIG SMOKE @ 30mW!!)
> 
> I'm especially grateful to the rovers, who braved long drives, traffic,
> rain, fog,
> mist, haze, & really bad propagation to provide some much-needed action on
> the
> bands.  These guys are to be commended! (give them a break, and WORK THEM!)
> Glad we could partake.  Tnx to W4RX for the oppurtunity to stay inside for 
> a
> change.
> Thanks for all the activity.  Every microwave QSO is still a fascinating
> rarity to me!
> Conditions are always different, and there is still much to be learned.
> Keep them
> knobs a-spinning!
> 
> 73,
> Bill W3IY
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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