From kc3re at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 03:44:42 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:44:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Moon] test (apologies) Message-ID: <48976.97480.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From davcut at maltanet.net Sun Mar 1 07:52:56 2009 From: davcut at maltanet.net (David Cutajar) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:52:56 +0100 Subject: [Moon] qrv 70cm Message-ID: <49AA30C8.20208@maltanet.net> Hi all Yesterday evening I was qrx on the band as not to much time had to be qrv.I spent one hour looking for stations then last 15 minutes its like something switched on ,I heard UA3PTW.I1NDP,DL7APV very strong called but nothing back and K1RQG with very qsb signal called you also Joe but no luckI try to be also today 1st March for some time hope to catch you Joe. 73`s David 9H1TX From john.peters at iae.nl Sun Mar 1 09:05:58 2009 From: john.peters at iae.nl (John Peters) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:05:58 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 7/8 or 1 1/4 cable In-Reply-To: <48976.97480.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi all, We are reordering our backyard, it now is the time to put cables in the gound and "seed" an antenna tower. As my shack and the tower will be 25m apart from each other I'm in need for a good low loss cable. So I'm looking for 28-30 meters at least 7/8 but preferable 1 1/4 inch cable. Location maximum 150Km from "Den Bosch" The Netherlands. So anyone here on the moon net in PA ON or DL knowing a good source for this type of cable ? Any info is welcome. I'm also looking for a good 3 section tower at least 17 to 18 meters 73! De John PA5MS From la9nea at online.no Sun Mar 1 09:35:05 2009 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:35:05 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 1296 MHz EME. LA9NEA qrv 1 march Message-ID: <928F81683A9E4B1FA5BEFFD35FA8204E@LA9NEA> Hello 1296 eme operators. Planned activity to day 1 march. qrv from approx 1030z,CQ call 1296015 in CW mode. Also listen for some JT65 activity. At HB9Q Logger , during activity period. 73 Viggo LA9NEA 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... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090301/8266b324/attachment.htm From dl5mae at yahoo.de Sun Mar 1 13:14:40 2009 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:14:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] DUBUS ACTIVITY Contest DL5MAE MARCH Message-ID: <812661.33075.qm@web23707.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi ALL, very poor performance of my station (unexpected high SWR: 1,6) and poor activity? (or lets better say low number of CQ-CALLING stations; I think activity was OK) kept my score low. I heard many stations calling others but never heard them calling CQ themselves. Others I called but not even got a QRZ (F1FLA, F0CXO, IK1FJI, DK3EE). The problem of the relativly high SWR might be bad connector or water (?)? ? In the Feb acitvity test everything was OK but since that time we had plenty of snow and winds... Heard were IT9CJC, LZ1DP, F0CXO, F1FLA, JH0WJF, DK3EE, SM7GVF, VK2KU, IK2DDR, IK1FJI. Only 3 contacts completed: 0844 utc?? LA8YB ? ? ?? O/O 0918 utc?? YO2AMU??? O/O 1028 utc?? OZ1HNE???? O/O Peter, (SM2CEW), I think thats 300 points? I will not be QRV during 2nd slot as I am out of house. GL everybody and TNX for QSO! vy 73 de DL5MAE DONT USE CHATROOMS FOR YOUR QSOs!!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090301/95cbc7fb/attachment.htm From kc3re at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 14:10:57 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 05:10:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Moon] test (apologies-having trouble receiving messages) Message-ID: <604986.15053.qm@web51307.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From df6na at df6na.de Sun Mar 1 16:42:06 2009 From: df6na at df6na.de (Rainer) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:42:06 +0100 Subject: [Moon] urgently need 1N53 ! Message-ID: <49AAACCE.8060505@df6na.de> Hello, I need to find some 1N53 detector diodes. Other DO-36 detector diodes maybe usable also. Please let me know if you know a source or have some in a drawer. tnx es vy 73, Rainer -- 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/ From kc3re at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 18:31:28 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:31:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Moon] test (Please excuse bandwidth) Message-ID: <472053.20010.qm@web51312.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From kc3re at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 18:41:46 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:41:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Moon] test (apologies-still trying to fix problem) Message-ID: <703282.78999.qm@web51309.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From kc3re at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 18:49:01 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Moon] final test (I think it is fixed now-apologioes again for bothering everyone.) Message-ID: <589619.94721.qm@web51308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From frankddr at tele2.it Sun Mar 1 20:54:17 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:54:17 +0100 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS 2m CW eme Event:IK2DDR march log Message-ID: Hello Peter and all. I have been active full time on 1st window and a couple of hours on 2nd. Worked 9 of the 14 stations that i heard.Usually the number of not worked stations is not so high, but i think that someone has suffer some noise due bad weather. Conditions were not so good as on february and the activity was also a bit less, respect the same event.I found good conditions in some moment, during 2nd window. Unfortunately of 2 US friends, i worked only K6PF(thanks Bob for your participation,as usual). IK2DDR CAT.C LOG: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date time callsign TX RX MULTIP points --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01/03/2009 08.32 LA8YB RO O LA8 10 01/03/2009 08.44 OZ1HNE RO O OZ1 10 01/03/2009 09.02 F1FLA RO O F1 10 01/03/2009 09.11 DK3EE RO O DK3 10 01/03/2009 09.25 YO2AMU RO O YO2 10 01/03/2009 10.14 F?CXO RO O F? 10 01/03/2009 10.42 SM2CEW O RO SM2 10 01/03/2009 16.32 IK1FJI RO O IK1 10 01/03/2009 18.22 K6PF O RO K6 10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL OF CONTACTS: 9 MULTIP:9 POINTS 90 FINAL SCORE: 810 HEARD: IT9CJC (called, but no replay) LZ1DP (called, but no replay) SM7GVF G4YTL K5QE (called, but no replay)welcome Marshall,you have really a good signal RIG HERE: TX:IC275H +8877 RX: SM5BSZ WSE CONVERTERS+LINRAD + MGF1801+NORTON=36db ANT:4X19 LOG LOOP YAGI (I3DLI) ONLY H POL. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR From jbattin at msn.com Sun Mar 1 22:11:48 2009 From: jbattin at msn.com (john battin) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:11:48 -0600 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS K9DX Message-ID: Second period signals were good ... but not too many heard. Worked all I heard except one answering my CQ that I could not copy. Worked: IK2FJI F1FLA F0CXO OZ1HNE K6PF SM2CEW It was fun -- Thanks John K9DX -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090301/964d594f/attachment.htm From sm7wsj at telia.com Sun Mar 1 22:20:43 2009 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_H?=) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:20:43 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Dubus activity Message-ID: Hello, I was around in second time slot but very difficult propagation compared to last event. Heard F1FLA IK1FJI and worked OZ1HNE. I could not see or hear my echo a single time this evening. Last hour it feelt like a complete lock out. Still my single yagi as i did not get the time to add second antenna as i was planning to do. maybe next time!. 73 de Hakan SM7WSJ From jbattin at msn.com Sun Mar 1 23:31:05 2009 From: jbattin at msn.com (john battin) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:31:05 -0600 Subject: [Moon] FW: DUBUS K9DX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Corrected typing error .... IK1 was in the log. Sorry From: jbattin at msn.com To: moon at moonbounce.info Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:11:48 -0600 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS K9DX Second period signals were good ... but not too many heard. Worked all I heard except one answering my CQ that I could not copy. Worked: IK1FJI F1FLA F0CXO OZ1HNE K6PF SM2CEW It was fun -- Thanks John K9DX -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090301/67c75fa5/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00000 Url: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090301/67c75fa5/attachment.txt From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Mon Mar 2 00:27:52 2009 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:27:52 -0800 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS Activity Event Results Message-ID: <001b01c99ac5$582eb2a0$6401a8c0@Office> Hello 2m EME Friends: I was active for 1.5 hrs today (3/1/09) on 2m cw, random, unassisted & completed 6 QSOs. Condx were mixed with some stations strong & some vy weak with lots of deep QSB. So, sri for sending a lot or QRZs at times. All were horiz polarity on Tx & Rx. Vertical polarity was too noisy for rcv. Here's my results, all in response to my CQs: 1750 - 1757z IK1FJI O/R (sent) / RO (rcv'd) 1758 - 1804z K9DX O/R / RO 1805 - 1810z LA8YB O/R / RO 1814 - 1825z IK2DDR RO / O/R 1827 - 1835z F0CXO O/R / RO 1858 - 1918z SM2CEW O/R / RO From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Mon Mar 2 00:31:40 2009 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:31:40 -0800 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS Activity Event Results - Final Message-ID: <002201c99ac5$dfd6c940$6401a8c0@Office> Hello 2m EME Friends: (This got accidently sent before I finished it. Here's the final version.) I was active for 1.5 hrs today (3/1/09) on 2m cw, random, unassisted & completed 6 QSOs. Condx were mixed with some stations strong & some vy weak with lots of deep QSB. So, sri for sending a lot or QRZs at times. All were horiz polarity on Tx & Rx. Vertical polarity was too noisy for rcv. Here's my results, all in response to my CQs: 1750 - 1757z IK1FJI O/R (sent) / RO (rcv'd) 1758 - 1804z K9DX O/R / RO 1805 - 1810z LA8YB O/R / RO 1814 - 1825z IK2DDR RO / O/R 1827 - 1835z F0CXO O/R / RO 1858 - 1918z SM2CEW O/R / RO Total score - 6 QSOs x 10 pts x 5 multiplier = 300 pts 73, Bob, K6PF From hughd at cogeco.ca Mon Mar 2 15:25:34 2009 From: hughd at cogeco.ca (Hugh Duff) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:34 -0500 Subject: [Moon] VA3TO 23cm Initials #1 & #2 Message-ID: <49ABEC5E.609@cogeco.ca> I'm happy to report my first two 23cm JT65c EME contacts which took place around 2030 UTC on Mar.01/09 using my modest setup. #1 with G4CCH and #2 with PA3FXB, both 'O' with signals -15dB and -18dB respectively. Thanks to Howard and Jan for their fine signals ! Power output is presently limited to 75w (~60w at the dish) while my 300w SSPA is still under construction. Unfortunately I lost my LNA for the second time so I have an isolation problem to sort out. I'm looking forward to working CW and maybe some SSB once I get the big PA online and my other technical difficulties resolved. 73, Hugh VA3TO www.va3to.com From hughd at cogeco.ca Mon Mar 2 15:25:51 2009 From: hughd at cogeco.ca (Hugh Duff) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:51 -0500 Subject: [Moon] VA3TO 23cm Initials #1 & #2 Message-ID: <49ABEC6F.1010500@cogeco.ca> I'm happy to report my first two 23cm JT65c EME contacts which took place around 2030 UTC on Mar.01/09 using my modest setup. #1 with G4CCH and #2 with PA3FXB, both 'O' with signals -15dB and -18dB respectively. Thanks to Howard and Jan for their fine signals ! Power output is presently limited to 75w (~60w at the dish) while my 300w SSPA is still under construction. Unfortunately I lost my LNA for the second time so I have an isolation problem to sort out. I'm looking forward to working CW and maybe some SSB once I get the big PA online and my other technical difficulties resolved. 73, Hugh VA3TO www.va3to.com From valter_dls at yahoo.it Mon Mar 2 19:20:51 2009 From: valter_dls at yahoo.it (valter dolso) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:20:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] DUBUS 01/03 IK1FJI Message-ID: <640003.87146.qm@web24304.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hello Eme? friends i was qrv on the event,? but in the morning slot be able to heard someone only at 11:00 gmt, before at my "moonrise abt 20 degrees, heavy rain and statics noise up to S 9+. I have bad idea to call cq anywhere, most of you can? think that Valter missed his heard or receive without? antennas !!! I see anymore some traces but no possible heard nothing, so first slot was be able to work only F1FLA when noise go out..... Second slot much much better, but again shut down before the end due my qrl...:-(((.... here my log: 01/03/09 1)? 11:00???? F1FLA???? O? RO??? F1 2)? 16:30????IK2DDR??? O??RO??? IK2?? ( GOOD SIGNALS POSSIBLE CHANGE? TIPICAL LIGURIAN WORD IN CW !! ) 3)? 16:37?? IT9CJC????? O? RO??? IT9 4)? 16:44? YO2AMU???O? RO??? YO2 5)? 16:50? DK3EE????? O? RO??? DK3 6)? 16:55? OZ1HNE??? O? RO?? OZ1 7)? 17:14? K9DX?????? RO? O??? K9 8)? 17:22?F0CXO?????? O? RO?? F0 9)? 17:50? K6PF?????? RO? O??? K6 10) 18:05 SM2CEW? RO? O?? SM2 18:10?? QRT? DUE QRL? ...... SCORE:?? 10 QSO X 10 = 100 X 10 =? 1000?? POINTS HEARD: SM7GFV? DK3??? MISSED:? LA8YB AND K5QE? ( 6khz with linrad too small band width, no easy !!? ) ???????????????????????????????? thanks to all qrv in the event? vy 73 Valter IK1FJI __________________________________________________ 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 pa3cmc at xs4all.nl Mon Mar 2 22:24:01 2009 From: pa3cmc at xs4all.nl (Lins Berben) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:24:01 +0100 Subject: [Moon] For sale Message-ID: Hello all, Nice parts for power on 70 and 23cm. Plish cavity ULV273, with 3 fhase power supply for high voltage, transformers and pcb?s for Ug1 and Ug2, tubes brand new and used TH327 and TH347, all original parts. 70cm solid state PA?s 1500W with power supply on 220V one phase or 380V 3 phase used tubes 3cx1500a7 is 8877 pictures and price on request 73 Lins PA3CMC http://www.pa3cmc.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090302/8d5b7c42/attachment.htm From k2dh at frontiernet.net Tue Mar 3 02:03:27 2009 From: k2dh at frontiernet.net (Dave Hallidy) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:03:27 -0500 Subject: [Moon] K2DH QRV 23cm- Anybody Around Tonight? Message-ID: I'm on 23cm right now, echoes are outstanding. Anybody around for a QSO? I'm CQ'ing and echo testing around 1296.010. Dave K2DH From rein0zn at ix.netcom.com Tue Mar 3 12:18:33 2009 From: rein0zn at ix.netcom.com (rein0zn at ix.netcom.com) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:18:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Moon] 432 and Above EME Newsletter for Mar 2009 Message-ID: <19346488.1236079113532.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hello All, The 432 MHz and Above EME Newsletter for March 2009 by K2UYH is at: http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html Read among other topics, the story by VK3UM about the wild fires at his QTH last month. Note .doc document will be posted later in the day. 73 Rein W6SZ From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Tue Mar 3 18:36:03 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:36:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] EVE experiment In-Reply-To: <49ABEC6F.1010500@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <18374.26910-25834-1434179554-1236101762@seznam.cz> Ham Radio on Venus! It's not April yet, so this is for real. The Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) and JAMSAT, the Japanese amateur satellite organization, are working with the Japanese University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) to send an amateur radio payload to Venus as part of the JAXA Planet-C Venus Orbiter mission planned for next year. According to the AMSAT News Service, UNITEC-1 will transmit a CW beacon at about one bit per second. Hams around the world will be invited to listen for the signal and to help with two major science goals: 1) development of technologies to receive and decode very weak and low bit-rate signals coming from deep space; and 2) development of technologies to estimate the orbit of the satellite and the Doppler shift of its signals based on the received RF signals. These technologies will be necessary for tracking and receiving signals from satellites in deep space. More information (in English) is available on the UNITEC-1 website at http://unitec-1.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp/en/news_en. Source: http://newsvc.cq-amateur-radio.com/main.cfm?show=1 73 Matej, OK1TEH From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Tue Mar 3 18:36:05 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:36:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] EVE experiment Message-ID: <18374.26910-25786-787469754-1236101765@seznam.cz> Ham Radio on Venus! It's not April yet, so this is for real. The Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) and JAMSAT, the Japanese amateur satellite organization, are working with the Japanese University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) to send an amateur radio payload to Venus as part of the JAXA Planet-C Venus Orbiter mission planned for next year. According to the AMSAT News Service, UNITEC-1 will transmit a CW beacon at about one bit per second. Hams around the world will be invited to listen for the signal and to help with two major science goals: 1) development of technologies to receive and decode very weak and low bit-rate signals coming from deep space; and 2) development of technologies to estimate the orbit of the satellite and the Doppler shift of its signals based on the received RF signals. These technologies will be necessary for tracking and receiving signals from satellites in deep space. More information (in English) is available on the UNITEC-1 website at http://unitec-1.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp/en/news_en. Source: http://newsvc.cq-amateur-radio.com/main.cfm?show=1 73 Matej, OK1TEH From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Wed Mar 4 20:24:57 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:24:57 +0100 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE DUBUS 144MHz CW EME Event result, Message-ID: <008301c99cfe$e918e980$3aef3e50@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers I was QRV most of the time in both parts of the Event and found conditions up and down. I worked the following stations on random: 1/3 2009: --------------------------------- 0835 DK3EE 0845 IK2DDR 0851 JH0WJF 0924 SM2CEW 0936 F0CXO 0951 LZ1DP 0958 LA8YB 1005 YO2AMU 1019 F1FLA 1029 DL5MAE 1120 RZ4HF # 1128 I3EVK 1639 SM7WSJ 1657 IK1FJI 1743 DK3NG 1752 K9DX # 1817 K5QE Thanks to all for the QSO's. It was all great fun and I look forward to the next Event. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you need power amps of medium or big power including power supply, ceramic tubes from TH306, 316, 326 all the way up to TH327, TH347, TH298, YD1333, 1302 or 1304 series, Eimac Y125 155 or y730, directional couplers, 1 5/8? cable connectors (brand new), 7/8? cable connectors (Spinner) (all new), N, BNC Suhner connectors (all new), radial blowers, cavities for TH347 or TH328 series, or any other item you are looking for, send me a mail. There is brand new 1 5/8? cable with new connectors at your discretion etc. There is a lot of 10GHz stuff, all finest quality in 19? chassis, you dream of something, I may have it for you. All is given away for little money. Preference is pick-up. These items have been collected to give you a good time, not to make money. 73 HB9BBD Dominique -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090305/8d730d13/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Thu Mar 5 17:37:20 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:37:20 +0100 Subject: [Moon] QSLs Message-ID: Hi guys, I will send tomorrow big pack of QSLs. Still did not find address to: JA1WQF, JA6XED, JA4HZN, F3VS, JA9BOH, F5HRY, F5FEN, EV5M thanks for the info, during weekend we have tropo contest in OK and do not know how it will looks with QRM. I try to be ARV 1296 MHz if WX permit. Best regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090305/770646b8/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Thu Mar 5 17:45:47 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:45:47 +0100 Subject: [Moon] feeds 1296 MHz In-Reply-To: Message-ID: According requests received in past I have still available 5 PCs of Septum feed for dish F/D 0,38 - 0,45. If anybody interesting let me know please. More on my website column "For sale" http://www.ok1dfc.com/sale/for%20sale.htm Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 From ingolf.fhz at gmail.com Fri Mar 6 07:27:04 2009 From: ingolf.fhz at gmail.com (Ingolf, SM6FHZ) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:27:04 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 1296 MHz EME SM6FHZ Message-ID: Dear 23 cm moonbouncers. I plan to be QRV off the moon this Saturday (March 7th) from about 15Z until about 23Z (when the moon starts to hide behind my favorite pine tree). The weather forecast looks good, with low winds but a small uncertainty with respect to precipitation. I will call CQ a lot, if not scanning the EME-band up and down. I will probably be just above 1296.020. I do not think I will suffer from any QRM from the contest this weekend, as the local and semi local activity is usually nonexistent. Hope to work many of you tomorrow. 73 / Ingolf -- Ingolf, SM6FHZ http://www.2ingandlin.se/SM6FHZ.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090306/5dcf40d9/attachment.htm From k7xq at elite.net Fri Mar 6 09:05:07 2009 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 00:05:07 -0800 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ QRV 432 this Sat / Sun Message-ID: <000001c99e32$46f0a820$6601a8c0@K7XQH> Hello All, I will be QRV this weekend on 432 EME Sat Mar 7th @ 2300 UTC and Sun Mar 8th starting at my moonrise. I missed most of the 432 activity last weekend due to ant tracking problems. Hope to hear and work some of you. BTW, the new QSL cards have arrived. If you haven't received my QSL card, please e-mail me with how you want your card to arrive, BURO or direct ( I will need your address ). 73, K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. Grid: CM97qi 432 MHz: 8 X 7 W.L. XPOL 25 dBd single GS-35B 1296 MHz: 3.0 meter dish 27.5 dBd single GS-15B 400W 2304 MHz: 3.0 meter dish 32.5 dBd Spectrain SSPA 180W -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year the organizers have decided to branch out to include VHF through Microwave. I have been asked to speak on a microwave subject and have agreed. In keeping with the nature of an HF event I have decided to speak on 'microwave' EME. My initial though is to title my talk something like 'Achieving DXCC at microwave' In order to make this meaningful I would like to gather some statistics on how well ops are doing in this quest, especially on 23cm with 70cm having been achieved last year. If you are willing to share this info with me I would be very grateful. If you prefer to keep your info private, then you could send it direct to me and I undertake to keep the specific info confidential, giving only the score, but not credited. The Convention is in October this year. Many thanks . De Sam, G4DDK Sent from my phone. From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Fri Mar 6 17:15:30 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:15:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] The first EME contact on 4m band In-Reply-To: <539959.7431.qm@web87003.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <18393.26958-12990-129257468-1236356130@seznam.cz> Hi guys I'm not sure if this message was posted on the list before: "RADIO RECORD: THE FIRST 4 METER EME CONTACT CLAIMED It could be a world record on the 4 meter band. This, as Andy Kissack, GD0TEP, on the Isle on Man reports on a Earth - Moon - Earth or EME contact which that he says could prove to be a first. Andy says on his website that following tests carried out by himself and GD4GNH back in 2006, he finally found a suitable station to try for an EME contact on the 4 meter band. As a result, Andy and ZS6WAB in South Africa tried an EME sked on Friday evening, February 13th. Unfortunately, his mast mounted transmit and receive relay failed due to water ingress. Their 2nd try was the morning of February 15th. Visibility of the Moon at Andy's location came at 00:38 UTC and at 01:34 he received his first moon echo. About a minute later, Andy and ZS6WAB completed what both operators believe to be the world's first 4meter EME contact using the low noise JT65a digital mode. Screen shots of the QSO are on line at http://www.gd0tep.com/wsjt/4m/World_1st_on_4m.htm " BIG Congrats to both! 73 Matej, OK1TEH ( http://www.ok2kkw.com/dxrecords.htm#70 ) PS I'm again QRV for any of 70cm EME skeds in CW/JT65 (I prefer CW if it's possible) More about my station at: http://ok1teh.nagano.cz/eme_log432.htm (gallery was updated) From dj8ms at web.de Fri Mar 6 17:30:04 2009 From: dj8ms at web.de (Toralf Renkwitz DJ8MS) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:30:04 +0100 Subject: [Moon] QRV OZ/DJ8MS 23cm EME Message-ID: <49B14F8C.3020808@web.de> Hi all, just to inform you, I'll be qrv as OZ/DJ8MS on 23cm EME with my portable equipment during my vacation in OZ. Possible Locator-gridsquares will be JO56, JO66 and JO55. Probably starting with JO56 on SAT, depending on the QTH. QRG 1296.085 +/- - (birdies). 100W (>80W at feed) + 67el yagi - JT65c - OZ/DJ8MS TX 1st. Here are some "start times": SAT 07.March : EU: 20utc NA/SA: 22utc SUN 08.March : AS/OZ: 17utc EU: 19utc NA/SA.: 21utc I'll give some CQs at the mentioned times for a while. Activity depends on reply and weather. I'll try to spot every activity info in the dx-cluster, but might be tricky to find it as it's V-SHF-Contest in EU. Maybe you have to use any search functions. Activity for the rest of the week will be sporadic, but I'll drop a note in the cluster as early as possible. 73 - Tor, DJ8MS !... http://home.infocity.de/dj8ms From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Fri Mar 6 18:36:08 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:36:08 +0100 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV 144MHz CW EME, Message-ID: <006901c99e82$0a53a200$3d2df23e@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers, I will be calling CQ on 144MHz CW EME this weekend, and if any stations would like to try a sked, please send me a mail. Good luck and see you via the moon. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. 8 x 8 elm. crossyagi's H/V and 8877. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090306/d6c488bf/attachment.htm From anders at LA8LF.com Fri Mar 6 19:20:35 2009 From: anders at LA8LF.com (Anders, LA8LF) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:20:35 -0000 Subject: [Moon] EA8/LA8LF 13 and 23 operation - no longer need for special authorisation!!!! Message-ID: <92073DC741724407B7A75C810072CC5E@FSCbrukerPC> All, Today I received a positive answer for my application for renewed authorisation of 23CM operation from the Canary Islands from the MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA, TURISMO Y COMERCIO. Their letter was short and explained that I no longer needed a special authorisation to operate within 1240-1300 MHz. and 2300-2450 MHz from my house at Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Previously I had authorisation in 2000 to operate on 23CM, This was renewed in 2002 and 2006. Unfortunately, due to the previous denial of my request for operation on 13CM, my wife brought back with her to Norway early February most of my 13CM equipment. I will return home to Norway on April 6th. I shall be back to Lanzarote in late October for 6 weeks and hope to activate 23CM then and 13CM in February 2010. 73, Anders EA8/LA8LF From dfaessler at bluewin.ch Fri Mar 6 22:07:50 2009 From: dfaessler at bluewin.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dominique_F=E4ssler_=28HB9BBD=29?=) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:07:50 +0100 Subject: [Moon] HB9BBD may have what you are looking for - In-Reply-To: <49AE4E1E0003D51C@tr14.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) Message-ID: <49AE4E1E001142A9@tr14.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) Folks This is to inform you that all the TH347/TH327 amplifiers have found new CW EME hands. It is phantastic to see many more superpower CW EME stations popping up in the not too far future. I promise you that some new DXCC hits might be available with solid signals through these power amplifiers. Furthermore smaller amplifiers are heading new homes too. Surprisingly, not too much interest has been seen for the smaller TH326 and other small tubes like the YD1302 and YD1304 and YD1270. They have been used successfully for easy to build 13cm amplifiers in Europe. I responded to roughly 150 mails related to my mail below. Now tired of sitting with my laptop, the shop is closed until Thursday next week when returned from business trip. 73 HB9BBD Dominique Folks It is to say that I have moved my laboratory and all equipment to our new home on top hill near Zurich. I admit that during the years there have been tons of equipment collected and thus preserved from being scrapped, of which I need a fraction to my own activities. If you need power amps of medium or big power including power supply, ceramic tubes from TH306, 316, 326 all the way up to TH327, TH347, TH298, YD1333, 1302 or 1304 series, Eimac Y125 155 or y730, directional couplers, 1 5/8? cable connectors (brand new), 7/8? cable connectors (Spinner) (all new), N, BNC Suhner connectors (all new), radial blowers, cavities for TH347 or TH328 series, or any other item you are looking for, send me a mail. There is brand new 1 5/8? cable with new connectors at your discretion etc. There is a lot of 10GHz stuff, all finest quality in 19? chassis, you dream of something, I may have it for you. All is given away for little money. Preference is pick-up. These items have been collected to give you a good time, not to make money. 73 HB9BBD Dominique -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090307/517f349b/attachment.htm From ingolf.fhz at gmail.com Sun Mar 8 10:05:49 2009 From: ingolf.fhz at gmail.com (Ingolf, SM6FHZ) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:05:49 +0100 Subject: [Moon] SM6FHZ 1296 MHz EME March Message-ID: Hello all. I was on the moon both on March 1st and March 7th. On March 1st I set up the 23 cm EME station after some repair and improvement work and snagged a few QSO's while being at the station. I QSO'd at 1436Z HB9BBD, 1520Z G4CCH, 1634Z GW3XYW, 1553Z PA3FXB, 1640Z VE6TA. All on random CW on my CQ. On March 7th I also dared to put in my repaired G4DDK NE325 preamp again. I got back the same performance as with the original one; >6 dB cold sky to ground noise. And that was without tuning the preamp at all, just a new NE325. On random CW I QSO'd 1412Z VK4AFL, 1422Z IW2FZR, 1549Z G4CCH, 1555Z LA9NEA, 1642Z SV3AAF, 1732Z OZ4MM, 1849Z DF3RU, 1953Z SM2CEW, 2012Z K2DH and at 2207Z NA4N. A lot of them were on my CQ. I also called CQ on SSB when the echos were at their best, but no response. I found the libration to be quite aggressive and deep at times. Some characters were just lost. Getaways were HB9MOON (579) at 2255Z, they never got my call OK. I quit at 2300Z as the moon started to hide behind a pine tree. I am working on that pine tree. I also managed to burn my repaired preamp at 1900Z and set a new record in switching preamp in total darkness; 34 minutes. This time an non familiar sound came from my sequencing unit at the time for the accident. The unit is now on my work bench for examination. Hope to see you all on the moon in April. 73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ -- Ingolf, SM6FHZ http://www.2ingandlin.se/SM6FHZ.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There is an abundance of other examples such as "for good", "different/other", "last/final", "hardly" etc etc. However, at least for German - English there is a good online dictionary: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&lp=ende You just enter the German or English word and get the corresponding expressions in the other language. BTW it also works for German<>French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese(!). vy 73 Bernd DF2ZC (JO30RN) www.df2zc.de ____________________________________________ 144 MHz EME NewsLetter: www.df2zc.de/newsletter 144 MHz DXCC #21 144 MHz WAC Kenwood TS 2000 2 x GU74b by LZ2US 4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd full elevation -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of John Lemay Sent: Sonntag, 8. M?rz 2009 08:45 To: 'SAM JEWELL'; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; moon at moonbounce.info Subject: Re: [Moon-net] Correction Sam That's good news indeed ! The translation in Dubus does occasionally lead to confusion. In the 4m column it says "some nasty German stations are qrv again on 69.950 MHz". I'm still wondering what the intended text would have read ....... John G4ZTR -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of SAM JEWELL Sent: 07 March 2009 16:45 To: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; moon at moonbounce.info Subject: [Moon-net] Correction Folks Whilst reading my copy of Dubus, that arrived today, I was shocked to find a comment on page 116 referring to the 'late' G4DDK. May I reassure all my friends and colleagues that I am indeed still very much here and breathing and to misquote Mark Twain "reports of my death are very much exaggerated. I merely beamed the other way"! I suspect that a translation error has occurred and hopefully it will be corrected in the 2/2009 issue or my first Dubus Microwaves UK column might also have been my last! 73 de Sam, G4DDK VERY much alive.. _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3900 (20090302) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3900 (20090302) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3900 (20090302) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From DL1YMK at aol.com Sun Mar 8 13:22:51 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:22:51 EDT Subject: [Moon] G4DDK, Correction Message-ID: Hello Sam and all, I very much regret that wording and mis-spelling and believe me: I am happy to know you as my friend and hope this will not change for many many years to come. Bernd, DF2ZC, is absolutely right on this being a typical mistake of a non-native speaker .....and I just proved this fact again, blame it all on me. I take the full responsibility for it! I think I owe you a beer, next time we meat, which hopefully will be very soon. What I actually wanted to refer to in that DUBUS text was simply your very recent achievement of designing low noise amplifiers for our community. Please accept my apologies for causing this trouble to you, unfortunately I could not repond earlier, as I was travelling yesterday. vy 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What I actually wanted to refer to in that DUBUS text was simply your very recent achievement of designing low noise amplifiers for our community. Please accept my apologies for causing this trouble to you, unfortunately I could not repond earlier, as I was travelling yesterday. vy 73 de Michael, DL1YMK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/20090308/cca0d603/attachment.htm From k2dh at frontiernet.net Sun Mar 8 15:15:56 2009 From: k2dh at frontiernet.net (Dave Hallidy) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:56 -0400 Subject: [Moon] K2DH 1296 EME March 7/8 Message-ID: All- I had a great time Saturday on 23cm. Lots of acitivty- thanks all for the FB random CW QSO's: 2006 OZ4MM, 2011 SM6FHZ, 2019 SM2CEW, 2118 G4CCH, 2158 NA4N, 2210 VE3KRP, 2217 LA9NEA, 2231 SV3AAF, 2244 HB9MOON, 2303 K2UYH, 2310 VE6TA, 2324 DF3RU, 0321 K5SO. For the most part, signals were strong, but I noticed a lot of deep libration QSB, sometimes taking out whole letters. I did some SSB echo testing and at times the SSB echoes were quite good, but at others, same thing- big holes in the return. The new SSPA is finally fully integrated into the station and is working very well after a few "glitches" getting it going. It worked without a hitch the whole time and produces a very nice 500W+ (I can saturate it at almost 600, but what's the point) and it is soooo nice not having to worry about tuning/tuning drift, high voltage arcs or water leaks, etc. I owe a big THANK YOU to Goran AD6IW for his fine work designing and building this amplifier! I will be active again later on Sunday (the moon clears my trees at about 2100Z today), so for anyone who will be up, I'll be around. Next goal at K2DH- get 13cm and 9cm going. I have all the gear for both bands and should (might) have 13cm running by next month if the weather cooperates. 73 Dave K2DH From lz2us at orbinet.bg Mon Mar 9 09:52:28 2009 From: lz2us at orbinet.bg (Marko Tsekov) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:52:28 +0200 Subject: [Moon] WTB: KENWOOD TS-790E TRANSCEIVER Message-ID: <001501c9a094$60a8f7e0$a2f1cb58@Me> Hello, Prehaps somebody has such radio for sale? 73 Marko LZ2US -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090309/ed1bcbed/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Tue Mar 10 08:35:52 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:35:52 +0100 Subject: [Moon] test Message-ID: please ignore Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090310/5a61321c/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Tue Mar 10 08:47:47 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:47:47 +0100 Subject: [Moon] activities Message-ID: Hello EME gang, I would like to share info with all of you about new 432 MHz feed and whole new feed point which I am building now. More info and pictures here: http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/technic/432feed/432feed.htm So like last year, I am also for year 2009 preparing EME DX pedition with Zdenek OK3RM and new EME guy Vaclav OK3VM which is building now 144 MHz system and helping to Zdenek OK3RM with building of his 5 m dish. We have plan for E7 or GU. Now we are recognizing situation about license and possibility to use EME QRO. Expected QRGs 432 - 1296 - 2320 - 3400 MHz. How looks setup for 3400 MHz after reconstruction and pedition to OM/OK1DFC last year you can see here: http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/3400/units/units.htm ( Worked LX1DB and OK1KIR ) I have also prepared new web with links to 3,4 GHz EME. If you have any usable link or info, please send to my e-mail and I will put the all available information there. http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/3400/3-4ghz.htm Looking forward to work many of you on 3,4 soon, thanks and best regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090310/31ab36b1/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Tue Mar 10 23:51:27 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:51:27 +0100 Subject: [Moon] for sale Message-ID: Hi Guys, I have at home for sale new TRV 1296/28 MHz made in DB6NT. TR1296H-28MHz - DB6NT price 1185 EUR. I am asking for 950EUR if anybody interesting, let me know. First is winner. Regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090310/ed7f2429/attachment.htm From kc3re at yahoo.com Wed Mar 11 03:47:51 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] 144 & 432 CW skeds to test rover Message-ID: <103752.35805.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I am looking to test my new rover configuration on moonrise and moonset from FM18dp (elevation winch not yet installed,) either 144.075 or 432.075 CW. Would anyone have time for a sked: Friday 13, 1110 UTC, set Saturday 14, 0240 UTC, rise Saturday 14, 1140 UTC, set Sunday 15, 0340 UTC, rise Sunday 15, 1210 UTC, set I imagine I would have to try with fairly large stations. My rover station-probably the maximum antennas and amplifiers I can presently operate from the car is: 144: 375 W, 2X15 el K1FO H pol 432: 120 W, 2X28 el M2 H pol Many thanks. 73, Martin, KC3RE, FM18dp From zl1rs at yahoo.com Thu Mar 12 00:12:48 2009 From: zl1rs at yahoo.com (Bob Sutton) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] EME dxpedition announcement Message-ID: <200930.58815.qm@web38706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello all, 6M and 2M dxpedition to the south Cook Islands - E51 Lance W7GJ and Bob ZL1RS will meet in Rarotonga in late March to operate on 6 and 2 meters from BG08dr. Activity should commence on 26 March and run until 04 April on both bands, with an additional 1 or 2 days of activity on 2M possible until 06 April. The holiday house location has an excellent takeoff over Muri lagoon to our moonrise so we look forward to some interesting ground gain effects! Unfortunately there will be some obstruction at moonset due to the hills in that direction. 6M callsign E51SIX, and QSLs for 6M only go to W7GJ 2M callsign E51EME, and QSLs for 2M only go to ZL1RS Lance has the E51SIX 6M operation information on his website: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/E51SIX.htm Bob has the E51EME 2M operation information on his website: http://www.qsl.net/zl1rs/ (follow the obvious link) Good luck ... and remember to S-P-R-E-A-D O-U-T when calling :-) 73, Bob ZL1RS and Lance W7GJ zl1rs at yahoo.com http://www.qsl.net/zl1rs/ web site updated 11 Mar 09 From kc3re at yahoo.com Thu Mar 12 14:04:18 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] skeds to test rover Message-ID: <358751.50330.qm@web51311.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I now have two CW skeds on my moonrise from FM18dp: 14 March, 0240-0340, IK2DDR, 144.075, two-minute period, IK2DDR first. 15 March, 0340-0440, DL9KR, 432.075, two-minute period, DL9KR first. No skeds yet for moonset if anyone would still like to try 14 March 1140 15 March 1210 432.075: 120W 2X 28 el M2 H pol 144.075: 375w 2X 15 el K1FO H pol Many thanks! 73, Martin, KC3RE From pkb100 at btinternet.com Fri Mar 13 09:40:24 2009 From: pkb100 at btinternet.com (Peter Blair) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:40:24 -0000 Subject: [Moon] HP86220A sweeper module Message-ID: <553ADB62354E4C5DA97FD942EB56DF2D@D7BX6Z0J> I have an intermittency on the single board inside the HP 86220A sweeper module 10-1300MHz and to cure it I need a circuit diagram of the board . Does anyone out there have one they could send me please. thanks, Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090314/ac325dbc/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Sun Mar 15 19:49:07 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:49:07 +0000 Subject: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events Message-ID: <20090315184512.0D048329EE@mail.allt1.se> Moonbouncers, I have now updated the reports from our CW EME event in March. http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_logs.html There are lots of reports and interesting pictures there, thanks guys! Take a special look at the link provided under DL5MAE's report. Wolfgang and friends made a tremendous effort during 2008 in the German club competition, and ended up as #1! Congrats are in order! This club effort kept Wolfgang so busy that he missed a lot of EME activities, but it seems like it was well worth it. For those who have forgotten to send their report for March, no problem, just drop me a line. The dates for coming events are published at http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_dates.html We have tried to make as good compromises as possible, especially attempting to avoid collisions with other announced EME activities. If there are any problems, please let me know so we can correct them in time. I have no clue when the ARRL EME Activity weekends are scheduled this year, but most likely in October/November?. Will their Microwave activity session crash with the ARI EME Contest in September? 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com From dl5mae at yahoo.de Sun Mar 15 21:02:34 2009 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:02:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events In-Reply-To: <20090315184512.0D048329EE@mail.allt1.se> Message-ID: <723337.32832.qm@web23708.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi Peter, TNX! Of course, it was? a club-competition and the success was only possible because of many ACTIVE MEMBERs of our club. Detailled infos one may find on: http://www.ov-erding.de and then click on:? CM2008 Many pictures there (some stories in GErman...but pictures may tell you more then long stories...) . vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang --- Peter Sundberg schrieb am So, 15.3.2009: Von: Peter Sundberg Betreff: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events An: moon at moonbounce.info Datum: Sonntag, 15. M?rz 2009, 19:49 Moonbouncers, I have now updated the reports from our CW EME event in March. http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_logs.html There are lots of reports and interesting pictures there, thanks guys! Take a special look at the link provided under DL5MAE's report. Wolfgang and friends made a tremendous effort during 2008 in the German club competition, and ended up as #1! Congrats are in order! This club effort kept Wolfgang so busy that he missed a lot of EME activities, but it seems like it was well worth it. For those who have forgotten to send their report for March, no problem, just drop me a line. The dates for coming events are published at http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_dates.html We have tried to make as good compromises as possible, especially attempting to avoid collisions with other announced EME activities. If there are any problems, please let me know so we can correct them in time. I have no clue when the ARRL EME Activity weekends are scheduled this year, but most likely in October/November?. Will their Microwave activity session crash with the ARI EME Contest in September? 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com _______________________________________________ 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/20090315/0800b8ce/attachment.htm From jimmyv at hol.gr Sun Mar 15 21:14:01 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (Dimitris Vitorakis) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:14:01 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events References: <723337.32832.qm@web23708.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <975FFB26032E4E5987A917CC30064A64@mar.intralot.com> TRUE RADIO at its best ! Congrats to the Club Team !!! 73 Jimmy SV1BTR ----- Original Message ----- From: Wolfgang Schlaffer To: Peter Sundberg Cc: moon at moonbounce.info Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events Hi Peter, TNX! Of course, it was a club-competition and the success was only possible because of many ACTIVE MEMBERs of our club. Detailled infos one may find on: http://www.ov-erding.de and then click on: CM2008 Many pictures there (some stories in GErman...but pictures may tell you more then long stories...) . vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang --- Peter Sundberg schrieb am So, 15.3.2009: Von: Peter Sundberg Betreff: [Moon] Dubus CW EME Activity Events An: moon at moonbounce.info Datum: Sonntag, 15. M?rz 2009, 19:49 Moonbouncers,I have now updated the reports from our CW EME event in March.http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_logs.htmlThere are lots of reports and interesting pictures there, thanks guys! Take a special look at the link provided under DL5MAE's report. Wolfgangand friends made a tremendous effort during 2008 in the German clubcompetition, and ended up as #1! Congrats are in order! This club effort kept Wolfgang so busy that he missed a lot of EMEactivities, but it seems like it was well worth it.For those who have forgotten to send their report for March, no problem,just drop me a line.The dates for coming events are published athttp://www.sm2cew.com/aw_dates.htmlWe have tried to make as good compromises as possible, especiallyattempting to avoid collisions with other announced EME activities. Ifthere are any problems, please let me know so we can correct them in time. I have no clue when the ARRL EME Activity weekends are scheduled this year,but most likely in October/November?. Will their Microwave activitysession crash with the ARI EME Contest in September? 73 de Peter SM2CEWwww.sm2cew.com_______________________________________________Moon mailing listMoon at moonbounce.infohttp://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 removeyou from the list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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... 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De John PA5MS From dl1ymk at aol.com Mon Mar 16 08:48:53 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:48:53 -0400 Subject: [Moon] USB-Interface SB-1000 Message-ID: <8CB7422C99D9CC2-B84-B619@webmail-dh14.sysops.aol.com> Hi all, is anybody out there, who can tell me, which type of IC (managing input/output signals) apart from a CP2102 USB/serial converter is used in the CG SB-1000 USB-interface unit from CG Antenna Ltd? Also, a circuit diagram would be most helpful..... tnx es 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... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090316/fff9a30c/attachment.htm From sm4ive at telia.com Mon Mar 16 16:13:40 2009 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:13:40 +0100 Subject: [Moon] HP8970A References: Message-ID: <2772BAADD87A43F6925B98A08B080B78@RADIO> Zdenek prbaly the back up battery needs to be changed, after that do tha calibrating rutin 73 de Lars SM4IVE ----- Original Message ----- From: eme_ww2r To: OK1DFC ; Moon-Bounces Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Moon] HP8970A e27="overflow while calibrating" only time i have seen this was when the enr table got erased dave ww2r -----Original Message----- From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On Behalf Of OK1DFC Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:32 AM To: Moon-Bounces; Moon Net Subject: [Moon] HP8970A Hi guys, I have question, can anybody explain what is wrong when my HP8970A showing in display for N/F number E27 message please? Thanks in advance Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/20090316/8be55a63/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon Mar 16 18:22:25 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:22:25 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] HP8970A In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Guys, thanks to all for very usable information. I will follow up with and will info if problem solved. Best regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 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 OK1DFC Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:32 PM To: Moon-Bounces; Moon Net Subject: [Moon-net] HP8970A Hi guys, I have question, can anybody explain what is wrong when my HP8970A showing in display for N/F number E27 message please? Thanks in advance Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From funk-telegramm at t-online.de Wed Mar 18 19:18:26 2009 From: funk-telegramm at t-online.de (J. Kraft) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:18:26 +0100 Subject: [Moon] EU EME Contest 2009 In-Reply-To: <20090315184512.0D048329EE@mail.allt1.se> References: <20090315184512.0D048329EE@mail.allt1.se> Message-ID: <1Lk0LS-1d72zQ0@fwd05.aul.t-online.de> Hi all, the EU (REF/DUBUS) EME contest 2009 (CW/SSB) will take place on 144 MHz and 10 GHz and up on March 28 / 29 and 432 MHz and 5760 MHz on April 4 / 5. We hope for good participation and invite everybody to send also "small" logs! Full rules and details are on the web at http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EUEMEcontest2009.pdf or www.DUBUS.org -> EME pages Good luck and have fun in the contest! 73 Joe, DL8HCZ/CT1HZE From jimmyv at hol.gr Thu Mar 19 18:44:40 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:44:40 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Contests & numbers Message-ID: <20090319194440.63gs5bo540k0c8ok@easymail-app.hol.gr> Hi all It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also proven by numbers. DUBUS European WW EME Contest 2008 had 144 entries in CW and 14 in digital. That is a total of 158 entries for contest sections completely separated by mode. http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf for CW and http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf for digital On the other hand, a mixed contest such as ARRL EME Competition 2008 had a total of 140 entries in both modes (even with a lot of ''good will to friends' entries'' just to increase number of logs). http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/index.html (btw, congrats to HB9Q team for 1st place Multi-Operator All-Band Mixed-Mode and all running unassisted) http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html So clearly numbers show which EME Contest is better (EU EME WW by DUBUS) a moonbounce contest solely devoted to RADIO, which does not need the anti-ham spirit use of Internet, as ARRL one does. 73 Jimmy SV1BTR From dfaessler at bluewin.ch Thu Mar 19 19:13:40 2009 From: dfaessler at bluewin.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dominique_F=E4ssler_=28HB9BBD=29?=) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:13:40 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Contests & numbers In-Reply-To: <20090319194440.63gs5bo540k0c8ok@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: <49B2F11B004F627E@tr11.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) Jimmy, SV1BTR writes: Hi all It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also proven by numbers. DUBUS European WW EME Contest 2008 had 144 entries in CW and 14 in digital. That is a total of 158 entries for contest sections completely separated by mode. http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf for CW and http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf for digital On the other hand, a mixed contest such as ARRL EME Competition 2008 had a total of 140 entries in both modes (even with a lot of ''good will to friends' entries'' just to increase number of logs). http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/index.html (btw, congrats to HB9Q team for 1st place Multi-Operator All-Band Mixed-Mode and all running unassisted) http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html So clearly numbers show which EME Contest is better (EU EME WW by DUBUS) a moonbounce contest solely devoted to RADIO, which does not need the anti-ham spirit use of Internet, as ARRL one does. 73 Jimmy SV1BTR _______________________________________________ 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 joe at Princeton.EDU Fri Mar 20 15:53:17 2009 From: joe at Princeton.EDU (Joe Taylor) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:53:17 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Contests & numbers Message-ID: <49C3ADDD.7010002@princeton.edu> Hi Jimmy, SV1BTR wrote: > It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been > also proven by numbers. When you want to have something proven by numbers, it's a good idea to get the numbers right. The REF/DUBUS contest results show CW entries from 83 stations, (not 144 as you claim), and digital entries from 15 stations (not 14). Six of the stations submitting a digital entry also entered the CW segment. The REF/DUBUS results show entries from 92 stations in all. There are, or course, a number of multi-band entries with callsigns listed more than once. If the same thing were done with entries in the ARRL contest, it would have close to 200 "entries". Interestingly, "Mixed" was by far the the most popular mode category in the ARRL contest: Mixed: 62 Analog: 44 Digital: 25 (There were also 9 entries using the microwave bands only, where no mode distinctions are made.) I think the ARRL and DUBUS contests were both very enjoyable for everyone who participated. We missed you in the ARRL contest, and I hope you'll be back next year. Perhaps the rules will be more to your liking by then. I will look forward to working you on your favorite mode. -- 73, Joe, K1JT From jimmyv at hol.gr Fri Mar 20 17:38:26 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:38:26 +0200 Subject: [Moon] EME Contests & numbers Message-ID: <20090320183826.eencev48g0o0ck0s@easymail-app.hol.gr> Hi Joe Once more you choose to intepret my words in a way that would suit you and ARRL for obvious miscommunication reasons. As such, your deliberate count is wrong. I wrote the word entries, as anyone can clearly see in my yesterday's public post (pasted below yours). You choose to not interpet the word entry as stations per band, which complies to contest rules. This is clearly wrong, as a station can for example enter on 2m & 70cm, this makes 2 separate entries being submitted. Sorry but Contest rules must be respected. And to compare apples with apples according to rules eligible for each Contest. Thus, DUBUS EU EME WW 2008 Contest http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf and http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf has: 141 entries in CW in total per band, and 35 multi-band entries. Digital has 15 entries indeed. (typing errors as i had written 144 & 14 yesterday). If one counts ARRL 2008 EME Competition logs submitted, - even without anyone checking logs vs loggers !!! - he will find the total number to be 140. http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html For ARRL I count all the entries in all winning categories as per rules also (if i chose to do that for DUBUS, where i count only entries per band, it would become 141+35+15=191) This clearly proves: a. that an EME Contest devoted to RADIO (DUBUS EU EME WW), with logs being thoroughly checked, and not use of Internet (ARRL for the Assisted class) is more popular and preferred. b. that EME Contests separated by mode are more successful Your comment on Mixed class (ARRL) being the most popular does not surprise me at all. Why? Because ARRL chooses not to display the breakdown of QSOs between CW and Digital. Why don't you take a look in 2006+2007 results where one clearly sees that for the Mixed entries, the proportion of Digital to CW is roughly speaking 90%-10%. Or even 95%-5%. On the band that mixed entries enjoy the absolute highest number (2m). Therefore, the answer to your remark that Mixed class has been most popular is because it is so easy to work 90% in digital and 10% in cw and one claim he works both modes being a ''heavyweight'' station. Everything for the ''fame''. Even more, an assisted ''heavyweight'' one.....my goodness, how difficult that is! Thank you for missing me in 2008 ARRL EME Competition and wishing me to come back to 2009 one. I have also missed working you and all old and new friends. Being qrv on EME Contests for 14 years and choosing to not participate at ARRL 2008 has not been an easy decision to take. However, as you well know i did not participate at all due to the detrimental, to Radio, Contest rules that have gone way too far. Certainly if ARRL 2009 rules separate entirely Contest by mode (as DUBUS and ARI do), regardless if Digital section has its own easier rules, i will be happy to come back and be qrv in the CW section. If not, i look forward to work you in DUBUS EU WW EME Contest 2010 (since i will miss the 2009 one due to qrl abroad). 73 Jimmy SV1BTR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Taylor" To: ; "Moon" Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Contests & numbers > Hi Jimmy, > > SV1BTR wrote: >> It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also >> proven by numbers. > > When you want to have something proven by numbers, it's a good idea > to get the numbers right. > > The REF/DUBUS contest results show CW entries from 83 stations, (not > 144 as you claim), and digital entries from 15 stations (not 14). > Six of the stations submitting a digital entry also entered the CW > segment. The REF/DUBUS results show entries from 92 stations in all. > > There are, or course, a number of multi-band entries with callsigns > listed more than once. If the same thing were done with entries in > the ARRL contest, it would have close to 200 "entries". > > Interestingly, "Mixed" was by far the the most popular mode category > in the ARRL contest: > > Mixed: 62 > Analog: 44 > Digital: 25 > > (There were also 9 entries using the microwave bands only, where no > mode distinctions are made.) > > I think the ARRL and DUBUS contests were both very enjoyable for > everyone who participated. > > We missed you in the ARRL contest, and I hope you'll be back next > year. Perhaps the rules will be more to your liking by then. I > will look forward to working you on your favorite mode. > -- 73, Joe, K1JT > ----- ???????? ????????? ??? jimmyv at hol.gr ----- ??????????:Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:44:40 +0200 ???:jimmyv at hol.gr ????????-????: jimmyv at hol.gr ????:Contests & numbers ????:moon at moonbounce.info Hi all It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also proven by numbers. DUBUS European WW EME Contest 2008 had 144 entries in CW and 14 in digital. That is a total of 158 entries for contest sections completely separated by mode. http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf for CW and http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf for digital On the other hand, a mixed contest such as ARRL EME Competition 2008 had a total of 140 entries in both modes (even with a lot of ''good will to friends' entries'' just to increase number of logs). http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/index.html (btw, congrats to HB9Q team for 1st place Multi-Operator All-Band Mixed-Mode and all running unassisted) http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html So clearly numbers show which EME Contest is better (EU EME WW by DUBUS) a moonbounce contest solely devoted to RADIO, which does not need the anti-ham spirit use of Internet, as ARRL one does. 73 Jimmy SV1BTR From jimmyv at hol.gr Fri Mar 20 18:13:51 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:13:51 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Correction: mixed class breakdown In-Reply-To: <20090320183826.eencev48g0o0ck0s@easymail-app.hol.gr> References: <20090320183826.eencev48g0o0ck0s@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: <20090320191351.inrtmsaagcgko84c@easymail-app.hol.gr> Hi Joe Correction: I just saw that ARRL EME Competition 2008 results display the breakdown between Analog and Digital QSOs for the Mixed class. As in previous years. That strengthens even further my previous argument below. If one looks for example at the most popular Single Op. Assisted Mixed class on 2m, he will see that the percentage of analog to digital QSOs is even less than 5%-95%. No wonder why ''internet and mode easy'' to get more points, is popular. Also, looking closely i observed a lot of zero QSOs in analog and all being in Digital, but still entries appearing in the Mixed class. Another mystery. http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html 73 Jimmy SV1BTR Quoting jimmyv at hol.gr: > Hi Joe > > Once more you choose to intepret my words in a way that would suit you > and ARRL for obvious miscommunication reasons. As such, your > deliberate count is wrong. I wrote the word entries, as anyone can > clearly see in my yesterday's public post (pasted below yours). You > choose to not interpet the word entry as stations per band, which > complies to contest rules. This is clearly wrong, as a station can for > example enter on 2m & 70cm, this makes 2 separate entries being > submitted. Sorry but Contest rules must be respected. And to compare > apples with apples according to rules eligible for each Contest. > > Thus, DUBUS EU EME WW 2008 Contest > http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf and > http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf has: > 141 entries in CW in total per band, and 35 multi-band entries. > Digital has 15 entries indeed. (typing errors as i had written 144 & > 14 yesterday). > > If one counts ARRL 2008 EME Competition logs submitted, - even > without anyone checking logs vs loggers !!! - he will find the total > number to be 140. > http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html > For ARRL I count all the entries in all winning categories as per > rules also (if i chose to do that for DUBUS, where i count only > entries per band, it would become 141+35+15=191) > > This clearly proves: > a. that an EME Contest devoted to RADIO (DUBUS EU EME WW), with logs > being thoroughly checked, and not use of Internet (ARRL for the > Assisted class) is more popular and preferred. > b. that EME Contests separated by mode are more successful > > Your comment on Mixed class (ARRL) being the most popular does not > surprise me at all. Why? Because ARRL chooses not to display the > breakdown of QSOs between CW and Digital. Why don't you take a look in > 2006+2007 results where one clearly sees that for the Mixed entries, > the proportion of Digital to CW is roughly speaking 90%-10%. Or even > 95%-5%. On the band that mixed entries enjoy the absolute highest > number (2m). > Therefore, the answer to your remark that Mixed class has been most > popular is because it is so easy to work 90% in digital and 10% in cw > and one claim he works both modes being a ''heavyweight'' station. > Everything for the ''fame''. Even more, an assisted ''heavyweight'' > one.....my goodness, how difficult that is! > > Thank you for missing me in 2008 ARRL EME Competition and wishing me > to come back to 2009 one. I have also missed working you and all old > and new friends. Being qrv on EME Contests for 14 years and choosing > to not participate at ARRL 2008 has not been an easy decision to take. > However, as you well know i did not participate at all due to the > detrimental, to Radio, Contest rules that have gone way too far. > Certainly if ARRL 2009 rules separate entirely Contest by mode (as > DUBUS and ARI do), regardless if Digital section has its own easier > rules, i will be happy to come back and be qrv in the CW section. If > not, i look forward to work you in DUBUS EU WW EME Contest 2010 (since > i will miss the 2009 one due to qrl abroad). > > 73 > Jimmy SV1BTR > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Taylor" > To: ; "Moon" > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:53 PM > Subject: Re: Contests & numbers > > >> Hi Jimmy, >> >> SV1BTR wrote: >>> It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also >>> proven by numbers. >> >> When you want to have something proven by numbers, it's a good idea >> to get the numbers right. >> >> The REF/DUBUS contest results show CW entries from 83 stations, >> (not 144 as you claim), and digital entries from 15 stations (not >> 14). Six of the stations submitting a digital entry also entered >> the CW segment. The REF/DUBUS results show entries from 92 >> stations in all. >> >> There are, or course, a number of multi-band entries with callsigns >> listed more than once. If the same thing were done with entries >> in the ARRL contest, it would have close to 200 "entries". >> >> Interestingly, "Mixed" was by far the the most popular mode >> category in the ARRL contest: >> >> Mixed: 62 >> Analog: 44 >> Digital: 25 >> >> (There were also 9 entries using the microwave bands only, where no >> mode distinctions are made.) >> >> I think the ARRL and DUBUS contests were both very enjoyable for >> everyone who participated. >> >> We missed you in the ARRL contest, and I hope you'll be back next >> year. Perhaps the rules will be more to your liking by then. I >> will look forward to working you on your favorite mode. >> -- 73, Joe, K1JT From sm2cew at telia.com Fri Mar 20 19:59:17 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:59:17 +0000 Subject: [Moon] Correction: mixed class breakdown In-Reply-To: <20090320191351.inrtmsaagcgko84c@easymail-app.hol.gr> References: <20090320183826.eencev48g0o0ck0s@easymail-app.hol.gr> <20090320183826.eencev48g0o0ck0s@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: <20090320185514.456DD16853@mail.allt1.se> Jimmy, The ARRL rules are a joke. "3.5 Assisted operation (Assisted). Any active or passive use of amateur or non-amateur communication tools used during the contest period to solicit and/or coordinate a contact prior to the start of that contact." "Self spotting is allowed" "5.3.4 Single Operator, Mixed Mode, Assisted. This category is intended to encourage smaller stations and operators who may be new to EME. It applies only to single-band operation on 144, 432, or 1296 MHz." I won't list the top 15 in the 144 MHz category, but they surely aren't new to EME, or small stations. Full success one might say, or..? But don't call this a radio contest. Then again, I am probably not allowed to have an opinion, as I did not turn in a log last year. 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com At 17:13 2009-03-20 , jimmyv at hol.gr wrote: >Hi Joe > >Correction: I just saw that ARRL EME Competition 2008 results display >the breakdown between Analog and Digital QSOs for the Mixed class. As >in previous years. >That strengthens even further my previous argument below. If one looks >for example at the most popular Single Op. Assisted Mixed class on 2m, >he will see that the percentage of analog to digital QSOs is even less >than 5%-95%. No wonder why ''internet and mode easy'' to get more >points, is popular. Also, looking closely i observed a lot of zero >QSOs in analog and all being in Digital, but still entries appearing >in the Mixed class. Another mystery. >http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html > >73 >Jimmy SV1BTR > >Quoting jimmyv at hol.gr: > >> Hi Joe >> >> Once more you choose to intepret my words in a way that would suit you >> and ARRL for obvious miscommunication reasons. As such, your >> deliberate count is wrong. I wrote the word entries, as anyone can >> clearly see in my yesterday's public post (pasted below yours). You >> choose to not interpet the word entry as stations per band, which >> complies to contest rules. This is clearly wrong, as a station can for >> example enter on 2m & 70cm, this makes 2 separate entries being >> submitted. Sorry but Contest rules must be respected. And to compare >> apples with apples according to rules eligible for each Contest. >> >> Thus, DUBUS EU EME WW 2008 Contest >> http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf and >> http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf has: >> 141 entries in CW in total per band, and 35 multi-band entries. >> Digital has 15 entries indeed. (typing errors as i had written 144 & >> 14 yesterday). >> >> If one counts ARRL 2008 EME Competition logs submitted, - even >> without anyone checking logs vs loggers !!! - he will find the total >> number to be 140. >> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html >> For ARRL I count all the entries in all winning categories as per >> rules also (if i chose to do that for DUBUS, where i count only >> entries per band, it would become 141+35+15=191) >> >> This clearly proves: >> a. that an EME Contest devoted to RADIO (DUBUS EU EME WW), with logs >> being thoroughly checked, and not use of Internet (ARRL for the >> Assisted class) is more popular and preferred. >> b. that EME Contests separated by mode are more successful >> >> Your comment on Mixed class (ARRL) being the most popular does not >> surprise me at all. Why? Because ARRL chooses not to display the >> breakdown of QSOs between CW and Digital. Why don't you take a look in >> 2006+2007 results where one clearly sees that for the Mixed entries, >> the proportion of Digital to CW is roughly speaking 90%-10%. Or even >> 95%-5%. On the band that mixed entries enjoy the absolute highest >> number (2m). >> Therefore, the answer to your remark that Mixed class has been most >> popular is because it is so easy to work 90% in digital and 10% in cw >> and one claim he works both modes being a ''heavyweight'' station. >> Everything for the ''fame''. Even more, an assisted ''heavyweight'' >> one.....my goodness, how difficult that is! >> >> Thank you for missing me in 2008 ARRL EME Competition and wishing me >> to come back to 2009 one. I have also missed working you and all old >> and new friends. Being qrv on EME Contests for 14 years and choosing >> to not participate at ARRL 2008 has not been an easy decision to take. >> However, as you well know i did not participate at all due to the >> detrimental, to Radio, Contest rules that have gone way too far. >> Certainly if ARRL 2009 rules separate entirely Contest by mode (as >> DUBUS and ARI do), regardless if Digital section has its own easier >> rules, i will be happy to come back and be qrv in the CW section. If >> not, i look forward to work you in DUBUS EU WW EME Contest 2010 (since >> i will miss the 2009 one due to qrl abroad). >> >> 73 >> Jimmy SV1BTR >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joe Taylor" >> To: ; "Moon" >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:53 PM >> Subject: Re: Contests & numbers >> >> >>> Hi Jimmy, >>> >>> SV1BTR wrote: >>>> It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also >>>> proven by numbers. >>> >>> When you want to have something proven by numbers, it's a good idea >>> to get the numbers right. >>> >>> The REF/DUBUS contest results show CW entries from 83 stations, >>> (not 144 as you claim), and digital entries from 15 stations (not >>> 14). Six of the stations submitting a digital entry also entered >>> the CW segment. The REF/DUBUS results show entries from 92 >>> stations in all. >>> >>> There are, or course, a number of multi-band entries with callsigns >>> listed more than once. If the same thing were done with entries >>> in the ARRL contest, it would have close to 200 "entries". >>> >>> Interestingly, "Mixed" was by far the the most popular mode >>> category in the ARRL contest: >>> >>> Mixed: 62 >>> Analog: 44 >>> Digital: 25 >>> >>> (There were also 9 entries using the microwave bands only, where no >>> mode distinctions are made.) >>> >>> I think the ARRL and DUBUS contests were both very enjoyable for >>> everyone who participated. >>> >>> We missed you in the ARRL contest, and I hope you'll be back next >>> year. Perhaps the rules will be more to your liking by then. I >>> will look forward to working you on your favorite mode. >>> -- 73, Joe, K1JT > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 kim at oz5iq.dk Fri Mar 20 21:46:33 2009 From: kim at oz5iq.dk (Kim Liljekrans [OZ5IQ]) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:46:33 +0100 Subject: [Moon] General Message-ID: HI Guyes To let you all know, who this " Jordan" who has been taken advantage of the knowledge / kindly persons of this server, the "Jordan " were : His Call were N0IPL BUT Call is NOW changed to W1IPL I would NORMALLY NEVER publish such a call, but I feel the person roughly has been cheaten the kindly and VY helpfull attitude on this server. 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090320/6c4c0fce/attachment-0001.htm From frankddr at tele2.it Sat Mar 21 13:19:52 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:19:52 +0100 Subject: [Moon] R: Correction: mixed class breakdown In-Reply-To: <20090320191351.inrtmsaagcgko84c@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: I'm really a bit surprised to see a so very poor number of logs for that that was, untill some years ago, the most popular eme contest. I have not send my log, because not in agreement with the presence of the assisted mode, that in a contest would never been accepted. I saw that in my analog class (only 144 cw), my results are valid for the 2nd place, right behind LA8BY, but this is not important. I wish that, if possible, the ASSISTED CLASS will be cancelled. We have one entire year to do self spotting or to arrange skeds in real time, for tests on the loggers. We can resist without problems, if during our 3 eme recognized Contest (ARRL-DUBUS-ARI) we back all on working only on random. Less qsos, but much more fun and the ability of the operatore improves. ...only my 2 cent point of view, with full respect of all eme operators. Ciao Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di jimmyv at hol.gr Inviato: venerdi 20 marzo 2009 18.14 A: joe at Princeton.EDU; moon at moonbounce.info Oggetto: [Moon] Correction: mixed class breakdown Hi Joe Correction: I just saw that ARRL EME Competition 2008 results display the breakdown between Analog and Digital QSOs for the Mixed class. As in previous years. That strengthens even further my previous argument below. If one looks for example at the most popular Single Op. Assisted Mixed class on 2m, he will see that the percentage of analog to digital QSOs is even less than 5%-95%. No wonder why ''internet and mode easy'' to get more points, is popular. Also, looking closely i observed a lot of zero QSOs in analog and all being in Digital, but still entries appearing in the Mixed class. Another mystery. http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html 73 Jimmy SV1BTR Quoting jimmyv at hol.gr: > Hi Joe > > Once more you choose to intepret my words in a way that would suit you > and ARRL for obvious miscommunication reasons. As such, your > deliberate count is wrong. I wrote the word entries, as anyone can > clearly see in my yesterday's public post (pasted below yours). You > choose to not interpet the word entry as stations per band, which > complies to contest rules. This is clearly wrong, as a station can for > example enter on 2m & 70cm, this makes 2 separate entries being > submitted. Sorry but Contest rules must be respected. And to compare > apples with apples according to rules eligible for each Contest. > > Thus, DUBUS EU EME WW 2008 Contest > http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008result.pdf and > http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMECont2008digires.pdf has: > 141 entries in CW in total per band, and 35 multi-band entries. > Digital has 15 entries indeed. (typing errors as i had written 144 & > 14 yesterday). > > If one counts ARRL 2008 EME Competition logs submitted, - even > without anyone checking logs vs loggers !!! - he will find the total > number to be 140. > http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2008/EME/errants.html > For ARRL I count all the entries in all winning categories as per > rules also (if i chose to do that for DUBUS, where i count only > entries per band, it would become 141+35+15=191) > > This clearly proves: > a. that an EME Contest devoted to RADIO (DUBUS EU EME WW), with logs > being thoroughly checked, and not use of Internet (ARRL for the > Assisted class) is more popular and preferred. > b. that EME Contests separated by mode are more successful > > Your comment on Mixed class (ARRL) being the most popular does not > surprise me at all. Why? Because ARRL chooses not to display the > breakdown of QSOs between CW and Digital. Why don't you take a look in > 2006+2007 results where one clearly sees that for the Mixed entries, > the proportion of Digital to CW is roughly speaking 90%-10%. Or even > 95%-5%. On the band that mixed entries enjoy the absolute highest > number (2m). > Therefore, the answer to your remark that Mixed class has been most > popular is because it is so easy to work 90% in digital and 10% in cw > and one claim he works both modes being a ''heavyweight'' station. > Everything for the ''fame''. Even more, an assisted ''heavyweight'' > one.....my goodness, how difficult that is! > > Thank you for missing me in 2008 ARRL EME Competition and wishing me > to come back to 2009 one. I have also missed working you and all old > and new friends. Being qrv on EME Contests for 14 years and choosing > to not participate at ARRL 2008 has not been an easy decision to take. > However, as you well know i did not participate at all due to the > detrimental, to Radio, Contest rules that have gone way too far. > Certainly if ARRL 2009 rules separate entirely Contest by mode (as > DUBUS and ARI do), regardless if Digital section has its own easier > rules, i will be happy to come back and be qrv in the CW section. If > not, i look forward to work you in DUBUS EU WW EME Contest 2010 (since > i will miss the 2009 one due to qrl abroad). > > 73 > Jimmy SV1BTR > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Taylor" > To: ; "Moon" > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:53 PM > Subject: Re: Contests & numbers > > >> Hi Jimmy, >> >> SV1BTR wrote: >>> It is with great interest that what i anticipated has been also >>> proven by numbers. >> >> When you want to have something proven by numbers, it's a good idea >> to get the numbers right. >> >> The REF/DUBUS contest results show CW entries from 83 stations, >> (not 144 as you claim), and digital entries from 15 stations (not >> 14). Six of the stations submitting a digital entry also entered >> the CW segment. The REF/DUBUS results show entries from 92 >> stations in all. >> >> There are, or course, a number of multi-band entries with callsigns >> listed more than once. If the same thing were done with entries >> in the ARRL contest, it would have close to 200 "entries". >> >> Interestingly, "Mixed" was by far the the most popular mode >> category in the ARRL contest: >> >> Mixed: 62 >> Analog: 44 >> Digital: 25 >> >> (There were also 9 entries using the microwave bands only, where no >> mode distinctions are made.) >> >> I think the ARRL and DUBUS contests were both very enjoyable for >> everyone who participated. >> >> We missed you in the ARRL contest, and I hope you'll be back next >> year. Perhaps the rules will be more to your liking by then. I >> will look forward to working you on your favorite mode. >> -- 73, Joe, K1JT _______________________________________________ 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 dfaessler at bluewin.ch Sat Mar 21 14:57:13 2009 From: dfaessler at bluewin.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dominique_F=E4ssler_=28HB9BBD=29?=) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:57:13 +0100 Subject: [Moon] for ZL1WN Ross Biggar only In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <495B92A50244579F@tr12.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) Ross Could not send you mail regarding shippment. Twice was refused. Pls read belo: Ihre Nachricht hat einige oder alle Empf?nger nicht erreicht. Betreff: what you will receive Gesendet am: 21.03.2009 14:51 Folgende Empf?nger konnten nicht erreicht werden: 'Ross' am 21.03.2009 14:51 550 , Recipient unknown Pls advise 73 HB9BBD Dominique From g3zig at freenet.co.uk Sun Mar 22 10:10:29 2009 From: g3zig at freenet.co.uk (Roy Reed) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:10:29 +0000 Subject: [Moon] ARI 2008 Trophy Message-ID: <49C60085.27BC4003@freenet.co.uk> Hi Mario and all the organizers of the ARI eme contests,I thank you all for the wonderful trophy I received from you for the 2008 EME contest.It is admired by evryone who visit my shack. A big THANK YOU to all. 73 Roy. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.21/2014 - Release Date: 20/03/09 06:59 From frankddr at tele2.it Sun Mar 22 20:11:43 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:11:43 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Dubus award In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello Peter and all the Dubus staff. I just received yesterday,the Dubus Award for my 1st place on Dubus 2m eme activity event 2008. It's really very nice and appreciated. Thank you very much to all and see you in the next contest weekend . 73' Francesco,IK2DDR From g3zig at freenet.co.uk Sun Mar 22 21:31:48 2009 From: g3zig at freenet.co.uk (Roy Reed) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:31:48 +0000 Subject: [Moon] ARI 2008 Trophy References: <49C60085.27BC4003@freenet.co.uk> Message-ID: <49C6A034.2C3ED7AA@freenet.co.uk> Sorry it should have read 2007 !!!! not 2008.A senior moment !!! Roy Reed wrote: > > Hi Mario and all the organizers of the ARI eme contests,I thank you all > for the wonderful trophy I received from you for the 2008 EME contest.It > is admired by evryone who visit my shack. > A big THANK YOU to all. > 73 Roy. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.21/2014 - Release Date: 20/03/09 06:59 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.23/2016 - Release Date: 21/03/09 17:58 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.23/2016 - Release Date: 21/03/09 17:58 From jimmyv at hol.gr Mon Mar 23 03:53:02 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:53:02 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ARI EME Award Message-ID: <20090323045302.88menvvdw0wws8g0@easymail-app.hol.gr> Thank You to ARI cw EME Contest Organizers for the excellent 2007 award received, also. A jewel, as all of ARI awards, in the shack! 73 Jimmy SV1BTR From dfaessler at bluewin.ch Mon Mar 23 08:54:24 2009 From: dfaessler at bluewin.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dominique_F=E4ssler_=28HB9BBD=29?=) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:54:24 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <49B2F11B0064ADE3@tr11.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) These QRO stuff are typically very heavy and shipping is not likely. In which part of the globe you are is key to get reasonable replies on your request. You might also consider to tell us your callsign eventually?? HB9BBD -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] Im Auftrag von Patrick Barthelow Gesendet: Sonntag, 22. M?rz 2009 21:28 An: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Betreff: [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? Folks: Does anyone know if there is likely to be flood of reasonably priced, surplus 23 cm compatible, QRO Amps from the TV community, either now, or once the change over to digital TV occurs? If so, what kind of surplus channel will lilely be used, or created, for disposal by TV station engineers? Should one call the local Chapter of SBE (Society of Broadcast Engineers)? Best Regards, 73, Pat Barthelow apolloeme at live.com "Echoes of Apollo" A celebration of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing 40th Anniversary, http://www.echoesofapollo.com http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/ http://www.jamesburgdish.org _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From ejespers at telenet.be Mon Mar 23 19:02:13 2009 From: ejespers at telenet.be (Eddy Jespers) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:02:13 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? In-Reply-To: <012001c9abc6$96d22ac0$0202a8c0@CDX1> References: <49B2F11B0064ADE3@tr11.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) <012001c9abc6$96d22ac0$0202a8c0@CDX1> Message-ID: <000001c9abe1$7f069960$0301000a@SonyVaio> Barry, The highest frequency is not important, since we are using the cavity on 23 cm in a 3/4 wavelenght. So, the lowest frequency should be 1296 / 3 or 432 MHz. You can find some more information here : http://www.on7un.net/th327_cavity_mods.htm Best 73's Eddy ON7UN -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] Namens Barry Garratt Verzonden: maandag 23 maart 2009 15:50 Aan: 'Dominique F?ssler (HB9BBD)'; 'Patrick Barthelow'; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; moon at moonbounce.info Onderwerp: Re: [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? In NA the highest commercial TV channel is 53 at 704 MHz. I doubt any of that gear is suitable for 23 cm. 73, Barry VE3CDX/W7 Las Vegas, NV -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of Dominique F?ssler (HB9BBD) Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:54 AM To: 'Patrick Barthelow'; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; moon at moonbounce.info Subject: Re: [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? These QRO stuff are typically very heavy and shipping is not likely. In which part of the globe you are is key to get reasonable replies on your request. You might also consider to tell us your callsign eventually?? HB9BBD -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] Im Auftrag von Patrick Barthelow Gesendet: Sonntag, 22. M?rz 2009 21:28 An: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Betreff: [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? Folks: Does anyone know if there is likely to be flood of reasonably priced, surplus 23 cm compatible, QRO Amps from the TV community, either now, or once the change over to digital TV occurs? If so, what kind of surplus channel will lilely be used, or created, for disposal by TV station engineers? Should one call the local Chapter of SBE (Society of Broadcast Engineers)? Best Regards, 73, Pat Barthelow apolloeme at live.com "Echoes of Apollo" A celebration of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing 40th Anniversary, http://www.echoesofapollo.com http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/ http://www.jamesburgdish.org _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.23/2016 - Release Date: 03/21/09 17:58:00 _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From conrad at g0ruz.com Tue Mar 24 08:29:29 2009 From: conrad at g0ruz.com (Conrad G0RUZ) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:29:29 +0000 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? In-Reply-To: <49B2F11B0064ADE3@tr11.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) References: <49B2F11B0064ADE3@tr11.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) Message-ID: <49C88BD9.2030804@g0ruz.com> Dom I suspect that Pat's call is AA6EG, he is actively involved with the Jamesburg dish so why the somewhat aggressive post even if he has no callsign? Pat I doubt that there will be a flood of these TX's but there are likely to be a few. 73 Conrad G0RUZ Dominique F?ssler (HB9BBD) wrote: > These QRO stuff are typically very heavy and shipping is not likely. In > which part of the globe you are is key to get reasonable replies on your > request. You might also consider to tell us your callsign eventually?? > HB9BBD > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net > [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] Im Auftrag von Patrick > Barthelow > Gesendet: Sonntag, 22. M?rz 2009 21:28 > An: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net > Betreff: [Moon-net] 23 CM QRO tube/cavities fm Analog TV TX? > > > Folks: > > > > Does anyone know if there is likely to be flood of reasonably priced, > surplus 23 cm compatible, QRO Amps from the TV community, either now, or > once the change over to digital TV occurs? If so, what kind of surplus > channel will lilely be used, or created, for disposal by TV station > engineers? Should one call the local Chapter of SBE (Society of Broadcast > Engineers)? > > > Best Regards, 73, > Pat Barthelow apolloeme at live.com > "Echoes of Apollo" > A celebration of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing 40th Anniversary, > http://www.echoesofapollo.com > http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/ > http://www.jamesburgdish.org > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 kim at oz5iq.dk Tue Mar 24 09:33:11 2009 From: kim at oz5iq.dk (Kim Liljekrans [OZ5IQ]) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:33:11 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Re; N- Crimp connectors and more Message-ID: The Crimp type of N connectors can WELL be used, IF just prober precaucions is taken into account. The Crimp version makes a good both mechanical and electrical connection. It is JUST NOT WATERPROOF ! This is easily managed, by using Heatshrinking Flex WITH GLUE after the mounting of the connector. After the continue the heating process, untill the glue is being pressed out below the flex. It is watertight and it combines the strengh of a crimping and now the ability to keep water away. I have VY good experience with this selfvulcanicing tape if mounted correctly. I saw this used around a connector used on the beacon cable/connector SK4MPI 20 Y ago - where it has been in use at that time for ie 10Y. The Connector where as brandnew to look at. I have used this tkind of tape since - without any problems at all. Just rem. to strech it ie. 30 % before its added, and keep it streched . And afterwards wrap your hands around the "place" and heat it slightly up. Use it with great succes. VY 73 de OZ5IQ, Kim (ex. OZ1EME group ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090324/2c6aef7e/attachment.htm From jjm_f1ehn at wanadoo.fr Thu Mar 26 13:52:49 2009 From: jjm_f1ehn at wanadoo.fr (jjm) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:49 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Photos database of EME antennas - next update In-Reply-To: <1A2E39C3E0EC46DF9FCCC8693C13ABCA@P4JJB> References: <1A2E39C3E0EC46DF9FCCC8693C13ABCA@P4JJB> Message-ID: <2FF76B470B8C427690068AAF791509F1@PCLoggia> Dear EMErs, Today, there are more than 140 photos of antennas into the database covering the EME bands from 6m to > 1.2cm. http://picasaweb.google.com/papatoux The goal of this database is to quickly display during a QSO the photo of the antenna and the location of a DX station. Of course, the database can also be browsed with other tools like EME System and Google Earth at any moment. >>>>>> I have planned to do a new package at the end of March. <<<<<<<< If you wish to add your antenna's photo, please send it via email + info as indicated below: - a photo of your antenna (1 per band) ( > 640*480 pxl) - a comment / title of this photo (ex : F6KSX 3cm - 3.3m dish) - latitude and longitude of the antenna (if you wish) ** - your grid square (locator) - the nearest city to check the location of the photo - web site ? Find more information on my web site at the "download" page Thank you. Best 73. JJ F1EHN http://www.f1ehn.org ** Because a few people asked me about that, you can keep "secret" the exact position of your antenna with giving only the grid square or approximated lat/lon (like for a QSO or QSL card or current web site info).... From sp7dcs at wp.pl Thu Mar 26 20:01:22 2009 From: sp7dcs at wp.pl (Chris SP7DCS) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:01:22 +0100 Subject: [Moon] qrv 2m cw eme in Dubus contest Message-ID: <49CBD102.8010403@wp.pl> Hi, I plan to be qrv in Dubus contest this weekend on 2m CW eme. I will run with my usual setup of 16 x 8el open-wire feeded H pol yagis and gs35b. I do hope for nice conditions and good participation. Hopefully WX cooperates. I would be very happy to receive calls from small stations. I would like to ask all of you not to give after few qrz answers. It sometimes takes even 30 minutes to read callsign of weak caller - be more persitent!!! Also try to call agn when condx change. Good luck to everybody, 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 jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Fri Mar 27 03:18:42 2009 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:18:42 +0900 Subject: [Moon] 8J1AXA March 28, 2009 Message-ID: <20090327021842641.ITBA.8272.wememta102.odn.ne.jp@mta102.odn.ne.jp> Operating Information of 8J1AXA on March 28, 2009 The JARL Special Station 8J1AXA at JAXA Katsuura Space Communication Center,?Chiba Pref., QM05df will be active on 144MHz/432MHz, Saturday, March 28, 2009. We aim to operate for the DUBUS 2m CW contest. During Feburary 07 operation with 10 highschool students, we had very good echos on 432 CW/SSB with 50-200W output. (See DUBUS 2009/1 issue) So why not try it again!! QRG: 144.050 +-QRM (CW/SSB) QRG: 432.015 +-QRM(CW/SSB) JAXA 18m dish, V-pol. 500 watts maximum output QSL via JH6RTO I will join them during the EU window only. NO EME operation on Feb. 09. Mike JH1KRC From franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com Fri Mar 27 08:07:36 2009 From: franco.cominelli at sidergarda.com (Cominelli Franco) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:07:36 +0100 Subject: [Moon] IK2DDR qrv on 2m cw eme Dubus contest Message-ID: <205208A153FD8F46A23A1AC5F3DCB5AA8F055E@server01.SIDERGARDA.local> Hello all, i'll be active on most of my free time, except during some football commitment, during the coming 2m cw eme Dubus Contest. I'll operate mainly answering to the other CQs and then calling in somewhere. Thanks one more time to the Organizers and wishing all good luck, i'll see you there. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR From df2zc1 at googlemail.com Fri Mar 27 08:18:58 2009 From: df2zc1 at googlemail.com (DF2ZC) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:18:58 +0100 Subject: [Moon] The 144 MHz EME NewsLetter March Edition... Message-ID: <000f01c9aeac$5244ac50$eb02a8c0@SHACK> ...is now ready for download at 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 Kenwood TS 2000 2 x GU74b by LZ2US 4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd full elevation From Bruinier at t-online.de Fri Mar 27 16:21:00 2009 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 27 Mar 2009 15:21 GMT Subject: [Moon] EVE Message-ID: <1LnDsa-1eVOLY0@fwd09.aul.t-online.de> Kudos on this milestone event and congratulations to the excellent team! I recall an old QST article in which EVE on 23cm was pondered. 1 kW, 10m dish and 30 000 integrations! How about a first-ever QSO with Dwingelo and/or Jamesburg? Keep up the great work & 73! Jan DL9KR. From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Fri Mar 27 18:48:33 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:48:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] EVE In-Reply-To: <1LnDsa-1eVOLY0@fwd09.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <18477.26785-6901-1166941091-1238176113@seznam.cz> PS this old article you can read at http://www.ok2kkw.com/next/eve1978.htm Full info about the very first EVE and EME you can read in perfect online book at: http://carnap.umd.edu/phil250/venus_alive.html (Chapters 3 & 4) I think that nowadays is good oportunity to try the first 2ways EVE QSO with help of an WSJT based software + SDR. Maybe that Joe, K1JT would be interested in :-) 73 Matej, OK1TEH > ------------ P?vodn? zpr?va ------------ > Od: > P?edm?t: [Moon] EVE > Datum: 27.3.2009 16:54:19 > ---------------------------------------- > Kudos on this milestone event and congratulations to the excellent team! > I recall an old QST article in which EVE on 23cm was pondered. > 1 kW, 10m dish and 30 000 integrations! > How about a first-ever QSO with Dwingelo and/or Jamesburg? > > Keep up the great work & 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 oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Fri Mar 27 19:21:21 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:21:21 +0100 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV on 144MHz in DUBUS CW EME contest, Message-ID: <017c01c9af08$d6266750$342ef23e@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers, I will be QRV on 144MHz in the DUBUS CW EME contest this weekend. 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Good luck to all??????????????????????????? 73 Valter IK1FJI 4x12? ic275h lna @ 24dbd? 0.3nf? gu78b From valter_dls at yahoo.it Sat Mar 28 19:37:46 2009 From: valter_dls at yahoo.it (valter dolso) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:37:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] dubus cw 144 first pass IK1FJI Message-ID: <643590.94321.qm@web24306.mail.ird.yahoo.com> TNX for fun, first pass 20 qso's? qrv fm 08:00? to? 12:30, then? weather became very bad wind and rain so qrt. see you tommorow ? 73 all de IK1FJI From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Sat Mar 28 21:18:32 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:18:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] 70cm EME gallery - QRO stations In-Reply-To: <643590.94321.qm@web24306.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <18495.27182-12031-1038192483-1238271512@seznam.cz> Hi all I updated my gallery of stations which I worked or heard on 70cm with my 23el 5,7m long single yagi in CW/SSB/JT65. URL - http://ok1teh.nagano.cz/eme_log432.htm#gal If is anybody interested in 70cm sked with me, I'm QRV during this weekend. Today I worked DK3WG for a new initial so station seems to be working hi. 73 Matej, OK1TEH (400W jt65 or 700W pep in ICW + 23el Y) PS if anybody has a photo of EME antennas of KE2N, K3MF or OH2PO pse tell me. From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Sat Mar 28 21:18:37 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:18:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] 70cm EME gallery - QRO stations Message-ID: <18495.27182-11994-1690270258-1238271517@seznam.cz> Hi all I updated my gallery of stations which I worked or heard on 70cm with my 23el 5,7m long single yagi in CW/SSB/JT65. URL - http://ok1teh.nagano.cz/eme_log432.htm#gal If is anybody interested in 70cm sked with me, I'm QRV during this weekend. Today I worked DK3WG for a new initial so station seems to be working hi. 73 Matej, OK1TEH (400W jt65 or 700W pep in ICW + 23el Y) PS if anybody has a photo of EME antennas of KE2N, K3MF or OH2PO pse tell me. From dk3ng at ewetel.net Sun Mar 29 10:25:35 2009 From: dk3ng at ewetel.net (dk3ng at ewetel.net) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:25:35 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Combining GRT-21 Amps - Help Please Message-ID: <20090329102535.g8e2y2kki3o08wg0@webmail.ewetel.de> As an EME newcomer I am currently using a GRT-21 amp on 144 MHz while building out my antenna system and putting together a power supply for a QRO amp using a single RS 1072. As an interim solution to overcome my current qrp situation I am thinking about paralleling two GRT-21 amps using a Winlkinson combiner. I would appreciate comments on whether or not it is possible to use the GRT-21 in this configuration. What are the technical prerequisites for combining amps in this manner? Will it work with any amp so long as a Wilkinson combiner is used? Thank you in advance for any advice. JR Groeger DK3NG, G4XXW From dk3ng at ewetel.net Sun Mar 29 12:22:17 2009 From: dk3ng at ewetel.net (dk3ng at ewetel.net) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:22:17 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS Contest Message-ID: <20090329122217.loplhnu4y3tw4ggo@webmail.ewetel.de> Hi All, Just to let you know how much I regret not being able to participate as I am travelling. Have fun! JRG From dl5mae at yahoo.de Sun Mar 29 15:45:23 2009 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] DUBUS EME Contest Message-ID: <566917.13185.qm@web23702.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi All, I was QRV in the DUBUS EME Contest only saturday (sorry but just no more time today!). Even saturday I was only QRV "now and then". Found very low activity (especially in the US-window on saturday). So worked only 6 stations: 28 MArch 2009 0831 utc????? IK3MAC???? O/O???? very loud sigs! 0843?????????? OZ1HNE???? O/O 0900?????????? OZ4MM????? O/O 0928????? ? ?? YO2AMU??? O/O 1537??????????? LA8YB????? O/O 1620?????????? SP7DCS??? O/O Heard a lot more (called some of them without any reply). Heard and/or called were: SD3F, OK1MS, RA6DA, SM2CEW, K9MRI, W3TWX, G4ZFJ, OK1KKD, I3EVK, IK2DDR, F1FLA, OK1VVP, F0CXO. vy 73 de DL5MAE? Wolfgang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090329/13cc07b1/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sun Mar 29 23:34:22 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:34:22 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Dubus 144 MHz report Message-ID: <0F6522B63AEE4054A0EB1419F0BC5313@D7BX6Z0J> I put the 2m quad+ reflector feed in my 6m dish and spent some time today looking for QSOs. Like Dom, although I'm not a regular 144 eme operator, I got the feeling that condx were below average. I worked SP7DCS , (Chris came straight back) CWNR were IK1FJI, F1FLA, LA8YB, OZ1HNE, and YO2AMU. Hrd OK1MS.The first two gave me QRZs. The dish has about 15-16dBi gain only, but it is quiet compared to using my 17dBi horizon yagi but of course without the ground gain. I tried both V and H polarisation, V seemed slightly better. 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090329/d395b7c7/attachment.htm From kc3re at yahoo.com Mon Mar 30 01:22:26 2009 From: kc3re at yahoo.com (Cristofori Concerts) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] Dubus 144 mHz report Message-ID: <809644.52182.qm@web51301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> With the elevation winch not quite finished, I could only operate on moonrise, but decided to go ahead as this would be the first test of the 144 mHz part of the EME rover system. On Saturday's moonrise I heard and worked nothing. But on Sunday's moonrise, I worked LA8YB who had tremendously strong signals peaking at 539. Shortly afterwards I worked K1JT 0/0 answering his CQ, but am wondering if this may have been through the terrestrial path? The signal from K1JT sounded like EME-signal fading, but I'd love to be certain... I had to QRT when the moon rose too high, but was delighted at this first test of the system. Next time, with elevation! 73, Martin, KC3RE From sv3aaf at yahoo.com Mon Mar 30 12:44:49 2009 From: sv3aaf at yahoo.com (SV3AAF Petros) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] 2m Dubus report Message-ID: <310091.74178.qm@web59103.mail.re1.yahoo.com> I was on during Dubus 2m eme contest last weekend. Worked IK3MAC and F1FLA and cwnr was OK1MS. Have been calling CQ a lot mainly to the east and only got one or two replies that I couldn't make out callsigns. I have the sense that propagation was down a bit?, deep QSB to say the least, anyway I also had a lot of QRN from the powerlines to subtract from my small antenna gain. As usual I think there were not enough CQ callers as I could hear some echoes quickly disappearing after 2-3 periods of CQ. GL 73, Petros sv3aaf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090330/598682e2/attachment.htm From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Mon Mar 30 14:52:39 2009 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:52:39 -0000 Subject: [Moon] 2010 International EME Conference Message-ID: <022901c9b136$68ee5550$4501a8c0@Al1> Hello EMEers We are pleased to announce the 2010 International EME Conference to be held in Dallas, Texas on August 12, 13, and 14th. Although the event is over a year away, plans are well underway. The event will be held at the Weston Hotel near the Dallas Ft.Worth airport in Irving. The hotel has excellent recently re-modeled sleeping rooms and conference facilities. This is the same hotel where Microwave Update 2009 will be located. The service provided by this hotel and the hotel staff are excellent and includes a free shuttle service to and from the DFW airport. The central location of the Westin hotel provides a convenient location from which to embark out on planned activities for the spouses. Hotel details as well as website check-in details will be forthcoming. The tentative schedule is as follows: Thursday August 12th 8AM to 5PM Surplus Electronics Tour Friday August 13th 8AM to 5PM Welcome and Technical presentations Saturday August 14th 8AM to 5PM Technical presentations 7PM to 10PM Banquet with speaker and prize drawing Sunday August 15th 8AM to 10AM Summary and Plans for 2012 We plan to have excursions for the spouses (and men if they want to tag along) on both Friday and Saturday and possibly on Wednesday the 11th for both husbands and wives. Although Dallas is not as old as the great cities of Europe such as Florence it does have its own unique history and we believe that you will have an opportunity to experience a bit of the "old west" with the activities we have planned. We hope that you can work the Dallas Ft.Worth area into your vacation plans in August of 2010. The DFW airport is a major airline hub that should allow good international flights into the US and also allow some air excursions either before or after the conference to other vacation areas in the US. Further information as well as schedule information will be posted on the North Texas Microwave Society www.ntms.org as it becomes available. Best Regards Al Ward W5LUA w5lua at sbcglobal.net Tony Emanuele WA8RJF wa8rjf at arrl.net Barry Malowanchuk VE4MA ve4ma at shaw.ca March 30, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090330/6b0bef05/attachment.htm From oaxaca at oregoncoast.com Mon Mar 30 16:29:56 2009 From: oaxaca at oregoncoast.com (TdM LABs) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:29:56 +0000 Subject: [Moon] w7eme 6m tests new array Message-ID: <49D0D764.9040504@oregoncoast.com> Aloha to all: I am want to try my 6m station tonight, my array is temporary on my manlift for el/az heading until pedistal is complete. I will be on six watching for randome qso's. I am using 4 x 40 foot yagi, ve7bqh design. My positioning is not complete, but I think I can work a few hours of moon the way it is. Hope to catch some of you in the coming days. My station, 36 elements, MGF1802, elevation and 8877. I am excited to enter 6m eme with a good, though not large antenna and should be able to complete with most active stations...I have visible echoes and could hear them last moon pass with 50 Hz filter. Jeremy w7eme From vestergaard at os.dk Mon Mar 30 16:30:18 2009 From: vestergaard at os.dk (Vestergaard) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:18 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ4MM 144MHz Dubus raport Message-ID: <001d01c9b144$0d1cbf10$27563d30$@dk> Hello all I was able to be QRV some hours during this weekend on 144MHz, in the DUBUS CW contest. Conditions here was found OK, but many hours with vertical polarisation. Activity was as expected, but for those who was QRV 10-20 years ago on 144MHz, very little activity nowadays on CW. Newerless it was very nice to work some of the old stations, I worked more than 25 years ago on 144 EME. Stations worked here: YO2AMU, UA3PTW #, DK3WG, OK1MS, DL5MAE, SP7DCS, SD3F, OZ1HNE, IK2DDR, SM2CEW, LZ1DP, IK3MAC, LA8YB, I3EVK, IT9CJC #, F1FLA, K9MRI, RA6DA #, F0CXO, DF1CF # and IK1FJI giving 21 stations. In long periods of my limited activity, I had high QRM level here, so if someone has cwnr to me, I would be pleased to know who?. Using here my 10 meter dish, with a dual 3 elm V/H yagi feed, designed and calculated by Graham, F5VHX. Probaly I can still tweak a little more out of the yagi feed, but need one who can make a real simulation of the dish + yagifeed combination (any help??). I am not able to measure the antenna pattern due many reflections in the field around the dish. I plan to be back later in spring on 144Mhz EME!. Stig, OZ4MM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090330/7eb353d3/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Mon Mar 30 17:13:51 2009 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] Hardly news.... References: <022901c9b136$68ee5550$4501a8c0@Al1> Message-ID: <283849.62659.qm@web87002.mail.ird.yahoo.com> This is hardly news compared with all the great results obtained by moon-ops over the weekend, but... At last I've got my dish back on the 'new' mount (Spid RAS). The weather has improved enough I felt able to go out and complete the preliminaries. The dish fits the new welded frame a treat and the use of weightlifters weights to counterbalance the dish worked out well. I know that at the balance point I need 17.5kg! Judging by the sun shadow right at the centre of the dish, Moonsked is providing good tracking. Now to get some feeds back on and measure sun noise etc. 73 de Sam, G4DDK ________________________________ From: Al Ward To: moon at moonbounce.info Sent: Monday, 30 March, 2009 1:52:39 PM Subject: [Moon] 2010 International EME Conference Hello EMEers We are pleased to announce the 2010 International EME Conference to be held in Dallas , Texas on August 12, 13, and 14th. Although the event is over a year away, plans are well underway. The event will be held at the Weston Hotel near the Dallas Ft.Worth airport in Irving . The hotel has excellent recently re-modeled sleeping rooms and conference facilities. This is the same hotel where Microwave Update 2009 will be located. The service provided by this hotel and the hotel staff are excellent and includes a free shuttle service to and from the DFW airport. The central location of the Westin hotel provides a convenient location from which to embark out on planned activities for the spouses. Hotel details as well as website check-in details will be forthcoming. The tentative schedule is as follows: Thursday August 12th 8AM to 5PM Surplus Electronics Tour Friday August 13th 8AM to 5PM Welcome and Technical presentations Saturday August 14th 8AM to 5PM Technical presentations 7PM to 10PM Banquet with speaker and prize drawing Sunday August 15th 8AM to 10AM Summary and Plans for 2012 We plan to have excursions for the spouses (and men if they want to tag along) on both Friday and Saturday and possibly on Wednesday the 11th for both husbands and wives. Although Dallas is not as old as the great cities of Europe such as Florence it does have its own unique history and we believe that you will have an opportunity to experience a bit of the ?old west? with the activities we have planned. We hope that you can work the Dallas Ft.Worth area into your vacation plans in August of 2010. The DFW airport is a major airline hub that should allow good international flights into the US and also allow some air excursions either before or after the conference to other vacation areas in the US . Further information as well as schedule information will be posted on the North Texas Microwave Society www.ntms.org as it becomes available. Best Regards Al Ward W5LUA w5lua at sbcglobal.net Tony Emanuele WA8RJF wa8rjf at arrl.net Barry Malowanchuk VE4MA ve4ma at shaw.ca March 30, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090330/e7ae2890/attachment.htm From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Tue Mar 31 17:01:58 2009 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:58 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] Results of Big Dish ham test In-Reply-To: <1254.192.167.165.185.1238507773.squirrel@m1.ira.inaf.it> References: <1254.192.167.165.185.1238507773.squirrel@m1.ira.inaf.it> Message-ID: <49D23066.7080601@orange.fr> Hello, Signal of I4BER is on my site page "Signals" QSO with IK2RTI 73 Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr tomasset at ira.inaf.it a ?crit : > Dear Big Dish EME test colleagues > The threat of rain and some mechanical problems with the installation of > the X-band feed delayed the planned tests in the mornig and the need to > leave the antenna to other users stopped them in the afternoon, dead on > time. Sorry, no chance for Australia and California! In the hours left, > few but solid CW/USB QSO were made with: > > IQ4DF, F2TU, IK2RTI, OK1KIR, OK0IR, W5LUA > > ON5TA heard wery well my signals, CT1DMK also did but not so well. > > The good technical results of the test will be discussed in due time and > place while a second ham test is likely to be accepted dating at the end > of coming May. A sincere thank you to all the colleagues who made this > valuable test possible. 73 and to the next effort. Goliardo (Tom), I4BER > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > > > From jewell at btinternet.com Tue Mar 31 21:00:07 2009 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:00:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] 10GHz LNB tests References: Message-ID: <611706.53451.qm@web87005.mail.ird.yahoo.com> I've just put my 2.3m dish back on the new mount (AZ/EL with a SPID RAS). I thought that before I went back onto 23, 13 and maybe 9cm EME I would check out the dish on 10GHz.. I dismantled my Bernie box (10GHz narrowband converter) and taped up the LNB so that it would fit tightly into the centre of the C band 'Chapperal' choke ring. The horn of the LNB just protrudes beyond the choke ring such that the LNB horn is at the focus of the 2.3m prime focus dish. The rest of the converter is taped to one of the quadrapod legs! A short length of semi rigid cable terminated in a short 'dipole' injects the 10350MHz pseudo LO into the converter front end. Using my SDR-IQ at the 18MHz output of the Bernie Box (it is double conversion and the image is way more than 10dB down on the main response - check out the Scatterpoint article) and using Spectravue Continuum mode in 100kHz I can measure the total front end noise power. Tracking the sun I measure 6.9dB sun to cold sky noise and I can just measure moon noise of 0.25dB. These figures are consistent with the VK3UM EME Calculator numbers. Making a number of assumption about the dish and feed I calculate the Bernie Box converter to have between 1.5 and 2.0dB noise figure. That's not bad for an unmodified Ku band LNB at 10368MHz with this simple high stability modification. I'm especially pleased to measure any moon noise as the last time I saw moon noise on 10GHz was on G3WDG's 3m dish system about 15 years ago. On 9cm I previously measured about 0.15dB moon noise. I hope to remeasure that again tomorrow. The other big conclusion is that the SPID encoder resolution is not suitable for 3cm with this size dish. I already knew that, but it's good to get practical confirmation! It's a pity I set this up a day too late to try with the big 3cm Italian dish tests. 73 de Sam, G4DDK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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