[Moon] Random or scheduled

[Jim Forsyth]

Well you have got it wrong in at least one respect. According to your quote he did not say "Indeed, until fairly recently scheduled contacts were the norm at G3LTF" so you cannot take data from your own log and conclude from that that the statement is not correct.

Jim, AF6O

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: peter blair 
  To: freetalk moonnet 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:58 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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