[Moon] SV1BTR Results ARRL EME 07

[Dimitris Vitorakis]

SV1BTR Results ARRL EME 07Lunar Reflection Fans 
Here are my results for ARRL EME Competition 2007, Single Operator Multiband 50-1296MHz , ANALOG. 

All QSOs in CW mode, all QSOs on Random (no passive / active internet use, no skeds, no external help). 
Total: 152 stations, 157 QSOs 
2m: 100 stations, 104 QSOs (4 dupe) 
70cm: 52 stations, 53 QSOs (1 dupe) 

I would like to take the opportunity and thank all the 2m & 70cm dedicated and occasional EME ops, regardless of mode. Those I worked and those not completed due to partial copy or merely qrz. Know that I tried hard and hope next time I will not miss you. Especially I would like to thank the 2m new to EME, newcomers to cw and qrp mixed operators. It has been a real pleasure to me to work again down to single yagi and 250w stations on random, as well as being the 1st or 2nd ever cw qso to previously only digital, ops. The eme oldtimers always wisely said for cw: ''if you can't hear them you can't work them''. Therefore copying and working qrp stations in cw eme has been once more a real pleasure to me, since  my 2m array has similar gain to 4*11m long yagis.

Activity on 70cm was good. I am glad because this band has long time lasting, dedicated, excellent cw ops. 

Conditions: 
WX was perfect, I was vy lucky in this respect. In 2nd leg, propagation conditions on 2m featured deep qsb in all 3 passes for both polarities. On 70cm there were periods with good signals without problems of farraday, and extended periods with signals in both polarities being steady, but down by 2db.Echoes on both bands indicated the same findings as above, all over the weekend. 

Murphy visits 2nd leg: 
I faced problems with 70cm new azimouth, pointing errors (fortunately there was full moon so i tracked it by going out of the shack every now and then:-) ) On both bands i had lesser elevation errors this time due to some improvements, of up to 2.5 degrees which varied non-stop according to the readout wishes...not the best in narrow main lobe, arrays. On 70cm continuous PA flashovers forced me to decrease pwr by 1.5db to be able to remain qrv. 
But as they say....no pain, no gain! 

Below are the stations worked in each band, per leg: 
2m - 2nd leg: 
ON4DPX (dup) WA4NJP F8DO OK1VVP (dup) WW8M DL2FCN W3SZ OZ1HNE K9MRI LA8YB AD4TJ K6AAW N6CW SM3AKW OK1KKD (dup) VA3TO YU7AA (dup) SM5TSP ON7EH RU1AA I5WBE G4PCS PA3CEE DF0BV G3LTF W8PAT DK3T HB9Q DK5WL YU7XL RN6MT JH0WJF OK2POI JH5FOQ EA2AGZ F5KCH YU1IO DF9YF SM5CUI OZ1LPR

2m - 1st leg: 
RN6BN IK2DDR K9DX DL8UCC SV3AAF RA3EC RX1AS IK1UWL I3EVK LZ2US WA8CLT 9A9B YO9FRJ UA4AQL DK5YA PA3CWN OK1MS OK1KKD IK3MAC W0PT OK1VVP SP7DCS W5UN 4X1IF RW1AW K9JI YO2AMU OZ4MM K6PF F9HS SM7GVF K1CA SM2CKR F3VS DK3BU IV3GBO JN1CSO F1FLA HA6NQ RZ3BA/1 F0CXO VE2JWH ON4DPX SK0UX RA6DA LZ1DP AA1YN K1JT N5KDA WA6PY DL5MAE W7MEM WQ5S JH0MHE YU7AA PA2DW UT2XQ DG5CST CT1HZE OK1TEH JH2COZ EI4DQ DF2ZC DL7FF 

70cm  - 2nd leg: 
VK3UM JJ1NNJ SM3BYA OE5JFL UT5JCW DK8VS YO2IS JS3SIM S53RM DL5FN (dup) K4EME F3VS WE2Y UA6LGH KE2N RW1AW K3MF 

70cm - 1st leg: 
FR5DN UA3PTW SV3AAF RW3PX UT2EG VK4AFL KL6M DL9KR DF3RU DL5FN OH2PO DL1YMK G3LQR I1NDP OZ4MM DL7APV SM3JQU JH4JLV HB9Q SM2A PE1ITR K1FO K1RQG DL7UDA W8TXT G3LTF K0RZ KL7HFQ SP6JLW I5CTE JA9BOH JA5NNS G4RGK JA6AHB JA0TJU SM3AKW 

Thank you all & 73 
Jimmy SV1BTR 
2m: 16*6el. xpol 21.5dbd 
70cm: 8*26el. H pol & 8*20el. V pol 
KM18no 
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