[Moon] Random or scheduled

[SM6CKU]

Hi Peter
No, you are very correct and that is certainly my own point of view too!
73 de Ben

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: peter blair 
  To: freetalk moonnet 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:58 PM
  Subject: [Moon] Random or scheduled


   Joe Taylor  K1JT has stated, in a submission to the IARU meeting,  his opinion that  " Indeed, until fairly recently scheduled contacts were the norm 
  for nearly all EME work."  Regardless of the issue of JT and digital modes, I have to say that  for me " fairly recently " would be at least 20 years ago, probably more. 
     Currently I make about 400+ eme QSOs a year mainly on 432,1296 and 2320 MHz and I estimate that about 10 of these would be skeds. I looked back at my 1983/4 log book and there are indeed more skeds but still many more QSOs in there were truely random,  so " the norm for nearly all" is wrong as well even 23 years ago. 
   In my view the statement is just not correct..... or have I got it wrong? 
  73 Peter G3LTF




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