Good morning, The past two mornings, the temperature and dew point have been the same. The wind has been 0 mph. this usually results in fog. We have no fog this morning, nor did we yesterday. I’m glad I’m not a weather forecaster. I would be lousy at it. The beacon is 20 dB above the noise floor this morning. That’s about 5 dB better than it was yesterday. Currently, on my workbench, I am having an interesting time refurbishing and repairing K8TQK’s 5760 MHz transverter. I have it working, as long as I hold some down force on the circuit board with my finger. Since I don’t want to spend the rest of my days hanging off of Bob’s tower, I am trying to fix it. The rotating tower project is presently up to 65 feet with the first guy ring and set of guys installed. Work depends on the weather and availability of help. I am also learning A software program called “Antenna Model”, written by a deceased ham. There is no surviving company to support it. If any of you have experience with this program, I would appreciate any help. I use it because it is one that can handle the odd geometry of the Moxon two element yagi as modified by W6NL. So, it’s been a busy and interesting Summer to date. I hope you all had a great picnic. Some day, I plan to be there for that event. 73, Dave, K4TO

Forgot to add — the beacon frequency is somewhere around 1296.082 this morning. Dave > On Aug 16, 2017, at 7:44 AM, Dave Sublette via mvus-list <mvus-list@febo.com> wrote: > > Good morning, > > The past two mornings, the temperature and dew point have been the same. The wind has been 0 mph. this usually results in fog. We have no fog this morning, nor did we yesterday. I’m glad I’m not a weather forecaster. I would be lousy at it. > > The beacon is 20 dB above the noise floor this morning. That’s about 5 dB better than it was yesterday. > > Currently, on my workbench, I am having an interesting time refurbishing and repairing K8TQK’s 5760 MHz transverter. I have it working, as long as I hold some down force on the circuit board with my finger. Since I don’t want to spend the rest of my days hanging off of Bob’s tower, I am trying to fix it. > > The rotating tower project is presently up to 65 feet with the first guy ring and set of guys installed. Work depends on the weather and availability of help. > > I am also learning A software program called “Antenna Model”, written by a deceased ham. There is no surviving company to support it. If any of you have experience with this program, I would appreciate any help. I use it because it is one that can handle the odd geometry of the Moxon two element yagi as modified by W6NL. > > So, it’s been a busy and interesting Summer to date. I hope you all had a great picnic. Some day, I plan to be there for that event. > > 73, > > Dave, K4TO > _______________________________________________ > mvus-list mailing list > mvus-list@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mvus-list

OK — so it’s more like 1296.0822 MHz. I won’t try to guess any closer. This is compared to my signal generator which is phase locked to a GPS standard. Dave > On Aug 16, 2017, at 7:49 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to@arrl.net> wrote: > > Forgot to add — the beacon frequency is somewhere around 1296.082 this morning. > > Dave >> On Aug 16, 2017, at 7:44 AM, Dave Sublette via mvus-list <mvus-list@febo.com> wrote: >> >> Good morning, >> >> The past two mornings, the temperature and dew point have been the same. The wind has been 0 mph. this usually results in fog. We have no fog this morning, nor did we yesterday. I’m glad I’m not a weather forecaster. I would be lousy at it. >> >> The beacon is 20 dB above the noise floor this morning. That’s about 5 dB better than it was yesterday. >> >> Currently, on my workbench, I am having an interesting time refurbishing and repairing K8TQK’s 5760 MHz transverter. I have it working, as long as I hold some down force on the circuit board with my finger. Since I don’t want to spend the rest of my days hanging off of Bob’s tower, I am trying to fix it. >> >> The rotating tower project is presently up to 65 feet with the first guy ring and set of guys installed. Work depends on the weather and availability of help. >> >> I am also learning A software program called “Antenna Model”, written by a deceased ham. There is no surviving company to support it. If any of you have experience with this program, I would appreciate any help. I use it because it is one that can handle the odd geometry of the Moxon two element yagi as modified by W6NL. >> >> So, it’s been a busy and interesting Summer to date. I hope you all had a great picnic. Some day, I plan to be there for that event. >> >> 73, >> >> Dave, K4TO >> _______________________________________________ >> mvus-list mailing list >> mvus-list@febo.com >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mvus-list >