[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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