Well, I recently moved about 10 miles outside the city where I was living.  There is an antenna restriction, but I'm hoping to put up a conservative antenna farm for my VHF radios.  I have a plan regarding HF activity, but that will come later.

My current interests, especially during the summer months is my microwave activity.  This new QTH will allow me to run some 10 GHz rainscatter, hopefully.  I have a slightly better shot to the north from here, and although its not perfect, I should be able to do some limited rain scatter work.

My 10 GHz station consists of an FT-817nd IF rig (on 144 MHz), feeding into a DB6NT transverter.  The transverter puts out about 200 mW.  From there, the RF is attenuated about 13 dB (10 dB attenuator plus a foot of RG174).  The 10 mW then drives a Down East Microwave 3 watt amplifier.  At the output, there is an isolator to prevent any reflected power from affecting the amp.  The entire station is sequenced using a homebrew sequencer.  The  antenna is a "Dish Network" type dish, 19 inches in diameter, and using a homebrew feed assembly consisting of a coax to waveguide transition and a small 12 dB rectangular feedhorn at the focal point of the dish.  My best DX so far has been about 200 miles via Lake Erie tropo.  My favorite operating location is at Geneva State Park northeast Ohio along the Lake Erie shoreline.

I am currently acquiring parts to scratchbuild (modular) a 5760 transverter.