From zen70432 at zen.co.uk Mon Sep 1 09:22:01 2008 From: zen70432 at zen.co.uk (Dave G4RGK) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:22:01 +0000 Subject: [Moon] 70 cm DXCC news Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20080901072102.01d31640@mailhost.zen.co.uk> Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Branch Manager, reports (on August 27th): "DXCC is pleased to announce the issuance of award number 1 on 70cm EME (432 MHz) to Jan Bruinier, DL9KR! First licensed in 1951 and a career in civil aviation, Jan retired from the cockpit 1991, then worked as a consulting engineer until 2003. His 70cm station consists of 16 long yagis (24el, 8,5 wl booms) of his own design with open wire feeder, a preamp ATF58143 cavity into 23dBm mixer into TS870, TX 1500w. With the guidance of his elmer, Charlie O'Brien W2EQS, Jan achieved 160 Meter DXCC in 1985 endorsing it to 152 entities. Jan was also helpful to Stewart Perrry, W1BB, who as you may remember achieved 160 meter DXCC number one in 1976! Congratulations to Jan, and, who will be next?" From sm2ekm at telia.com Mon Sep 1 10:03:05 2008 From: sm2ekm at telia.com (Jan Erik Holm) Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:03:05 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 70 cm DXCC news In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20080901072102.01d31640@mailhost.zen.co.uk> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20080901072102.01d31640@mailhost.zen.co.uk> Message-ID: <48BBA1B9.7050308@telia.com> Congrats Jan. Well done! 73 Jim SM2EKM ------------------------------- Dave G4RGK wrote: > Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Branch Manager, reports (on August 27th): > "DXCC is pleased to announce the issuance of award number 1 on 70cm > EME (432 MHz) to Jan Bruinier, DL9KR! First licensed in 1951 and a > career in civil aviation, Jan retired from the cockpit 1991, then > worked as a consulting engineer until 2003. > His 70cm station consists of 16 long yagis (24el, 8,5 wl booms) of > his own design with open wire feeder, a preamp ATF58143 cavity into > 23dBm mixer into TS870, TX 1500w. > With the guidance of his elmer, Charlie O'Brien W2EQS, Jan achieved > 160 Meter DXCC in 1985 endorsing it to 152 entities. Jan was also > helpful to Stewart Perrry, W1BB, who as you may remember achieved 160 > meter DXCC number one in 1976! Congratulations to Jan, and, who will > be next?" > From dl5mae at yahoo.de Mon Sep 1 23:26:20 2008 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:26:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] ARRL EME CONTEST: DL5MAE NOT QRV Message-ID: <418613.97801.qm@web25908.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello All, ? As many others, ?I also?will??NOT be QRV for the upcoming 2008 ARRL EME Contest. No "DIT" will be send this year from side towards the moon for this "contest" (?). ? ? To name just a few reasons: ? 1. The rules are again catastrophical (144 different categories and "internet based???? ????rules") 2. not a single Email from my side to the organizers (ARRL/KX9X) was answered last year 3. a total suppression of unwanted soap-box comments 4. no reaction from ARRL?although requested rule changes by many EME OPs 5. no disqualification of clearly cheaters (ARRL had knowledge about it!) 6. the already? announced absence (non-activity) of many EMErs this year will not??? ??? encourage me? to turn the antenna towards the moon and listen just to the noise... ? I am tired about "nice words" and "so-called civilized discussions" . I am waiting?for "actions" ! ? Yes, I am waiting...... ? ? vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang ? ? ? ? ? ??? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verf?gt ?ber einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080901/cc284170/attachment.htm From Bruinier at t-online.de Thu Sep 4 14:22:00 2008 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 04 Sep 2008 12:22 GMT Subject: [Moon] IK2DDR's paper Message-ID: <1KbDr5-1o23Oq0@fwd02.aul.t-online.de> Gentlemen, I'm much obliged for your interesting responses on my post! Clearly, there are many reasons to use WSJT only, such as spacial restrictions or deteriorated hearing or no knowledge of CW due to new regulations or enjoying the EME thrill with a modest terrestrial set-up. And the first exchange off Venus or Mars will certainly occur with WSJT or something similar. Of course, there are operators who use WSJT and CW. Thus it was a pleasure to have a perfect CW QSO with K1JT at K2UYH's station. But all this was not my point. I've probably made myself not clear enough with my nasty(?) addendum. What I meant was TECHNICAL upgrade from WSJT capability to that required for CW, e.g. increasing ERP and/or RX sensitivity by, say, at least 5 dB. It was (too) often argued in the past that once WSJT ops had "licked blood", SOME of them would go to work towards CW capability. But this is NOT the case! To be sure, I'm not referring to 2m! Yet on 70cm there's practically no one, perhaps with the exception of OK1TEH and more recently PE1RDP (though I don't know if they started on WSJT). However, it was good to learn from Peter G3LTF that things are different on 23cm. It seems to me that here an increase of TX power only will do the job in most cases because a dish is already in place. Final remark: IMHO CW is up and kicking and does not need the support of a joint WSJT/CW contest. Happy moonbouncing, be it on WSJT or CW! 73 Jan DL9KR. From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 5 06:40:02 2008 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:40:02 -0700 Subject: [Moon] Congratulations Jan References: <1KbDr5-1o23Oq0@fwd02.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <003101c90f11$76ca2630$6401a8c0@Office> Although this is a bit late, congratulations Jan on being the 1st to accomplish DXCC on 70cm CW. I enjoyed the great article about you & your accomplishment starting on page 84 of the September issue of QST magazine. Vy 73, Bob, K6PF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johann Bruinier" To: ; Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:22 AM Subject: [Moon] IK2DDR's paper > Gentlemen, > > I'm much obliged for your interesting responses on my post! > Clearly, there are many reasons to use WSJT only, such as spacial > restrictions or deteriorated hearing or no knowledge of CW due to new > regulations or enjoying the EME thrill with a modest terrestrial set-up. > And the first exchange off Venus or Mars will certainly occur with WSJT or > something similar. Of course, there are operators who use WSJT and CW. > Thus it was a pleasure to have a perfect CW QSO with K1JT at K2UYH's > station. > But all this was not my point. I've probably made myself not clear enough > with my nasty(?) addendum. What I meant was TECHNICAL upgrade from WSJT > capability to that required for CW, e.g. increasing ERP and/or RX > sensitivity by, say, at least 5 dB. > It was (too) often argued in the past that once WSJT ops had "licked > blood", SOME of them would go to work towards CW capability. But this is > NOT the case! > To be sure, I'm not referring to 2m! > Yet on 70cm there's practically no one, perhaps with the exception of > OK1TEH and more recently PE1RDP (though I don't know if they started on > WSJT). > However, it was good to learn from Peter G3LTF that things are different > on 23cm. It seems to me that here an increase of TX power only will do the > job in most cases because a dish is already in place. > Final remark: IMHO CW is up and kicking and does not need the support of a > joint WSJT/CW contest. > > Happy moonbouncing, be it on WSJT or CW! > > 73 Jan DL9KR. > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and > remove you from the list From df6na at df6na.de Fri Sep 5 07:28:15 2008 From: df6na at df6na.de (Rainer) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:28:15 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Fwd: Re: [Moon-net] IK2DDR's paper] Message-ID: <48C0C36F.9010008@df6na.de> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Rainer Subject: Re: [Moon-net] IK2DDR's paper Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:24:28 +0200 Size: 2923 Url: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080905/f352936f/attachment.eml From hughd at cogeco.ca Sat Sep 6 13:18:33 2008 From: hughd at cogeco.ca (hughd at cogeco.ca) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:18:33 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Solid State 23cm amp kits Message-ID: <48C26709.2060003@cogeco.ca> I recently came across this link while searching for solid state solutions for a 23cm PA; Jim Klitzing W6PQL is selling 75W ($155) and 150W ($325) amp kits using XRF286 LDMOS parts harvested from Spectrian amps. http://www.w6pql.com/xrf-286_amplifiers_for_23cm.htm The amp boards can be phased together for higher power. See his 600w amp here: http://www.w6pql.com/600w_23cm_LDMOS_amplifier.htm Ordering info here: http://www.w6pql.com/parts_i_can_provide.htm By far the best bang for the buck in 23cm SS amps ! I have no financial interest, just a happy customer and thought I would share this info with fellow EMEers... 73, Hugh VA3TO/NA3TO From sm4ive at telia.com Sun Sep 7 13:27:15 2008 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:27:15 +0200 Subject: [Moon] UKW Tagung Weinheim Message-ID: <11E5C35937954D18BF1297ADE7C43891@RADIO> hi Are there any EME rs thats are planning to go to Weinheim this coming week? 73 de Lars SM4IVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080907/831803aa/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun Sep 7 15:06:08 2008 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:06:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] UKW Tagung Weinheim In-Reply-To: <11E5C35937954D18BF1297ADE7C43891@RADIO> Message-ID: <663.1472-29049-1156482665-1220792768@seznam.cz> Me, Franta OK1CA and Zdenek OK3RM. See you there OK1DFC ------------ P?vodn? zpr?va ------------ Od: Lars Pettersson P?edm?t: [Moon] UKW Tagung Weinheim Datum: 07.9.2008 14:17:01 ---------------------------------------- hi Are there any EME rs thats are planning to go to Weinheim this coming week? 73 de Lars SM4IVE Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV 144 - 1296 MHz EME QRO and 10m DISH WAC 432 - 1296 MHz From sm4ive at telia.com Sun Sep 7 17:44:51 2008 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:44:51 +0200 Subject: [Moon] EME net Message-ID: <89CD8602022A45338D40AA3FB3191DA1@RADIO> Was on yeasterday and today, nice to hear the US boys again and K1RQG. So dont miss the EME net 14345. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080907/f640abd9/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon Sep 8 11:42:18 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:42:18 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Moonbounce programme on BBC radio4 Message-ID: <006201c91197$2f7fac40$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Hello All, Last Friday Brian, G4NNS, and I were interviewed, at his 10GHz station, on the subject of Moonbounce. The BBC programme that it will go out on is called " Questions, Questions" on Thursday 11th September at 1500-1530 see, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/questionsquestions.shtml What it will all sound like after the editing is anyone's guess! It will be available a few days later on on the " Listen again" facility which you can get to on the same page. If you wish,it should be possible to listen to it live over the internet by going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ and click on " listen live" The moon was (of course) not above the horizon at the time but hopefully it will sound convincing! 73 to all, Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080908/dbfdadbb/attachment.htm From sm5le at telia.com Mon Sep 8 16:53:18 2008 From: sm5le at telia.com (SM5LE) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:53:18 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Combining two 1296 PAs of unknown phase Message-ID: <000c01c911c2$a2145960$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Hi all The combing of two PAs was a success. Read all about it. http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/ (The newest on top.) 73 Sven SM5LE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080908/6c7c0421/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Tue Sep 9 09:17:37 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:17:37 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Moonbounce programme on BBC Radio4 Message-ID: <008c01c9124c$23dfe520$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Please note that the times I gave in yesterdays message are UK local time. In UTC the programme will be at 1400-1430. Sorry for the error. 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080909/62f4a870/attachment.htm From sm4ive at telia.com Wed Sep 10 22:00:35 2008 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:35 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Weinheim UKW tagung Message-ID: <654A39B2EAA44D18999F296EDE373484@RADIO> Hi Sm7GVF and mysel?f will arrive At Weinheim Friday 12 sept. so wi will be at the club house in the evening.. 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Thank You, Johnwb2byp3m dish/500W 23cm From: sm4ive at telia.comTo: moon at moonbounce.info.Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:35 +0200Subject: [Moon] Weinheim UKW tagung Hi Sm7GVF and mysel?f will arrive At Weinheim Friday 12 sept. so wi will be at the club house in the evening.. Cu all 73 de Lars SM4IVE _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together?at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080911/3e16d7fc/attachment.htm From ndevries at kvi.nl Thu Sep 11 11:13:05 2008 From: ndevries at kvi.nl (Nanko de Vries) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:13:05 +0200 Subject: [Moon] TH547 or 527 needed Message-ID: <9218902F9E424C6888CB95CD094AA4FB@WINDOWS.KVI.NL> Somehow my first message did not make it , at least I did not see it So again: I obtained a UHF cavity for which I need a watercooled TH547 or 527 I can trade with a good , aircooled TH347 73 Nanko PA0V -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080911/dbe4dbc2/attachment.htm From rbiggar at ihug.co.nz Fri Sep 12 05:36:26 2008 From: rbiggar at ihug.co.nz (Ross) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:36:26 +1200 Subject: [Moon] 432 activity Message-ID: <22D8B84B1D2D4C15800F78DA6BE84601@RossBeast> I am having a bit of difficulty, keeping my 2m array in place due to our weather conditions. My 432 set up is sitting doing nothing, so I am considering the possiblity of replacing the 2m array with a 432 array, it would be 4 M2 13WLA atennas. The windage should be less than the big 2m antennas. I have an LZ2US amp to drive it, so power will not be a problem. However is there much activity on 432?. My 4.5m 1296 dish etc should be operational before Xmas, (hopefully this Xmas!!) with marvellous help from Darrell VE1ALQ and Trevor in Brisbane and others. It has been a learning curve, and still a long way to go. Best wishes to all Ross ZL1WN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080913/46549b09/attachment.html From frankddr at tele2.it Sat Sep 13 21:27:02 2008 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:27:02 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Quartzs (Crystals) search....... In-Reply-To: <000c01c911c2$a2145960$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Message-ID: Hello all, dear eme friends. A friend of mine has asked me to search info, addresses and so on for some company that sell Crystals (Quartz),for ham radios applications. Does someone of you has some info or suggestions? Thank you very much, your help is really very appreciated. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR From frankddr at tele2.it Sat Sep 13 21:37:50 2008 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:37:50 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 In-Reply-To: <000c01c911c2$a2145960$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Message-ID: Hello all, this e-mail is just to remember you all, that next weekend, september 20 -21 2008, take place the ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST. I wish you all lot of fun and a good participation. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080913/652ab02b/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Sun Sep 14 07:42:54 2008 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:42:54 +0000 Subject: [Moon] Quartzs (Crystals) search....... In-Reply-To: References: <000c01c911c2$a2145960$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Message-ID: <20080914032748.AACF91BBA7@mail.allt1.se> Ciao Francesco! One supplier that I have used over the years is www.keyex.se they also make xtals on specification if your are not looking for standard frequencies. Quartz components are at http://www.keyex.se/english/kristaller/kristaller.htm Hope this helps, Cu on CW EME in ARI! 73 de Peter SM2CEW At 19:27 2008-09-13 , Francesco wrote: >Hello all, dear eme friends. A friend of mine has asked me to search info, >addresses and so on for some company that sell Crystals (Quartz),for ham >radios applications. >Does someone of you has some info or suggestions? > >Thank you very much, your help is really very appreciated. > >73' Francesco,IK2DDR > > >_______________________________________________ >Moon mailing list >Moon at moonbounce.info >http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list > From frankddr at tele2.it Sun Sep 14 09:49:25 2008 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:49:25 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: Quartzs (Crystals) search....... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello all, thank you very much for your info about my request. I'll pass to the friend all the details that i'm sure should be enough to find good crystals. Thank you and.....see you all on ARI CW/SSB EME CONTEST next weekend. Francesco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di Francesco Inviato: sabato 13 settembre 2008 21.27 A: Moonbounce Oggetto: [Moon] Quartzs (Crystals) search....... Hello all, dear eme friends. A friend of mine has asked me to search info, addresses and so on for some company that sell Crystals (Quartz),for ham radios applications. Does someone of you has some info or suggestions? Thank you very much, your help is really very appreciated. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From frankddr at tele2.it Sun Sep 14 11:05:58 2008 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:05:58 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lot of people is asking me the link of the ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 rule. Unfortunately i think that our manager has forgot that we are so close to our Contest. You could read the entire rule again, here on the net. Thank you all for your patience. I wish to hear great activity on all the bands (unfortunately i have only 2m) and lot of fun for us old timers (hi,hi).This could be a good test, for newcomers, untill ARRL contest. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net]Per conto di Francesco Inviato: sabato 13 settembre 2008 21.38 A: Moonbounce; MOON_NET Oggetto: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 Hello all, this e-mail is just to remember you all, that next weekend, september 20 -21 2008, take place the ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST. I wish you all lot of fun and a good participation. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From i5wbe at i5wbe.it Sun Sep 14 11:56:57 2008 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:56:57 +0000 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] R: ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4889AC65031FF6F8@vsmtp11.tin.it> (added by postmaster@virgilio.it) Ciao Francesco and All I have search on my mail program but I haven't find any rules referring XV ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 only the rules of XIV, I think there are any change so it's the same of 2007, also because during EME2008 Conference there was any discussion about a new rules for ARI EME CW/SSB Contest. 73' de Enrico i5wbe ************************************************************************************************************************************************************ A.R.I.( XIV) now "XV Italian EME Contest (2007) now 2008 , rules Period: from 00.00 UTC of (8) now 20th.September (2007) 2008 to 24.00 UTC of (9) now 21th. September (2007) 2008 Bands: 50 Mhz and up, only via Moon reflection Modes: CW, SSB . Categories for bands 144 and 432 MHz: Stations are subdivided by power and type of antenna employed. For yagis the total lenght, in wavelenghts, is considered (distance reflector-last director multiplied by the number of yagis in the array), for parabolic reflectors the dish diameter is considered. At 144MHz 1 wl = 2,08 meters = 82" = 6' 10" At 432 MHz 1 wl = 0.694 meters = 27".340 Band 144 MHz (Cat. A, B, C, D, E, F) Note: Stations with cross yagis or circular polarization are classified separately. For cross yagis counts the lenght of the longest. Yagi Dish up to 5 wl A > 5 wl,up to 10 wl <7m (23') B >10 wl,up to 20 wl <10m (33') C >20 wl,up to 40 wl >10m (33') D > 40 wl, up to 80 wl >14m (46') E >over 80 wl F Band 432 MHz (A, B, C, D, E): Yagi Dish up to 18 wl A >18 wl,up to 36 wl <3,05m (10') B >36 wl,up to 72 wl <4,57m (15') C >72 wl, up to 144 wl >4,57m (14') D >over 144 wl E Bands 50 MHz, 1,3 GHz and up: One category per band, independently from power and antenna. Downclassing: If the first of each category scores less than the first of the lower category, the whole category is moved into the lower. Points: For bilateral qsos: 10 points, 31 points with italian stations, 10 points between italian stations. Italian stations, and eventual foreigners operating in Italy, will be classified separately from the rest of the world. SWLs: The station heard can be inserted as correspondent twice maximum. Points: 10 for each station heard in qso, 31 if italian. Prizes: To the first of each cathegory. A certificate will be sent to all the partecipants who sent in the log. If somebody wins more than one cathegory, he gets only one prize and certificates for the other cathegories won, while the prize for these cathegories goes to the second placed and will be so inscribed. Log: It can be sent by e-mail to mario.alberti8 at tin.it or i1anpmario at alice.it (will be confirmed upon reception), or by mail to Mario Alberti - Via Privata Maralunga 12 - 19126 La Spezia - Italy. Logs should be sent within 30 November (2007) now 2008 . The log must contain a general section with Call, Name, Adress (including e-mail if had), QTH Locator, Band, Cathegory, PA Power, Antenna dimensions and type. The qso log must contain Date, Hour, Mode, Call, Points, and Total Points. Comments and other info are welcome. The Italian E.M.E. Manager Mario Alberti, I1ANP ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** At 09.05 14/09/2008, Francesco wrote: >Lot of people is asking me the link of the ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 rule. >Unfortunately i think that our manager has forgot that we are so close to >our Contest. >You could read the entire rule again, here on the net. >Thank you all for your patience. I wish to hear great activity on all the >bands (unfortunately i have only 2m) >and lot of fun for us old timers (hi,hi).This could be a good test, for >newcomers, untill ARRL contest. > >73' Francesco,IK2DDR > >-----Messaggio originale----- >Da: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net >[mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net]Per conto di Francesco >Inviato: sabato 13 settembre 2008 21.38 >A: Moonbounce; MOON_NET >Oggetto: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 > > >Hello all, >this e-mail is just to remember you all, that next weekend, september 20 -21 >2008, take place the ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST. >I wish you all lot of fun and a good participation. > >73' Francesco,IK2DDR From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sun Sep 14 13:20:39 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:20:39 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, sorry to confuse you.... Which bands is the ARI CW/SSB contest? I know this is a silly question, but I do not find the last year's rules. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From frankddr at tele2.it Sun Sep 14 13:39:19 2008 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:39:19 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ciao G?nter, the contest is from 50 MHZ to 10 GHZ, but you could receive lot of info again from Enrico, I5WBE. Good luck. Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net]Per conto di Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich) Inviato: domenica 14 settembre 2008 13.21 A: MOON_NET; Moonbounce Oggetto: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 Hello, sorry to confuse you.... Which bands is the ARI CW/SSB contest? I know this is a silly question, but I do not find the last year's rules. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From i5wbe at i5wbe.it Sun Sep 14 13:54:16 2008 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:54:16 +0000 Subject: [Moon] A.R.I. XV Italian EME Contest 2008, rules Message-ID: <4896913A0296A583@vsmtp18.tin.it> (added by postmaster@virgilio.it) Hello All Emer's on Radio Rivista July-August 2008 I have found the rules ! ************************************************************************************************************************************************ A.R.I. XV Italian EME Contest 2008, rules Period: from 00.00 UTC of 20th.September 2008 to 24.00 UTC of 21th. September 2008 Bands: 50 Mhz and up, only via Moon reflection Modes: CW, SSB . Categories for bands 144 and 432 MHz: Stations are subdivided by power and type of antenna employed. For yagis the total lenght, in wavelenghts, is considered (distance reflector-last director multiplied by the number of yagis in the array), for parabolic reflectors the dish diameter is considered. At 144MHz 1 wl = 2,08 meters = 82" = 6' 10" At 432 MHz 1 wl = 0.694 meters = 27".340 Band 144 MHz (Cat. A, B, C, D, E, F) Note: Stations with cross yagis or circular polarization are classified separately. For cross yagis counts the lenght of the longest. Yagi Dish up to 5 wl A > 5 wl,up to 10 wl <7m (23') B >10 wl,up to 20 wl <10m (33') C >20 wl,up to 40 wl >10m (33') D > 40 wl, up to 80 wl >14m (46') E >over 80 wl F Band 432 MHz (A, B, C, D, E): Yagi Dish up to 18 wl A >18 wl,up to 36 wl <3,05m (10') B >36 wl,up to 72 wl <4,57m (15') C >72 wl, up to 144 wl >4,57m (14') D >over 144 wl E **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Bands 50 MHz, 1,3 GHz and up: One category per band, independently from power and antenna. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Downclassing: If the first of each category scores less than the first of the lower category, the whole category is moved into the lower. Points: For bilateral qsos: 10 points, 31 points with italian stations, 10 points between italian stations. Italian stations, and eventual foreigners operating in Italy, will be classified separately from the rest of the world. SWLs: The station heard can be inserted as correspondent twice maximum. Points: 10 for each station heard in qso, 31 if italian. Prizes: To the first of each cathegory. A certificate will be sent to all the partecipants who sent in the log. If somebody wins more than one cathegory, he gets only one prize and certificates for the other cathegories won, while the prize for these cathegories goes to the second placed and will be so inscribed. Log: It can be sent by e-mail to mario.i1anp at ari.it or i1anpmario at alice.it (will be confirmed upon reception), or by mail to Mario Alberti - Via Privata Maralunga 12 - 19126 La Spezia - Italy. Logs should be sent within 30 November (2007) now 2008 . The log must contain a general section with Call, Name, Adress (including e-mail if had), QTH Locator, Band, Cathegory, PA Power, Antenna dimensions and type. The qso log must contain Date, Hour, Mode, Call, Points, and Total Points. Comments and other info are welcome. The Italian E.M.E. Manager I1ANP From rein0zn at ix.netcom.com Mon Sep 15 00:17:30 2008 From: rein0zn at ix.netcom.com (Rein A. Smit) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:17:30 -0000 Subject: [Moon] 432 and Above EME Newslettter for Oct 2008 Message-ID: <380-220089014221730686@ix.netcom.com> Hello All, The 432 MHz and Above EME Newsletter for Oct 2008 by K2UYH is at: http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html Enjoy. 73 Rein PA0ZN Rein A. Smit rein0zn at ix.netcom.com EarthLink Revolves Around You. From franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com Mon Sep 15 08:24:47 2008 From: franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com (Cominelli Franco) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:24:47 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: R: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 Message-ID: <205208A153FD8F46A23A1AC5F3DCB5AA8F03F5@server01.SIDERGARDA.local> Hello guys, see one more time the ARI CW/SSB EME CONTEST 2008 RULE that Mario, I1ANP has confirmed. Good luck to all. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR ***************************************************************************************************** A.R.I. XV Italian EME Contest 2008, CW-SSB rule Period: from 00.00 UTC of 20 September 2008 to 24.00 UTC of 21 September 2008 Bands: 50 Mhz and up, only via Moon reflection Modes: CW, SSB . Categories for bands 144 and 432 MHz: Stations are subdivided by power and type of antenna employed. For yagis the total lenght, in wavelenghts, is considered (distance reflector-last director multiplied by the number of yagis in the array), for parabolic reflectors the dish diameter is considered. At 144MHz 1 wl = 2,08 meters = 82" = 6' 10" At 432 MHz 1 wl = 0.694 meters = 27".340 Band 144 MHz (Cat. A, B, C, D, E, F) Note: Stations with cross yagis or circular polarization are classified separately. For cross yagis counts the lenght of the longest. Yagi Dish up to 5 wl A >5 wl,up to 10 wl <7m (23') B >10 wl,up to 20 wl <10m (33') C >20 wl,up to 40 wl >10m (33') D > 40 wl, up to 80 wl >14m (46') E >over 80 wl F Band 432 MHz (A, B, C, D, E): Yagi Dish up to 18 wl A >18 wl,up to 36 wl <3,05m (10') B >36 wl,up to 72 wl <4,57m (15') C >72 wl, up to 144 wl >4,57m (14') D >over 144 wl E Bands 50 MHz, 1,3 GHz and up: One category per band, independently from power and antenna. Downclassing: If the first of each category scores less than the first of the lower category, the whole category is moved into the lower. Points: For bilateral qsos: 10 points, 31 points with italian stations, 10 points between italian stations. Italian stations, and eventual foreigners operating in Italy, will be classified separately from the rest of the world. SWLs: The station heard can be inserted as correspondent twice maximum. Points: 10 for each station heard in qso, 31 if italian. Prizes: To the first of each cathegory. A certificate will be sent to all the partecipants who sent in the log. If somebody wins more than one cathegory, he gets only one prize and certificates for the other cathegories won, while the prize for these cathegories goes to the second placed and will be so inscribed. Log: It can be sent also by e-mail to mario.alberti8 at tin.it or i1anpmario at alice.it (will be confirmed upon reception), or by mail to Mario Alberti - Via Privata Maralunga 12 - 19126 La Spezia - Italy. Logs should be sent within 30 November 2008. The log must contain a general section with Call, Name, Adress (including e-mail if had), QTH Locator, Band, Cathegory, PA Power, Antenna dimensions and type. The qso log must contain Date, Hour, Mode, Call, Points, and Total Points. Comments and other info are welcome. The Italian E.M.E. Manager Mario Alberti, I1ANP From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon Sep 15 10:15:10 2008 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:15:10 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] ARRL and ARI contests 20 /21 Sept In-Reply-To: <20080913094622.IOVV11041.nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@acer684c9a655d> Message-ID: Hi EME gang, I am preparing the OM/OK1DFC EME pedition for 2,3 and 3,4 GHz to activate OM as a new DXCC in the contest. More details here: http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/OM/om.htm looking forward to work all of you. I hope that WX will cooperate, lot of work outside with equipments. Apologize my big delays in last e-mail answers but I was extremely busy in my QRL with couple projects. Situation still follow and I will have very limited time for pedition. Regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net]On Behalf Of Charlie Kahwagi Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:46 AM To: MOON_NET; Moonbounce Reflector Subject: [Moon-net] ARRL and ARI contests 20 /21 Sept Hello gents, I plan to be active in the 20 /21 Sept contests. My windows into NA are in the very very early hours of the morning local time. If anyone is interested / plans to be QRV I would like to hear from you and the bands you are interested in. I can only operate on 1 band during each pass into NA as I don't fancy climbing ladders at 2 am to change feeds. I am particularly interested in any 9cm and 13cm stations in NA. 73 de VK3NX Charlie 3.7 m dish and at the feed: 13cm 120 W 9cm 110 W 6cm 100 W 3cm 26 W _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From sm5le at telia.com Mon Sep 15 10:20:46 2008 From: sm5le at telia.com (SM5LE) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:20:46 +0200 Subject: [Moon] pse 1296 EME QRV , the 16th Sept de SM5LE Message-ID: <000801c9170b$f49b0910$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Hi all 1296er Pse EME QRV (CW or JT) during NAC , Nordic Activity Contest , the 16th Sept. I have moon 18.00 - 21.00 z (contest is 17.00 - 21.00 z). Pse signal report and full locator (like JO99bd). CU tomorrow on random CW or JT Super TNX /Sven SM5LE ----------------------------------------------------------- SM5LE in JO99bd 2.2 meter mesh dish F/D=0.34 Septum feed OK1DFC. With choke ring. 250 W @ feed , CW ( 200W JT65 ) Spid RAS rotator with MoonSked software by GM4JJJ Rig : TS-2000X (with 1296 MHz module). LNA : NE32684A cavity NF ~0.3 dB 8 dB sun-noise CW SSB JT65 1296 MHz only SM5LE HomePage at : http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/ Pictures : http://web.telia.com/~u14901546/home_page_no_3.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Quando arriver? alla riperazione del amplificatore di potenza sar? QRV in ARI contest sul 23cm Ci vediamo Walter ON4BCB Hi EME'rs When I get my amplifer ready in time I will be QRV on 1296Mhz See you in a real contest with real contest rules 73 de ON4BCB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cominelli Franco" To: "Francesco" ; "MOON_NET" ; "Moonbounce" Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: [Moon] R: R: [Moon-net] ARI EME CW/SSB CONTEST 2008 > Hello guys, > see one more time the ARI CW/SSB EME CONTEST 2008 RULE that Mario, I1ANP > has confirmed. > > Good luck to all. > > 73' Francesco,IK2DDR > > > ***************************************************************************************************** > > > > > A.R.I. > XV Italian EME Contest 2008, CW-SSB rule > > Period: from 00.00 UTC of 20 September 2008 to 24.00 UTC of 21 September > 2008 > > Bands: 50 Mhz and up, only via Moon reflection > > Modes: CW, SSB . > > Categories for bands 144 and 432 MHz: > Stations are subdivided by power and type of antenna employed. For yagis > the total lenght, in wavelenghts, is considered (distance reflector-last > director multiplied by the number of yagis in the array), for parabolic > reflectors the dish diameter is considered. > At 144MHz 1 wl = 2,08 meters = 82" = 6' 10" > At 432 MHz 1 wl = 0.694 meters = 27".340 > > Band 144 MHz (Cat. A, B, C, D, E, F) > Note: Stations with cross yagis or circular polarization are classified > separately. For cross yagis counts the lenght of the longest. > > Yagi Dish > > up to 5 wl A > >>5 wl,up to 10 wl <7m (23') B > >>10 wl,up to 20 wl <10m (33') C > >>20 wl,up to 40 wl >10m (33') D > >> 40 wl, up to 80 wl >14m (46') E > >>over 80 wl F > > Band 432 MHz (A, B, C, D, E): > > Yagi Dish > > up to 18 wl A > >>18 wl,up to 36 wl <3,05m (10') B > >>36 wl,up to 72 wl <4,57m (15') C > >>72 wl, up to 144 wl >4,57m (14') D > >>over 144 wl E > > Bands 50 MHz, 1,3 GHz and up: > One category per band, independently from power and antenna. > > > > Downclassing: > If the first of each category scores less than the first of the lower > category, the whole category is moved into the lower. > > Points: > For bilateral qsos: 10 points, 31 points with italian stations, > 10 points between italian stations. > Italian stations, and eventual foreigners operating in Italy, will be > classified separately from the rest of the world. > > SWLs: The station heard can be inserted as correspondent twice maximum. > Points: 10 for each station heard in qso, 31 if italian. > > Prizes: > To the first of each cathegory. A certificate will be sent to all the > partecipants who sent in the log. If somebody wins more than one > cathegory, he gets only one prize and certificates for the other > cathegories won, while the prize for these cathegories goes to the second > placed and will be so inscribed. > > Log: > It can be sent also by e-mail to mario.alberti8 at tin.it or > i1anpmario at alice.it (will be confirmed upon reception), or by mail to > Mario Alberti - Via Privata Maralunga 12 - 19126 La Spezia - Italy. > Logs should be sent within 30 November 2008. > The log must contain a general section with Call, Name, Adress (including > e-mail if had), QTH Locator, Band, Cathegory, PA Power, Antenna dimensions > and type. > The qso log must contain Date, Hour, Mode, Call, Points, and Total Points. > Comments and other info are welcome. > The Italian E.M.E. 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080916/3dddf2ae/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Wed Sep 17 07:43:26 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:43:26 +0200 Subject: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend In-Reply-To: References: <20080913094622.IOVV11041.nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@acer684c9a655d> Message-ID: Hello, according to the schedules that are announced already, let me show my plannings I will be on 13cm: Saturday Sept. 20 05:00 until 10:30 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz Saturday Sept. 20 20:30 until 00:00 (eastern window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320/2424MHz Sunday Sept. 21 05:00 until 07:00 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz I will change my feeds around 07:00UT on Sunday (that is 0900local) to 9cm 9cm Sunday Sept. 21 07:00 until 11:45 (western window) RX/TX: 3400.100MHz 13cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, 0.37dB preamp, 150W at the feed, 11.9dB sun noise and I hope that my 2424MHz mixer will do it this time. 9cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, (1.0-X)dB preamp, 50W at the feed, 8.3dB sun noise Moon visibility in Europe is starting in the evening (around 9local) until around noon of the next day, so I will probably miss some time since I cannot work nightshifts due to other commitments. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext ww2r_eme Gesendet: 17 September 2008 03:01 An: Moonbounce Reflector Betreff: [Moon] ww2r activity this weekend Having repaired the disintegrated bearing on the dish, i should now be able to track the moon better on the higher bands I plan to be qrv this weekend as follows:- sep 20 0430 to 1630 on 2301/2304/2320/2424 MHz sep 21 0530 to 1000 on 3400MHz Dave ww2r 13cm: 3.1m dish 200w 0.33db nf 9cm 3.1m dish 50w 0.6db nf http://g4fre.com/eme.htm From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 17 14:55:10 2008 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:55:10 -0000 Subject: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <008001c918c4$9eb8d620$4501a8c0@Al1> Gunter As near as I can tell from OM/OK1DFC previous email, Zdeneck will be on 3400 the first day and 2300 the second day when the moon is up in NA. Based on his schedule W5LUA will be on 9 and 6 cm the first day and 13 and 3 cm the second day. 73 Al w5LUA -----Original Message----- From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich) Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:43 AM To: Moonbounce Reflector; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Subject: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend Hello, according to the schedules that are announced already, let me show my plannings I will be on 13cm: Saturday Sept. 20 05:00 until 10:30 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz Saturday Sept. 20 20:30 until 00:00 (eastern window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320/2424MHz Sunday Sept. 21 05:00 until 07:00 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz I will change my feeds around 07:00UT on Sunday (that is 0900local) to 9cm 9cm Sunday Sept. 21 07:00 until 11:45 (western window) RX/TX: 3400.100MHz 13cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, 0.37dB preamp, 150W at the feed, 11.9dB sun noise and I hope that my 2424MHz mixer will do it this time. 9cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, (1.0-X)dB preamp, 50W at the feed, 8.3dB sun noise Moon visibility in Europe is starting in the evening (around 9local) until around noon of the next day, so I will probably miss some time since I cannot work nightshifts due to other commitments. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext ww2r_eme Gesendet: 17 September 2008 03:01 An: Moonbounce Reflector Betreff: [Moon] ww2r activity this weekend Having repaired the disintegrated bearing on the dish, i should now be able to track the moon better on the higher bands I plan to be qrv this weekend as follows:- sep 20 0430 to 1630 on 2301/2304/2320/2424 MHz sep 21 0530 to 1000 on 3400MHz Dave ww2r 13cm: 3.1m dish 200w 0.33db nf 9cm 3.1m dish 50w 0.6db nf http://g4fre.com/eme.htm _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Wed Sep 17 15:09:31 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:09:31 +0200 Subject: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend In-Reply-To: <008001c918c4$9eb8d620$4501a8c0@Al1> References: <008001c918c4$9eb8d620$4501a8c0@Al1> Message-ID: Hello, please, also Zdenek, cannot we keep it as usual, running 9cm the second day? 73, G?nter -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: ext Al Ward [mailto:w5lua at sbcglobal.net] Gesendet: 17 September 2008 14:55 An: Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich); 'Moonbounce Reflector'; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Betreff: RE: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend Gunter As near as I can tell from OM/OK1DFC previous email, Zdeneck will be on 3400 the first day and 2300 the second day when the moon is up in NA. Based on his schedule W5LUA will be on 9 and 6 cm the first day and 13 and 3 cm the second day. 73 Al w5LUA -----Original Message----- From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich) Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:43 AM To: Moonbounce Reflector; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Subject: [Moon] dl4mea activity this weekend Hello, according to the schedules that are announced already, let me show my plannings I will be on 13cm: Saturday Sept. 20 05:00 until 10:30 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz Saturday Sept. 20 20:30 until 00:00 (eastern window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320/2424MHz Sunday Sept. 21 05:00 until 07:00 (western window) TX: 2320 RX 2304/2320MHz I will change my feeds around 07:00UT on Sunday (that is 0900local) to 9cm 9cm Sunday Sept. 21 07:00 until 11:45 (western window) RX/TX: 3400.100MHz 13cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, 0.37dB preamp, 150W at the feed, 11.9dB sun noise and I hope that my 2424MHz mixer will do it this time. 9cm: 4.5m dish, round septum feed with chapperal choke, (1.0-X)dB preamp, 50W at the feed, 8.3dB sun noise Moon visibility in Europe is starting in the evening (around 9local) until around noon of the next day, so I will probably miss some time since I cannot work nightshifts due to other commitments. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext ww2r_eme Gesendet: 17 September 2008 03:01 An: Moonbounce Reflector Betreff: [Moon] ww2r activity this weekend Having repaired the disintegrated bearing on the dish, i should now be able to track the moon better on the higher bands I plan to be qrv this weekend as follows:- sep 20 0430 to 1630 on 2301/2304/2320/2424 MHz sep 21 0530 to 1000 on 3400MHz Dave ww2r 13cm: 3.1m dish 200w 0.33db nf 9cm 3.1m dish 50w 0.6db nf http://g4fre.com/eme.htm _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 17 15:32:08 2008 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:32:08 -0000 Subject: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz Message-ID: <009501c918c9$c92e7d10$4501a8c0@Al1> Hello MW EMEers In keeping with past tradition, we have generally operated 2300 MHz the first night and 3400 MHz the second night. Since there is considerably more activity on 2300 MHz as compared to 3400 MHz, it would make sense to activate 2300 MHz the first night. Zdeneck, is there anyway you could flip your 2300/3400 MHz activity windows to NA? Thanks and 73 Al W5LUA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080917/68528d0d/attachment.htm From ve2pij at hotmail.com Wed Sep 17 15:19:46 2008 From: ve2pij at hotmail.com (ve2pij at hotmail.com) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:19:46 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Ari contest on my web page Message-ID: I put the rules on my web page http://www.geocities.com/vhfdx2/ari.html 73 de Pierre VE2PIJ all contest info http://www.geocities.com/vhfdx2 From dl1ymk at aol.com Wed Sep 17 17:13:27 2008 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:13:27 -0400 Subject: [Moon] 13 cm Message-ID: <8CAE6EF124CF0DB-1354-156B@WEBMAIL-MA17.sysops.aol.com> Gents, to whom it? concerns: just in case you should hear a tiny little signal on 2320 MHz from a station identifying as DL1YMK during next weekends' activity period (formerly called ARRL-EME-Contest), trust your ears, I can assure you it is not a pirate. I will?not use any means of ?assistance whatsoever, no computer, no cluster, no chat, no SMS, no skype, no waterfall displays (as no computer...)....just my deaf ears and the rest of my brains to code and decode CW, so please be patient with me.? I can rx (so far) on 2301, 2304, 2320 MHz. Weather permitting of course! Station is not optimised yet, as a lack of time, will have only 150W from small PA, because still wondering, how everybody else except foolish me gets 30 dB RL on a round septum polarizer feed...., but that's another story. Have fun! 73 de Michael, DL1YMK ________________________________________________________________________ AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort k?nnen Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080917/4445b20a/attachment.htm From sm7wsj at telia.com Wed Sep 17 22:00:24 2008 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Harrysson?=) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:24 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARI EME contest Message-ID: <000701c91900$085a4d80$a000a8c0@workstation98> Hello Moonbouncers, I will be active around moonrise coming saturday. 15dBd single yagi, good power and pretty good ears to make the ultimate DX by searching the band listening for CW from the Moon. I hope everyone will have a real good time! 73 Hakan SM7WSJ From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Thu Sep 18 07:54:23 2008 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz In-Reply-To: <009501c918c9$c92e7d10$4501a8c0@Al1> Message-ID: <606.1204-29078-388721941-1221717263@seznam.cz> Guys, WX forecast do not give me chance to changing feeds during night because possible rain. Sorry but I need to squize the time to operation as possible there. Regards DFC ------------ P?vodn? zpr?va ------------ Od: Al Ward P?edm?t: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz Datum: 17.9.2008 15:33:18 ---------------------------------------- Hello MW EMEers In keeping with past tradition, we have generally operated 2300 MHz the first night and 3400 MHz the second night. Since there is considerably more activity on 2300 MHz as compared to 3400 MHz, it would make sense to activate 2300 MHz the first night. Zdeneck, is there anyway you could flip your 2300/3400 MHz activity windows to NA? Thanks and 73 Al W5LUA Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV 144 - 1296 MHz EME QRO and 10m DISH WAC 432 - 1296 MHz From k7xq at elite.net Thu Sep 18 08:28:45 2008 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:28:45 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ QRV 2.3 GHz / 10 GHz EME Contest Message-ID: <000b01c91957$d0db1e40$6801a8c0@k7xq> Hello All, I will be QRV this weekend to work 2304 and hopefully my first 10 GHz EME contacts this weekend. I now have a variable LO for the transverter which gives RX capability for 2301.95 (VK/ZL) /2304(NA/EU)/2320(EU)/2400(SAT)and 2424(JA)MHz so I expect to work my first JA's on 2.3 GHz this weekend ! K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi 144 MHz: 4 X M2 2MPX20 XPOL 20 dBd 1.5 kw single GS35b 432 MHz: 4 X M2 9 W.L. XPOL 23.3 dBd 1.5 kW single GS-35b 1296 MHz: 3 meter dish 27 dBd 350 watts single water cooled GS-15 2304 MHz: 3 meter dish 32 dBd 180 watts SS Spectrain Amplifier 10368 MHz: 3 meter dish 45 dBd 20 watts Varian TWTA Amplifier K7XQ Webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html From ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au Thu Sep 18 13:00:03 2008 From: ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au (Charlie Kahwagi) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:03 +1000 Subject: [Moon] WE Activity plans for VK3NX Message-ID: Hello Gentlemen, I thought I would take the opportunity to indicate my plans for the WE activity. Unfortunately my moon windows will be short as they usually are during contests, But I'm going to try and activate 4 bands. This will mean that I miss the chance for contacts with a number of stations (some new for me) on the various bands but I guess on the flip side I might be busy trying to keep up with it all! I did not realise that there was a protocol to run 13cm first and I have already (unfortunately) made plans as listed below. (Is it time that the 2304 and up was split into 2 weekends?) For anyone looking to work me my proposed operating schedule is as follows: Sat 20th 9cm 1520 NA window ( any takers in NA ?) 9cm 1845 - ~ 2030 utc 3400 ( Can Rx on 3456 if required.pease let me know) 13cm ~ 2100 - 2315 utc I will Tx on 2301.950 and Rx 2301.950 2304.050 2320.050 ( If you hear me on 2301.950 +/- please call on XXX.050 +/- I hope this will avoid the confusion I created last contest!) Sun 21st 6cm 1620- NA (any takers in NA?) 6cm ~1930 - 2230 3cm ~2300 - 2400 Wx forecast.-.may be some strong winds at my QTH...If the wind is too strong than I will not change feeds in the middle of a pass, but try to operate as much and as best I can without risking a mechanical failure! Station: 3.7m dish 120 W on 13cm 0.55dB NF 110 W on 9cm 0.7dB NF 100 W on 6cm 0.7dB NF 40 W on 3cm 0.7dB NF If anyone would like skeds in the following weeks after the contest, o any band, please email me. I am always grateful for activity out of the contest periods! I hope the Wx is kind to us all! GL everyone 73 Charlie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080918/fe7fa9be/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Thu Sep 18 21:11:47 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:11:47 +0200 Subject: [Moon] WE Activity plans for VK3NX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Charlie, have a look on OK1DFC's announcement, who indicates the same frequencies as you do (on http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/OM/om.htm) QRG 2,3 GHz: 2304,050 & 2320,050 RX/TX - listening 2301,980 - 2301,999 & 2424,050 - 2424,070 Charlie, I suggest you move up to 966, then you are in the middle between DFC and AFL. And since the gang meanwhile knows that you friends down under do it like usual crossband, it won't become a problem. 73, G?nter -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext Charlie Kahwagi Gesendet: 18 September 2008 13:00 An: MOON_NET; Moonbounce Reflector Betreff: [Moon] WE Activity plans for VK3NX 13cm ~ 2100 - 2315 utc I will Tx on 2301.950 and Rx 2301.950 2304.050 2320.050 ( If you hear me on 2301.950 +/- please call on XXX.050 +/- I hope this will avoid the confusion I created last contest!) Sun 21st 6cm 1620- NA (any takers in NA?) 6cm ~1930 - 2230 3cm ~2300 - 2400 Wx forecast.-.may be some strong winds at my QTH.....If the wind is too strong than I will not change feeds in the middle of a pass, but try to operate as much and as best I can without risking a mechanical failure! Station: 3.7m dish 120 W on 13cm 0.55dB NF 110 W on 9cm 0.7dB NF 100 W on 6cm 0.7dB NF 40 W on 3cm 0.7dB NF If anyone would like skeds in the following weeks after the contest, o any band, please email me. I am always grateful for activity out of the contest periods! I hope the Wx is kind to us all! GL everyone 73 Charlie From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Thu Sep 18 21:15:23 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:15:23 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz In-Reply-To: <606.1204-29078-388721941-1221717263@seznam.cz> References: <009501c918c9$c92e7d10$4501a8c0@Al1> <606.1204-29078-388721941-1221717263@seznam.cz> Message-ID: Hello Zdenek, well it was just asking you to do it the other way around, not asking for more swaps than necessary. Several people meanwhile indicated that they will do 13cm on saturday, 9cm on sunday, and so we are splitting. Isn't it crazy? Now we are able to handle crossband on 13cm on even 4 different bands, and we don't agree with time schedule. What's next? Swapping LHCP/RHCP? Zdenenk, please think about doing it the other way around. If there are serious reasons that this is not possible, I will probably miss you. 73, G?nter -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext OK1DFC Gesendet: 18 September 2008 07:54 An: Al Ward Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; 'Moonbounce Reflector' Betreff: Re: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz Guys, WX forecast do not give me chance to changing feeds during night because possible rain. Sorry but I need to squize the time to operation as possible there. Regards DFC ------------ P?vodn? zpr?va ------------ Od: Al Ward P?edm?t: [Moon] 2300/3400 MHz Datum: 17.9.2008 15:33:18 ---------------------------------------- Hello MW EMEers In keeping with past tradition, we have generally operated 2300 MHz the first night and 3400 MHz the second night. Since there is considerably more activity on 2300 MHz as compared to 3400 MHz, it would make sense to activate 2300 MHz the first night. Zdeneck, is there anyway you could flip your 2300/3400 MHz activity windows to NA? Thanks and 73 Al W5LUA Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV 144 - 1296 MHz EME QRO and 10m DISH WAC 432 - 1296 MHz _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From df6na at df6na.de Thu Sep 18 21:32:53 2008 From: df6na at df6na.de (Rainer) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:32:53 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Fwd: Bitte um Weiterleitung] Message-ID: <48D2ACE5.7000709@df6na.de> -- VHF/UHF/SHF Online Toplist: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html DF6NA Homepage: http://www.df6na.de/ Amateurfunk-Flohmarkt: http://www.afu-flohmarkt.de/ VHF-DX.net: http://www.vhf-dx.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... 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GL 73 Philippe F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From anders at LA8LF.com Fri Sep 19 07:21:34 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:21:34 +0200 Subject: [Moon] test Message-ID: <4774C3518EB547C3BD871C040C726149@FSCbrukerPC> test -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080919/801a717f/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 10569 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080919/801a717f/attachment-0001.jpeg From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Fri Sep 19 08:26:08 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:26:08 +0200 Subject: [Moon] The moon is "kaputt" :-) Message-ID: Hi, short story... One of the first words of my youngest son, meanwhile 19 month old, was "kaputt", which means defect or broken. Everything is "kaputt", the lawn mower, the tractor, well, like children do when playing. Not so good that he takes tools from daddy's tool box, and not so good when recently he tried to fix my TH347 with some screwdrivers. This morning he joined us when my wife as usual brougth me to the train, and the moon was straight above us. I told him: "Hey, the moon!" and he responded: "kaputt" My wife explained: In one of his picture books the moon is round, and this one is broken, missing one piece... 73, G?nter -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080919/2b6f9dee/attachment.htm From ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au Fri Sep 19 09:34:28 2008 From: ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au (Charlie Kahwagi) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:34:28 +1000 Subject: [Moon] VK3NX Plans Message-ID: Hello gentlemen, I have been alerted to the fact that Zdenek OK1DFC will be operating on 2304.050 and 2320.050 ..... SO to prevent confusion and to keep the QRM down for the Dxpedition, I will operate on 13cm on a TX of 2301.965 and Rx 2304.065 and 2320.065 for replies to my "CQs from down under" This way I hope to keep out of OK1DFC's way and to steer away from the often crowded XXX.100..... If anyone can see a problem with using XXX.065 please let me know. Unfortunately this all arises from the "wonderful" situation of 4 different worldwide allocations on the 13cm EME band.... Having si that , the solution is easy and a small inconvenience to be exploring this wonderful facet of our hobby. 73 Charlie VK3NX -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080919/889898db/attachment.htm From graham.d at orange.fr Fri Sep 19 12:35:11 2008 From: graham.d at orange.fr (graham) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:35:11 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 13 & 23 cm In-Reply-To: References: <20080913094622.IOVV11041.nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@acer684c9a655d> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.1.20080919122607.01e76298@pop.orange.fr> After a few days frantic building I have just got a 13cm feed in the dish... ** I will be RX only *** and will send a few email reports to those I hear and perhaps on here after the event. nothing is optimised as yet and probably will not be for this weekend. I have 11,5 > 12,0 dB Cold Sky to Sun, so will call it "good enough" for my 4m dish's first outing on this band....and fiddle with 13 again during the winter after I put the 23cm horn back in for the ARRL I will be back qrv on 23cm Oct/Nov after a two year break, rx & tx, as my new 300w semicon also got finished this week. 73 Graham F5VHX From w0pt at embarqmail.com Fri Sep 19 13:11:01 2008 From: w0pt at embarqmail.com (Bill VanKirk, W0PT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:11:01 -0500 Subject: [Moon] 2 meter CW skeds Message-ID: W0PT will be QRV after 0330utc 27 Feb 08 and looking for some CW skeds. Anyone want to try? 73 Bill W0PT 4X 5.7wl @ 1.2kw W0PT EM28OD QRV 2M EME with 4X M2 19XXX and 1.2kw S.W.O.T. 3015 Bill VanKirk Box 83 Mound City, KS 66056 From ploetz at snafu.de Fri Sep 19 13:53:01 2008 From: ploetz at snafu.de (Manfred Ploetz) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:01 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Activity Weekend DL7YC Message-ID: <41321FA46F4F470A95712F8F8C86DEB8@FunkrQuadPC> Hello Moonbouncers, I will be qrv on Saturday 5760.080 MHz and 3400.080 GHz Equipment: 1.9m prime focus dish, 60W @ feed on 9cm, 0.6 dB NF, Multifeed 13, 9, 6cm; Linear horizontal pol; 6.1 dB sunnoise today 1.9m prime focus dish, 40W @ feed on 6cm, 0.8 dB NF, Multifeed 13, 9, 6cm; Linear horizontal pol; 5.0 dB sunnoise today Automatic tracking; no limitation or obstruction to horizon from east to west. Not really a big gun - but maybe I can work some stations. Any takers ?? I can be qrv any time if requested. 24 GHz project is under progress but I?m not sure that I can finishing everything. It`s to much "hardware" to fix, hi. But I will try to be ready suturday morning. Project standing today: 90% 73 and good luck to everybody Manfred, DL7YC -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080919/d28feeaa/attachment.htm From ve6ta at clearwave.ca Fri Sep 19 15:14:11 2008 From: ve6ta at clearwave.ca (Grant Furnald) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:14:11 +0000 Subject: [Moon] VE6TA QRV 9 and 13 cm Message-ID: <48D3A5A3.5090404@clearwave.ca> Folks: I will be QRV the first moon pass this weekend on 9 cm, and the second on 13cm. I am not sure this will generate the best activity for the log. However, with some poorer weather moving in on Sunday I may stand a better chance of keeping on the moon with 13cm. Hearing some good echoes on 13cm and 9 cm, so hope to catch all of you off the moon this weekend. Station consists of the following; 5.5 meter dish/circular septum with large scalar ring - 180w in shack on 13 cm. Rx/Tx 2304/2320, rx 2301/2424. 5.5 meter dish/RA3AQ feed - 45 watts at feed on 9 cm. Rx/Tx 3400 73's Grant VE6TA DO33gs From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Fri Sep 19 16:54:08 2008 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:54:08 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV Italian EME contest, Message-ID: <008001c91a67$935dc700$cd543057@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers I will be QRV on random 144 MHz CW in the Italian EME Contest this weekend. I look forward to hear a lot of stations on the band. Good luck to all, and great fun during the weekend. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. 8 x 8 elm. crossyagi's H/V and 8877. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MGF1801+NORTON WSE CONVERTERS+LINRAD 8877 IC275H From ww2r_eme at g4fre.com Fri Sep 19 17:03:45 2008 From: ww2r_eme at g4fre.com (ww2r_eme at g4fre.com) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:03:45 -0400 Subject: [Moon] ww2r activity this weekend: REVISED In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As I will now be back home from Oklahoma city in time to change my feed from 13cm to 9cm before the sun goes down (need to check sun noise of new feed), and seeing other's band selections I am going to flip my operating bands. I plan to be qrv this weekend as follows:- sep 20 0430 to 1100 & 1500 to 1630 on 3400MHz (only) sep 21 0530 to 1100 on 2301/2304/2320/2424 MHz Dave ww2r 13cm: 3.1m dish 200w 0.33db nf 9cm 3.1m dish 50w 0.6db nf http://g4fre.com/eme.htm From K-Jarl at algonet.se Fri Sep 19 17:06:26 2008 From: K-Jarl at algonet.se (Kjell Jarl) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:06:26 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SM7GVF QRV Message-ID: <48D3BFF2.4000403@algonet.se> Hi All, I was hit by a storm in February, but now I am QRV again with 8x8H I0JXX on 144 MHz. See you in the ARI contest. 73 Kjell SM7GVF From sm5le at telia.com Fri Sep 19 17:14:05 2008 From: sm5le at telia.com (SM5LE) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:14:05 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SM5LE 1296 QRV Italian EME contest Message-ID: <002c01c91a6a$5bd65b00$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Hi 1296'ers I will be QRV on random 1296 MHz CW in the Italian EME Contest this weekend. I look forward to hear a lot of stations on the 23 cm band. Now more muscles to the mouse ; running 500W , hope your speaker will survive. :-) 73 Sven SM5LE ----------------------------------------------------------- SM5LE in JO99bd 2.2 meter mesh dish F/D=0.34 Septum feed OK1DFC. With choke ring. 500 W @ feed , CW ( 300W JT65 ) Spid RAS rotator with MoonSked software by GM4JJJ Rig : TS-2000X (with 1296 MHz module). LNA : NE32684A cavity NF ~0.3 dB 8 dB sun-noise CW SSB JT65 1296 MHz only SM5LE HomePage at : http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/ Pictures : http://web.telia.com/~u14901546/home_page_no_3.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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DK7ZB, ICOM 475H plus LZ2US GS23B PA 1.5 kw. hope to meet you via moon. 73 Dietmar DL7UDA From g3ltf at btinternet.com Fri Sep 19 23:21:09 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:21:09 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF planned activity 13/9cm Message-ID: <024101c91a9d$a2dbef00$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Just back from weeks holiday in NW France, not had time to check the gear at all , I plan to be on 13cm from 0000 Saturday and 9cm on Sunday but not sure what times but will definitely catch the US window. I will also probably come on 9cm Saturday morning before moon set to try and catch Zdenek. Just hoping it all works, I made some wiring changes before going away and not checked them fully out yet!! GL to all 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Will remove the feed now and check if this is the reason. 73, G?nter -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080920/4b8c4459/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sat Sep 20 06:57:33 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:57:33 +0200 Subject: [Moon] TX problem found In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, it was the jumper cable that bridges the elevation rotor. It was simply broken in the middle. All my tests were done at low elevation, when the cable still had contact. At the high elevation of the moon in zenith, the break opened and failed. So, on we go... 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From DL1YMK at aol.com Sat Sep 20 11:56:43 2008 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:56:43 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13cm for the first time Message-ID: Hi gang, tonight I made the first 10 contacts on 13cm from my home site in JO31qx. After having modified my feed support construction in a way that I can now easily flip from one feed to another, I put in 13cm for the first time. Began to work with 120 W in the feed, later increased to 250 W, making some difference regarding the echoes. Still working on more power, though... Stations worked were: G3LTF (Peter, you are my no. 1!!), RW1AW (what a beautiful sideband signal, Alex), ES5PC, OK1CA, G4CCH, DL4MEA, K1JT, WA6PY (yes Paul, I also get mixed up every time with that X-band sh.., I let HB9Q wait more than half an hour from CX, hi!), OZ4MM and OH2DG. I have a limited window, so 2nite will be only on from 23.45 - 01.45 UT and on Sunday from 07.00 - 09.15 UT, especially looking for US-stations. Will give a few calls every now and then and check X-band.... I will have to stay on 13cm, as I got no horn for 9cm (oh yeah, Zdenek, sigh....) so far, so no falling off the ladder at nite, which is not bad either. Tnx to all sorting me out of the mud, 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080920/f6d2e3d7/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sat Sep 20 12:35:24 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:35:24 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA report - worst ever contest In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi first pass is over: This was my worst ever contest I got in bed really early, and got up 0400local. Found good signals from F2TU and no echo. Went out and found no error. After 3h I found that the jumper bridge across the elevation axis broke in the middle and the short only opened at high elevation. Then worked just 9 stations on 13cm: G3LTF, RW1AW (SSB), SD3F, K1JT (X), G3LQR, G4CCH, SP6GWN, DL1YMK, DF9QX. CWNR were ES5PC (too low elev), OZ4MM (X), OK1CA, WA6PY (X), OH2DG (X), DK7LJ hrd only WA6RJF Since 13cm became really boring at 0900UT I changed to 9cm, and worked on 9cm: OK1CA, W5LUA and G3LTF. I will again be on 9cm for my moonrise in order to try VK3NX tonight after 2030ut, and then change back to 13cm. Is it really worth to be back on 9cm afterwards? What about LX1DB, OK1KIR and who else? 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From on4bcb at skynet.be Sat Sep 20 13:29:21 2008 From: on4bcb at skynet.be (on4bcb at skynet.be) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:29:21 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Ari contest sul 23cm Message-ID: <75hqds$5qjnur@relay.skynet.be> Stamattina ho fatto contatto con IK2MMB & IW2FZR dove sono gli altri Italiani sul 23cm ??? !!! Ci vediamo stasera/domani Ciao Walter ON4BCB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080920/eefaa63e/attachment.htm From qstdemb at yahoo.com Sat Sep 20 13:37:42 2008 From: qstdemb at yahoo.com (Matthew Barlow) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] for DL7UDA only Message-ID: <847284.6013.qm@web33801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please call again, tomorrow morning. ????????????? 73 de Ron? n4gjv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080920/fbc7bfbb/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Sat Sep 20 14:01:52 2008 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:01:52 +0000 Subject: [Moon] SM2CEW 13cm + 2m CW EME Message-ID: <20080920094621.85E271AD47@mail.allt1.se> A rather late start this morning resulted in the fact that most stations had gone QRT on 13cm for the day I think.. Came on 13cm EME at 10.00 GMT and worked G4CCH, ES5PC, K1JT #9, and F2TU #10. Heard WD5AGO and DF9QX. Called CQ on 2320 (also listening X-band!) with fair echoes until 11.45 GMT when I had to shut down as the moon was in the trees. G4CCH and F2TU were still good signals at that time though. Not sure what I will do tonight and tomorrow morning regarding 13cm EME, as this is a very busy radio weekend for me with the ARRL Microwave EME activity weekend, ARI EME contests and the SAC CW HF contest all going on at the same time. And I want to take part in all three events, at least to make a few QSO's. But most likely I will be on 13cm again for a while in the morning. Michael YMK, will be looking for you..! I was also on 2m this morning and worked a bunch of nice CW EME stations. I found conditions rather poor, and echoes were not that strong with me. All Eu stations were either vertical pol or mixed, i e 45 deg offset from my v/h polarization. I heard more stations than I worked, so will try to be back again for the next moon window. 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com http://blog.sm2cew.com From graham.d at orange.fr Sat Sep 20 15:11:57 2008 From: graham.d at orange.fr (graham) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:11:57 +0200 Subject: [Moon] first day results In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.1.20080919122607.01e76298@pop.orange.fr> References: <20080913094622.IOVV11041.nschwotgx03p.mx.bigpond.com@acer684c9a655d> <6.2.1.2.1.20080919122607.01e76298@pop.orange.fr> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.1.20080920150540.04141e78@pop.orange.fr> as 13cm swl and first outing on this band... 20/8/2008 - approx 08.00 to 10.00 oz4mm, g3ltf, g3lqr, dl4mea, g4cch, k1jt, sp6gwn, sd3f, wa6py, dl1ymk, oh2dg, ok1ca, df9qx, sm4dhn, w9iix, hb9sv 17 in two hours seems like good activity, lost the moon in the trees around 1000 fiddled with tracking calibration as this band highlighted a nagging problem, all fixed now... will be listening tonight for a short time. Graham F5VHX From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Sat Sep 20 19:19:14 2008 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:19:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] The full EME history 1953-1970 In-Reply-To: <20080920094621.85E271AD47@mail.allt1.se> Message-ID: <36.22775-27227-810457504-1221931154@seznam.cz> Hello all I made some article about early EME history based on articles in QST, DL-QTC and czech Amaterske radio magazine. More at http://www.ok2kkw.com/eme1960/eme1960eng.htm (tnx for info & photos to F8DO & OK1VR). If you have any more pictures or QSL cards, pse tell me and I'll put it on. 73's de Matej, OK1TEH PS: The article is pretty big so it would takes some time on loading.. From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat Sep 20 19:20:34 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:20:34 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF first pass results Message-ID: <039701c91b45$31ab19c0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Good activity on both 13 and 9cm with 3 initials on 13. ( x= crossband) I worked JA8ERE X , DL1YMK, SD3F, OH2DG, ES5PC, G4CCH, HB9SV, RW1AW, DL4MEA, G3LQR, DK7LJ ssb, RW1AW ssb, WD5AGO X, K1JT X, OZ4MM, NA4N, W9IIX, SP6GWN, DF9QX, OK1CA. On 9cm I worked LX1BD, DL4MEA, VE6TA, W5LUA, RW1AW. I plan to start at moonrise tonight on 9cm until about 2100 and then change to 13cm. I will be back on 9cm at about 0900. GL all, 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Like usually IK3MAC came with outstanding signal, then i heard quite strong F0CXO...all the others not easy to take the right signal to much up and down. I believe the last station calling me was DK3WG..usually strong, but at this time got only DK3 in three sequence, so no qso. Hope next pass better coditions. I worked? 20 stations with a lot of? difficulty. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 73, Valter IK1FJI 4x12 abt 19 DBb? gu78b? mgf 1801 ic 275H? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi http://mail.yahoo.it From ve6ta at clearwave.ca Sat Sep 20 19:51:15 2008 From: ve6ta at clearwave.ca (Grant Furnald) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:51:15 +0000 Subject: [Moon] VE6TA Results First pass Message-ID: <48D53813.902@clearwave.ca> Well it was kind of lonely hanging out on 9 cm tonight. Worked the following stations though, with big signals here. W5LUA, RW1AW, OK1CA, LX1DB, and G3LTF. Heard DL4MEA briefly and called VK3NX many times. No sign of OM/OK1DFC that I could detect. I plan to switch feeds to 13 cm and be on for moonrise. Hope to see many more of you there. 73's Grant VE6TA From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sat Sep 20 19:52:59 2008 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:52:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] OM/OK1DFC In-Reply-To: <039701c91b45$31ab19c0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: <658.1392-27188-1499492429-1221933179@seznam.cz> Hi all, worked before contest on 13cm for unit test OK1CA 559 and G4CCH 549, during contest on 9cm in first window LX1DB and OK1KIR, heard OK1CA solid copy, W5LUA, G3LTF. So thanks to problem with strong wind and rain I was not able to work with them. 3,2m dish is to sharp for 9cm and wind around 80km/h. Tonight I will be on 13cm. Started with VK window at 21:00 UT because trees in Moon rise direction. Than calling CQ on 2320,050 for EU window and when Moon will illuminate US I will switch again to 2304 MHz and CQ on 2304,050. When you will hear my DDDDD please spread your call to 5 letters groups. Regards and looking forward to work all of you Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV 144 - 1296 MHz EME QRO and 10m DISH WAC 432 - 1296 MHz From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Sat Sep 20 20:22:41 2008 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:22:41 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARRL contest Message-ID: <48D53F71.9020203@orange.fr> Hi, Complicated to be on the 3-band. QSO: 14 on 13cm, 5 on 6cm, 7 on 10 GHz between 02:00 and 11:30 For second past: 13cm - 21:00 - 00:30, 02:00 - 05:00, 09:45 - 12:30 6cm - 00:30 - 0200, 5:15 - 06:45 3cm - 07:00 - 09:30 I hope qso you. 73 -- Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From howard at g4cch.com Sat Sep 20 21:46:57 2008 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:46:57 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G4CCH 13cm Activity Report 19/20 Sept Message-ID: <76746009/mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.65.172/09/20/08/20:47:07@mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com> Despite the Moon being Kaputt ;-)), I had a great time on the 1st pass this weekend. So far, I made 17 QSO's and added 9 Initials over the whole operating period which started at my Moonrise before the start of the contest at 0000z. I thought activity was good for my first real experience of 13cm during a contest, and at times there were some exceptionally loud signals. Here's who's in the log: OM/OK1DFC Initial and DXCC... The Moon was very low and I had about 40% tree blockage, but Zdenek was easy copy. RW1AW on CW and SSB OK1CA Initial ES5PC OH2DG Initial and DXCC HB9SV Initial and DXCC G3LTF G3LQR Initial WD5AGO Xband K1JT Xband Initial DL4MEA Initial DL1YMK Initial SP6GWN WA6PY Xband Initial F2TU NA4N Xband SM2CEW Also heard: RW3BP IK2RTI DK7LJ on ssb OZ4MM W9IIX I will be on again tonight starting at 2130z looking for the ones that got away, and hopefully a few more. I will TX only on 2320 and can switch my RX to 2320 / 2301 / 2304 Unfortunately I still can't receive on 2424 yet, so sorry to the JA's... more work to do, just need some time. If anyone is interested in looking, I'm now able to stream video and audio from my shack to demonstrate EME. You can find me on the BATC website at: http://www.batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=5&id=94 As I'm not intending entering the contest, I will try to stream some live operation for a while on the next pass. Best 73 & GL Howard, G4CCH www.g4cch.com H/B 5.4m dish f/d 0.5, Round Septum Horn, 125W at the feed from a SSPA, 0.36 dB G4DDK LNA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5002 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080920/40152a79/attachment-0001.bin From joe at Princeton.EDU Sat Sep 20 22:49:37 2008 From: joe at Princeton.EDU (Joseph H Taylor) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:49:37 -0400 Subject: [Moon] K1JT second pass In-Reply-To: <1573215441.20080921000723@appello.de> References: <1573215441.20080921000723@appello.de> Message-ID: Many thanks to all for the 13 cm QSOs last night! On the second moon pass, tonight, we plan to be on 10 GHz from about 0500 to 0800 UTC. Look for us around 10,368.100 ... FYI: Jim, WA7CJO, tells us that he also plans to be on 3 cm tonight. After about 0800 UTC we will again be on 13 cm, looking for those we missed last night. Good luck to all! -- 73, Joe, K1JT ( ... and 73s also from Al, K2UYH and Russ, K2TXB) From k7xq at elite.net Sun Sep 21 02:46:28 2008 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:46:28 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ QRT 10 GHz and QRV 2.3 GHz EME Message-ID: <002301c91b83$7f45b3f0$6801a8c0@k7xq> Thursday night TWTA developed a oscillation and wiped out my transverter on the RX side one day before the terrestrial and EME Contest. I will be QRT 10 GHz for awhile until I order the parts and repair transverter. This was real disappointing since I was ready to get my first 10 GHz EME QSO's with 20 watts and a newly built chaparral feed on the 10 foot dish. I will be QRV on 2300 MHz EME on second pass tonight with capabilities to RX on 2320 and 2424. K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi 144 MHz: 4 X M2 2MPX20 XPOL 20 dBd 1.5 kw single GS35b 432 MHz: 4 X M2 9 W.L. XPOL 23.3 dBd 1.5 kW single GS-35b 1296 MHz: 3 meter dish 27 dBd 350 watts single water cooled GS-15 2304 MHz: 3 meter dish 32 dBd 180 watts SS Spectrain Amplifier 10368 MHz: 3 meter dish 45 dBd 20 watts Varian TWTA Amplifier K7XQ Webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html From ww2r_eme at g4fre.com Sun Sep 21 03:51:23 2008 From: ww2r_eme at g4fre.com (ww2r_eme) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:51:23 -0500 Subject: [Moon] ww2r first pass results In-Reply-To: Message-ID: After spending many hours sorting out a receiver problem which turned out to be a blown atf36077(after of course i had replaced everything else) I did get to hear 6 stations on 9cm LX1DB (loudest of the night but QSYed before I could call him), OK1CA, W5LUA, RW1AW, DL4MEA, VK3NX. The only station i couldnt positively identify was g3ltf I will be on 2304/2320 this evening Dave From ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au Sun Sep 21 09:39:07 2008 From: ibnkarim at bigpond.net.au (Charlie Kahwagi) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:39:07 +1000 Subject: [Moon] 1st pass vk3nx Message-ID: Hello all, Well it was a long night; 3 cups of coffee and an energy drink but I managed to get through with the reward of some great signals. On 9cm I worked, W5LUA , RW1AW (#), OK1CA and DL4MEA. I missed out on VE6TA who at times had a loud signal but very rapid and deep QSB (tnx for trying Grant) after 1 hr of trying it ?hurt? to concede! I heard WW2R briefly but no QSO as we ran out of time I think there was also another station W?? Please let me know if you heard me for future reference (plans). LESSONS LEARNT: I have now officially learnt that the brain doesn?t compute/decode callsigns as good at 3am as it does 3pm! On 13 cm I only had a very short time (1 ? hrs) and the fatigue was setting in, but I worked some BIG signals ! F2TU DL4MEA G3LTF RW1AW (CW + SSB) G4CCH (#) ES5PC (CW + SSB) and HB9Q (#) RW1AW?s SSB was 59+ on the S meter! And HB9Q was worked at 1 deg elevation through 6 dB of gnd noise with a very loud signal. I found it interesting that all stations were heard responding to my CQ on 2320 except for ES5PC ( direct copy in 2301 sub band). For any stations whom heard and called me in the 2304 sub band I did listen but nothing heard. I really didn?t allow myself enough time on 13cm but 8 contacts in 75 min seems like 13cm popularity is growing all the time. Unfortunately I missed out on many that I read were there. I do plan on operating on 6cm and 3cm as previously indicated, for my second pass. I will be on 6cm from moon rise until just after 2200 and then I will QSY to 10 GHz. I plan to be on until moonset even though it is just after the contest period. 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Since 13cm became really boring at 0900UT I changed to 9cm, and worked on 9cm: OK1CA, W5LUA and G3LTF. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From DL1YMK at aol.com Sun Sep 21 13:58:57 2008 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:58:57 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13cm update Message-ID: Hi all, during the night I was able to add another 6 stations for my first activity on 13cm from my home site: F2TU, OM/OK1DFC (Zdenek: perfect job, very easy and straight forward 559 reports), HB9Q, SD3F, DF3RU (yes Karl, I'm on 13cm now...) and WD5AGO, ending up with 16 initials during 5 Hours of activity. At least 6 stations were get-aways, among these Peter, SM2CEW ( I heard you briefly, but lost you afterwards). Dave: called you over half an hour this morning...the XXX, that was me..... Tnx to all for this fine activity event, 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There will some available till spring 2009 so perhaps something for you, who wants to do 70cm EME. For more details, please contact me direct. 73 Lins PA3CMC in JO21wi http://www.pa3cmc.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080921/96297cb5/attachment.htm From pa3cwn at tele2.nl Sun Sep 21 15:39:39 2008 From: pa3cwn at tele2.nl (Oene) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:39:39 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Results ARI CW 144Mhz Message-ID: <48D64E9B.1000800@tele2.nl> Hello All, I was qrv for most of the time in both passes, and found condx from time to time excellent; especially 1st pass sigs were good The 2nd pass was much more difficult and there was not much activity I experienced. On both nights I lots the LNA. and repaired the trouble. Now I am using the spare MGF1302 and I am glad to have the LNA in the shack :-) I also lost my driver just before the contest, so my output power is abt 900W and I notice that in very often QRZ if I am calling a station. I spent a lot of time in CQ but with QRP it's too low, although echoes were huge from time to time. I worked: OZ1HNE, SP7DCS, OK1MS, LA8YB, RU1AA, IK2DDR, IK3MAC, F1FLA, SM7GVF, G3ZIG, IK1FJI, DK3EE, YO2AMU Heard were: RX1AS (qrz), I3EVK, I2RV, F0CXO, F3VS, DL2LAH&DL8YHR (both tropo and EME), YO9FRJ and SM7WSJ (1yagi and 1st time hearing Hakan) Maybe I will be qrv in last 2 hours from local midnight to end of contest and hope to find some more stations !! 73 Oene PA3CWN 4x9 ele DK7ZB 18.5dBd GS35b From dl7uda at versanet.de Sun Sep 21 18:12:02 2008 From: dl7uda at versanet.de (DL7UDA) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:12:02 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL7UDA ARI contest Message-ID: <48D67252.7000604@versanet.de> Hello EMEers, I was QRV only 2nd pass. Conds and activity on 7o cm seems mostly very poor. Worked only I1NDP, KL6M, UA3PTW (best signal), G4RGK and hard to copy SM3BYA. Heard PA3CSG and very week LZ1DX. On 2m I only heard shortly IK3MAC and SP7DCS. Sorry Ron, N4GJV, I receided your mail to late. My EME QTH is about 80 km from home, without internet. Hope to meet you and others also in October. 73 Dietmar DL7UDA From sm2cew at telia.com Sun Sep 21 19:45:14 2008 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:45:14 +0000 Subject: [Moon] SM2CEW 13cm + 2m CW EME, update In-Reply-To: <20080920094621.85E271AD47@mail.allt1.se> Message-ID: <20080921152956.9CB8E19AC6@mail.allt1.se> Got back on 13cm early Sunday morning and worked OK1CA, HB9SV, DL4MEA, HB9Q, OZ4MM, G3LQR, VE6TA, DF3RU, WD5AGO. Heard and called X-band for a long time OM/OK1DFC, good signal but no reply unfortunately. I think Zdenek was listening on 2304.050 only when I called him. Anyhow, well done Zdenek, another fine CW EME expedition! At 07.30 the winds got so strong that I had to park the dish and go QRT on 13cm. QSY'ed to 2m and worked I3EVK, OK1MS, DF1CF, SM7GVF (great signal with new array Kjell), IK3MAC, IK2DDR, IK1FJI and RU1AC. Conditions still not good, Eu vertical polarization here all morning. Heard many more stations, but drifted back to HF contesting to make some more QSO's before the Scandinavian Activity Contest ended at 12.00 GMT. All in all, a very nice ARRL activity weekend/ARI contest. 10 new initials on 13cm, it is fun to be a new guy on the band, almost every QSO is a new initial. Heard on 13cm this morning, working others, -> RW3BP, NA4N, K7XQ and OH2DG. No 70/23cm this weekend, just not enough time. 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com http://blog.sm2cew.com From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sun Sep 21 22:02:39 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:02:39 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF results second pass Message-ID: <00ff01c91c25$00a152f0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> In addition to the 20 worked on 13cm on the first pass I added VK4AFL,x, VK3NX,x, RW3BP, F2TU, OM/OK1DFC despite QSB and QRM, (Well done Zdenek for a great 13cm dxpedition.) F5JWF, DF3RU, WW2R,x, IW2FZR, HB9Q, K7XQ,x, WA6PY,x, DL7YC ( Manfred has 1.9m dish 130w and linear polarisation, he was +2dB in 50 Hz!) and W5LUA. Total 34. Heard were PA0BAT, WA8RJFand SM4DHN. Interestingly, in the Eu window virtually all the activity was on 2320. Most US stations can now work crossband and the activity overall is steadily increasing. Great! On 9cm I added OK1CA to give a total of 6. I could not hear OM/OK1DFC ( saturday) and CWNR was OK1KIR. 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080921/947fc08a/attachment-0001.htm From ploetz at snafu.de Mon Sep 22 11:36:53 2008 From: ploetz at snafu.de (Manfred Ploetz) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:36:53 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Contest report 13cm , 9cm and 6cm Message-ID: <5C07EF32BD8A4475A7764A40E6B91266@FunkrQuadPC> Hello moonbouncers, for the first time I tried to use my LP multiband tropo station for EME. It`s a 1.9m mesh dish only with ring feeds - but all preamps and SSPA`s @ feedpoint. I can do automatic tracking, so moon pointing is no problem. I listen most of the time in 1st and 2nd pass. Here my results: 13cm - 130watts (2320 MHZ only) G3LTF O/O (thanks Peter for the nice report for my 2dB signal in 50Hz BW :-)) G4CCH O/O also very easy and quick heard but not worked: DL4MEA, OK1CA and many other unidentified stns. Problem was random activity (short durations) and high speed CW (not so good for M grade sigs, hi 9cm - 60watts no qso`s but heard several unidentified stn with M-O sigs. Much to fast CW to decode in random 6cm - 40watts worked F2TU (M/M) and heard OK1KIR, W5LUA and 2 unidentified stns Amazing what can be done with such a simple equipment. Nowing this, I will start to build up RA3AQ modified CP horns for my 0.45 dish for all 3 bands. If theese +3dB will not help as much, I can expand my dish to 3m dia for another +3dB. Last not least - power can be improved by additionally 3 dB, hi. Thanks to all stns trying to made a contact with a non EME grade operator. vy 73 Manfred, DL7YC -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080922/88a9b3aa/attachment.htm From franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com Mon Sep 22 12:36:04 2008 From: franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com (Cominelli Franco) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:36:04 +0200 Subject: [Moon] IK2DDR ARI 2008 CW/SSB CONTEST 2m log Message-ID: <205208A153FD8F46A23A1AC5F3DCB5AA8F0418@server01.SIDERGARDA.local> Hello all, ARI CW/SSB EME CONTEST 2008 is over. I have been active on both Moonpasses, with some break, specially on 2nd day. I found good participation from Europe and scarce as usual, on 2m, from USA and JA. Conditions were optimum on 1st day, with strong signals and own echoes around 539 in most of the time. On 2nd Moonpass i found a long period of hours with the polarization of the signals, fixed in "V" and a minor number of signals on the band. After so many years of activity, i'm very happy to see that my station still well performed and this, thanks to Paolo (I3DLI) for his 19LLY project antenna and Leif (SM5BSZ) for his LINRAD and WSE CONVERTERS, over the help of my good friend Graziano (IK3MAC) that help me really very much. Is really a pleasure to receive eme signals with this system. Anyway it was just pure fun to work in the analog mode, using my head as a digital dsp, as done for years. Let me send my thanks to the worked stations and to the couple of lost guys that called me, one japaneese (JH0???) and one US (WA9???) (please if you read these note, let me know who you are,hi,hi). Sincerely i aspected more participation and particularily in consideration of the fact that we are not in winter and the wx is not so compromised. Anyway, see you all again on 2m CW eme and good luck for next eme events. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date UT call LOCATOR TX RX PRO.NOTE QRB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/09/2008 00.01 OK1MS JO7?SI RO O EME 649 20/09/2008 00.10 OZ1HNE JO57GH RO O EME 1306 20/09/2008 00.24 SP7DCS JO91MN RO O EME 913 20/09/2008 00.35 YO2AMU KN?6OC RO O EME 828 20/09/2008 00.56 IK1FJI JN44LL RO O EME 173 20/09/2008 01.09 LA8YB JO59FR RO O EME 1575 20/09/2008 01.33 I3EVK JN66CE O RO EME 147 20/09/2008 02.24 IK3MAC JN55SH RO O EME 83 20/09/2008 02.45 K9MRI EN7?IU RO O EME 7291 20/09/2008 03.06 F1FLA JN26KU O RO EME 459 20/09/2008 03.24 RU1AA KP4?XD O RO EME 2064 20/09/2008 03.37 PA3CWN JO33AH O RO EME 920 20/09/2008 04.34 F?CXO JN26PP O RO EME 422 20/09/2008 04.41 RX1AS KO59FX O RO EME 2072 20/09/2008 05.03 SM7GVF JO77GA O RO EME 1303 20/09/2008 05.25 W3TWX FN54 O RO EME 5972+- 20/09/2008 05.46 F3VS JN38GE 559 549 EME 421 20/09/2008 06.20 G3ZIG JO?2MR RO O EME 1053 20/09/2008 06.52 I2RV JN45PL O RO EME 98 20/09/2008 09.14 DK3EE JO41GV RO O EME 719 20/09/2008 21.06 IV3GBO JN66OA O RO EME 213 20/09/2008 21.14 IK3CAG O RO EME 480+- 21/09/2008 06.01 LZ1DP KN22TK O RO EME 1253 21/09/2008 06.15 F9HS JN23AT O RO EME 549 21/09/2008 08.43 SM2CEW KP15CR O RO EME 2349 21/09/2008 09.31 PA2CHR JO22XA RO O EME 792 21/09/2008 10.12 I5WBE JN53JR O RO EME 205 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Numero di QSO listed: 27 From sm5le at telia.com Mon Sep 22 12:40:17 2008 From: sm5le at telia.com (SM5LE) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:40:17 +0200 Subject: [Moon] A.R.I. 1296 results de SM5LE Message-ID: <002601c91c9f$9b4814e0$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Hi Did work 9 QSO:n on 1296. Little less than normal. Wrkd on CW : SP6JLW, IW2FZR, IK2MMB, ON7UN (also called on SSB but NIL), K5PJR, SV3AAF, ON4BCB, K5JL and LA9NEA. Hrd : IK3COJ and UT5JCW and a station with "MM" in call. Probably VA7MM but this call is not yet in my heads call.txt file and that is very significant when having small dish (really weak sigs). With new power (from 250W to 500W) my own CW echo's went from 50% of time to 75% of time. I will now exercise CW to the ARRL contest , with "Morsecat" and a noise-file taken from the TS-2000 and filtered. CU soon via moon /Sven SM5LE ----------------------------------------------------------- SM5LE in JO99bd 2.2 meter mesh dish F/D=0.34 Septum feed OK1DFC. With choke ring. 500 W @ feed , CW ( 300W JT65 ) Spid RAS rotator with MoonSked software by GM4JJJ Rig : TS-2000X (with 1296 MHz module). LNA : NE32684A cavity NF ~0.3 dB 8 dB sun-noise CW SSB JT65 1296 MHz only SM5LE HomePage at : http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/ Pictures : http://web.telia.com/~u14901546/home_page_no_3.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080922/9063cb26/attachment.htm From davcut at maltanet.net Mon Sep 22 18:05:54 2008 From: davcut at maltanet.net (David Cutajar) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:54 +0200 Subject: [Moon] A.R.I Contest Message-ID: <48D7C262.6090801@maltanet.net> Hi all Was qrv on 432mhz yesterday for 2hours but was not capable to work anyone. Called UA3PTW for severals times received qrz once.Also sched with LZ1DX from logger but nothing seen from him. Other stations heard but not called were I1NDP,KL6M,PA3CSG,G4RGK. Hope next time would be better for my 120w power. 73`s David 9H1TX From ejespers at telenet.be Mon Sep 22 18:08:41 2008 From: ejespers at telenet.be (Eddy Jespers) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:08:41 +0200 Subject: [Moon] A.R.I. 1296 results de ON7UN In-Reply-To: <002601c91c9f$9b4814e0$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> References: <002601c91c9f$9b4814e0$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Message-ID: <004101c91ccd$7b38c040$6401a8c0@SonyVaio> Hi folks, It was fun working 15 stations ( + 2 dupes ) on 23cm during the ARI contest. Wrkd on CW/SSB : K5PJR, SM5LE, VE3KRP, IW2FZR, ON4BCB (CW + SSB ), SV3AAF (CW + SSB), SP6JLW, IK2MMB, VA7MM, PA3FXB, LA9NEA, OE5JFL, UT5JCW, IK3COJ, K5JL . Most of the "usuals" who have high band capabilities where operating the ARRL contest on the higher bands, so activity was low. Conditions: strong and fast QSB . Sven (SM5LE), please call me again next time in SSB, It was audible, so next time I will try to pull you out of the QRM. Petros (SV3AAF) was "arm chair copy" in SSB, nice qso. Best 73's Eddy ON7UN From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon Sep 22 18:55:39 2008 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:55:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] OM/OK1DFC SHF EME pedition In-Reply-To: <48D7C262.6090801@maltanet.net> Message-ID: <568.1239-30086-1336256715-1222102539@seznam.cz> Hi EME Gang, so because I have lot of trips for next days here is short report and gallery from OM. Hope that next SHF will be better. Sorry to all who did not work with me, but how I say, next will be better. My first experience with SHF pedition showed that all is possible. http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/OM/om.htm http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/OM/galer/omped.html Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV 144 - 1296 MHz EME QRO and 10m DISH WAC 432 - 1296 MHz From howard at g4cch.com Mon Sep 22 23:44:04 2008 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:44:04 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G4CCH 13cm Activity Report 20/21 Sept Message-ID: <78019211/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.65.172/09/22/08/22:44:18@mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com> Following on from my last report, I was active again for the last pass of the weekend made another 14 QSO's and 7 Initials on 13cm. Including: VK3NX Xband Initial DF3RU Initial LX1DB on SSB Initial F5JWF Initial OM/OK1DFC again... much stronger this time, thanks Zdenek for another great expedition DF9QX HB9Q Initial RW3BP Initial VE6TA OZ4MM RW1AW 599/599 on CW and 58/58 on SSB DL7YC Initial... 1.9m dish, linear feed and 130W... thanks Manfred W5LUA WW2R Gotaways were: IK2RTI DK7LJ on ssb W9IIX Over the whole weekend I made 31 QSO's of which 2 were duplicates, and added 16 Initials and 4 DXCC's in my log... so I had a great time, and am really happy with the results so far. My system was almost "thrown together" for DL1YMK's expedition to CX, and still needs a lot of work and optimisation. The feed is sub optimal for the f/d of my dish, I have not made any attempt to optimise the position of the feed, and the RL and Isolation measured in May were not great and have not been checked since... so while it works quite well, I think there is maybe more performance to be had. I also intend to mount my SSPA nearer the feedpoint, as I'm currently losing 3dB of my 250W in cable loss with the SSPA in the shack. Unfortunately, I still can't listen on 2424, and don't know how I will achieve that yet... more thinking required. My solution for 2301 and 2304 is also not the best, but it works good enough for now... I modified the RX RF, Mixer and PLL parts of an old commercial transceiver to convert the 125 or 128MHz IF down to 28MHz, and can switch between bands. As promised, I did stream some video and audio through the BATC website, and at times I saw up to 16 viewers... I hope they found it interesting. I hope to do this again during future activity weekends, and will try to improve the camera position and include the tx audio next time. Thanks to ALL for all the QSO's and especially Zdenek for another great expedition... lots of effort again, well done. Best 73 & GL Howard, G4CCH www.g4cch.com H/B 5.4m dish f/d 0.5, Round Septum Horn, 125W at the feed from a SSPA, 0.36 dB G4DDK LNA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5494 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080922/342f7f84/attachment.bin From ww2r_eme at g4fre.com Tue Sep 23 05:30:18 2008 From: ww2r_eme at g4fre.com (ww2r_eme) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:30:18 -0500 Subject: [Moon] ww2r second pass results In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Conditions varied greatly during the pass, but 2324MHz Sirius NA satellite QRM was the biggest problem worked G3LTF (xband before QRM) OZ4MM, RW1AW, SD3F, OH2DG (DXCC#20, loudest signal of the weekend!) F2TU, K1JT, ES5PC, G4CCH (xband after QRM). 7 QSOS inband, 2 QSOS xband, 2304: CWNR: WA6PY, HB9SV. heard W5LUA, OK1CA, WD5AGO 2320: escapees: DL1YMK and DL4MEA (not loud enough to overcome the satellite qrm that upped the 2320 noise floor 28dB peak but had no effect on 2304MHz). CWNR DL1YMK (tried to tailend a qso before the qrm took hold) Dave From k7xq at elite.net Tue Sep 23 07:13:35 2008 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:13:35 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ CW EME Report Message-ID: <000f01c91d3b$24725b40$6601a8c0@K7XQH> Not a good report this weekend. Sept 20th: First attempt 3 cm EME, nothing heard during moonrise. Looked for activity for several hours then gave up the night. Next morning measured no sun noise, the transverter was dead with the RX chain having two blown devices ( but was still giving a noise floor which fooled me in thinking it was working ). This also killed all abilities to work the local 10 GHz activity weekend event which only occurs twice a year in the summer. I was NOT QRV 2304 MHz EME Sept 20th but several stations reporting working me on this day ( a pirate station operating my callsign ?? ). Sept 21st: Started at moonrise, worked only 4 hours and worked G3LTF ( cross band ), DL4MEA#, OH2DG# ( strongest signal on band ),HB9SV, OZ4MM. Also was on during moonset Sept 21st looking for VK/ZL/JA activity but found none. Did listen on 2301 and 2424. CWNR: RW1AW,G4CCH,HB9Q Heard: OK1CA, WD5AGO, a couple of R3/RD3 ??? Parts are on order to repair the 3 cm station. I hope and looking forward to working my first QSO's on 10 GHz EME within the next month. I see lots of activity reports on this band. I am fighting falling asleep during the moonrises as they occur in the middle of the night and into the mornings so I will need to keep awake on the next months of activity weekends. This explains my low activity this weekend. K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi 144 MHz: 4 X M2 2MPX20 XPOL 20 dBd 1.5 kw single GS35b 432 MHz: 8 X M2 9 W.L. XPOL 26.3 dBd ( under construction ) single GS-35b 1296 MHz: 3 meter dish 27 dBd 350 watts single water cooled GS-15 2304 MHz: 3 meter dish 32 dBd 180 watts SS Spectrain Amplifier 10368 MHz: 3 meter dish 45 dBd 20 Watt Varian TWTA K7XQ Webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html From g3ltf at btinternet.com Tue Sep 23 09:25:43 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:25:43 +0100 Subject: [Moon] activity reports Message-ID: <005401c91d4d$9740bf60$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Fellow Microwave EMErs, The activity reports are really interesting to read , but could I respectfully ask that you also copy them to the "Moon " reflector as well, not everyone sees the moon-net. Thankyou.... it was a great weekend for microwave EME. Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080923/13e09235/attachment.htm From jelinek.antonin at email.cz Tue Sep 23 09:53:41 2008 From: jelinek.antonin at email.cz (jelinek.antonin at email.cz) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] ARRL MW contest OK1KIR result. Message-ID: <195.566-27916-170513212-1222156421@email.cz> ARRL EME Contest 2008 - MW part OK1KIR result 2304/2320/2424 MHz: Sri, no chance for EME anymore. Persistent terrible local QRM from wideband data BPL eliminates any EME activity on 13cm bands. 3400 MHz: Got problem with RX path in transvertor just when contest started. Trouble solved next day when OK1VAO drove back and force for another transvertor to be used as separate RX, hi. After fixing the QRG issue with separate TX and RX own echoes finally found and at last on Sat20 at 10:10 (very close to our Moonset) worked OM/OK1DFC M/M #15 (strong QSB). 5760 MHz: On Sep20 worked at 04:18 IK2RTI 559/569, 05:18 ES5PC O/O, 05:40 F2TU 569/569, 07:05 RW1AW 569/569 and at 07:39 W5LUA 569/559. On Sep21 at 05:27 worked OK1CA 549/579. No success with DL7YC ? only T/M on Sep20 and repeated sked on Sep21 resulted in nil/M. 10368 MHz: On Sep21 at 07:15 WA6PY 559/579, 07:23 HB9BHU 569/569, 07:34 F5VKQ 559/569, 07:46 IQ4DF 579/579, 07:54 G4NNS 549/559, 07:57 W5LUA 559/569, 08:02 ES5PC 549/579, 08:14 SP7JSG 539/569, 08:20 F5JWF 559/579, 08:28 DF9QX 559/539 for #42, 08:57 F6CQK 549/519 for # 43, 09:18 WA7CJO 579/579 and at 11:10 LX1DB 569/569. 24048 MHz: still no activity due to TX failure Experience learned: If our HW on all five MW bands would work properly two Moon passes is not enough to satisfy most of stations interested. Vy 73 Tonda OK1DAI op. OK1KIR team. From anders at LA8LF.com Tue Sep 23 11:06:58 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:06:58 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 13CM receive problem. Message-ID: Sri, but no chance to join the 13CM activity last W/E. After having worked for 6 months building the 3 band transverter, purchased 2 new LNA's (0.28 and 0.31 dB NF each), updated with new cables out to the antenna, upgraded and rebuilt the W2DRZ tracking system with new US Digital encoders and tuned the VE4MA for cir.pol., I was set to test the SUN noise on Friday morning. Could not get better than 6.1 dB SUN noise. Removed the EME isolation relay and mounted LNA directely at the RX port of the feed. No improvement! Moved Transverter up to the feed and tested all 3 LNA's. No improvement! Replaced VE4MA feed with my W2IMU feed used sucessfully back in 1997 and got 5.7 dB SUN noise! Took transverter and LNA's down into the Op room and tested on my DUBUS Panfi and measured system NF and was OK ! Now it was 00.30 hrs. Saturday morning and had been working hard since 08.00 hrs . Friday morning. I gave up and went home. Saturday morning I listened on 2304 and hrd OZ4MM "M" copy. A year ago I was in RX mode on 13CM and hrd. him 579 plus some 25 other 13CM stations. No problem then! Only reason I can figure is that I have got the same problem as OK1KIR reports, namely wideband data BPL. The positive thing last week was that the police returned my driver lisence that I lost early April due to helth problem. I was therefore not dependent on my wife driving me too and from the EME site. 73 de Anders, LA8LF From joe at Princeton.EDU Tue Sep 23 11:19:05 2008 From: joe at Princeton.EDU (Joe Taylor) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:19:05 -0400 Subject: [Moon] K1JT weekend results In-Reply-To: <00ff01c91c25$00a152f0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> References: <00ff01c91c25$00a152f0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: <48D8B489.2020005@princeton.edu> Operating the K2UYH station using the callsign K1JT, with operators K1JT, K2TXB, and K2UYH, we were pleased to work the following stations during the ARRL and ARI contests: 2.3 GHz (8 m dish, 80 W) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DL1YMK DL4MEA ES5PC F2TU G3LTF G4CCH HB9SV IK2RTI LX1DB NA4N OH2DG OK1CA OZ4MM RW1AW SD3F SM2CEW SP6GWN VE6TA W5LUA W9IIX WA6PY WA8RJF WD5AGO WW2R 10 GHz (8 m dish, 100 W) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F2TU F5JWF HB9BHU IQ4DF OK1CA RW1AW W5LUA WA6PY Our apologies to those who called us on 10 GHz with no response. The K2UYH 8 m dish has 1 cm holes in its mesh and is *not* an efficient X-band antenna! Our Rx noise temperature was probably over 300 K. Nevertheless, we were delighted to make 8 FB QSOs on this band. We hope to have a better system available on another occasion. Many thanks to all for the QSOs! -- 73, Joe, K1JT From ve6ta at clearwave.ca Tue Sep 23 15:13:36 2008 From: ve6ta at clearwave.ca (Grant Furnald) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:13:36 +0000 Subject: [Moon] VE6TA Contest Report Message-ID: <48D8EB80.1050603@clearwave.ca> I was active for both moon passes this weekend on both 3400 and 2304/2320/2301. Activity seemed lower than normal in the North American window, but its still nice to get on and work some familiar calls. I am not sure there is enough time to operate a multi band microwave contest in one weekend, especially when you have limited windows. Perhaps a sprint format would be better to allow a concentration of activity, rather than spreading it around. On Saturday the following were worked on 3400- W5LUA, RW1AW, OK1CA, LX1DB, G3LTF. After switching to 13cm on Sunday the following stations made it into my log- HB9SV, F2TU, HB9Q, SM2CEW, G4CCH, OK1CA, DL4MEA, DF3RU (#51), OH2DG, RW1AW, OZ4MM, K1JT, WA6PY, ES5PC, WD5AGO, VK4AFL. The loudest station award on both bands goes to RW1AW. Good job Alex.... I see that there is still some useable moon for the next few days, so if I missed anyone or you want a sked on 2304/3400 let me know. 73's to all. Grant VE6TA DO33gs 5.5 meter dish 2304/2320/2424. 180w in shack. 5.5 meter dish 3400 45 watts at feed. From anders at LA8LF.com Tue Sep 23 19:54:57 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:54:57 +0200 Subject: [Moon] For sale unused EME HF-1500 7/16 coaxial relay. Message-ID: I will sell one of my 2 EME HF-1500 coaxial relays. Bought back in 1996 from EME, Germany. Never used and sitting in original box. Asking Euro 300,- Se www.LA8LF.com for pictures and details. 73 de Anders, LA8LF From DL1YMK at aol.com Tue Sep 23 19:58:55 2008 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:58:55 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13cm activity reports Message-ID: Dear Peter, in my particular case this is simply not possible, as I was accused by Mr. Almighty having used words of profanity (to remind you - I commented a mail from DL5MAE with the exact wording: 'Wolfgang, you are damned right' during the CW/JT arguments) Oh yes, I know, I'm a naughty guy....Consequently I was excommunicated from the list - one may of course think that this was done for other reasons - honi soit qui mal y pense.... Now, frankly spoken, I do not want to post anything on a reflector, which is censored by a single person, as soon as subjective points of view are presented, which are not in-line with the owners' view of things...but this is a completely different story. You had this problem yourself very recently.... I don't need that reflector as long as Rainer gives us the opportunity to use this one. Why does anybody at all want to use that 'moderated' reflector any longer??? I wish more active EMEer would show flag and switch over to this one.... This is just my SUBJECTIVE opinion. TNX Rainer!! 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080923/458d0022/attachment.htm From lodzauli at tin.it Tue Sep 23 20:33:41 2008 From: lodzauli at tin.it (vico zauli) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:33:41 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 10 GHz EME Message-ID: <002a01c91daa$e754ccf0$7900a8c0@dual07> ARRL & Italian ARI contests. IQ4DF wkd: W5LUA, F5JWF, OK1CA, G4NNS, F2TU, GW4DGU, SP7JSG, IK2RTI, HB9BHU, WA6PY, F5VKQ, IK2MMB, RW1AW, ES5PC, K1JT, IZ2DJP, OK1KIR, I4BER, WA7CJO, LX1DB. 73 vico i4zau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080923/e180751f/attachment.htm From sm7wsj at telia.com Tue Sep 23 20:52:29 2008 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Harrysson?=) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:52:29 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARI Message-ID: <003201c91dad$89eb0b80$a000a8c0@workstation98> Hello Moonbouncers. Not much to report but,, With the 4dB degradation and high noise i had not easy to make any EME with single yagi. Operator was also in a very bad mode after a hard week. I enjoyed to hear CW EME signals and i also put a little in the log but am to embarrassed to write how little HI! Congratulations to all of you who made a lot of contacts by pure skill and patience. It was very fun to see Oene heard me with his 4x9 and it means we have to try some skeds during the Autumn and winter to see if its possible. 73 Hakan SM7WSJ From valter_dls at yahoo.it Tue Sep 23 22:41:51 2008 From: valter_dls at yahoo.it (valter dolso) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:41:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] ARI CW contest IK1FJI Message-ID: <147966.9783.qm@web24302.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hello? to all I add only ?9 qso in the second pass :-(((?,for 29 cw random total,?i was qrv? for few time because i was not very well with? some fever .try also one hour sunday evening but nothing... heard? YO9FRJ looking for?qso with russian station. I? lost? 3 or 4 stations near my moon set on sunday...one of them might be YO3FFF because i go Y?3FF? but i am no sure...other stations copy partial call due fast qsb and weak signals. I know i have 2db+ less of my previus array. I dont know why, but receive all signal with tremendous fast?qsb and libration, also the strongest signals were affect by this phenomenon. But anywhere was big fun, i am afraid because very little number of?stations? on air,? USA three stations heard? JA nothing for me. Thanks to all qrv.....and i would like to know the call of the stations calling me than got only QRZ. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 73 Valter IK1FJI 4x12?? ic275h mgf 1801? GU78b timewave 59+ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi http://mail.yahoo.it From w2drz at madbbs.com Wed Sep 24 00:13:58 2008 From: w2drz at madbbs.com (w2drz) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:13:58 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Working on CT-2 update to tracking system. Message-ID: <000601c91dc9$ad16e2c0$6501a8c0@workcad> Hi, Here are the links to the new information and the new tracking system designed by K2TXB. This can be loaded and will run the built-in tracking program. Take a look and drop a note for any suggestions. Still working on changes so need any new help on what may be of interest to add to the new system. thank you tom W2DRZ New control system. http://www.w2drz.ramcoinc.com/doc.htm For DrzTrack program. http://www.w2drz.ramcoinc.com/download.htm http://www.w2drz.ramcoinc.com/ http://www.k5so.com/Hydraulic_elevation_system.html http://www.qsl.net/k1rqg/K1RQG%20HYDRAULIC%20SYS_files/frame.htm From i5wbe at i5wbe.it Wed Sep 24 01:54:41 2008 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:54:41 +0000 Subject: [Moon] ARI In-Reply-To: <003201c91dad$89eb0b80$a000a8c0@workstation98> References: <003201c91dad$89eb0b80$a000a8c0@workstation98> Message-ID: <4889AC6503CD46F8@vsmtp11.tin.it> (added by postmaster@virgilio.it) Hello Hakan I have in my log only 4 QSO's and 2 HRD, but I like 4 on CW mode that 40 or 400 made by my Pc. To enjoy. To have fun 73' de Enrico i5wbe At 18.52 23/09/2008, H?kan Harrysson wrote: >Hello Moonbouncers. > >Not much to report but,, > > >With the 4dB degradation and high noise i had >not easy to make any EME with single yagi. >Operator was also in a very bad mode after a hard week. > > >I enjoyed to hear CW EME signals and i also put >a little in the log but am to embarrassed to write how little HI! >Congratulations to all of you who made a lot of >contacts by pure skill and patience. > > >It was very fun to see Oene heard me with his >4x9 and it means we have to try some skeds >during the Autumn and winter to see if its possible. > > >73 Hakan SM7WSJ > >_______________________________________________ >Moon mailing list >Moon at moonbounce.info >http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may > consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 24 14:44:43 2008 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44:43 -0000 Subject: [Moon] ARRL MW EME Contest Message-ID: <02ac01c91e43$520d1140$4501a8c0@Al1> Considering that the moon rose about the time I would normally go to bed, I had a great time operating the microwave portion of the ARRL EME contest. Fortunately I spent some time troubleshooting the system during the week so the weekend was event free. Here are my results by band. 2304 MHz. 5 meter dish about 200 watts at the feed. Since I started out on 3400 MHz I was only operational on 13 cm on the second day. I worked HB9Q, OM/OK1DFC, DL4MEA, OZ4MM, F2TU, LX1DB, G3LTF, SD3F, K1JT, ES5PC, WD5AGO, NA4N, WA8RJF, G4CCH, WA6PY, and VK4AFL 3400 MHz 5 meter dish and about 100 watts at the feed. I only operated the first day on 3400 MHz but was able to work PA0BAT, VE6TA, RW1AW, OK1CA, LX1DB, DL4MEA, G3LTF and VK3NX. 5760 MHz 5 meter dish and 70 watts at the feed Due to the over run from 802.11a interferers in the neighborhood it has become a challenge on this band for me to track the moon. With the help of my SDR-1000, I determined that the band was a little cleaner down around 5755 MHz so I devised a secondary downconverter that supplies 5755 MHz to my GR-1236 IF meter. This makes it a little easier to track the moon in a quieter part of the band. As a result on 5760 MHz I was able to work IK2RTI, OK1KIR, RW1AW, F2TU, LX1DB, ES5PC, and VK3NX. 10368 MHz 5 meter dish and 50 watts at the feed 3 cm was the challenge of the week as I had not been QRV on 3 cm for about a year due to a waveguide relay that decided to quit after being in use for 15 years! I replaced the relay with a new WR-90 waveguide relay connected to my horizontally polarized linear feed and proceeded to look for echoes with 100 watts in the shack earlier in the week. The results were zero echoes. So I decided to take my WR-90 directional coupler and move it to the feed. Well I was only getting less than a watt at the feed. After taking the waveguide apart in sections, I found water had leaked in. I decided to use the air hose to see what else was in the waveguide and much to my surprise I found a couple handfuls of grass had been forced out. Well it turns out that when my system is not operational, any bug or critter that enters the feedhorn has a free ride back to the TWT where there is a pressure window! With the new system, the normal non energized mode is now in the receive path so about as far as some critter can go now is the LNA. But I also put in a cellophane cover over the feedhorn. Despite all the hassles during the week, I was able to work IQ4DF, G4NNS, HB9BHU, F5JWF, K1JT for state #15, OK1CA, ES5PC, OK1KIR, WA6PY, and LX1DB. 24048 MHz 2.4 meter offset fed dish with 100 watts at the feed This was really the only band that did not require any work before the contest. It worked flawlessly. As a result, I was able to work DF1OI and LX1DB. Well it was a good weekend as I was able to work LX1DB on all 5 bands from 2304 MHz through 24048 MHz! Thank you Willi! The contest wore me out but it was a lot of fun. I was wondering how the folks would feel about expanding the microwave part of the ARRL EME contest back in to August making it a August and September event?? I am going to suggest this to KX9X and the ARRL's VUAC committee. If you have some thoughts on this I would suggest including your comments in your soap box when you submit your score or write KX9X direct at kx9x at arrl.org and he can forward on your comments to the VUAC for recommendation to the ARRL's Membership Services Committee who ultimately approves changes to contests. Looking forward to the next microwave EME event! Best 73 de W5LUA EM13qc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I was qrv random unassisted with my usual setup of 16 x 8el and gs35b. Degradation was not low what wasn't helpfull. Finally I made 38qsos including 5 initials. During shorter first pass I was able to make 30qsos even when I was not qrv full time. Conditions were moderate to very good and there was nice activity. I was full of hope before second pass, but unfortunatelly it resulted in big dissapointment - I added only 8 qsos during most of the night. In fact conditions were more difficult and there were Faraday lock outs, but during many moments condx were good or even excellent before my moon-set where my echo was huge. Sad true was that there just were no stations interested in making cw qsos. Anyway I had a good time and enjoyed contest! 20.09.2008 OK1KKD RX1AS PA3CWN IK2DDR IK1FJI I1ANP IT9CJC YO2AMU OZ1HNE IK3MAC RU1AA I3EVK OK1MS PA3DOL# SM7GVF K9MRI F1FLA W3TWX F9HS F0CXO I2RV SM2CEW LA8YB G3ZIG LZ1DP VA3TO# DF1CF DK3EE F3VS RU1AC# IV3GBO 21.09.2008 YU7XL DL8YHR YU1EV# YO9FRJ F6BKI#313 PA2CHR YO3FFF Sorry for signals I was not able to dig out... For example: - Matej OK1TEH - I heard you tropo and eme, but lost your eme signal as moon was going behind building - R?, 9UV?, maybe RV9UV ??? - 2EQ ??? and probably few others. Please call next time in ARRL contest:) VY 73 ! de Chris SP7DCS -- Chris SP7DCS email - sp7dcs at wp.pl, sp7dcs at o2.pl, sp7dcs at smrw.lodz.pl EME PAGE - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Wed Sep 24 23:43:57 2008 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:43:57 +0200 Subject: [Moon] F2TU weekend result on 13, 6 and 3cm EME In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48DAB49D.1030809@orange.fr> Hi, A good contest but complicated to be on the 3 bands and 6cm with a lot of time spent with nothing ... I hoped contact NA stations 9:30-11:30 Saturday and 10:30-12:30 Sunday on 2304 MHz, but there was no one. Disappointed that VK3NX QRT Sunday for 6 & 3cm because of wind Results: 13cm, 53 stations: OK1CA,OH2DG,SD3F,ES5PC,HB9SV,SP6GWN,IK2RTI,K1JT,NA4N,RW1AW,WA6PY,WD5AGO,G4CCH, SM2CEW#,VK4AFL,DL4MEA,VK3NX,HB9Q,OM/OK1DFC#,G3LTF,RW3BP,DF3RU,JA6CZD,JA8ERE,F5JWF,OZ4MM, DL1YMK#,DF9QX,G3LQR,VE6TA,W5LUA,WW2R,WA8RJF#76. 6cm, 8 stations: IK2RTI,ES5PC,OK1KIR,LX1DB,DL7YC#,OK1CA#30,RW1AW,W5LUA 3cm ,12 stations: IQ4DF,IK2RTI,WA6PY,F5JWF,HB9BHU,G4NNS,RW1AW,ES5PC,K1JT#49,OK1KIR,F5VKQ,SP7JSG. Partial with GW4DGU (he had problem and qrt). Copied W5LUA but too last. 17 were safe 3cm possible if there had not had 6cm with a lot of time spent with nothing ... 73 Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From anders at LA8LF.com Thu Sep 25 10:44:34 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:44:34 +0200 Subject: [Moon] For sale Audrey II 1500W 70CM HPA. Message-ID: <4084C5933810476EA771419F30DDF2D5@FSCbrukerPC> I have for sale my Audrey II amplifier for 70CM. It produces 1500W and uses 2 ea. 3CX-800 tubes. It was built and designed by N7ART. He built several of them. Price 750,- Euro. From anders at LA8LF.com Thu Sep 25 10:57:15 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:57:15 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Audrey II pictures on my web www.LA8LF.com Message-ID: <8616D3DE5B68440C9B3B7929AFA56381@FSCbrukerPC> In connection with my sales note on Moon and Moon-Net, you will find 8 pictures on www.LA8LF.com 73, Anders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080925/79a17f1a/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I hoped contact NA stations 9:30-11:30 > Saturday and 10:30-12:30 Sunday on 2304 MHz, but there was no one. > Disappointed that VK3NX QRT Sunday for 6 & 3cm because of wind > Results: > 13cm, 53 stations: > OK1CA,OH2DG,SD3F,ES5PC,HB9SV,SP6GWN,IK2RTI,K1JT,NA4N,RW1AW,WA6PY,WD5AGO,G4CCH, > SM2CEW#,VK4AFL,DL4MEA,VK3NX,HB9Q,OM/OK1DFC#,G3LTF,RW3BP,DF3RU,JA6CZD,JA8ERE,F5JWF,OZ4MM, > DL1YMK#,DF9QX,G3LQR,VE6TA,W5LUA,WW2R,WA8RJF#76. > 6cm, 8 stations: > IK2RTI,ES5PC,OK1KIR,LX1DB,DL7YC#,OK1CA#30,RW1AW,W5LUA > 3cm ,12 stations: > IQ4DF,IK2RTI,WA6PY,F5JWF,HB9BHU,G4NNS,RW1AW,ES5PC,K1JT#49,OK1KIR,F5VKQ,SP7JSG. > Partial with GW4DGU (he had problem and qrt). Copied W5LUA but too last. > 17 were safe 3cm possible if there had not had 6cm with a lot of time > spent with nothing ... > 73 > > Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU > http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list > > > From fr5dn at izi.re Thu Sep 25 16:59:18 2008 From: fr5dn at izi.re (FR5DN-Phil) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:59:18 +0400 Subject: [Moon] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net> References: <20080916084449.247060@gmx.net> <20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net> Message-ID: <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> Hello All, I may have a possibility for a 2.40m TRVO dish, and wonder if it's worth the effort to try on 23cm and/or above with it. My feeling is that it would be marginal on 23cms; and above 23cms the efficiency would be too low? 23cms activity is very nice but i need a bigger dish i guess... Just a note on the ZS-FR tropo qso mentionned in the NL. It was the first between africa and reunion, and a record for ZS...and FR. Longer paths have been worked on some other areas. Vy73 - Phil FR5DN - LG78qs From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Thu Sep 25 19:15:40 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:15:40 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> References: <20080916084449.247060@gmx.net><20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net> <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> Message-ID: Hello Phil If you do not get a bigger dish at the moment, it is a good starter. But I suggest checking the f/D before starting, it should not be a deep one. I suggest f/D>0.375 or so... I am a burnd child from f/D=0.32, so I know why... 73, G?nter -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext FR5DN-Phil Gesendet: 25 September 2008 16:59 An: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Cc: moon at moonbounce.info Betreff: [Moon] 2.40m dish Hello All, I may have a possibility for a 2.40m TRVO dish, and wonder if it's worth the effort to try on 23cm and/or above with it. My feeling is that it would be marginal on 23cms; and above 23cms the efficiency would be too low? 23cms activity is very nice but i need a bigger dish i guess... Just a note on the ZS-FR tropo qso mentionned in the NL. It was the first between africa and reunion, and a record for ZS...and FR. Longer paths have been worked on some other areas. Vy73 - Phil FR5DN - LG78qs _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From g3zig at freenet.co.uk Thu Sep 25 20:51:31 2008 From: g3zig at freenet.co.uk (Roy Reed) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:51:31 +0100 Subject: [Moon] ARI Contest Weekend References: <48DA8AFD.E64D400D@freenet.co.uk> <48DA8D2E.D2E8E1C3@freenet.co.uk> Message-ID: <48DBDDB3.6C23DF90@freenet.co.uk> > > > > > Hi All , > > Just to say thank you to all the people I worked or called mee > > during the contest.I did not operate through the night this time but I > > was quite pleased with the 26 qso,s made.I will post a full list when I > > have more time.Conditions not so good on sunday but all very enjoyable. > > 73 Roy G3ZIG. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.7.2/1690 - Release Date: 25/09/08 07:05 From DL1YMK at aol.com Thu Sep 25 22:01:10 2008 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:01:10 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13 cm on next Saturday Message-ID: Hi microwavers, for those, who might wish to try with me on 13cm (I missed quite a number of stations last weekend due to moon window constraints), I plan to be on 13cm again next Saturday, 27th, until 16.00 UT, calling around 2320.100 MHz (RX capability 2301, 2304 also). The moon gets pretty close to the sun, but it should still work. Hope I will hear some signals off the rock, especially from the US... Thereafter I will change the feed back to 23cm. 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But is qrm from the neighbourhood as much as actual as on 144 Mhz ? In my case the qrm I pickup on 144 Mhz is very much and vice versa; On a regular base have the neighbourhood at my doorstep complaining about TVI, LFI etc. All the nowadays equipment with oscillators generate a lot of harmonics etc. presented as big qrm especially at the start of the 144 Mhz band, but is this also the case on 23 cm ? Or are those signals already soo weakened compared with 144 Mhz that it is almost no issue ? I have no equipment and have to start from zero on this band, so think there is also a lot to learn: what is the best solution a combi rig or transverter and hf trx ? Maybe there is a good starters guide for 23 cm , because the answer from Guenter DL4MAE gave new question- marks at my side with his f/D answer and showed me that I have to study a lot before making these step. I have the time so do not have to be qrv next week and even like to build things myself, though this very high frequencies require other skills and equipment as I am used to ! You see already many questions and it is just the beginning ! Please respond to this topic in general to the mailing list rather than to me private, so others can benefit too from this. Shared knowledge is fun ! Thanks in advance and for all a very good weekend 73 Oene PA3CWN From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Fri Sep 26 08:36:49 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:36:49 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <48DC7B9D.6020708@tele2.nl> References: <48DC7B9D.6020708@tele2.nl> Message-ID: Hello all, consequently following the latest steps in feed-design, all the good ones are designed for f/D=0.37 or bigger, as there are RA3AQ, OM6AA, Super-VE4MA and latest N2UO. In my opinion all the feeds for deep dishes are lacking performance. If not, tell me which is equal. Yes, chapperal choke, that is what I am using, but unfortunately not with the same efficiency, and also with some problems according to circularity at the outer part. Having 12dB sun noise with 0.35dB preamps on 23cm as well as on 13cm is in my opinion meanhwile a good value, but I do not know what else to do in order to increase it significantly. But I am open for suggestions. Just on EME we are trying to catch the even the last tenth of a dB out of our dishes (as SM5LE's tests and G3LTF's results nicely proove), and with a small dish, one has to consider every point in order to get it. I also want to emphasize a statement of G3LTF, who recently mentioned that probably some of the bigger dish owners are simply not picking out the maximum of their equipment, just because they hear already enougth. Peter's tests show that even then there is a possiblity of improvement. And with a marginal dish one can really do EME nicely, but be aware that you must not waste efficiency. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) BTW, my callsign is DL4 M E A and not DL4 M A E.... I think that this most probable comes from DL5MAE, who's callsign is quite similar and probably somewhat more popular. I'm wondering if Wolfgang becomes recognized as "MEA" sometimes... And it is not DL4GA, as often understood in CW, even since I try to leave a long pause between the M and the E. From sm7wsj at telia.com Fri Sep 26 09:35:05 2008 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Harrysson?=) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] 2.40m dish Message-ID: <29209802.3075871222414505649.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> Hello, I should be thankfull if answears are also posted on the reflectoer and not only direct. It is interesting reading who also gives inspiration. 73 Hakan SM7WSJ From franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com Fri Sep 26 09:40:19 2008 From: franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com (Cominelli Franco) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:40:19 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: 2.40m dish Message-ID: <205208A153FD8F46A23A1AC5F3DCB5AA8F0434@server01.SIDERGARDA.local> Hello Hakan, i'm sorry to haven't heard you, during ARI CW/SSB EME CONTEST. I'm available for tests, for when you like better. Obviously i'm available for cw skeds with newcomers and proposals are welcome if they come some day before the sked date. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di H?kan Harrysson Inviato: venerd? 26 settembre 2008 9.35 A: moon at moonbounce.info Oggetto: Re: [Moon] 2.40m dish Hello, I should be thankfull if answears are also posted on the reflectoer and not only direct. It is interesting reading who also gives inspiration. 73 Hakan SM7WSJ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From ben at parabolic.se Fri Sep 26 09:50:27 2008 From: ben at parabolic.se (SM6CKU) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:50:27 +0200 Subject: [Moon] I repeat on reflector Message-ID: <814488100737499D94FFC73C40C2B065@PSAB2007> Good morning Oene In my opinion a 3m dish with 150 watts will do what you said. Have a look at SM5LE on http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/ and compare. He is using a 2,2m dish and 500 watts. Earlier he had some 250 watts and that was marginal to work smaller stations. 73 de Ben www.sm6cku.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sometimes, hours with the same stations who use H/V. Comparing with the last ARI- few stations and a very,very low activity from USA/Canada and JA. Except K9MRI !!! My elevation refuse to climb over 51 degrees so, I took some pause for a while just when it was a good band openings. 73 de Doru,YO2AMU. 4 x 4WL BVO 2 x GU74b MGF1302 _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/7d93d5a2/attachment-0001.htm From sm5le at telia.com Fri Sep 26 10:37:45 2008 From: sm5le at telia.com (SM5LE) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:37:45 +0200 Subject: [Moon] resending answer to Phil FR5DN Message-ID: <005201c91fb3$2642aa40$2101a8c0@sven8aee87826d> Hi Here is what I did send to Phil as "direct replies". (Steve you are right ... ) Hi Phil Yes I think it is "worth the effort". I have 2.2 m dish and wrkd 74 stns on CW and 30 on JT65c (digital mode). It is offcorse dephending on other things also , power , LNA etc. I have wrkd with 250W and homemade 0.35 dB LNA. (from last week now 500W) I did expand a 1.8m (SM6CKU "tropo-dish" f/d 0.4) dish , to 2.2m (ending up at f/d 0.34) for adapt to OK1DFC septum feed. Also I am very much EME QRV and that also help for good results ( I am retired - Hi) Go for 23cm first , it is fun (have QRV only for two yers now). My homepage: http://web.telia.com/~u14901544/#SM5LE%20wrkd%20inits and pics here : http://web.telia.com/~u14901546/home_page_no_3.htm 73 and G.L. Sven SM5LE ... and if you are an Africa continent , you will be very popular for WAC etc. !!! :-) /Sven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/6624f798/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Fri Sep 26 11:27:07 2008 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:27:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 2.40m dish Message-ID: <331117.91157.qm@web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Oene, et al I have a 'large' dish compared with Sven, in that I use a 2.3m KTI TVRO dish. With this I use an OK1DFC septum polariser feed on both 23cm and 13cm. Both of these were kitted by G4HUP. I don't have a choke ring on either feed (yet>>>>) On 9cm I have used a converted integrated C band LNB with modified Chaparel feed and linear polarisation. I have been amazed at just how easy it is to hear so many stations on each of the three bands with this size of dish. On 23cm I have worked 35 stations with 200w in the shack, about 150W at the feed. Of these 35 about 10 were on JT65 only. On 13cm I have worked just two station, but this with a very much sub-optimal feed position, 50W in the shack, but a reasonable LNA (HI!). 9cm is still receive only. A few months ago I discovered that I had previously positioned my feeds back beyond the focus by a few cm. I correctedthat and since then I have improved sun noise on both 23 and 13cm by a noticeable amount. Maybe now when I add choke rings they will have a positive benefit and not the effects noticed previously? Last weekend I resurrected my 13cm system, on receive, and copied around 20 stations in the few hours of moon time I had available (I'm not a night person!). I am currently modifying my polar mount to give more moon time. The new 13cm SSPA is almost ready to go. The purpose of this posting is to encourage anyone who is thinking of using a small dish to go ahead. Whatever size dish you have, it's never big enough anyway! Small dishes can work well, even on 23cm, and it will get you started....and most important.....thinking about system improvements. If I did more operating and spent less time building my initial count on 23cm and 13cm would both me much larger, I think! 73 de Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/d5bc9f6a/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Fri Sep 26 11:37:43 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:37:43 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 2.40m dish References: <48DC7B9D.6020708@tele2.nl> Message-ID: <006101c91fbb$87d9c0b0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Oene, I endorse Ben SM6CKU 's input. SM5LE does an excellent job with his 2.2m dish and with his 250W was easily workable on CW by well establised 5m dish stations. There are quite a lot, I'll guess at 20, of big ( 8m dish and above) stations about on 23cm so if you put a basic 2.4m station together you will be able to work these quite easily. Then you will need to start to optimise your system, Basically Experimenting....carefully measureing sun noise, gradually eliminating losses, optimising feed position, trying different feed types, different LNAs, improving the pointing accuracy, and so on. Thats what Sven ( and others) have done. Fortunately there is now plenty of material about on the internet on how to do that, the W1GHZ on line antenna book for example http://www.w1ghz.org/antbook/contents.htm and websites like Sven's where he descibes blow by blow what he did. And there are lots of people here on the reflectors who can help with advice. There is also the issue of aquiring operating technique and skill. Knowing where and when to call CQ, dealing with the libration fading etc. This just takes time to learn, just like when you start on any new band. One thing that the small stations do have going for them now is the increasing use of SDRs with a waterfall display which alerts the larger station to the presence of a possible QSO. 23cm is a great eme band with lots of activity and very few problems with QRM from other services and birdies which are becoming a problem on some other bands. GL 73 Peter G3LTF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oene" To: "Moon" ; "Moonnet" Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 7:05 AM Subject: [Moon-net] 2.40m dish > Hello All, > > I want to join Phil FR5DN in his question about the needs > to become active on 23 cm EME. > In my case I have totally NO experience with 23 cm and > it's behaviour, besides working a couple of hours in a > contest once as guest operator. > I am more and more thinking about 23cm lately, as it seems > THE band where a lot of activity is , according to the > latest contest results. > > What is i.e. minimal needed for CW EME on a regular base? > I mean to work the average stations active on 23 cm. > Is a 2.40 m dish and 150 W enough to do the job or is > that too marginal ? > > And what about qrm on 23 cm ? I can imagine that > with a larger dish the band is much more cleaner as with > a short yagi. But is qrm from the neighbourhood as much > as actual as on 144 Mhz ? > In my case the qrm I pickup on 144 Mhz is very much > and vice versa; On a regular base have the neighbourhood > at my doorstep complaining about TVI, LFI etc. > All the nowadays equipment with oscillators generate > a lot of harmonics etc. presented as big qrm especially > at the start of the 144 Mhz band, but is this also > the case on 23 cm ? Or are those signals already soo > weakened compared with 144 Mhz that it is almost > no issue ? > > I have no equipment and have to start from zero on this > band, so think there is also a lot to learn: what is the > best solution a combi rig or transverter and hf trx ? > > Maybe there is a good starters guide for 23 cm , because > the answer from Guenter DL4MAE gave new question- > marks at my side with his f/D answer and showed me that > I have to study a lot before making these step. > I have the time so do not have to be qrv next week and > even like to build things myself, though this very high frequencies > require other skills and equipment as I am used to ! > > You see already many questions and it is just the beginning ! > > Please respond to this topic in general to the mailing list > rather than to me private, so others can benefit too from this. > Shared knowledge is fun ! > > Thanks in advance and for all a very good weekend > > 73 Oene > PA3CWN > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > From anders at LA8LF.com Fri Sep 26 13:01:01 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:01:01 +0200 Subject: [Moon] For sale: YD-1336 TX tubes 2 ea. unused. Message-ID: <41F5DD3CCE0140D884D8E434F9754673@FSCbrukerPC> I have for sale 2 unused YD-1336 tx tubes in original boxes. Price 190,- Euro each. See www.LA8LF.com 73, Anders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/9bcda022/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 10569 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/9bcda022/attachment.jpeg From anders at LA8LF.com Fri Sep 26 13:04:27 2008 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:04:27 +0200 Subject: [Moon] For sale: 2 ea. RS-1072C TX tubes, unused. Message-ID: <2620947E874A4B37AC0212F83E4A33AA@FSCbrukerPC> You can easily obtain 2000W out on 2 meter with one of these. Price is 150,- Euro ea. See www.LA8LF.com 73, Anders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/80c3ff6a/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 10569 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/80c3ff6a/attachment-0001.jpeg From k7xq at elite.net Fri Sep 26 19:26:42 2008 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:26:42 -0700 Subject: [Moon] Phasing line question Message-ID: <000201c91ffd$0e92abd0$6601a8c0@K7XQH> Hello all, I have a network analyzer that measures S parameters and phase. When cutting/trimming phasing lines, what is the maximum phase variation acceptable between cables when matching several sets of matched phasing lines for a given frequency ? I am getting ready to make another set of phasing lines for a 8 yagi array on 432. K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi From sp7dcs at wp.pl Fri Sep 26 21:17:45 2008 From: sp7dcs at wp.pl (Chris SP7DCS) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:17:45 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> References: <20080916084449.247060@gmx.net> <20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net> <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> Message-ID: <48DD3559.7000909@wp.pl> Hello Phil and all, I have 3m dish and I can share my experience with you. My dish has 0.34 f/D and I use RA3AQ feed and 150W SSPA. With that setup I was able to make 29 qsos on CW random during last ARRL contest. I would work more but I was sharing time with my 2m and 70cm activity. I was able to hear much more stations with this antenna, but my small power was not enough to catch them. I agree with DL4MEA that illuminating dishes with low f/D is difficult and I think it makes my signal weaker. You can hear signals received with my station on my website - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl (click EME signals and choose 23cm band). You can also hear how my signal was received by G4CCH with 5.4m dish on Howard's website - http://www.g4cch.com/sounds/hearsome.html It will give you some impression. I am sure that 2.4m dish will give you also possibility to make many qsos, but you will need to have good feed, preamp and more power - Sven SM5LE is a great example of perfectly optimized station.. Of course this setup will give you a lot of fun and you will get 23cm eme bug;) VY 73 ! de Chris SP7DCS. FR5DN-Phil pisze: > Hello All, > > I may have a possibility for a 2.40m TRVO dish, and wonder if it's worth > the effort to try on 23cm and/or above with it. > > My feeling is that it would be marginal on 23cms; and above 23cms the > efficiency would be too low? > 23cms activity is very nice but i need a bigger dish i guess... > > Just a note on the ZS-FR tropo qso mentionned in the NL. It was the > first between africa and reunion, and a record for ZS...and FR. > Longer paths have been worked on some other areas. > > Vy73 - Phil > FR5DN - LG78qs > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list > > -- Chris SP7DCS email - sp7dcs at wp.pl, sp7dcs at o2.pl, sp7dcs at smrw.lodz.pl EME PAGE - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl From ben at parabolic.se Fri Sep 26 22:44:06 2008 From: ben at parabolic.se (SM6CKU) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:44:06 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 5760 Message-ID: Hi there Anyone who knows a source of surplus SSPA's for 6 cm? More than 10 watts? 73 de Ben www.sm6cku.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080926/4f7e320c/attachment.htm From tikaluna at bigpond.com Fri Sep 26 23:22:53 2008 From: tikaluna at bigpond.com (Doug McArthur) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:22:53 +1000 Subject: [Moon] Help is available .. just what is possible! Message-ID: <20080926212252.BNIN1865.nschwotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com@tikaluna-jjn6i8.bigpond.com> Gentlemen We, who have been on EME for decades sometimes tend forget the new comers. We see the same questions repeated time after time. The latest about dish sizes is another perennial. Three decades ago now I started writing software to provide me with the answers that I, and many others needed. Over time the software has developed with significant help from like minded who have provided many suggestions for changes and enhancements. It is still ongoing. Peter G3LTF is one who has already 'chipped in' on the current dish discussion and provided significant advice.. but the info is available at your mouse tips! The VK3UM EME (and Receiver Performance) Calculator will provide all the interacting parameters that influence communication between two stations (or just your own) as well as establishing you systems performance. It is a "very busy screen" and will take you a little time to understand the interaction of all the parameters, but it includes Help file will assist you as to their meanings. It also includes other Stations set ups from 50-48GHz as an indication of what others are running. If nothing else playing with it will keep you amused for hours! You will know precisely what is possible before you even start to assemble a station. (or where to start look when something stops) After that you can check to see if you will fry your neighbour or yourself with the EMR calculator and when you are having that interference problem then the 4 Stage Inter digital Filter software will allow you to construct one with your available bits. If you have a matching problem then there is the Impedance and loss calculator and finally when you want to know of polarisation offset, Doppler etc to set up a QSO then there is the VK3UM EME Planner. ... and its all free from http://sm2cew.com/download.htm http://www.ve1alq.com/vk3um/ http://www.vk3bez.org/ enjoy 73 Doug VK3UM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/a32a724e/attachment.htm From k7xq at elite.net Sat Sep 27 00:44:30 2008 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:44:30 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ QRV 2304 EME this weekend Message-ID: <000e01c92029$739173f0$6601a8c0@K7XQH> Anyone want to try 2304 EME Saturday ? I have moonrise at 1330 UTC. K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi 144 MHz: 4 X M2 2MPX20 XPOL 20 dBd 1.5 kw single GS35b 432 MHz: 8 X M2 9 W.L. XPOL 26.3 dBd ( under construction ) single GS-35b 1296 MHz: 3 meter dish 27 dBd 350 watts single water cooled GS-15 2304 MHz: 3 meter dish 32 dBd 180 watts SS Spectrain Amplifier 10368 MHz: 3 meter dish 45 dBd 20 Watt Varian TWTA K7XQ Webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html From jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Sat Sep 27 05:34:56 2008 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:34:56 +0900 Subject: [Moon] Tuning the frequency of an isolator Message-ID: <20080927033456854.LERY.8224.wememta102.odn.ne.jp@mta102.odn.ne.jp> If someone knows, please let me know: Can you tune the purpose frequency of an isolator from certain frequency (or band) to another? There are some surplus isolators which seem to be useful if you can tune them for amateur frequencies.... and if you fully understand how an isolator works, I guess you could. I think there could be some method to tune (or adjust) the isolator frequency using L and C. Is it possible to tune the frequency of an isolator, for example, 200MHz to 144MHz, or 900MHz to 1296MHz, with some external L and C? For our purpose, it would not neccessarily be wide-band. Then another question comes up: Is it possible to tune an wave-guide isolator frequency by such external reactances as three-pole tuner or something? I have heard to tune an isolator with some permanent magnet. And I have tried it, but havn't found a fruitful way of tuning. They are so slippery! It could be possible with good measurement equipments and good skill. But how do they do it?? Mike JH1KRC From la9nea at online.no Sat Sep 27 07:48:03 2008 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:48:03 +0200 Subject: [Moon] test Message-ID: test LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: Icom 756 pro II TR1296H trv Kuhne 6 x 7289 ring PA ,500 watt, MKU 13200B(spare PA) 250 watt SSPA, 5.3 meter dish, VE4MA Feed 1.stage preamp.Cavity NE32484 0.28 dB 2.stage Kuhne MGF 4953A 0.4 dB JO59dx Autotracking by W2DRZ, VK3UM tracking at screen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/a046d0a3/attachment.htm From g3zig at freenet.co.uk Sat Sep 27 08:09:13 2008 From: g3zig at freenet.co.uk (Roy Reed) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:09:13 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Calling on 144.04 References: <48DA8AFD.E64D400D@freenet.co.uk> <48DA8D2E.D2E8E1C3@freenet.co.uk> Message-ID: <48DDCE09.48816D8E@freenet.co.uk> G3ZIG is calling around 144,04 now 07:10 for the next 30 mins.Echos are very good. 73 Roy g3zig -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.7.3/1693 - Release Date: 26/09/08 07:35 From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat Sep 27 09:35:43 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:35:43 +0100 Subject: [Moon] QRV 1296 eme now Message-ID: <003e01c92073$a6aea100$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> I am qrv on 1296 around 010 at present, nice echoes Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/c8c9985e/attachment-0001.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sat Sep 27 10:35:10 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:35:10 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <200809270648.m8R6m7qw048927@hermes.acsalaska.net> References: <20080916084449.247060@gmx.net><20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net><48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> <2AA4766791B54DB49B3D8ACB43E1DFAE@p4> <200809270648.m8R6m7qw048927@hermes.acsalaska.net> Message-ID: Ironically, today my wife tells me that there is a 14-foot mesh TVRO dish available in our neighborhood for the taking. Since I have two 1.8m, a 2.4m, and a 4.9m dish, I certainly need another one ;-) I will probably retrieve the 14-foot dish if only to hold for some future eme'r or amateur radio astronomer. Hello Ed, my wife just would tell me that I should watch out if the scrap dealer comes and catches it, to give away some of my stuff. :-) Luckily, I am joking. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From w2drz at madbbs.com Sat Sep 27 14:43:43 2008 From: w2drz at madbbs.com (w2drz) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:43:43 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Delivery failure (rx3dur@mail.ru) References: Message-ID: <006201c9209e$ad6663e0$6501a8c0@workcad> Hi Sasha, Please excuse the use of the reflectors but have a problem on your message address bouncing. Your E-mail address is bouncing for some reason. any one can help about this problem? tom W2DRZ http://www.w2drz.ramcoinc.com/ http://www.k5so.com/Hydraulic_elevation_system.html http://www.qsl.net/k1rqg/K1RQG%20HYDRAULIC%20SYS_files/frame.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: Delivery failure (rx3dur at mail.ru) > Your message has encountered delivery problems > to the following recipient(s): > > rx3dur at mail.ru > (Was addressed to rx3dur at mail.ru) > Delivery failed after 1 attempts within 0 hours and 0 minutes550 Access > from ip address 64.66.112.254 blocked. Visit > http://win.mail.ru/cgi-bin/support_bl?ip=64.66.112.254 > > > No recipients were successfully delivered to. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.3/1693 - Release Date: 9/26/2008 7:35 AM From df2zc at gmx.de Sat Sep 27 18:10:30 2008 From: df2zc at gmx.de (DF2ZC) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:10:30 +0200 Subject: [Moon] The 144 MHz EME Newsletter September Issue... Message-ID: <001401c920bb$90d87d90$eb02a8c0@SHACK> ...is now for download at http://www.df2zc.de/newsletter vy 73 Bernd DF2ZC (JO30RN) www.df2zc.de ____________________________________________ 144 MHz EME NewsLetter: www.df2zc.de/newsletter 144 MHz DXCC #21 144 MHz WAC 2002 Kenwood TS 2000 2 x GU74b by LZ2US 4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd full elevation From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Sat Sep 27 20:00:33 2008 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:00:33 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE ARI CW/SSB 144MHz EME contest result, Message-ID: <004501c920ca$f19bec20$cd543057@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers, I was QRV on random CW during the contest and found condition very bad (yes, kapuut Guenter) with a lot of QSB. My own echoes was very very weak for a long time and polarity unstabil. I was QRV most of my moontime on saturday and only a few hours on sunday. I worked in total 31 random CW QSO's with 2 new initials UR0EQ and RU1AC. A few stations was calling me, but my brain was not able to decode, maybe too sleepy (-: I am very interested to hear from the stations I missed. Thanks to all for the QSO's and to all taking part in this very nice EME contest arranged by ARI. It was all great fun as always, and I look forward to hit the moon again very soon. Here is the list of my random CW QSO's during the contest: 20/9 2008: --------------------------- 0004 PA3CWN 0011 IK2DDR 0017 IK1FJI 0022 YO2AMU 0030 I3EVK 0038 OK1KKD 0046 RU1AA 0055 SP7DCS 0101 I1ANP 0156 OK1MS 0211 LA8YB 0234 SM7GVF 0243 IK3MAC 0322 F1FLA 0501 F0CXO 0515 W3TWX 0557 SV2KBS 0606 G3ZIG 0633 SM2CEW 0714 F3VS 0810 DF1CF 0818 K6AWW 0828 F9HS 0929 UR0EQ # 2014 JH0WJF 21/9 2008: -------------------------- 0020 LZ1DP 0026 I2RV 0054 YO9FRJ 0607 K9MRI 0839 RU1AC # 0938 PA2CHR. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. 8 x 8 elm. crossyagi's H/V and 8877. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I dont know the situation in UK but here in Central EU (JN58) this band segment is still very busy during contests! Last Marconi Memorial Contest I did work stations from 144015...144190MHz on CW?. All the band was crowded and full of stations. Same arguments I do have for the frequency range 144.140MHz .... 144.160MHz. Its widely used for contests. Also during AURORA openings this space is needed for CW. ? Maybe there is not much activity in west EU (G?) , in east EU countries (like OK, OM, HA, YO, YU , 9A , S5 , SP,? 9A , E7 etc....) there is plenty of activity on CW, especially in CW. ? ? vy 73 de dl5mae --- H?kan Harrysson schrieb am Sa, 27.9.2008: Von: H?kan Harrysson Betreff: [Moon] Papers for Cavtat 08 An: moon at moonbounce.info Datum: Samstag, 27. September 2008, 20:21 Hello MoonBouncers, Maybe there could be some of interest at the link below. http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/IARU_R1_Conference_2008/ctte5.php 73 Hakan SM7WSJ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verf?gt ?ber einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/a8f5db5b/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Sat Sep 27 21:33:27 2008 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:33:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] to Michael, DL1YMK Message-ID: <791768.18549.qm@web87013.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Michael, can you get in touch, please? sam at g4ddk.com re: Martlesham 73 de Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/27e29640/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Sat Sep 27 21:53:22 2008 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:53:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] to Michael, DL1YMK Message-ID: <945449.91827.qm@web87009.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Thanks everyone. I now have Michael and Monika's e-mail address. No problems. Just couldn't reach them last time I tried! Sam ----- Original Message ---- From: SAM JEWELL To: moonbounceboard ; freetalk moonnet Sent: Saturday, 27 September, 2008 8:33:27 PM Subject: to Michael, DL1YMK Michael, can you get in touch, please? sam at g4ddk.com re: Martlesham 73 de Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/e1fdca91/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat Sep 27 22:49:07 2008 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:49:07 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 23cm results and QRV tomorrow. Message-ID: <015001c920e2$7d0447a0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> I was very pleased today to QSO, LA9NEA, DL0SHF 599! and a new one for me, HB9GR with excellent SSB copy. At 0940 I had a QRZ exchange with a very weak station on 1296.020 who was testing, there was a K and a zero in the call but it was just too weak to copy. The wx is good and I can be QRV tomorrow ( with limited window) on any band 70-9cm if anyone wants a sked or test, please email. GL 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/4c87183f/attachment.htm From ww2r_eme at g4fre.com Sat Sep 27 23:55:16 2008 From: ww2r_eme at g4fre.com (ww2r_eme) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:55:16 -0500 Subject: [Moon] ww2r 13cm results Sept 27 In-Reply-To: <015001c920e2$7d0447a0$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: A good Day on 13cm! First I finished the incomplete task from last weekend and worked DL1YMK (#31). He was tailended by G4CCH with slightly weaker signals Lower declination resulted in no satellite QRM on 2320MHz I also finally worked VK3NX, after many attempts on various bands, with a success on 2301MHz. The window was very short but we made the most of it with a QSO. I got no responses to CQs on 2304MHz, but echoes were consistent (and loud) If anyone wants to try 13cm Sunday let me know, otherwise the 1296 feed will go onto the dish Dave WW2R 13cm: 3.1m dish, 200w, 0.33db nf, h/b VE4MA superfeed http://g4fre.com/eme.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080927/e31e706e/attachment-0001.htm From fr5dn at izi.re Sun Sep 28 07:30:42 2008 From: fr5dn at izi.re (FR5DN-Phil) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:30:42 +0400 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 2.40m dish In-Reply-To: <008901c92072$1b17e080$0100a8c0@indpc> References: <20080916084449.247060@gmx.net><20080916103712.0B9591776C7@popimap1.mel.teaser.net> <48DBA746.6030609@izi.re> <008901c92072$1b17e080$0100a8c0@indpc> Message-ID: <48DF1682.4050901@izi.re> Hello All, Many tks for all inputs on the subject. I have no data on the F/D of that TVRO dish, so don't know if it can be expanded or not. 23cms would be too marginal, as i would need high power for decent work. Having no tools to work on these higher bands, i need no bad surprise, and no waste of time and money. I'll see what can be done with that dish... Vy73 - Phil - FR5DN From DL1YMK at aol.com Sun Sep 28 10:45:27 2008 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:45:27 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13 cm on 27-09-08 Message-ID: Had to rise pretty early on a Saturday morning to work the VK-boys, but now happy to have worked Trevor, VK4AFL, and Charlie, VK3NX, both with solid signals. Had an extended nice rag chew with Alex, RW1AW, in sideband and in the afternoon completed easily with WW2R. TNX to all, have a nice weekend, 73 de Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080928/39ff8b7a/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sun Sep 28 12:28:47 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:28:47 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME In-Reply-To: <000001c92154$98fac2f0$7d7ba8c0@min0idqsh59vfi> References: <000001c92154$98fac2f0$7d7ba8c0@min0idqsh59vfi> Message-ID: Hi, I also have 3400 equipped and will look for you between 1100ut-1200ut, first doing some measurments. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext Hans.J.Oldenborg Gesendet: 28 September 2008 12:26 An: moon at moonbounce.info Betreff: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Hello , I am testing new set-up on 3400100 now and echoes are weak ,but readable ..will be around next 3or 4 hours 73 Hans OZ6OL From oz6ol at mail.dk Sun Sep 28 13:26:23 2008 From: oz6ol at mail.dk (Hans.J.Oldenborg) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:26:23 +0200 Subject: [Moon] first eme qso 3.4ghz Message-ID: <000001c9215d$0e74caa0$7d7ba8c0@min0idqsh59vfi> Just wkd my first EME qso on 3.4 Ghz with G3LTF CW fb signal Thanks Peter 73 Hans OZ6OL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Well Done! 73 Peter G3LTF ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans.J.Oldenborg To: moon at moonbounce.info Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Hello , I am testing new set-up on 3400100 now and echoes are weak ,but readable ..will be around next 3or 4 hours 73 Hans OZ6OL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080928/c476bf81/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Sun Sep 28 16:30:25 2008 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:30:25 +0000 Subject: [Moon] first eme qso 3.4ghz In-Reply-To: <000001c9215d$0e74caa0$7d7ba8c0@min0idqsh59vfi> Message-ID: <20080928122259.A58451BB3C@mail.allt1.se> Congrats Hans/Peter, well done! I wonder if SM will get permission for 3.4 GHz in the near future, sounds like a fun place to be. What is your setup on 3.4 GHz Hans? 73 de Peter SM2CEW At 11:26 2008-09-28 , Hans.J.Oldenborg wrote: > > Just wkd my first EME qso on 3.4 Ghz with G3LTF > > CW fb signal Thanks Peter > > > > > 73 Hans OZ6OL > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove > you from the list From sm7wsj at telia.com Sun Sep 28 16:49:18 2008 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Harrysson?=) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:49:18 +0200 Subject: [Moon] VHF Message-ID: <001801c92179$6446f0e0$a000a8c0@workstation98> Hello, Looks like some activity is going on right now, heard OZ1HNE,F0CXO,OK1MS, I am CQ but no one knows where i am, He He He He,,,, 73 Hakan SM7WSJ ! long yagi and weak own echo. From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sun Sep 28 17:24:59 2008 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:24:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Report DL4MEA In-Reply-To: <00a001c9215e$e90f3460$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> References: <000001c92154$98fac2f0$7d7ba8c0@min0idqsh59vfi> <00a001c9215e$e90f3460$0200a8c0@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: Hello, still looking for the reason of my bad RX performance on 9cm, I today got partial success and 1dB more sun noise than before for now 9.4dB at SFI=67. Surprised by OZ6OL appearing, I copyied him with "M" report, a lot of fading, some good "O" periods and received "RO". Thanks for the new inital, Hans. Another sked with VE6TA yesterday was not complete, I didn't want to cheat using a "brainwave" deep search algorithm, no chance to read the callsigns out of the noise. Probably with now reached improvement it might be possible. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] Im Auftrag von ext peter blair Gesendet: 28 September 2008 13:40 An: Hans.J.Oldenborg; moon at moonbounce.info; moonbounceboard Betreff: Re: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Very pleased to say that I just worked Hans OZ6OL with a nice signal from him, 539 here, doppler spreading is quite high but Hans is a very readable signal. Well Done! 73 Peter G3LTF ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans.J.Oldenborg To: moon at moonbounce.info Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Hello , I am testing new set-up on 3400100 now and echoes are weak ,but readable ..will be around next 3or 4 hours 73 Hans OZ6OL ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From ik2mmb at email.it Sun Sep 28 19:08:00 2008 From: ik2mmb at email.it (Ik2mmb) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:00 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Message-ID: <821ad7cfc140195334fe67f9ece0eea0@151.47.167.117> Too bad we don't have 9cm in Italy (yet)... Congrats for your new band. IK2MMB --------- Original Message -------- Da: "Hans.J.Oldenborg" <oz6ol at mail.dk> To: "moon at moonbounce.info" <moon at moonbounce.info> Oggetto: [Moon] 3.4 GHz EME Data: 28/09/08 12:30 Hello ,   I am testing new set-up on 3400100 now and echoes are weak ,but readable ..will be around  next 3or 4 hours   73 Hans  OZ6OL _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: CheBanca! La prima banca che ti d? gli interessi in anticipo. Fino al 4,70% sul Conto Deposito, zero spese e interessi subito. Aprilo! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=7917&d=20080928 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20080928/fbd69ed3/attachment.htm From w2drz at madbbs.com Sun Sep 28 19:03:10 2008 From: w2drz at madbbs.com (w2drz) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:03:10 -0400 Subject: [Moon] CT-2 References: <476b2d250809280705j2e962fq66c3b5549994ccdb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <004a01c9218c$15ea1450$6501a8c0@workcad> Hi, Sasha, must have the complete ship address, need this for the shipping pricing, will use FED-X to ship unit. Suggest to also order the relay board?? If you can fix the email problem on your end be good to keep message off the reflector. Do not have the problem with RW1AW address so not sure what to do here. Sorry to post on the reflector but direct it bounces. Will try to see if what is suggested below works, I will try that fix here later? NEW IN THE PICC code 2.01. You can down load and test the new Drztrack.zip program now and see how that works in the new tracking program, K2TXB (RUSS) has designed in the new released DzCom program. The new code in the PICC version (2.01) has several new options in it. The ABSOLUTE US DIGITAL encoders can now be programmed by the CT-2 controller board for (3) options (1) ADDRESS setting 0 or 1, (2) count DIRECTION CW or CCW, (3) RESOLUTION high or low. Addition of INDEX/ZPULSE and that allows the INCREMENTAL encoders to be self correcting and they are close to being ease of use same as ABSOLUTE encoders keeping the position auto correcting on power up and normal operating position correcting by the INCREMENTAL encoders using the INDEX/ZPULSE signal. Additional changes will be on the web page. RUSS is working on updating the web page and not finished with that yet. Thank You, tom W2DRZ > Tom > The URL provided by the mail.ru server (ending in your (ISP's) > mailserver IP address) leads to a web form in russion and below in > English so you can request an unblocking of the IP. http://www.w2drz.ramcoinc.com/ http://www.k5so.com/Hydraulic_elevation_system.html http://www.qsl.net/k1rqg/K1RQG%20HYDRAULIC%20SYS_files/frame.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: ?????????? ???????? To: w2drz at madbbs.com Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:05 AM Subject: CT-2 Hello,THOMAS w2drz. I have got your message from Moon Net. Tnx Yuri RD3DA. The price of the assembled CT-2 board is $270, How much cost it with delivery to Moscow? -- GL 73! RX3DUR Sasha KO85XM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.4/1695 - Release Date: 9/27/2008 1:11 PM From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Sun Sep 28 23:56:03 2008 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:56:03 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Draw graphic for moon visibility Message-ID: <48DFFD73.9070600@orange.fr> Hello, My tool to create graphics for visibility window of the moon. http://f2tu.pagesperso-orange.fr/Doc/WindMoon.xls It would be interesting to have the GRAPH 1 Eme Stations in a database... 73 -- Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From Bruinier at t-online.de Mon Sep 29 11:00:00 2008 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 29 Sep 2008 09:00 GMT Subject: [Moon] Oman A43DLH on 2m and 70cm Message-ID: <1KkEcM-2GidjU0@fwd06.aul.t-online.de> Frank DL8YHR will join an HF DXpedition of the Lufthansa Radio Club to Oman on Nov-06 thru Nov-11-2008. Single long yagis plus 1 kW will be used on 2m and 70cm. 70cm QRG 432,050. CW is preferred but WSJT is possible as well. Direct sked requests I will try to keep you synchronized. 73 Jan DL9KR. From pa3cwn at tele2.nl Mon Sep 29 11:32:46 2008 From: pa3cwn at tele2.nl (Oene) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:32:46 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2.40 m dish Message-ID: <48E0A0BE.20204@tele2.nl> Thanks everyone for their answers on this topic started by Phil FR5DN I will dive into this matter t and hope to be qrv in the future on the 23 cm band. In general it is clear to me that a 2.40 dish is minimal and maybe 5m is more likely to have good succes and lot's of you referring to the pages of SM5LE which I will study thouroughly. Best 73 and GL to all Oene PA3CWN From nw_ebw at MMMonVHF.de Mon Sep 29 12:18:22 2008 From: nw_ebw at MMMonVHF.de (nw_ebw at MMMonVHF.de) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:18:22 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Oman A43DLH on 2m and 70cm In-Reply-To: <1KkEcM-2GidjU0@fwd06.aul.t-online.de> References: <1KkEcM-2GidjU0@fwd06.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <48E0AB6E.3070303@MMMonVHF.de> Johann Bruinier schrieb: > Frank DL8YHR will join an HF DXpedition of the Lufthansa Radio Club > to Oman on Nov-06 thru Nov-11-2008. > Single long yagis plus 1 kW will be used on 2m and 70cm. > 70cm QRG 432,050. > CW is preferred but WSJT is possible as well. > Direct sked requests > > I will try to keep you synchronized. > > 73 Jan DL9KR. > Hi Johann, we will keep contact during the trip to Frank and try keep an up to date log at Make more Miles on VHF - use: http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=1361 Have a nice time and good results... Mit freundlichem Gru? / best regards 73 de Guy (Guido) D L 8 E B W QTH: JO31NF / DL66a MMMonVHF VHF-DX: MS & EME in WSJT & HSCW Member of the Team of MMMonVHF http://www.MMMonVHF.de From i5wbe at i5wbe.it Mon Sep 29 16:00:36 2008 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:00:36 +0000 Subject: [Moon] WORLD WIDE ARI EME MARATHON 2008 Message-ID: <4889ABAE0459D7A6@vsmtp10.tin.it> (added by postmaster@virgilio.it) WORLD WIDE EME MARATHON 2008 ----------------------------- Sponsored by the Italian Radio Amateur Association - A. R. I. SECTIONS: OM and SWL, portable or fixed station. DATE/TIME: from 0000z January 1st to 2400z December 31th.,2008 Frequency Category VHF 144 " 1A) QRO (erp pwr equal or more than 100 KW). (SSB/CW ) VHF 144 " 2A) QRP (erp pwr below 100 Kw or 1 to 4 antennas). (SSB/CW ) VHF 144 " 3A) Only digital mode SWL 144 " 4A) (SSB/CW/DGT) UHF 432 " 1B) QRO ( >50 dbW ERP) (SSB/CW ) UHF 432 " 2B) QRP ( <50 dbW ERP) (SSB/CW ) UHF 432 " 3B) Only digital mode SWL 432 " 4B) (SSB/CW/DGT) UHF 1296 " 1C) QRO ( >60 dbW ERP) (SSB/CW ) UHF 1296 " 2C) QRP ( <60 dBW ERP) (SSB/CW ) UHF 1296 " 3C) Only digital mode SWL 1296 " 4C) (SSB/CW/DGT) (If it is not specified entrant category, logs will be counted for the QRO one) SHF 2304 "(SSB/CW ) SWL 2304 "(SSB/CW ) SHF 5760 "(SSB/CW ) SWL 5760 "(SSB/CW ) SHF 10000 "(SSB/CW ) SWL 10000 "(SSB/CW ) VHF 50 MHz 1D) (SSB/CW ) VHF 50 " 2D) Only digital mode SWL 50 " 3D) (SSB/CW / DGT) SWL: in this category also OM stations (licenced radio amateurs) may participate but only in the SWL category. The same station cannot be worked more than once per day, but it can be worked again in the following days. VALID QSOs: only 2way EME CW/SSB and Digital Modes QSOs are allowed. (separate logs for 2 x SSB/CW and 2 x DIGITAL) EXCHANGE: callsigns and RST or TMO. SCORING: 100 points per QSO multiplied by the total number of DXCC countries PLUS 1. ------ EXAMPLE: 20 QSOs and 5 DXCC countries + 1 = 12000 points. (20 x 100) x (5 + 1) = 12000 Logs must have a summary sheet enclosed comprehensive of: Category, QSOs total number, DXCC countries total number + 1 and the total score. Logs without this declaration will be considered CONTROL LOG. PRIZE: first 3 OMs and SWLs for each band and category. ENTRIES: postmarked not later than January 31th 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sorry Charlie! 73 Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr Edward Cole a ?crit : > > Philippe, > > Interesting that I have been thinking that I will need this for my new > dish when I am QRV. Also, that you did this with a spreadsheet > graph. I can do this, myself. > I have no mountains but there are trees that will limit my view of the > Moon and a horizon mask chart is something I will need for knowing > when I have Moon views. > > Are you saying you would like stations to submit graphs to you for a > data base? > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > > At 01:56 PM 9/28/2008, you wrote: >> Hello, >> My tool to create graphics for visibility window of the moon. >> http://f2tu.pagesperso-orange.fr/Doc/WindMoon.xls >> It would be interesting to have the GRAPH 1 Eme Stations in a >> database... >> 73 >> >> -- >> Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU >> http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at >> http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > *********************************************************** > 73, Ed - KL7UW BP40iq, 6m - 3cm > 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xp20, 185w > 1296-EME: DEMI-Xvtr, 0.30 dBNF, 4.9m dish, 60W > http://www.kl7uw.com AK VHF-Up Group > NA Rep. for DUBUS: dubususa at hotmail.com > *********************************************************** > > From jh0wjf09 at yahoo.co.jp Tue Sep 30 01:48:45 2008 From: jh0wjf09 at yahoo.co.jp (WJF) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:48:45 +0900 (JST) Subject: [Moon] Test JH0WJF Message-ID: <20080929234845.76277.qmail@web2903.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp> Test JH0WJF -------------------------------------- Enjoy MLB with MAJOR.JP! 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