[Moon] First DL-SV on 13cm

[Peter Sundberg]

Well done Günter and Petros!!!

EME at it's best, when nothing comes easy.. :-))
Hope to work you both on 13cm come better weather, can't change the feed just
just now.

73 de Peter SM2CEW
www.sm2cew.com



At 10:39 2009-01-25 , Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote: 

>
> Hello, 
>
> today SV3AAF and myself completed the first DL-SV on 13cm. 
>
> Quoting Petros' comment, under really difficulty conditions: 
>
> - Winds at 80kph kicking dish off target, bending dish's extension every few
> seconds 
> - High libration according to almanac 
> - High path loss 
> - High sky noise 
> - Low declination 
>
> On my side I had to remove several "liters" of water from the TX cable,
which
> is not waterproof. But at the moment I my time for radio is very, very
> limited.
>
> But anyway, signals were 549/449 on both sides, so quite easy copy. To
> clarify all doubts, it was a CW contact. 
>
> 73, Günter (dl4mea)