Sep 20, 2026, 3:13 PM@kr1st How many contacts were made on 10GHz. My main mental barrier to working SHF is the small number of people within range to actually talk to.
- Sep 20, 2026, 3:13 PM
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irrational methodIrrationalMethod@social.coopSep 20, 2026, 3:16 PMI'm building a plan to try it, likely with some cobbled together homebrew gear based on old ARRL books.
My sense from reading the PNWVHFS mailing list is that on the "VHF and up" contest weekends there is a fair bit of activity in the PNW, when folks will rove to a good lookout point.
(Maybe some more regular stuff in southern California with the cactus intertie group.)
Sep 20, 2026, 3:27 PM@IrrationalMethod @N1ZZZ I've been tempted to build something too, but my priority is still building a portable EME station for 1296 MHz first. Someday...
Even outside of contest folks seem to enjoy working 10 GHz using rain and snow scatter.
- Sep 20, 2026, 3:24 PM
@N1ZZZ I worked no-one on 10GHz. I don't have equipment for 10 GHz. I just went there to check out what they were doing and to learn from them.
The station on the roof of the trailer worked about 8 stations with 3 Watts but it was having intermittent reception problems, and the one on the mast (operator inside the trailer) worked 19 stations I think with 20 Watts, including stations in Canada.