[VHFcontesting] 222 Night for June 7/8 2022

[David Olean]

Heading up the hill now. I will look for you.

73

Dave K1WHS

On 6/7/2022 5:59 PM, Paul Bourque wrote:
> I'll be headed up to a hilltop in FN31tq shortly. I made my first 
> contact last week on 222 SSB with WZ1V.  I'll be running a 
> Ukrainian Transverter into an RF Concepts amp at about 25 watts into a 
> shortened Cushcraft Boomer.  I've had good luck working both Dave and 
> Paul (a local) from there on 2 meters, Hope to be able to work you 
> guys and some others tonight!
>
> 73,
> Paul N1SFE
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 3:20 PM Paul Rollinson 
> <paulrollinson at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dave,I'm trying to get on tonight. Hope we can
>     chat.73Thanks,Paul Rollinson, KE1LI Fn41au860-928-5147860-208-8814
>     Cell/TextPaulrollinson at sbcglobal.net Representing Component Part
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>     -------- Original message --------From: David Olean
>     <k1whs at metrocast.net> Date: 6/7/22  2:33 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: "222
>     >> 222Activity at groups.io" <222Activity at groups.io>,
>     vhfcontesting at contesting.com, NEWSVHF at mailman.qth.net Subject:
>     [VHFcontesting] 222 Night for June 7/8 2022 Hello 222 folks,I am
>     looking forward to this evening to try out my revised 222 receive
>     system. Yesterday, I climbed the 100 ft tower and removed the
>     weather proof box that held the TX relays and the preamp. It was
>     working great, but was being hammered by a CH 11 TV station
>     whenever I aimed southwest. (Guess where most of the activity is?)
>     That CH 11 TV station is in line with New York, Philly, and
>     Washington DC. I could not use my tower mtd preamp in that
>     direction.  So a new and bigger box was built up to contain the
>     cavity FET preamp. I had to steal the original power connector
>     from the old box so I did not have to run a new cable and
>     connector up the tower. Last night I swapped things out and
>     finished the wiring of the interior of the box, using that power
>     connector again.  Then some tests on the NF meter that proved it
>     was working. I am seeing about a 1/2 dB NF through the adaptors
>     and TX relays, which seems about right.  So I was up on the tower
>     this morning, and checked for the proper voltages with my trusty
>     DVM. The last move was to connect up the DC to the preamp once I
>     knew that all was well, and then down the tower to see how it
>     worked.There is no evidence of overload! In addition, the
>     selectivity in the frontend is so good that the CH 11 station does
>     not even overload the transverter. I was sure that I would have to
>     install a filter to prevent that, but the 25 dB of attenuation was
>     enough to make it all work just fine. I listened a bit to the K1RT
>     Beacon on 222.060. I was hearing it pretty well....a good sign.  I
>     tried elevating the yagis and saw the noise level drop, so it is
>     working. How well, remains to be seen, but I am encouraged that my
>     hearing problems to the SW are gone. Now I need to try it out with
>     real signals. I hope many make the effort to get on this
>     evening!!I plan to be on 222.100 at about 22:30 or 22:45 UT. I
>     will be monitoring ON4KST as well as HB9Q Chat for any EME
>     activity. At 0100 UT the Moon will be southwest and at about a 45
>     degree elevation. It sets here at about 0545 UT.  It could be an
>     exciting evening!Be there and check it out!Dave
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