[Mich VHF UHF Society] Fwd: [VHFcontesting] Microwave Update 2016

[David Pruett]

Tom,

Thanks for your note - sorry to hear that your plans to go to MUD got 
waylayed by a work project.

I'm in the mode now that I'm reviewing the calendar to see if anything 
is in the way.  So far, I'm good to go and while I haven't made a firm 
decision yet, I'd say it's probably better than 50/50 that I'll go.

I would have enjoyed meeting up with you and your wife at the 2010 
CSVHF.  I was trying to be on the lookout for any eight-landers but I 
found none.  They had the big posterboard on an easel in the 
registration area, but I must have missed your callsigns.

Fortunately, the Northern Lights Radio Society guys we kind enough to 
include me in some of their social events, so I wasn't alone ALL of the 
time.

Good luck getting your DEMI 10GHZ systme running.  I bought a complete 
"white box" commercial 10 GHz system from WA3ZKR at the Moorhead 
conference, but the mods to make it work are extensive and I just don't 
have the test gear to get it working.  NE8I offered to help, but it 
still may be too much.

The Moorhead conference was a real hoot.  It was held on the campus of 
Moorhead University, which is a small school whose focus is space 
science.  They have a 70' dish which came from from government 
installation down in Florida which they installed on a mountain top.  
During the conference we got a tour of it up on the mountain, and also 
toured the ground control station.  All of the technical presentations 
at the conference were given in their planetarium, with everyone laying 
on our backs in plush recliners and watching the PowerPoint 
presentations projected on the domed ceiling :-)  If they ever have the 
SEVHF Conference there again, I'll try to go - it was a lot of fun.  
It's only about a six hour drive from Detroit.

Yes, if I go I'll certainly report back to the MIVUS.

73, Dave K8CC

On 9/9/2016 6:37 PM, Tom wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I was going to go, but then this thing called work got in the way with 
> a project. Some of us are not retired yet ! (29 months, 12 days to 
> go...:: )
>
> Myself and my wife Sheila (K8AJ) went to the St Louis Central States 
> in 2010. Didn't come across you. Would have been fun.
> But the drive there is actually rather nice. Sometime in the future.
>
> I just bought a used Demi 10 GHz system, and I hope to get that in 
> shape over the winter months.
>
> If you go, give us a report back..
> Tom K8TB