Zack,
Damon is referring to me in this email. Many have no idea what it is to loose your TWO homes in a hurricane with 7ft of water ( Katrina ). Being displaced for another a year. Moving 3 times, having a new baby come to our lives. ( Happiest I have been since before Katrina.) Parents having health issues ( cancer - twice ). Finally moved back into my house but still not finished. Lots of painting, trim, rebuild of the garage and still have to put the HF tower up. ( Stepper 3 element sitting on the floor in the radio room ) and other stuff to do.
Believe me when I say, this is not what I wanted this late in my life but life deals you a hand you have to deal with. I other words, QSL cards are not on the top of my list things to do. I will get to it but in time. I did check the web site but there is not option for GIRDS.
So, be patience. They will come.
73 de Angelo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Beougher" zack.kd8ksn@hotmail.com To: wa4hfn@comcast.net; "AMSAT" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: em40 needed
Damon,
Try Angelo, N5UXT. He just got back from EL59, but his home QTH is in EM40. I still need to get EM40 confirmed as well.
Zack KD8KSN
-----Original Message----- From: wa4hfn@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:47 AM To: AMSAT Subject: [amsat-bb] em40 needed
Is there anyone that can go to EM40 to help many of us out with getting that grid confirmed ? Ive sent 2 SASE's to ????? and havent recieved a card back. Also here is a link to print free cards http://www.radioqth.net/qsl.aspx Cards can be onplain printer paper and will be fine
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Hi!
Believe me when I say, this is not what I wanted this late in my life but life deals you a hand you have to deal with. I other words, QSL cards are not on the top of my list things to do. I will get to it but in time. I did check the web site but there is not option for GIRDS.
Regarding the link Damon posted earlier:
http://www.radioqth.net/qsl.aspx
You can put your grid(s) and county in the MISC field in the "Optional Information" section. It will display that information below the address on the card. This worked well for me, before I went back to doing QSL cards with graphics on them a couple of years ago. It would have been easier if that page had separate fields for the county and grid(s), but this isn't bad. Put 4 cards on a page, and it works with Avery 8387 type postcard stock. Then the cards could be trimmed to the standard QSL card size.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FW: Re: em40 needed
I misread this as something to do with 40m EME and got so distracted doing the calculations that I may as well post them.
By my guess, if one could find an abandoned K mart parking lot with 160' spacing between light poles (about 30' high), one could hang 16 dipoles. If it was over GOOD swamp land, that might equal about 14 dB antenna gain.
The path loss at 40m is 36 dB better than at UHF so the link would be about 0 dB SNR on a CW signal maybe. But from this one has to subtract a huge amount of noise on 40m. And it would only work at high elevations with really QUIET sun cycle. (you could point it with some phase adjustments)...
But several dB of processing gain via DSP could bring it back up?
These are only wild guesses. But it was fun. I'd love to see an expert's calculation just for the drill.
Bob, WB4APR
Hi Bob and all!
I recall there was a HAARP experiment in, or near the 40 meter band. If I recall correctly, Randy, K7AGE, had recorded it for a youtube segment. I foget the power and gain at the site, but it was no doubt impressive.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:17 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] 40m EME (AMSAT 0)
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FW: Re: em40 needed
I misread this as something to do with 40m EME and got so distracted doing the calculations that I may as well post them.
By my guess, if one could find an abandoned K mart parking lot with 160' spacing between light poles (about 30' high), one could hang 16 dipoles. If it was over GOOD swamp land, that might equal about 14 dB antenna gain.
The path loss at 40m is 36 dB better than at UHF so the link would be about 0 dB SNR on a CW signal maybe. But from this one has to subtract a huge amount of noise on 40m. And it would only work at high elevations with really QUIET sun cycle. (you could point it with some phase adjustments)...
But several dB of processing gain via DSP could bring it back up?
These are only wild guesses. But it was fun. I'd love to see an expert's calculation just for the drill.
Bob, WB4APR
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It was 1/19 and 1/20/2008. I captured many screenshots of Spectran: http://www.kl7uw.com/raseti.htm bottom of the page the direct signal was 60-dB S+N/N and Moon echo was 20-dB S+N/N. Received on a 40m inverted-V with a FT-847 2.2 KHz bw in USB. Absolute signal level was affected by AGC.
They ran 360MW with 180 turnstyle antennas; HAARP webpage: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 02:29 PM 1/20/2011, Jeff Yanko wrote:
Hi Bob and all!
I recall there was a HAARP experiment in, or near the 40 meter band. If I recall correctly, Randy, K7AGE, had recorded it for a youtube segment. I foget the power and gain at the site, but it was no doubt impressive.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:17 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] 40m EME (AMSAT 0)
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FW: Re: em40 needed
I misread this as something to do with 40m EME and got so distracted doing the calculations that I may as well post them.
By my guess, if one could find an abandoned K mart parking lot with 160' spacing between light poles (about 30' high), one could hang 16 dipoles. If it was over GOOD swamp land, that might equal about 14 dB antenna gain.
The path loss at 40m is 36 dB better than at UHF so the link would be about 0 dB SNR on a CW signal maybe. But from this one has to subtract a huge amount of noise on 40m. And it would only work at high elevations with really QUIET sun cycle. (you could point it with some phase adjustments)...
But several dB of processing gain via DSP could bring it back up?
These are only wild guesses. But it was fun. I'd love to see an expert's calculation just for the drill.
Bob, WB4APR
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participants (5)
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Angelo Glorioso -
Bob Bruninga -
Edward R. Cole -
Jeff Yanko -
Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)