FW: [Moon] Random or scheduled

[Howard Ling]

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From: Howard Ling [mailto:howard at g4cch.com] 
Sent: 20 February 2007 23:49
To: 'peter blair'
Subject: RE: [Moon] Random or scheduled

 

Just checked my log

 

633 QSO's on 23cm EME in 2006

 

75 SSB all random

410 CW of which 406 were random

148 JT of which 82 were random

 

Of the non random JT QSO's, ALL QSO details were exchanged on air, and not
by any other means

 

Still working hard on the dish after the recent wind damage, but it seems
increasingly unlikely that I will be on this weekend.

 

Howard, G4CCH

 

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From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On
Behalf Of peter blair
Sent: 20 February 2007 21:59
To: freetalk moonnet
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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