[Moon] 8J1AXA, KDES at JAXA 18m dish & All Japan EME Meeting in Tokyo, June 14-15, 2008

[M. Watanabe]

Dear EME guys,

   Katsuura Dish Experimental Station (KDES) will use the call sign 8J1AXA 
for
the operation from the JAXA Space Communications Center, using 18m Gregorian
dish antenna.    Station license would hopefully be issued in a few months 
first for
a simple small station of JA beginners' size, and then grow up to be a big 
one.

It is requrested here in Japan to apply for the station license change on 
every
occation when you change main rigs/output power/bands/antennas, which would
use to delay the licensing procedure.    So we can not tell you now when we 
could
operate EME with full output power on a certain band.

The original JAXA 18m dish is designed for 137MHz and 2.1GHz.   We are 
desiging
the modified feeds for amateur bands, from 144MHz up to 5.7GHz possibly.
Fortunate enough,  it would be very possible to operate with the original 
antena configuration 2.3/2.4GHz.    For EME use, we have to re-model the 
auto-tracking
system from the present manual servomoters.  JAXA already removed the 
program
tracking system from this antenna, and the high power TWTA, as well.


Mike JH1KRC reported