[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

Thu Jan 31 01:03:00 MST 2008

    I'll never forget to listening to the Space Shuttle work WA1JXN on 2m FM
for the  first Amateur QSO ever from the shuttle. Of course I never did hear
Lance but knew that he had an EME station up there in MT as I'd also worked
him on 2m MS as W0KEA from DM69. It might have been in 1982 along with Ken
in the Perseids. I immediately knew he had buco more ERP that me.
    I was at our mountain top Aspen contest site with Lloyd, ND0E, where
we'd put up one of those 20 element Cushcraft satelite yagis (10 horizontal
and 10 vertical with NBS spacing) with no elevation and was running a Icom
251A into a Mirage brick for all of 90w and were using it to work the 2m up,
10m down low orbit satelites. During this same pass my old Heathkit 13.8 VDC
PS caught on fire and flames were coming out the sides and it stunk up the
shack pretty bad. By the next orbit, we had cleaned the ashes out of the PS
and had it operational. I never did make a QSO with Owen Garrret, W5???, but
heard him several more times on my Icom 2AT and rubber duck that I carried
with me while working as a ski instructor for Vail.
    I do wish to get something going for EME on 6m and 2m and enjoyed
Lance's presentation at the CSVHF convention in Colorado Springs a few years
ago and still have his paper.
    73 Phil N0KE
  -----Original Message-----
  From: rmvhf-bounces at rmvhf.org [mailto:rmvhf-bounces at rmvhf.org]On Behalf Of
Ken Anderson
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:37 PM
  To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
  Subject: RE: [RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

  Hi Lance, W7GJ (ex WA1JXN/7):

  You mention the 704 mi distance to the Denver area from your QTH for which
there is no usual terrestrial path.  I'm sure you are right but one unusual
meteor scatter QSO I had on August 12, 1982 (probably the Perseids) was with
WA1JXN/7 when you worked 4 Denver area stations.  I worked you with a 10w
ssb rig and a 7 el antenna and have appreciated your QSL in my file for
years.  The ms contact spurred me to get onto 2m ssb in a bigger way with
100w and a 17 el m2 at 80 ft.   It was a fun QSO and I will always remember
it.

  I hope you've signed on to the RMVHF reflector.

  73 Ken, W0ETT
  Parker, CO DM79

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    From: k7tnt at bresnan.net
    To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
    Subject: Re: [RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!
    Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:46 -0700

    Lance, sometime look for the K7KMT/b just West of Gillette,WY on 2m.
144.298 in DN64 Good luck. Richard K7TNT DN74
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: LANCE COLLISTER
      To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
      Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:06 PM
      Subject: Re: [RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

      W6OAL at aol.com wrote:
      > Lance,
      >
      > You are always more than welcome to our group. Actually you are a
      > Rocky Mountain VHF+ Member just by virtue of the fact that you live
in
      > the Rocky Mountain Region. We are a fairly loose knit group of no
      > officers, no dues, no rules (other than FCC) and the best 2M
(144.220)
      > Monday night net in the 'nation'. We average 30 check-ins Monday
nights
      > at 8 PM local. Don't know that we can reach Montana on other than a
      > little sporadic E, or tropo but please give a listen and try to
check in
      > with us when the basement heats up. 'Tis been a terrible cold winter
      > thus far here in CO also.
      > Say, check out our web site, www.rmvhf.org ,
      > see what we been up to, what we do and what we propose to do. Our
roster
      > runs about 250 members. A member is anyone that checks-in at least
once.
      > Hey, stay warm up there, always enjoying hearing from you on 6M in
      > the mornings.
      >
      > CU 73, Dave... (First Monday of the Month Net Control Station)
      >
      > Olde Antenna Lab of Denver
      > Dr. David A. Clingerman, Sc. D. (CEO)
      > 41541 Dublin Drive
      > Parker, CO 80138-4604
      >
      > Phone: 303 841 1354
      > Cell: 303 648 1255
      > E-mail: w6oal at aol.com
      >
      >
      >

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      TNX Dave!

      I am not sure that I have ever tried making 704 mile terrestrial
contacts on 2m
      ;-) That, as we have seen, is just on the short end of possible D
layer scatter
      and probably also a little short for most possible 2m Es. And I doubt
there is
      any tropo ducting possible because of all the mountains between
us...but I DO
      faintly hear the 6m beacon over near Bozeman, MT fading in and out of
the noise as
      if there might be some tropo QSB somewhere along the path ;-) So it
just might be
      interesting to try :-)

      I don't untie the 2m array too often but I have worked Salt Lake City
before on
      ground wave. Are you QRV with digital modes? It would be interesting
to try a
      JT65 mode sked with you on 2m to see if the extra 15 dB sensitivity
might make
      such a path possible.... I ran some JT65 skeds with W6OUU a couple
weeks ago
      because he still needed Montana on both 2m and 6m and both were VERY
easy
      contacts. But you are a LOT further away than Twin Falls ID!

      Anyway, pse let me know if you want to give it a try sometime ;-) GL
and VY 73, Lance

      --
      Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A,
ZF2OC/ZF8)
      P.O. Box 73
      Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA
      QTH: DN27UB
      TEL: (406) 626-5728 URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
      2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815

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