[Moon] DL1YMK 2008 Moonbounce DXpedition to Uruguay

[DL1YMK at aol.com]

Hi gang,
 
just to let you know that everything is settled now for this year's  EME 
DXpedition. Monika & myself will be operating from the 1st of May to the  12th of 
May from Uruguay using the callsign DL1YMK/CX, as licensed by the  Uruguayan 
telecom authority URSEC. We have been struggling for nearly a year to  get a 
fully legal high power permit for operating from CX on 70 cm, 23  cm and 13 cm 
moonbounce. As to our knowledge, CX has never been on the moon on  these bands 
so far.
 
The DXpedition only became feasable by the extremely constructive and  
effective help of two local hams, which is even more appreciated by us  knowing the 
'normal' power limit to be 50W on UHF & up. To make things even  more 
complicated, on 13cm there is no regular ham radio frequency  allocation in CX to be 
congruent with IARU-regions 1 & 2, but by  courtesy of URSEC we got a unique 
permit to transmit on 2320 and on 2304 MHz.  Unfortunately, URSEC refused a 9 cm 
operation because of mobile communication  service, though.
Our stay timewise covers the European WW EME-contest (10th/11th of May), as  
well as an ATP on 70 cm (4th of May), so we will try to be on those bands in  
time, conditions permitting, of course.....so keep your fingers crossed.
 
For those interested a sked list will be handled again by Joe, K1RQG, as he  
kindly did for us in previous year's DXpeditions. I will provide a time  frame 
to Joe within next week, indicating the planned slots of activation for  each 
band. Please keep in mind that CX-land is at 30 degr South, so Mother  Nature 
will confine our moon window to a certain extent (which is good for our  
touristic activities, hi).
 
Hope that everything proceeds smoothly (still some problems to master  with 
rig airlift...), so we can work many of you from CX.
 
73/88 de Monika & Michael



   
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