QRV 222 EME now 2215z
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73 Joel W5ZN
On 2022-12-06 12:30, David Olean wrote:
No I did not forget. I have just been busy with many loose ends....not
the least of which has been what is attached to my neck. I have been
doing small amounts of work on the remote shack on the hill. I finally
got the 432 system back and working. I do have a semi HF presence
there with a ten meter setup and I have been doing lots of work there
to get ready for the ARRL Ten Meter Contest this weekend. Lots of
problems with broken tic Ring rotor indicators, a bad meter in a T2X
control box, busted yagi feeds etc. The last thing was building a new
antenna switch and then finding that my 6 element yagi was an open
circuit! Turns out it was intermittent. I managed to lower the whole
36 ft long yagi to the ground and found that the feed was flaky. I had
over engineered it and made it worse somehow! But enough of that
stuff! It is Tuesday and it will be raining in the northeast, so Pete,
K1PXE will be happy and it will be 222 activity night. What better
way to spend an evening with lousy weather than to sit by your
fantastic 222 VHF setup and try to work DX while being warm and cozy.
For my part, I will be on 222.100 starting a bit before 00:00 UT
looking for contacts. I will monitor ON4KST 144/432 Region 2 Chat
page in case you want to run a sked or listen for a weak signal beyond
your normal working radius. It is early December. I will probably get
snowed out pretty soon, and not be able to keep active on the tuesday
evenings, but while I still can, I will be there making noise and
calling on 222. The Moon should be way up during the evening, and I
will check the HB9Q 222 page if anyone wants to exercise their
elevation rotator this evening. I did look at my 222 antenna and it
seems to be still in one piece. Nothing looks broken yet but winter
has barely gotten started. I use the same antenna for tropo and EME
sessions.
I hope to hear a bunch of great signals this evening. Maybe K2AEP has
lengthened his 222 antenna some more?
73
Dave K1WHS
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