[Moon] 2nd 23cm great day!

[Dimitris Vitorakis]

Hello Lunar Fans

what a great weekend!
Yesterday i heard my first 23cm echoes with the 3.6m dish and 50w at feed 
and today, despite continuing DEM transverter problems on tx and rx, as well 
as big voltage drop at preamp and tx/rx relay, i worked my first 23cm cw eme 
QSO's!

My output from the transverter is changing 6-7db ! all over the weekend, 
today it was even worse. RX gain down too, by more than 10db going up and 
down, rx dissapearing often after every tx/rx changeover.
Nevertheless i aligned feed and choke with Sun noise this morning thinking 
positive:-)

When done, i heard someone calling me. And then in 80 mins with a lot of 
echo testing inbetween & problems throughout, worked:
JA4BLC 559/549 , DL4MEA 549/559, G4CCH 549/569, HB9BBD 589/579 (what a 
signal Dominique!, sorry for no MIC at the time in the shack), G3LTF 
559/569, LA9NEA 549/559, IW2FZR 429/519
Could not stay longer as my pwr had dropped so low that Bird was hardly 
moving...
A big thank you to these fine operators who carried on with my signal as 
there was no problem.

I was planning to be qrv on 23cm coming weekend outside DUBUS 2m & 70cm cw 
eme activity events in which i will be active as usual. But the transverter 
and other problems have to be restored first. If so, i will be on 23cm cw 
also. If not,  will be qrv on January 18/19 if not abroad with qrl.

Thanks to all, it has been really D-day for me with lot's of fun & 
excitement on this super band with really fine cw eme dedicated ops as on 
70cm!

73
Jimmy SV1BTR