[Moon] K7XQ 13 cM DUBUS Report

[K7XQ]

Hello All,
 Friday night after work ( Apr 12 0300 UTC ) changed feed to 13 cM and
did echo checks.
Called CQ with no replies on .010 to .060 till moonset but then found
out active frequencies 
are actually above .100 so never made any contacts.

April 13th: Worked the following stations ( moonrise to moonset):
HB9Q#, F2TU, HB9SV#, OZ4MM#, OK1KIR#, G3LTF, ES5PC#, K2UYH#
Called CQ frequently and had good consistent 20 db over noise echoes
entire time.
After EU moon window was gone ,looked for NA stations but none were
heard.

April 14th. No station worked. CWNR SD3F. Only other station heard was
F2TU. Called CQ from
2130 - 0000 UTC, 2304.100 and listened 2304 and 2320. 

Tried to wire in another 2424 MHz downconverter to try to add the JA
subband but it degraded 
the noise figure of the entire receive chain so had to take it back out.
Will not be QRV RX
on 2424 until I find some other better solution. Sun noise measurements
are good.

Now up to 13 initials on 13 cM. The Spectrain SS amp performed
flawlessly throughout the entire time
and gave abt 160 watts out continuously. Heard KL6M had a failure on his
Spectrain so have to find out
what happened there ! The built in directional coupler and detector
provide a excellent built in
power meter so no need to wire in a Bird 43 with a 2.3 GHz slug !

I may leave in the 13 cm feed in the dish just in case in the next few
weeks if anyone wants to 
try to give a QSO. Looks like I missed some activity on 23 cM last few
weeks including this
weekend.

Had a great time on the band !

K7XQ Jeff
Atwater,CA.
Grid: CM97qi

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