FB, Bill. You and I also did 432 and 1296.
73,
Bernie, W4SW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Seabreeze" <w3iy@adelphia.net>
To: <microwave@wa1mba.org>
Cc: <packrats@mailman.qth.net>; <newsvhf@mailman.qth.net>;
<vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: [Mw] Re: Mini_Expedition
> Yo,
> We had a fun time out in the Tuscorora mountain site at FM19aw.
> This site is nice and flat at the top, but there are 60ft trees all
around,
> about 100 yds away, in all directions. There are just a few holes to
> the east and west. We seemed to do really well on 2m, but on 903 &
> above, signals were less than expected. Tree-attenuators, no doubt.
>
> We were able to QSO:
> K2SMN 2m,903
> K2TXB 2m,10G (peaked S5, rapid QSB)
> W2KV 2m,10G (peaked S1)
> K1RZ 2m,10G (solid S5 SSB!)
> W4SW 2m, 222
> KB8VAO 2m, 432 (loud from EN91!)
> N3FZ 2m, 432
> VA3YW (EN93!) 2m
> WS3C 2m, 432
>
> I'm sure there were others, but I wasn't logging in the darkness, and the
> mind
> is the 2nd thing to go...
>
> We also copied the W3HMS 10GHz beacon S3 from here...cool!
> We noticed all the W3VD beacons have all disappeared...anybody know
> what happenned?
>
> We met a couple of deer hunters up there, who said they saw a large
> buck eyeballing the van, as they approached. I guess he was offended by
> our antlers. The hunters were amazed to hear our tall tales of ham radio,
> and bouncing signals off the recent auroras. Some locals said there were
> lots of bears out in the area as well. Nice site, but I prefer a better
> uwave
> horizon, when available.
>
> Tnx to all who got on the airwaves. It's always exciting to me to work
> anybody on the high bands!
> 73,
> Bill W3IY/R
>
>
>
>
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