[VHFcontesting] 10 GHz and Up Activities

[Ward Silver]

Folks,

Be sure to send a copy of your 10 GHz notes to the writeup author, KI5WL 
Jeff Wadsworth <jill8302 at yahoo.com>.  Jeff is always looking for good 
material and, building on the writeups that Bruce W9FZ did previously, 
has been putting together some interesting results packages.  Photos are 
particularly good and show off all the cool microwave gear which is 
pretty interesting to the student clubs - that's where communications 
work is done these days so it's right up their alley!

73, Ward N0AX

On 10/24/2017 11:00 AM, vhfcontesting-request at contesting.com wrote:
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>     1. W9SZ 10 GHz And Up Contest 2017 (Zack Widup)
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> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:48:33 -0500
> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
> To: VHF Contesting Reflector <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>,	vhfqrp
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> Subject: [VHFcontesting] W9SZ 10 GHz And Up Contest 2017
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> I just got my log submitted in time but realized I never wrote up a summary.
>
> Weekend 1 -
>
> QSO's - 9 (all on 10 GHz)
>
> Unique Calls - 6
>
> Distance Points - 1721
>
>
> Weekend 2 -
>
> QSO's - 105 on 10 GHz; New Unique Calls - 9
>
> 10 on 24 GHz; Unique Calls - 6
>
> 2 on 47 GHz; Unique Calls - 2
>
>
> Distance points -
>
> 20378 on 10 GHz
>
> 1142 on 24 GHz
>
> 2 on 47 GHz
>
>
> Totals -
>
> QSO's - 126
>
> Distance Points - 23243
>
> Unique Calls - 23
>
>
> Score: 25543
>
>
> The first weekend I operated from the hill in EN50rl and made 5 QSO's
> on 10 GHz. I then proceeded south to ultimately end up at Bob N5RP's
> QTH. I went to a cemetery on a hill near Ohlmann, IL and made four
> more QSO's from there on 10 GHz. I then went to an old AT&T site on a
> hill near Jerseyville, IL in EM49ua. I was unable to work anyone from
> there. There was a hill to the north and no one to work to the south.
> Mildly unsettling because I had to drive an hour out of my way to get
> there and an hour back to the route to N5RP. On Sunday morning Bob and
> I went to the top of Bald Knob near Alto Pass. It was a long shot to
> anyone I could try to work. I wasn't able to work anyone on 10 GHz
> from up there.
>
> The second weekend I roved with Pete K9PW and John K9JK up and down
> the Wisconsin Lake Michigan shore. Jim W9SNR joined us for most of the
> day on Saturday. There were quite a few people to work on the Michigan
> side. Also, while we were in Kenosha, Pete and Jim went to a spot that
> was line-of-sight at 1.1 km away. We worked on 10 and 24 GHz and then
> tried 47 GHz. We may have tried a longer distance but we didn't know
> how well my station would perform on that band, as I had never worked
> anyone with it yet. So I made my first QSO's on 47 GHz with K9PW and
> with W9SNR, who was using a second station loaned to him by Pete. We
> went north, stopping at about 8 places to work people on the Michigan
> side of the lake. On Sunday we started out in Algoma, Wisconsin, and
> went south, stopping at many of the same places, since the Michigan
> gang was in a different location on Sunday. We wrapped it up on Sunday
> evening in Kenosha. We all made the bulk of our QSO's on the second
> weekend. Conditions were a lot better on Sunday than they were on
> Saturday.
>
> I'm one of four people I know of in Illinios who has a station on 47
> GHz now. Pete and I are going to (hopefully) try for more distance on
> that band before winter gets here.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ