I was unable to participate in the first 50-1296 weekend this year- there was too much work to do to get all the little things repaired that a year of inactivity caused.  I had tracking issues due to a damaged cable, circularity issues due to a damaged hybrid (I know, I'm the last person still using a hybrid for circularity) and feed optimization issues.  But I got it all working for the second weekend and found that my system performance was better than it has ever been with this setup.  The system performed beautifully all weekend.  On Sunday strong winds forced me to stow the dish before moonset, so I probably missed a couple of Asians.  I had my best single-weekend score ever and worked lots of new folks and many, many old friends.  My station consists of a 5m solid dish with VE4MA Super Feed, WD5AGO LNA, IC756PRO2 IF, DEMI transverter, AD6IW 500W SSPA, and W2DRZ tracking controller running from F1EHN's software.  I look forward to seeing all of you in next year's contest!

73

Dave K2DH