[Moon-net] 13cm Results at VE6TA
Grant
ve6ta at telusplanet.net
Mon Sep 18 17:56:34 CDT 2006
Folks:
Not much cooperation from the weather or Murphy over the microwave
contest weekend.
It all started well with 14 stations worked during the European window
of the first pass. Weather was windy but not too bad.
During the JA window rain really picked up and somehow infiltrated my
elevation sensor box. At this point my elevation sensor stopped working
so had to stop operations.
When checking out the elevation sensor problem the next pass I noticed
that my power output was erratic on the spectrian. Turned out that my
50 amp 26 volt switching supply had suddenly decided to provide only 20
amps or so.
Managed to fix the elevation sensor by removing a few drops of water.
The power supply however has something more serious wrong with it.
Got on for the last JA window with reduced power using batteries but
only heard a JA8? for one sequence then he left.
Stations worked were:
W5LUA, ES5PC, F2TU, OK1KIR, RW1AW, OH2DG, SM4DHN, K5GW#, WD5AGO, OK1CA,
HB9SV, WA6PY, G3LTF, OE9ERC. I also heard RW3BP, WW2R, and NA4N, but no
chance to call them.
Thanks to all for the contacts and hope we can stay around for a bit
longer next time.
73's
Grant
VE6TA
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