From rick1ds at hotmail.com Fri May 1 02:40:40 2009 From: rick1ds at hotmail.com (Rick R) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:40:40 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Mid-Atl VHF Conference Message-ID: Now accepting registration, papers, abstracts, and speakers for the 2009 Mid-Atlantic VHF Conference Saturday, September 26 Mt. Carmel Club, Plymouth Meeting, PA Sponsored by the Packrats all info and registration at packratvhf.com Please submit your paper on amateur VHF, UJF and microwave communications including theory, construction, operation, antennas, roving, VHF related software and hardware. Please send your papers for presentation and proceedings to: Paul Drexler, W2PED pdrexler at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Betalande anv?ndare har inte detta meddelande i sin e-post. H?mta gratis SPAMfighter h?r: http://www.spamfighter.com/lsv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/0411145b/attachment-0001.htm From DL1YMK at aol.com Fri May 1 10:38:52 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 04:38:52 EDT Subject: [Moon] DUBUS contest Message-ID: Hi gents, I will try to be on for the contest 2nd of May on 13cm, trying a new HPA. As you know, DL's are allowed to TX in 2320 only, so if you hear me calling CQ X, I will look for replies on 2301.9xx, 2304, or 2424 MHz, depending on where the moon window is at the time. If I can find enough spare time, I will also try to be on 3400 MHz for the 3rd of May. This will be the first activity for me on 9cm, so I expect all sorts of trouble, sri, challenges ;-)) Power on that band should be around 150W with a LNA made by Tommy, WD5AGO, into the usual 3.8 m dish. As I am a purist, let me stress that I will NOT be using any kind of digital signal processing during the contest, as I understand it to be a pure radio event, not a computer game. Hope to cu on the bands, 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/c46a3aa2/attachment.htm From frankddr at tele2.it Fri May 1 11:49:32 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 11:49:32 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: OZ1HNE 144MHz DUBUS CW EME Event result, In-Reply-To: <017801c9c914$1a98f310$4fef3e50@privatqvfgt3vl> Message-ID: Congratulations Jorgen for so UFB activity. Unfortunately, me as all the others italian guys, was busy at the Italian Eme Meeting. See you again on 2m cw eme. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di J?rgen Kristiansen Inviato: mercoled? 29 aprile 2009 22.48 A: Moon- Net; moon at moonbounce.info Oggetto: [Moon] OZ1HNE 144MHz DUBUS CW EME Event result, Hi EME'ers, I was QRV most of the time in both part of the April Event and found conditions OK with the sun so close. I had some problems with my RX side on 28 MHz IF, so sorry for the stations calling me without my reply. I worked the following stations on random: 26/4 2009: ------------------------------------------ 0542 IT9CJC 0554 VK2KU 0619 SM2CEW 0634 DK3EE 0733 F0CXO 0740 LA8YB 1541 DL5MAE 1552 K5PF 1611 OK1MS 1648 YO2AMU 1749 K9DX Thanks to all for the QSO's. It was all great fun as always, and I look forward to the next Event. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone has a circuit diagramm of the PS??? > Many thanks for help in advance. > > I will be qrv on 432 this weekend. > > 73 Bernd DL7APV > > _______________________________________________ > 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 - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.12/2090 - Release Date: 04/30/09 06:01:00 From f6dro at wanadoo.fr Fri May 1 13:50:34 2009 From: f6dro at wanadoo.fr (f6dro) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:50:34 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: OZ1HNE 144MHz DUBUS CW EME Event result, References: Message-ID: <002c01c9ca53$099de990$0400000a@f6dro4py09fun6> hello , I was there a few hours , called several stations but got no replies , except LA8YB. I got good echoes as well. CWNR:OZ1HNE/YO2AMU/K9DX/ and others I forgot calls at the moment 73 Dom/F6DRO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/09d5a14e/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Fri May 1 17:32:22 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:32:22 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA 13cm/23cm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, having done only one EME QSO since I returned from Martlesham, when I got a specific message, that kept me away from radio and any other hobbies for nearly all the time. It is a gap at the moment and so I switched on 13cm which was installed since january, and got fine echos and a nice QSO with HB0/DF1SR and an RX report from ES5PC. Sun noise today was in expected range, so that is working. And since the weather today was fine I caught 9cm from the box and tested it, probably some of you know my problems with RX degradation. Using a 1dB NF preamp I am getting 10dB sun noise, and I still do not know the factor that influences it... But I am getting fine echos, readable even without filtering. I was not shure if I can handle it for this weekend, that is why I am indicating it such late. I may show up in both parts, 13cm on saturday, QRV on 2320/2304 and the VK band, and also on 9cm preferable on Sunday after around 0900UT. 4.5m dish 13cm: 150W TX, 0.3dB NF preamp (G4DDK) 9cm: 50W TX, 1dB NF preamp +++ Traditional modes only +++ Looking forward to see you on the moon. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From oz6ol at mail.dk Fri May 1 18:39:48 2009 From: oz6ol at mail.dk (Hans.J.Oldenborg) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 18:39:48 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Fw: [Moon-net] ***SPAM*** OZ6OL 3.4 GHz qrv DUBUS contest Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans.J.Oldenborg" To: Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:15 PM Subject: [Moon-net] ***SPAM*** OZ6OL 3.4 GHz qrv DUBUS contest > HI All. > > I will be QRV on 9cm in the contest...just tested the system and got fine > echoes.When calling CQ on > 3400.110 and listen plus-minus 50khz. > i will be on both sat.and sun day. > > system: 5m dish with SEPTUM feed > > power is 40watts, sun noise to day(flux 69) 12db.............moon noise > 0.4db . > > 73 Hans OZ6OL > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > From eme_ww2r at g4fre.com Fri May 1 19:40:26 2009 From: eme_ww2r at g4fre.com (eme) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 18:40:26 +0100 Subject: [Moon] DUBUS contest In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ww2r will not be qrv off the moon on the microwave bands on the Dubus contest as I am in Europe, where I got my fix of microwave eme from G4DDKs qth during the last week However I will be QRV on the european 432MHz and above tropo contest as G4FRE which is at the same time as the Dubus Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/ed4ebb69/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Fri May 1 20:04:06 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 19:04:06 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm Message-ID: I have just finished a major repair on the declination drive on the dish which broke yesterday so I will be able to be QRV . I hope to be on 13cm for the hour or so before moon set tonight and I will concentrate on 13cm tomorrow. On Sunday I will be on 9cm while there is activity but due to the problems today I have only checked the rx side. I'm pretty sure the tx will work OK. Looks like there will be plenty of activity, GL to all, 73 Peter G3LTF 13cm... 6m dish 250W at feed. G4DDK preamp, ATF36077 sun noise 15.5dB SF 69 9cm... 6m dish 25W at feed. W5LUA preamp ATF36077 sun noise 15.3dB SF 71 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/bdc99b1a/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Fri May 1 20:36:50 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 20:36:50 +0200 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: something wrong here, no Sun noise on 13cm :-( 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-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On Behalf Of peter blair Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:04 PM To: moonbounceboard; freetalk moonnet Subject: [Moon] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm I have just finished a major repair on the declination drive on the dish which broke yesterday so I will be able to be QRV . I hope to be on 13cm for the hour or so before moon set tonight and I will concentrate on 13cm tomorrow. On Sunday I will be on 9cm while there is activity but due to the problems today I have only checked the rx side. I'm pretty sure the tx will work OK. Looks like there will be plenty of activity, GL to all, 73 Peter G3LTF 13cm... 6m dish 250W at feed. G4DDK preamp, ATF36077 sun noise 15.5dB SF 69 9cm... 6m dish 25W at feed. W5LUA preamp ATF36077 sun noise 15.3dB SF 71 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090501/33411982/attachment-0001.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sat May 2 00:51:29 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 00:51:29 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: VLNA working own echo 559 , problem with capacitor blocking -Ug 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: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:37 PM To: peter blair; moonbounceboard; freetalk moonnet Subject: Re: [Moon-net] [Moon] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm something wrong here, no Sun noise on 13cm :-( 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-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On Behalf Of peter blair Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:04 PM To: moonbounceboard; freetalk moonnet Subject: [Moon] G3LTF QRV 13 and 9cm I have just finished a major repair on the declination drive on the dish which broke yesterday so I will be able to be QRV . I hope to be on 13cm for the hour or so before moon set tonight and I will concentrate on 13cm tomorrow. On Sunday I will be on 9cm while there is activity but due to the problems today I have only checked the rx side. I'm pretty sure the tx will work OK. Looks like there will be plenty of activity, GL to all, 73 Peter G3LTF 13cm... 6m dish 250W at feed. G4DDK preamp, ATF36077 sun noise 15.5dB SF 69 9cm... 6m dish 25W at feed. W5LUA preamp ATF36077 sun noise 15.3dB SF 71 _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From sm2cew at telia.com Sat May 2 08:13:27 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 06:13:27 +0000 Subject: [Moon] SM2CEW QRV 13cm in Dubus contest Message-ID: <20090502060818.101A94ED07@mail.allt1.se> YO! Moonbouncers My intentions are to be QRV on 13cm today, starting around 1530 GMT. I can only TX on 2320, but I have crossband RX capabilities on 2304. Not QRV for JA at the moment. No DSP here either, just like Michael DL1YMK I will do as best I can, the old fashion way. But I am trying out a new preamp, so I might just hear stations calling.. Rig is 8m dish, Septum feed with flare for 0.6 f/d and unknown power :-) 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com From ingolf.fhz at gmail.com Sat May 2 10:04:02 2009 From: ingolf.fhz at gmail.com (Ingolf, SM6FHZ) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 10:04:02 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SM6FHZ 23 CM EME activity Message-ID: Hello all. I spent a few hours on 23 cm Friday May 1st hoping for the HB0/DF1SR dxpedition stirring up some activity. I worked IZ1BPN, DL1YMK and HB0/DF1SR. I also heard a few other stations looking for HB0/DF1SR. I will be on tonight from about 16Z to 21Z, when the moon enters my tree blockage on my western sky. Hope there will be some activity from stations not being in the 13 cm contest. See you on 23 cm. 73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ -- Ingolf, SM6FHZ http://www.2ingandlin.se/SM6FHZ.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090502/ab0d4774/attachment.htm From pchomins at san.rr.com Sun May 3 04:39:50 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 19:39:50 -0700 Subject: [Moon] WA6PY report References: <20090502060818.101A94ED07@mail.allt1.se> Message-ID: <004c01c9cb98$6f515b00$6401a8c0@WA6PY> Hi All, During the first Moon pass on 13 cm WA6PY QSO'd : F5JWF G3LTF SM2CEW G4CCH W5LUA OK1KIR F2TU VE6TA OK1CA OK1DFC IW2FZR DL1YMK ES5PC OZ4MM W7BBM OE9ERC WD5AGO NA4N. Heard well SD3F, but could not catch Carl. For about 30 minutes I've got very strong QRM on 2320 MHz, I did not analyze what it was, S-meter went up from normal noise floor level S5 to S9+30dB. This is not the first time I have this QRM here in San Diego. I suspect a satelite in the beam of the antenna. Noise Floor rised by 40 dB. 2304 was still OK but with some degradation. For this period of time I lost possibility to track Moon using wide band noise power measurement, because noise went up by 12 dB. QRM from satelites was very common for 20 - 25 years ago at the begining of 2304 MHz band. I will be QRV on 13 cm tomorrow. TNX 73 Paul WA6PY From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun May 3 10:46:10 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 10:46:10 +0200 Subject: [Moon] WA6PY report In-Reply-To: <004c01c9cb98$6f515b00$6401a8c0@WA6PY> Message-ID: During night between Friday to Saturday I build 144 MHz TRV for conversion between my 2,3GHz TRV with IF 145 MHz to 28 MHz because IC7700 is much much better how used FT847. Repaired oscillation in VLNA and where QRV whole window. Worked many stations on 13cm, good signals. I have my SSPA 150W out in shack and aprox. 40m coax to antenna, I will try to put SSPA today to dish, but not sure if driving power will be enough. Also wind caused problems with pointing to the Moon, 10m dish is really so sharp. Happy with QSO with Charlie VK3NX, UFB copy 559 him and Paul WA6PY 559-569 solid signal, strongest Erich OE9ERC 599. Heard and did not work in past window DF9QX 559, SP6GWN 559, F6BKB JT65 UFB stable signal -14dB, LZ1DX 539 Sorry no one signal heard on 2424 So I will try to be QRV again today More details after contest on Monday 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-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On Behalf Of Paul Chominski Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:40 AM To: moon at moonbounce.info; Moon-Net Subject: [Moon] WA6PY report Hi All, During the first Moon pass on 13 cm WA6PY QSO'd : F5JWF G3LTF SM2CEW G4CCH W5LUA OK1KIR F2TU VE6TA OK1CA OK1DFC IW2FZR DL1YMK ES5PC OZ4MM W7BBM OE9ERC WD5AGO NA4N. Heard well SD3F, but could not catch Carl. For about 30 minutes I've got very strong QRM on 2320 MHz, I did not analyze what it was, S-meter went up from normal noise floor level S5 to S9+30dB. This is not the first time I have this QRM here in San Diego. I suspect a satelite in the beam of the antenna. Noise Floor rised by 40 dB. 2304 was still OK but with some degradation. For this period of time I lost possibility to track Moon using wide band noise power measurement, because noise went up by 12 dB. QRM from satelites was very common for 20 - 25 years ago at the begining of 2304 MHz band. I will be QRV on 13 cm tomorrow. TNX 73 Paul WA6PY _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sun May 3 22:41:04 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:41:04 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA report 13cm/9cm Message-ID: Hello, I do not remember having had fun for the last half year, so it was: 13cm: Worked F2TU, HB9SV, OK1CA, OK1DFC, DL1YMK, G3LTF, SV3AAF, OE9ERC, OK1KIR, ES5PC, HB0/DF1SR, OH2DG, G4DDK (#), F5WJF, IW2FZR Heard: VK3NX, NA4N, K2UYH, SP6GWN, SD3F, W6BBM Some stations were doing CQ or even QSO on the VK's TX band 2301.975, and even worse, they were nearby Charlie's frequency. That hindered me from working VK3NX. Those having done so should think about the reasons why they do so and what is the consequence? What shall I do if I hear somebody OKxxxx calling CQ on 2301.970? Can I rely that he is listening on 2320.075 in parallel? Or does he only transmit on the DX station's frequency like on shortwave? If last, please leave this on shortware. Our primary TX bands should be 2304MHz and 2320MHz with exception of 2424MHz for JA and 2301.9MHz for VK. This would prevent a lot of possible confusion. I did not work any crossband, and HB0/DF1SR didn't do so, too. It seemed quite simple so much traffic on 2304/2304 that none of the stations I heard checked for callers on 2320MHz. Even beeing hard, I can understand this. 4.5m dish, round septum horn with chapperal chokes, 0.3dB preamp (G4DDK), 150W, 13.0 dB sun noise 9cm: Worked VK3NX, OK1CA, OZ6OL, DL1YMK, G3LTF, OK1KIR one station was calling me at around 1455UT, but so much drift and weak, I was unable to follow with the filter 4.5m dish, round septum horn with chapperal chokes, 1.0dB preamp (DJ9BV), 50W, 10.5dB sun noise 73, G?nter, DL4MEA -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090503/c1c9748f/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Sun May 3 23:42:57 2009 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 21:42:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] G4DDK report 13cm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <795549.59522.qm@web87008.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Folks, final score for 13cm: F2TU, OE9ERC, OK1DFC#, OH2DG#, G3LTF, G4CCH, OK1CA#, ES5PC, DL4MEA# HB0/DF1SR equipment failed shortly before our sked. Heard HB9SV. Several others with callsigns sent too fast or with no spacing between characters. Please bear in mind not everyone is familiar with all the callsigns active on 13cm. Without a grey matter deep search 'file' it is often very difficult to determine the callsign when sent only twice in a call. I KNOW CQ; I need several goes to get a callsign when it is weak and librating! Gripe over. Echos always audible. All but one on random. Two returns to CQs. A most enjoyable contest. Note to myself 'must remember to put in an entry'! Brag file: 2.3m TVRO dish Spid RAS az/el OK1DFC feed with 'pie tin' choke ring 200W in the shack 0.36dB G4DDK LNA 8dB sun noise at 70SFI HB transverter TS2K on 2320MHz, parallel FT847 tuning 128 and 125MHz for 2304 and 2301MHz respectively. No 2424MHz receive capability at present. 73 de Sam, G4DDK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090503/28de9c2d/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon May 4 00:15:57 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:15:57 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF 13cm and 9cm report. Message-ID: I started off on 13cm just before moonset on 2cnd May and worked WD5AGO* and W5LUA* and heard W7BBM*569, but I dont think he has 2320 receive (*= crossband). At moonrise I spent an hour trying to work VK3NX crossband but the QRM on his frequency was so bad that it was hard to make out what he was sending much of the time. I then worked JA4BLC*, OK1CA, DL1YMK, SP6GWN, F5JWF, LZ1DX, F2TU, OK1KIR, HB0/DF1SR, OK1DFC, IW2FZR, SD3F, G3LQR, GW3XYW, DL4MEA, SV3AAF, SM2CEW, G4DDK, K2UYH* , G4CCH, LA9NEA, WA6PY*, and VE6TA. CWNR were W7BBM*, VK3NX*, JA6CZD*, NA4N*, OZ4MM*, OH2DG* Heard OE9ERC. On 9cm, at this low moon declination, I have a very short window to VK due to trees . I worked OZ6OL through a gap in them and then VK3NX ,still with considerable ground noise. I then worked OK1KIR, OK1CA, DL1YMK, G4NNS, DL4MEA,and W5LUA. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Happily the activity on both bands continues to increase every year 73, Peter G3LTF 13cm... 6m dish, post polariser with standard VE4MA feed 250W at feed. G4DDK preamp, ATF36077 sun noise 15.5dB SF 69 9cm... 6m dish, septum polariser with circular super VE4MA feed. 25W at feed. W5LUA preamp ATF36077 sun noise 15.3dB SF 71 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090503/94c369e6/attachment.htm From ja4blc at web-sanin.co.jp Mon May 4 01:45:51 2009 From: ja4blc at web-sanin.co.jp (Yoshiro Mataka JA4BLC) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:45:51 +0900 Subject: [Moon] JA4BLC 13cm report Message-ID: <49FE2CAF.9020301@web-sanin.co.jp> I report contesut results on 13cm. JA6CZD worked W5LUA, OK1CA, F2TU and ES5PC JA8ERE worked W5LUA, ES5PC, F2TU, OK1CA and HB9SV. JA8IAD worked F2TU and OK1CA JA4BLC worked W5LUA(559), VE6TA(549), F2TU(559), OK1CA(569), HB0/DF1SR(449), G3LTF(569), SD3F(449), ES5PC(569), OZ4MM(559), OH2DG(559) and OK1DFC(449)#43. Heard by JA4BLC were G4CCH(559), IW2FZR(559), DL1YMK(449), SM2CEW(449) and HB9SV(569). SV3AAF was heard 559 on Friday. Mni thanks to all who prepared 2424 RX. GL de Yoshiro JA4BLC From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon May 4 07:50:10 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 07:50:10 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 13cm activity Message-ID: Hi EME gang, my first contest on 13cm with 10m dish. Mainly I was testing set up for EME pedition to E7 preparing for July this year http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/E7/e7.htm, Due to special reasons I was not able build and test 9cm ( I am getting old, forget important parts of dish in car which take my wife for weekend holiday :-) , but I will work on during May, to be sure that all is working well. First of all, dish is to sharp for all minimal backslashes (wind problem), second, 150W in shack with 40m cable is to low power :-). Result from that, many works in future to be in same category like is my 1296 MHz. Anyway, I joined contest very much and worked many stations. Strongest on the band were OE9ERC 599 - HB9SV, ES5PC, LX1DB, OK1CA. During contest we had in OK tropo II. Subregional contest and couple stations called me on tropo :-) Than was faster to make QSO with them like to explaining that I am on EME, result is 10 tropo QSOs with contesting stations:-). Via Moon I have worked: before contest testing system G4CCH 559 559 #19, than in Dubus contest ES5PC 559 449, OK1CA 579 569, F2TU 579 559 #20-18DXCC, OK1KIR 559 559, VK3NX 559 559 #21-19DXCC, G3LTF 579 559, DL4MEA 559 559 #22, HB0/DF1SR 559 549 #23-20DXCC, SD3F 559 559, IW2FZR 559 559 #24-21DXCC, DL1YMK 559 559 #25, OH2DG 559 449 , OE9ERC 579 569 , SV3AAF 559 549 #26-22DXCC, SM2CEW 579 559 #27, K2UYH 559 559 #28, F5JWF 559 M #29, W7BBM 559 559 #30, W5LUA 579 559 , OZ4MM 559 549 , WA6PY 559 569 #31, JA4BLC 559 449 #32-23DXCC, DF9QX 559 439 #33, HB9SV 589 569 , LX1DB 589 569 , G4DDK 559 529 #34, SP6GWN 559 O , GW3XYW RO O #35-24DXCC, G4CCH 579 559 . Pretty much nice activity, I have already heard, but did not work: F6BKB, LZ1DX, WD5AGO, HB9Q, G3LQR, NA4N So looking forward for next 13cm contest. Setup - 10m dish, Septum feed, VLNA G4DDK 0,5dB N/F 24dB gain, TRV RX/TX 2302, 2304, 2320, 2424. SSPA home made 150W out - 40m 5/8" coaxial cable - cca 70W on the feed. Sun noise 18,6dB / 71 SFU I will have this week up to weekend 13cm ready here, so if anybody want to try sked, please let me know. Than I will have back 23cm in dish. 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/20090504/5e039d9d/attachment.htm From sv3aaf at yahoo.com Mon May 4 09:20:44 2009 From: sv3aaf at yahoo.com (SV3AAF Petros) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 00:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] SV3AAF 13cm Dubus Message-ID: <862365.10031.qm@web59107.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hello All, Enjoyed working on 13cm during Dubus 13/9cm EME contest, with activity being quite good. Connector problems limited my tx power and on-the-air time on Saturday. My eastern window was blocked on Sunday due to declination. No JA stations heard through the severe local interference but I will keep searching for a solution. Stations worked: VK3NX#, ES5PC, DL4MEA, DL1YMK#, F2TU#, OK1KIR, OE9ERC#, G3LTF, G4CCH, OK1DFC#, K2UYH#, SD3F#, W5LUA, IW2FZR#, OK1CA#, OH2DG#, SM2CEW#, LX1DB#, HB9SV#. Heard: WA6PY, F5JWF, OZ4MM. It is worth noting that stations with huge signals, operating continuously through the contest managed NOT to disturb other contesters by adequately spacing their signals from adjacent stations even when calling in the very center of activity. To name a few of these gentlemen: G3LTF, OE9ERC, ES5PC. Yet, there was a minority of European stations systematically not having the patience of identifying a CQ caller and starting calling CQ zero beat on the previous caller and then hijacking the frequency. This HF style of operating is the last thing needed on EME where we all battle with the noise and the contest is limited to some 35 participants all in all. GL 73, Petros SV3AAF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090504/76986d99/attachment-0001.htm From howard at g4cch.com Mon May 4 13:20:48 2009 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:20:48 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G4CCH 13cm EME Activity and Dubus EME Contest Message-ID: <189810297/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.63.110/05/04/09/12:20:46@mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com> Hi to ALL, I put the 13cm feed back in the dish on Sunday 26/04, but didn't get everything going again till Wednesday. My system on 13cm is - 5.4m dish, round septum feed, 250W SSPA (150W at the feed), G4DDK LNA 0.36 dB NF. I can RX on 2301 and 2304 as well as 2320. My 2302/2304 solution at the moment is the synth, mixer and front end of a commercial transceiver, it converts the IF out from my DB6NT tvtr to 28MHz. Switching is a bit clumsy and slow, so some work to here... there has to be a better way, hi! Unfortunately I still can't RX on 2424 yet, and would be interested to hear what other people are doing before I start work on this. I had great fun over the last few days, and added a few more initials and a first in my log - thanks to LZ1DX, G4DDK, LA9NEA and OK1DFC, and everyone else who turned up. # = Initial * = Cross Band 2320/2304 + = Cross Band 2320/2301 Prior to the contest I worked: 29/04 G4DDK# 539/549, DF9QX 559/559, SV3AAF 569/559, ES5PC R-10/-12 JT65c, 1919z LZ1DX# RO/O JT65c, G4DDK# RO/O JT65c, 2000z LZ1DX# RO/O CW. I believe the QSO with LZ1DX is the first G to LZ on 13cm. Ned has a 2.4 m dish, septum feed, G4DDK LNA and apparently 400W, but at the time of the QSO had some problems with connectors. 30/04 1243z HB0/DF1SR# 559/549, G4DDK -17/R-17 JT65c, and LA9NEA# 559/539 HB0/DF1SR was also QRV on 13cm Liechtenstein last year, and I'm sure G3LTF must have worked them, but can't be sure without asking him. 01/05 G3LTF 579/579, G4DDK 549/549, LZ1DX 449/449, LZ1DX RO(-19)/O JT65c, WD5AGO* 559/559, and OK1DFC# 559/559 I managed to work the following stations in the Dubus Contest 02 and 03/04 W5LUA*, F2TU, DL1YMK, SD3F(SM3AKW), HB0/DL1SR, SV3AAF, SM2CEW, G3LTF, F5JWF, G4DDK, OK1KIR, K2UYH*, WA6PY*, ES5PC, OK1DFC, OE9ERC, SP6GWN, IW2FZR and WD5AGO*. Also heard - VE6TA*, NA4N*, W7BBM*, VK3NX+, DL4MEA, F6BKB on JT65c, DF9QX, GW3XYW and OK1CA* Thanks again to all for the fun, and the QSO's. I will leave the 13cm feed in the dish until next Sunday if anyone wants to try with me, then will go back to 23cm. Best 73 & GL Howard, G4CCH www.g4cch.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4814 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090504/2ec3a3a8/attachment.bin From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon May 4 14:56:54 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:56:54 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] G4CCH 13cm EME Activity and Dubus EME Contest In-Reply-To: <189810297/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.63.110/05/04/09/12:20:46@mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com> Message-ID: This is ideal solution, Steve has oscillator which is possible switch between all 13cm bands and also with RX/TX switching work automatically cross band. Just ordered from Steve N5AC this unit and will put to my new TRV 13cm preparing for EME pedition in E7. Steve promise to make the LO for my 145 MHz IF between 2,3GHz and IC7700 on 28MHz http://www.n5ac.com/blog/?page_id=19&category=1&product_id=6 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 Howard Ling Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:21 PM To: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net; moon at moonbounce.info Subject: [Moon-net] G4CCH 13cm EME Activity and Dubus EME Contest Hi to ALL, I put the 13cm feed back in the dish on Sunday 26/04, but didn't get everything going again till Wednesday. My system on 13cm is - 5.4m dish, round septum feed, 250W SSPA (150W at the feed), G4DDK LNA 0.36 dB NF. I can RX on 2301 and 2304 as well as 2320. My 2302/2304 solution at the moment is the synth, mixer and front end of a commercial transceiver, it converts the IF out from my DB6NT tvtr to 28MHz. Switching is a bit clumsy and slow, so some work to here... there has to be a better way, hi! Unfortunately I still can't RX on 2424 yet, and would be interested to hear what other people are doing before I start work on this. I had great fun over the last few days, and added a few more initials and a first in my log - thanks to LZ1DX, G4DDK, LA9NEA and OK1DFC, and everyone else who turned up. # = Initial * = Cross Band 2320/2304 + = Cross Band 2320/2301 Prior to the contest I worked: 29/04 G4DDK# 539/549, DF9QX 559/559, SV3AAF 569/559, ES5PC R-10/-12 JT65c, 1919z LZ1DX# RO/O JT65c, G4DDK# RO/O JT65c, 2000z LZ1DX# RO/O CW. I believe the QSO with LZ1DX is the first G to LZ on 13cm. Ned has a 2.4 m dish, septum feed, G4DDK LNA and apparently 400W, but at the time of the QSO had some problems with connectors. 30/04 1243z HB0/DF1SR# 559/549, G4DDK -17/R-17 JT65c, and LA9NEA# 559/539 HB0/DF1SR was also QRV on 13cm Liechtenstein last year, and I'm sure G3LTF must have worked them, but can't be sure without asking him. 01/05 G3LTF 579/579, G4DDK 549/549, LZ1DX 449/449, LZ1DX RO(-19)/O JT65c, WD5AGO* 559/559, and OK1DFC# 559/559 I managed to work the following stations in the Dubus Contest 02 and 03/04 W5LUA*, F2TU, DL1YMK, SD3F(SM3AKW), HB0/DL1SR, SV3AAF, SM2CEW, G3LTF, F5JWF, G4DDK, OK1KIR, K2UYH*, WA6PY*, ES5PC, OK1DFC, OE9ERC, SP6GWN, IW2FZR and WD5AGO*. Also heard - VE6TA*, NA4N*, W7BBM*, VK3NX+, DL4MEA, F6BKB on JT65c, DF9QX, GW3XYW and OK1CA* Thanks again to all for the fun, and the QSO's. I will leave the 13cm feed in the dish until next Sunday if anyone wants to try with me, then will go back to 23cm. Best 73 & GL Howard, G4CCH www.g4cch.com From oz6ol at mail.dk Mon May 4 16:32:23 2009 From: oz6ol at mail.dk (Hans.J.Oldenborg) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:32:23 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Fw: OZ6OL Report 9CM DUBUS Contest Message-ID: <696A0BE096804E15835BB5DA8000F7E4@min0idqsh59vfi> ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans.J.Oldenborg To: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:21 PM Subject: OZ6OL Report 9CM DUBUS Contest Was QRV on 9CM 2nd May and worked G4NNS,but found no one else QRV. 3rd May on my moon rise I tryed to work VK4NX,but trees and house blocked the signal patch. I head you Charlie,but moon declination was to low this time. then later i worked 7 more stations. WKD : G4NNS #------DL4MEA------G3LTF------OK1CA #------DL1YMK #------OK1KIR------W5LUA------K5GW # Mni. Thanks to every one for the QSOs and nice to hear signals from the moon on 3.4 GHz. I have now the 9CM permanent installed in the Dish together with the 23CM feed .The 9CM feed is 3dg. offset from the center and looking trough a cut in the 23CM choke of the VE4MA feed . 73 Hans OZ6OL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090504/1fcc4f99/attachment.htm From vestergaard at os.dk Mon May 4 19:48:28 2009 From: vestergaard at os.dk (Vestergaard) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:48:28 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ4MM 13cm activity report Message-ID: <002b01c9cce0$885481b0$98fd8510$@dk> Hi all Sorry to say, this weekend was a real disaster concerning 13cm activity from me!. No activity on Saturday because of other planned commitments, so after midnight (gmt), I could first join the contest for 2 hours. I had planned to be quite active on Sunday, but for unknown reasons, other commitments showed up(had to go hospital with a family member), so only 3 hours of 13cm fun in the weekend from here. Sunday morning worked IW2FZR, ES5PC, OK1CA, OK1DFC, K2UYH, F2TU, W7BBM (#83), OK1KIR, WA6PY. Sunday afternoon JA4BLC, OH2DG, SP6GWN, HB9SV. Heard F5JWF, SD3F, LZ1DX, WD5AGO, SM2CEW, DL1YMK, JA8ERE, JA8IAD. Signals was better Sunday morning here, than in the afternoon. I still have huge problem with bad RX on 2320, so missed some stations there. Need to redo my SSB transverter modules, hi. Stig, OZ4MM 10 meter dish W2IMU circ horn G4DDK VLNA 70W -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090504/d94bfff8/attachment.htm From DL1YMK at aol.com Mon May 4 22:12:25 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:12:25 EDT Subject: [Moon] Activity report 23 cm, Dubus 13 & 9cm Message-ID: Hi lunatics, pleased to report some 23cm initials, which I worked shortly before the Dubus contest: SM6FHZ, HB0/DF1SR (great job Georg and Kasimir!!), K5AZU and OK3RM. Changed the feed to 13cm on Saturday morning, so voluntarily missed the first US-pass (my bed was urgently calling for me...). After getting the antenna on the moon I immediately heard the VK-boys, but could not get through the wooling, no further comment necessary.... In total worked some 18 stations, with the following initials: IW2FZR, HB0/DF1SR (tnx again, boys!), SV3AAF, G3LQR, OK1DFC, OE9ERC and K2UYH. Then changed the feed to 9cm on Sunday morning, for my very first time ever, never have tried the components of the station before as a combo, the majority being relatively old, remnants of my tropo contesting efforts some 15 years ago, apart from a new GaAs-amplifier, giving 150 W out. So this was intended to be a 'hot test' for the 9cm MI-activity, also. I had calculated to hear some nice echoes, despite the fact that the HPA was in the shack and the hardline coax has @ 1.6 dB attenuation on 3.4 gig, which would give roughly a 100 W right at the feed. I had re-aligned the dish bearing with respectable sun noise, thanks to a WD5AGO-LNA (works perfect, Tommy!), before starting to track the moon at my moonrise. No matter how hard I tried to strain my ears, not a trace of echo audible...frustrated I returned home from the EME-site to have a cup of coffee, ...and also to calculate the Dopplershift for 9 cm, as this is the only band, Hannes' controller does not show Doppler for. Of course, I should have done that before, but.....Jesus, some 4.9 kHz, that was really a bit off. I retured to the EMEsite and tried again, the VK-window closed by then. I again tried to hear echoes and immediately heard really solid echoes on the first shot, not bad! I called G3LTF and when Peter had heard my signs he came back...but I couldn't return to his over, because suddenly the 60A SPS for the GaAs-HPA went mad, switching on and off (that's why it is called switch power supply...yet another challenge, sigh) After having fixed that problem I gave it another try with Peter, and as usually, he was my number one, mni tnx Peter! After having corrected the tracking offset a bit my echoes even came up further. I am very happy to report QSO's with DL4MEA, G4NNS, OK1CA, OZ6OL, OK1KIR and late in the evening W5LUA, totalling in 7 QSO's on 3400 MHz (whom did I miss apart fom Charlie, VK3NX??) Still some issues to work on, like frequency stability, which I don't think I will find time to cure before MI, so look out for my drifting 9cm signs as MI/DL1YMK. Just one final comment as my personal two cents: 13 cm is a wide band, why crowding in only 10 kHz, - spread out a little, your soundcards do support more than that bandwidth ;-) Tnx everybody for an enjoyable time with mw moonbounce, 73 de Michael, DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090504/53398b5a/attachment-0001.htm From ok1vao at o2active.cz Tue May 5 09:21:49 2009 From: ok1vao at o2active.cz (ok1vao at o2active.cz) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:49 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity Message-ID: Hello, We managed to get time window on Thursday April 30th and QSOed on 1296 MHz at 17:17 5N0EME O/O as JT initial 35. Thanks Bodo! Then we participated in EU EME contest on 13 and 9 cm during weekend. We were QRV on 13 cm on Saturday and on 9 cm on Sunday. Our results are May 2nd on 2300 MHz we worked 2.5.2009 at 13:08 OK1DFC 559/559, 15:38 G3LTF 569/569, 15:43 SP6GWN 549/529, 15:50 F2TU 569/569, 15:55 OK1CA 569/559, 16:43 HB0/DF1SR 559/549, 16:52 ES5PC 569/569, 17:09 SD3F 549/559, 17:42 DL1YMK 549/559 as #81, 17:53 GW3XYW 439/339, 18:07 DL4MEA 559/569, 18:20 G3LQR 549/559, 18:45 SV3AAF 549/559, 19:44 F5JWF 449/559, 20:13 OH2DG 549/559, 21:33 SM2CEW, 559/569 as #82, 21:43 G4CCH 559/569, 22:19 K2UYH 559/559, 22:27 WA6PY 559/569, 22:37 IW2FZR 559/559, 23:03 W7BBM 559/559 as #83, 23:40 OZ4MM 559/559 and on May 3rd at 00:19 WD5AGO 449/549, 00:44 W5LUA 559/569. We HRD DF9QX, G4DDK, JA4BLC, LA9NEA, NA4N, OE9ERC and VK3NX. Weak stations and Moon noise were hidden in terrible interference on 2424 MHz, this is a reason we were not able to work any JA station. May 3rd we continue on 9 cm. We worked at 13:43 VK3NX O/M, 14:00 OK1CA 549/549, 15:32 G3LTF O/O, 16:08 OZ6OL O/O. We had some issue with our PA but were able to repair it. At 17:44 DL1YMK 549/559 as #18, 17:52 G4NNS 549/559, 18:01 OZ6OL 559/549 2x QSO, 19:25 DL4MEA 549/559 and at 21:28 W5LUA 569/569. We would like to thanks all station for nice competition. Tonda, Vlada and Jan for OK1KIR EME Team From jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Tue May 5 10:02:32 2009 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 17:02:32 +0900 Subject: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity Message-ID: <20090505080232942.SRWV.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: Congratulations on high activites and good results of last week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer systems here and there. This could be a good reason to apply for the new frequency. (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA amateurs before but got deprived of later. JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for satellite communications. So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro suggests. Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. Mike JH1KRC on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC ---- wrote: > Hello, > > We managed to get time window on Thursday April 30th and QSOed on 1296 MHz at 17:17 5N0EME O/O as JT initial 35. Thanks Bodo! > > Then we participated in EU EME contest on 13 and 9 cm during weekend. We were QRV on 13 cm on Saturday and on 9 cm on Sunday. Our results are > > May 2nd on 2300 MHz we worked 2.5.2009 at 13:08 OK1DFC 559/559, 15:38 G3LTF 569/569, 15:43 SP6GWN 549/529, 15:50 F2TU 569/569, 15:55 OK1CA 569/559, 16:43 HB0/DF1SR 559/549, 16:52 ES5PC 569/569, 17:09 SD3F 549/559, 17:42 DL1YMK 549/559 as #81, 17:53 GW3XYW 439/339, 18:07 DL4MEA 559/569, 18:20 G3LQR 549/559, 18:45 SV3AAF 549/559, 19:44 F5JWF 449/559, 20:13 OH2DG 549/559, 21:33 SM2CEW, 559/569 as #82, 21:43 G4CCH 559/569, 22:19 K2UYH 559/559, 22:27 WA6PY 559/569, 22:37 IW2FZR 559/559, 23:03 W7BBM 559/559 as #83, 23:40 OZ4MM 559/559 and on May 3rd at 00:19 WD5AGO 449/549, 00:44 W5LUA 559/569. We HRD DF9QX, G4DDK, JA4BLC, LA9NEA, NA4N, OE9ERC and VK3NX. Weak stations and Moon noise were hidden in terrible interference on 2424 MHz, this is a reason we were not able to work any JA station. > > May 3rd we continue on 9 cm. We worked at 13:43 VK3NX O/M, 14:00 OK1CA 549/549, 15:32 G3LTF O/O, 16:08 OZ6OL O/O. We had some issue with our PA but were able to repair it. At 17:44 DL1YMK 549/559 as #18, 17:52 G4NNS 549/559, 18:01 OZ6OL 559/549 2x QSO, 19:25 DL4MEA 549/559 and at 21:28 W5LUA 569/569. > > We would like to thanks all station for nice competition. > > Tonda, Vlada and Jan > for OK1KIR EME Team > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 sv3aaf at yahoo.com Tue May 5 11:01:36 2009 From: sv3aaf at yahoo.com (SV3AAF Petros) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 02:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity In-Reply-To: <20090505080232942.SRWV.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Message-ID: <857416.72650.qm@web59105.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hello All, The JA high power allocation of 2424 for EME to me is like allocating water to amateur radio service because the UNLICENSED use of 2.4ghz prevails worlwide. The lower end 2400 to 2404 is much more quiet though, it looks like a very good alternative for hams in Japan and possibly a lot of other countries that do not have 2.3ghz for ham radio use, let alone the countries that may lose it eventually to wimax. 73, Petros sv3aaf --- On Tue, 5/5/09, M. Watanabe wrote: From: M. Watanabe Subject: Re: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity To: ok1vao at o2active.cz, moon at moonbounce.info, moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net, k1rqg at aol.com, DL7APV at gmx.de, "Allen Katz" Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 11:02 AM Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: Congratulations on high activites and good results of last week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer systems here and there. This could be a good reason to apply for the new frequency. (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA amateurs before but got deprived of later. JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for satellite communications. So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro suggests. Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. Mike JH1KRC on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090506/f8c81486/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Wed May 6 19:59:34 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:59:34 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 4th Italian EME Digital Contest In-Reply-To: <002801c9ce61$7c128d70$0100a8c0@graf> Message-ID: not so good date, DUBUS CW EME on 1296 MHz is same date 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 Giorgio Marchi Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:44 PM To: moon; Moon-net Subject: [Moon-net] 4th Italian EME Digital Contest Hi all, our 4th Italian EME Digital Contest will be kept on the last weekend of May 2009, on the 30th and 31st. As usual, stations will be classed according to antenna dimensions, it is a fair battle between similar stations. The rules can be found: In English at: http://www.arisanremo.it/index.php?name=Content&pid=66 In Italian at: http://www.arisanremo.it/index.php?name=Content&pid=65 We hope to see many of you, and please let us have your logs. Good luck from Mario I1ANP manager EME _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From g3ltf at btinternet.com Wed May 6 22:17:20 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 21:17:20 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Density of fiberglass used in dish manufacture Message-ID: I have a 2.4m offset dish made from fiberglass, GRP, and I need to calculate the weight ( approx). Its too bulky to use scales and I need to get some idea of the counterweight needed. I can calculate/estimate the volume fairly easily but I cant find a figure for the density. (Actually I can find a lot of figures by Googling but they are over a 3:1 range!) I assume that there is a fairly standard mix that is used for parabolic reflectors, there is a fine mesh embedded in the surface but I dont see that as a big contributor to weight or strength. Anyone know the answer? Many thanks, 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090506/4e6e957a/attachment.htm From TexasRF at aol.com Wed May 6 22:29:16 2009 From: TexasRF at aol.com (TexasRF at aol.com) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:29:16 EDT Subject: [Moon] Density of fiberglass used in dish manufacture Message-ID: Flip the dish over, place a set of bathroom scales in two or more locations to support it and add up all the readings? Or, one set of scales at one point, a brick at another support point, reverse brick and scale location and add the two scale readings? 73, Gerald K5GW In a message dated 5/6/2009 3:19:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, g3ltf at btinternet.com writes: I have a 2.4m offset dish made from fiberglass, GRP, and I need to calculate the weight ( approx). Its too bulky to use scales and I need to get some idea of the counterweight needed. I can calculate/estimate the volume fairly easily but I cant find a figure for the density. (Actually I can find a lot of figures by Googling but they are over a 3:1 range!) I assume that there is a fairly standard mix that is used for parabolic reflectors, there is a fine mesh embedded in the surface but I dont see that as a big contributor to weight or strength. Anyone know the answer? Many thanks, 73 Peter G3LTF _______________________________________________ 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 **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090506/23a019e6/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Thu May 7 18:23:36 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 16:23:36 +0000 Subject: [Moon] 903 MHz EME In-Reply-To: <12F7CC93F8504CD19B100E4022F61EDE@KSP> Message-ID: <20090507161817.D11144F521@mail.allt1.se> Hello Stoyan, and welcome to the list! Glad to hear that you and K7KDU are building up an EME station. Is there any chance of making it to 1296 MHz instead of stopping at 903 MHz? The activity on 1296 MHz is world wide compared to 903 which is only used in the States from what I understand? In any case, good luck with your project. Moonbouncing is fun but sometimes a bit frustrating because so many parameters are involved. Pse feel free to ask any questions. 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com At 17:08 2009-05-06 , W7QID wrote: > > Hello, > I do not wish to be impolite and removed from the list. K7KDU and My self, > W7QID, are in the process of setting up a moonbounce station on 903 MHz. The > installation may take the summer for us. In the mean time I subscribed to the > net to try and get a feel for what's going on. I haven't seen anything on > 33cm yet. > > Respectfully > > Stoyan (W7QID) > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove > you from the list From fr5dn at izi.re Thu May 7 19:00:38 2009 From: fr5dn at izi.re (FR5DN-Phil) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 21:00:38 +0400 Subject: [Moon] Paris october 2009 Message-ID: <4A0313B6.5030106@izi.re> Hello All, I should be in Paris in October this year and wonder if any ham event at that time, or around Paris? Vy73 - Phil- FR5DN From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Fri May 8 19:17:26 2009 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 19:17:26 +0200 Subject: [Moon] F2TU 13cm report Message-ID: <4A046926.7070503@orange.fr> Hello, Excellent Dubus contest 2.3 GHz with 38 qsos et new calls. May 2: DL4MEA, OK1DFC, JA4BLC, JA8IAD, JA6CZD, G4CCH, DL1YMK, F5JWF, LZ1DX #82/27, SP6GWN, IW2FZR, OK1CA, G3LTF, HB0/DF, OK1KIR, ES5PC, SD3F, GW3XYW, DF9QX, SV3AAF, G3LQR, G4DDK, NA4N, K2UYH, OH2DG, OE9ERC 589/589, LA9NEA #83/28, W7BBM #84, W5LUA, SM2CEW, VE6TA, WD5AGO, WA6PY, OZ4MM May 3: JA8ERE, HB9SV 589/579, LX1DB 56/56ssb, DL2LAC #85 Copied VE4MA, VK3NX (qrm OKxxx on VK band and short window here). Best 73 -- Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From pchomins at san.rr.com Sat May 9 07:31:54 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 22:31:54 -0700 Subject: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM References: <20090505080232942.SRWV.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Message-ID: <001c01c9d067$77ca10f0$6401a8c0@WA6PY> Hi Mike and Yoshiro, I checked low end of 2400 MHz band with the spectrum analyzer in my office and with spectrum analyzer and full EME setup at home. In both locations on spectrum analyzer with RBW = 10kHz, Max Hold I can still see bursts even 2 MHz below 2400 MHz. QRM in the receiver is dramatically lower and probably acceptable on 2400.100 in compare with 2424 MHz. In both locations I have relatively strong CW tone at 2400.000 MHz +/- 1kHz. But this tone seems to be very clean, unmodulated and therefore narrowband. I think if JA can not move below 2400 we should keep EME frequency as low as possible. 2404 starts to be very noisy. Maybe JA can get allocation at 2390 MHz, this frequency seem to be cleaner then 2400. Even if there is no direct transmitter on 2390 MHz switching transients of the WiFi bursts have wide spectrum and can still create some interference. GL 73 Paul WA6PY ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Watanabe" To: ; ; ; ; ; "Allen Katz" Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:02 AM Subject: Re: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity > Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: > > Congratulations on high activites and good results of last > week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME > frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, > not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. > > JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as > 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs > and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer > systems here and there. This could be a good > reason to apply for the new frequency. > (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) > > According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA > amateurs before but got deprived of later. > JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. > office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for > satellite communications. > > So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present > 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? > It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro > suggests. > > Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it > sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. > > Mike JH1KRC > on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat May 9 15:09:51 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 14:09:51 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder Message-ID: <751096F60A874584AA4874907AF27A99@D7BX6Z0J> In the DUBUS contest last weekend there were 9 stations active on 9cm, about double last year's activity so it seems a good point to remind everyone of the Activity Weekend (AW) on 9cm on June 20/21st. If you have a 9cm allocation in your country but are not yet active then look at the links below for some more information. http://www.moonbounce.info/3.4%20GHz%20Moonbounce%20Made%20Easy.pdf http://www.ntms.org/files/Florence_%203_4.pdf and http://vk3nx.com/9cm.html There is also more info on QSOs etc in the 432 and Above EME newsletters for July / August 2007 and 2008, see http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html Most activity now is on 3400.100 +/- but if you have only 3456 MHz capability then all the NA stations and several other stations around the world can operate on 3456 or work crossband, so dont be put off giving 9cm eme a try. The idea of an AW is simply to have some EME fun, test equipment, make QSOs, make measurements and boost activity. Joe, K1RQG has offered to run a sked list for the weekend, send your requests to him at k1rqg at aol.com . There should be at least 3 or 4 fairly loud stations on the band from Europe and the US. With 5 weeks to go there's still time to put something together. Theres lots of information around but if you have queries then post them on the reflectors and the active stations will answer them or direct you to who / where answers can be found. The links above are a good place to start. There is a list of stations on DF6NA's website who are active/ building http://www.moonbounce.info/3400.htm but this does need updating and I'm sure Rainer will do this for us. info to df6na at df6na.de Before this AW we also have the MI/ DL1YMK expedition on 9cm on May 27th GL 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090509/40426525/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sat May 9 15:21:14 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:21:14 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder In-Reply-To: <751096F60A874584AA4874907AF27A99@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: or http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/3400/3-4ghz.htm 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 peter blair Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 3:10 PM To: freetalk moonnet; moonbounceboard Cc: Al Katz Subject: [Moon-net] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder In the DUBUS contest last weekend there were 9 stations active on 9cm, about double last year's activity so it seems a good point to remind everyone of the Activity Weekend (AW) on 9cm on June 20/21st. If you have a 9cm allocation in your country but are not yet active then look at the links below for some more information. http://www.moonbounce.info/3.4%20GHz%20Moonbounce%20Made%20Easy.pdf http://www.ntms.org/files/Florence_%203_4.pdf and http://vk3nx.com/9cm.html There is also more info on QSOs etc in the 432 and Above EME newsletters for July / August 2007 and 2008, see http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html Most activity now is on 3400.100 +/- but if you have only 3456 MHz capability then all the NA stations and several other stations around the world can operate on 3456 or work crossband, so dont be put off giving 9cm eme a try. The idea of an AW is simply to have some EME fun, test equipment, make QSOs, make measurements and boost activity. Joe, K1RQG has offered to run a sked list for the weekend, send your requests to him at k1rqg at aol.com . There should be at least 3 or 4 fairly loud stations on the band from Europe and the US. With 5 weeks to go there's still time to put something together. Theres lots of information around but if you have queries then post them on the reflectors and the active stations will answer them or direct you to who / where answers can be found. The links above are a good place to start. There is a list of stations on DF6NA's website who are active/ building http://www.moonbounce.info/3400.htm but this does need updating and I'm sure Rainer will do this for us. info to df6na at df6na.de Before this AW we also have the MI/ DL1YMK expedition on 9cm on May 27th GL 73 Peter G3LTF _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Sat May 9 15:57:58 2009 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 13:57:58 -0000 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <7FCC014408A7465D8D7FB43E55990349@Al1> Plus that Monday after the Jun20/21 is new moon. So Sunday may be a test of how clean our patterns are! See you there 73 Al W5LUA -----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: Saturday, May 09, 2009 1:21 PM To: peter blair; freetalk moonnet; moonbounceboard Cc: Al Katz Subject: Re: [Moon-net] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder or http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/3400/3-4ghz.htm 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 peter blair Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 3:10 PM To: freetalk moonnet; moonbounceboard Cc: Al Katz Subject: [Moon-net] 3.4 Ghz Activity weekend -reminder In the DUBUS contest last weekend there were 9 stations active on 9cm, about double last year's activity so it seems a good point to remind everyone of the Activity Weekend (AW) on 9cm on June 20/21st. If you have a 9cm allocation in your country but are not yet active then look at the links below for some more information. http://www.moonbounce.info/3.4%20GHz%20Moonbounce%20Made%20Easy.pdf http://www.ntms.org/files/Florence_%203_4.pdf and http://vk3nx.com/9cm.html There is also more info on QSOs etc in the 432 and Above EME newsletters for July / August 2007 and 2008, see http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html Most activity now is on 3400.100 +/- but if you have only 3456 MHz capability then all the NA stations and several other stations around the world can operate on 3456 or work crossband, so dont be put off giving 9cm eme a try. The idea of an AW is simply to have some EME fun, test equipment, make QSOs, make measurements and boost activity. Joe, K1RQG has offered to run a sked list for the weekend, send your requests to him at k1rqg at aol.com . There should be at least 3 or 4 fairly loud stations on the band from Europe and the US. With 5 weeks to go there's still time to put something together. Theres lots of information around but if you have queries then post them on the reflectors and the active stations will answer them or direct you to who / where answers can be found. The links above are a good place to start. There is a list of stations on DF6NA's website who are active/ building http://www.moonbounce.info/3400.htm but this does need updating and I'm sure Rainer will do this for us. info to df6na at df6na.de Before this AW we also have the MI/ DL1YMK expedition on 9cm on May 27th GL 73 Peter G3LTF _______________________________________________ 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 From pa3cmc at xs4all.nl Sat May 9 17:54:48 2009 From: pa3cmc at xs4all.nl (Lins Berben) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 17:54:48 +0200 Subject: [Moon] For sale SSPA Message-ID: <7ED96189100C4AAD856A94C9E14EB49C@WKS002> Hello all, I still can get again some very nice SSPA for 70CM. 1: Telefunken include 3 phase power supply, 25W in 1000W out 2: Rohde & Schwarz PA module, 100mw (or 10W) in 1500W out I have some power supplies for these, not the original but they work very good. See this side, it is only Dutch, but you can see a lot, if you have questions please ask. http://users.skynet.be/fa387166/radioamateur.html 3: I have one russian cavity for 70cm, with GS35 (include spare one) without powersupply for less money. I have possiblities to take these to HAM Radio in Friedrichshafen in June, or end August when i go to holiday, to the Garda Lake in Italy, i drive then via Germany, Switserland (here i stay one day in Lugano by friends) to Italy. 73 Lins Berben PA3CMC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090509/d6410a84/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sun May 10 12:18:45 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 06:18:45 -0400 Subject: [Moon] MI/DL1YMK coming up next... Message-ID: <8CB9F6FD59B41BD-1220-2C20@FWM-D11.sysops.aol.com> Hi gents, as the event moves closer now - and I'm?busily packing?all stuff together, getting more and more frantic not to forget THE esential cable -, let me remind you of a few things. Unless otherwise noted, during the skeds we ask our partners always to start transmission with the first period. Periods sequencing shall be 2.5 min in all cases. If the information exchange is solid and safe at both ends, we may deviate from the 2.5 minutes sequencing and move to normal QSO style. When a sked is finished successfully before the end of the slot, we will listen for any takers. When doing so, please respect the oncoming sked period. On Sunday 24th of May, we hope to be QRV after having set up the station for 23 cm. This probably will take place in early afternoon, so look out for some odd callsign. In case there should be any interest in JT conacts for weaker stations, we will be available on?June 2nd?in JT mode on 23cm. Any JT-requests?may be directed to dl1ymk at aol.com . In case we will have internet access on site?(which is unlikely according to our landlord...), we will upload the daily reports to?OK1DFC's URL (tnx Zdenek!) under the following link http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm? Depending on in-time delivery of Bernhard Korte's loaned SSPA, we probably will be active also on 2m with respectable power and a 11 ele yagi for EME and MS. More details on this coming up next weekend. We?don't want to miss?to say a BIG 'thank you' to Joe, K1 RGQ, who reliably has been compiling the sked list for us as in previous years, phantastic job and a real help. vy 73 de M & M ________________________________________________________________________ AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort k?nnen Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090510/9dc22d6e/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun May 10 17:44:59 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 17:44:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] MI/DL1YMK coming up next... In-Reply-To: <8CB9F6FD59B41BD-1220-2C20@FWM-D11.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hi Michael, web site upgraded http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm including skeds. Due to traveling I will be ready to work you on Sunday 24th of May on 1296 MHz and than back on 28th of May. So no problem with page upgrade, I will have internet connection only miss you on 13cm. 432 I will try on 29th and 9cm on 30th of May. So only 13cm is past for me now. Best regards and GL in pedition. Also E7 is more info, we will be there on 12th of July and start immediately build station, all other according plan http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/E7/e7.htm Internet connection confirmed. 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: dl1ymk at aol.com [mailto:dl1ymk at aol.com] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:19 PM To: k1rqg at aol.com Cc: ok1dfc at seznam.cz; guy_ebw at dl8ebw.de; moon at moonbounce.info Subject: MI/DL1YMK coming up next... Hi gents, as the event moves closer now - and I'm busily packing all stuff together, getting more and more frantic not to forget THE esential cable -, let me remind you of a few things. Unless otherwise noted, during the skeds we ask our partners always to start transmission with the first period. Periods sequencing shall be 2.5 min in all cases. If the information exchange is solid and safe at both ends, we may deviate from the 2.5 minutes sequencing and move to normal QSO style. When a sked is finished successfully before the end of the slot, we will listen for any takers. When doing so, please respect the oncoming sked period. On Sunday 24th of May, we hope to be QRV after having set up the station for 23 cm. This probably will take place in early afternoon, so look out for some odd callsign. In case there should be any interest in JT conacts for weaker stations, we will be available on June 2nd in JT mode on 23cm. Any JT-requests may be directed to dl1ymk at aol.com . In case we will have internet access on site (which is unlikely according to our landlord...), we will upload the daily reports to OK1DFC's URL (tnx Zdenek!) under the following link http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm Depending on in-time delivery of Bernhard Korte's loaned SSPA, we probably will be active also on 2m with respectable power and a 11 ele yagi for EME and MS. More details on this coming up next weekend. We don't want to miss to say a BIG 'thank you' to Joe, K1 RGQ, who reliably has been compiling the sked list for us as in previous years, phantastic job and a real help. vy 73 de M & M ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f|r eine reibungslose Kommunikation! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090510/a10b2635/attachment.htm From jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Sun May 10 18:23:20 2009 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 1:23:20 +0900 Subject: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM In-Reply-To: <001c01c9d067$77ca10f0$6401a8c0@WA6PY> Message-ID: <20090510162320532.TKSW.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Hello Paul, Thank you for the comment. We will try to see how it looks like on the lower edge of 2400MHz, and then try to find a way to get the frequency. Mike JH1KRC ---- Paul Chominski wrote: > Hi Mike and Yoshiro, > > I checked low end of 2400 MHz band with the spectrum analyzer in my > office and with spectrum analyzer and full EME setup at home. > > In both locations on spectrum analyzer with RBW = 10kHz, Max Hold I can > still see bursts even 2 MHz below 2400 MHz. QRM in the receiver is > dramatically lower and probably acceptable on 2400.100 in compare with > 2424 MHz. > In both locations I have relatively strong CW tone at 2400.000 MHz +/- > 1kHz. But this tone seems to be very clean, unmodulated and therefore > narrowband. > > I think if JA can not move below 2400 we should keep EME frequency as > low as possible. 2404 starts to be very noisy. > Maybe JA can get allocation at 2390 MHz, this frequency seem to be > cleaner then 2400. > > Even if there is no direct transmitter on 2390 MHz switching transients > of the WiFi bursts have wide spectrum and can still create some > interference. > > GL 73 Paul WA6PY > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. Watanabe" > To: ; ; > ; ; ; "Allen > Katz" > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:02 AM > Subject: Re: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity > > > > Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: > > > > Congratulations on high activites and good results of last > > week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME > > frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, > > not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. > > > > JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as > > 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs > > and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer > > systems here and there. This could be a good > > reason to apply for the new frequency. > > (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) > > > > According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA > > amateurs before but got deprived of later. > > JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. > > office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for > > satellite communications. > > > > So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present > > 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? > > It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro > > suggests. > > > > Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it > > sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. > > > > Mike JH1KRC > > on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC > > From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sun May 10 18:42:25 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 17:42:25 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM References: <20090510162320532.TKSW.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Message-ID: <0D99A650D66242DFB80FB701ED33716E@D7BX6Z0J> That all sounds pretty good, (Me, I'll build a receiver anywhere), but it might be worth noting that if you look at the IARU region 1 bandplan for 13cm we have 2,390.000-2,392.000 MHz " Moonbounce" and 2,400.000-2,450.000 as " satellites" I dont know how that is divided between up and down links. http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/bandplans/2009/rsgb_bandplan_2009.htm 73 Peter G3LTF ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Watanabe" To: ; ; "M. Watanabe" ; ; ; ; "Paul Chominski" ; "Allen Katz" Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM > Hello Paul, > > Thank you for the comment. We will try to see how > it looks like on the lower edge of 2400MHz, and then > try to find a way to get the frequency. > > Mike JH1KRC > > > ---- Paul Chominski wrote: >> Hi Mike and Yoshiro, >> >> I checked low end of 2400 MHz band with the spectrum analyzer in my >> office and with spectrum analyzer and full EME setup at home. >> >> In both locations on spectrum analyzer with RBW = 10kHz, Max Hold I can >> still see bursts even 2 MHz below 2400 MHz. QRM in the receiver is >> dramatically lower and probably acceptable on 2400.100 in compare with >> 2424 MHz. >> In both locations I have relatively strong CW tone at 2400.000 MHz +/- >> 1kHz. But this tone seems to be very clean, unmodulated and therefore >> narrowband. >> >> I think if JA can not move below 2400 we should keep EME frequency as >> low as possible. 2404 starts to be very noisy. >> Maybe JA can get allocation at 2390 MHz, this frequency seem to be >> cleaner then 2400. >> >> Even if there is no direct transmitter on 2390 MHz switching transients >> of the WiFi bursts have wide spectrum and can still create some >> interference. >> >> GL 73 Paul WA6PY >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "M. Watanabe" >> To: ; ; >> ; ; ; "Allen >> Katz" >> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:02 AM >> Subject: Re: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity >> >> >> > Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: >> > >> > Congratulations on high activites and good results of last >> > week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME >> > frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, >> > not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. >> > >> > JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as >> > 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs >> > and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer >> > systems here and there. This could be a good >> > reason to apply for the new frequency. >> > (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) >> > >> > According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA >> > amateurs before but got deprived of later. >> > JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. >> > office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for >> > satellite communications. >> > >> > So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present >> > 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? >> > It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro >> > suggests. >> > >> > Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it >> > sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. >> > >> > Mike JH1KRC >> > on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and > remove you from the list > From sm7wsj at telia.com Sun May 10 19:42:19 2009 From: sm7wsj at telia.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_H?=) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:42:19 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM References: <20090510162320532.TKSW.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> <0D99A650D66242DFB80FB701ED33716E@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: Hello to the group, and 2,400.000-2,450.000 as " > satellites" I dont know how that is divided between up and down links. It is most downlink around 2400-2401.200 on existing and planned satellites 2400.250 (S): PSK 400 BPS General Beacon 2400.500 (S): PSK 400 BPS Engineering Beacon 2400.600 (S) - 2401.000: multimode, high/low speed RUDAK 2400.275 (S) - 2400.425: linear passband It is also some plans on 2450.00 uplink on coming P5A Mars mission. 73 de Hakan SM7WSJ GL! and tnx for interesting reading > That all sounds pretty good, (Me, I'll build a receiver anywhere), but it > might be worth noting that if you look at the IARU region 1 bandplan for > 13cm we have > 2,390.000-2,392.000 MHz " Moonbounce" and 2,400.000-2,450.000 as " > satellites" I dont know how that is divided between up and down links. > http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/bandplans/2009/rsgb_bandplan_2009.htm > > 73 Peter G3LTF From sp6gwb at netgate.com.pl Sun May 10 20:15:24 2009 From: sp6gwb at netgate.com.pl (Staszek SP6GWB) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:15:24 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SPID - answer from producer Message-ID: <4A0719BC.7060604@netgate.com.pl> Answer from SPID producer, Jacek Bielecki via SP6GWB. 73's de Stan SP6GWB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings to all the SPID products users! Thanks to Staszek's SP6GWB help, I've received your feedback on our rotors. I've read it carefully and I'm trdyint to draw conclusions on what is problematic to you and what should be fixed. I 've been getting some additional info on this topic from my dealers, too. Just to give a brief introduction - we've been selling rotors for 10 years now, with a few thousand of sets sold. Our product is intended to be a compromise - a good product at affordable price. Unfortunatelly, this approach makes it impossible for our rotors to be perfect. However, we've been doing all we can to upgrade, fix and develop our product. Here's a list of software upgrades: 1. A better software based filter (processor software) - anti shake system (50 ms) 2. Not allowing to immediately change the direction of rotor's rotation (which was causing problems). At the moment you can change the direction with a 600 ms delay (at the same time, the impulses are being counted) 3. If we spot any other bugs, we fix them as fast as we can. Within the last year, we also modifed materials (metalized PBC), added an additional anti shake filter (RC-100 ms). Next version will also have a 50 ms filter to avoid any further problems. Our driver has an EMC filter and ferrites on cables. So, if all the rules of using the rotor and the driver are obeyed, everything should work without problems. These rules are: 1. Voltage on circuit 1,5x Umax ( MOTOR, 12v DC ) = 16 -18 V A long-lasting overheating of the rotor with 24 VDC voltage will likely damage the rotor. 2. Using a power supply adaptor with appropriate voltage. For higher voltage (i.e. 24 V), rotor will use more electricity (even up to 20A), which causes the voltage to go down. Processor takes it as turning the power supply off, stops counting impulses and starts writing the data to EEPROM. It's not good to do writing to EEPROM at once because EEPROM has only 300 000 writing cycles and under such circumstances it will stop working in a couple of months. 3. The anti shake (oscillations) fiters are "fixed", "permanent", so it's impossible to change the speed of rotor without consequences. And if the time gap between impulses is short, the filters will treat is as a disturbance and the driver will start losing impulses. It happens it we use voltage higher than 20 V DC. This solution is a compromise - if filters had smaller values, they would collect random data. 1. There have been many post on other drivers on this forum. I've looked through them and came to the conclusion that if they were used like my driver (changing 12-24 voltage, no EMC filters, no ferrite filters), they would work in a similar way. Unfortunatelly, with a large scale of itmes sold (thousands) and in the long term, all the problems are vividly visible. 2. The counting scheme is not perfect, but it's only because it was build to be simple and cheap. Kontraktron and magnet cost 3 euro; a much better soultion (with impulse-rotating converter) adds up to 50-60 euro for one piece. 3. We use DC engines in rotators, which may couse some disturbance (clutter) on higher frequencies. To avoid such problems, we use ferrite filters on cables. If this does not help, we recommend checking the grounding of your aerial mast and applying some RLC filters as close to the engine as possible. Such fliters are used in washing mashines or vacuum cleaners. Your satisfaction is very important to us. We are doing our best to fix and upgrade our product. Looking at your posts, I think we are moving in good direction:) Jacek Bielecki From w5lua at sbcglobal.net Sun May 10 22:08:31 2009 From: w5lua at sbcglobal.net (Al Ward) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:08:31 -0000 Subject: [Moon] Microwave Update Call for Papers Message-ID: Hello Microwavers, Microwave update is being held in Irving, Texas near the DFW airport the weekend of October 23, 24, and 25th. This is a call for papers and talks. We are looking for presentations on all aspects of microwave equipment and antenna construction, theory, propagation, operating, design modes, just to name a few. Frequency range is 900 MHz through LASER. We have already had quite a few early volunteers which we always appreciate but we are looking for more presenters. If you are interested in presenting please drop me an email at w5lua at sbcglobal.net We are also looking for papers for the proceedings. You do not have to be a presenter to have your paper included in the proceedings. Papers for the proceedings can also just be short topics on any topic microwave related. The proceedings will again be published by the American Radio Relay League. The authors retain the basic copyright, and by submission, consent to publication in the proceedings and possible publication of the proceedings in CD/DVD format. If you are interested in making a contribution to the proceedings, please contact Kent at wa5vjb at flash.net. The deadline for papers is Monday, August 31, 2009. The ARRL asks that you refer to the Proceedings Style Guideline on the conference web site at www.microwaveupdate.org . Additional information on Microwave Update can also be found at www.ntms.org . Just click on the "Microwave Update" link on the left hand side. Our 2009 MUD Conference chair is Steve Hicks N5AC and he can be reached at n5ac at n5ac.com. Thank you for your continued support of Microwave Update. 73 de Al Ward W5LUA MUD2009 MUD Program Director -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090510/61924be9/attachment.htm From pchomins at san.rr.com Mon May 11 05:52:03 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:52:03 -0700 Subject: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM References: <20090510162320532.TKSW.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> <0D99A650D66242DFB80FB701ED33716E@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: <023c01c9d1eb$e3cc0c10$6401a8c0@WA6PY> Peter and All, For my mesurements I simply added upconverssion to my existing 2424 - 144 MHz converter. I am using LO 27 MHz and 13 dBm Mixer. Then 2400 converts to 120 MHz and in the next step up to 147 MHz. In this scheme 27 MHz LO harmonics does not hit 147 or 2400 MHz. I needed bandpass filter for 120 MHz between downconverter and second mixer, because QRM at 2424 downconverted to 144 and were bleeding throught the second mixers RFto IF isolation. I hope JA can move to 2400.100. VY 73 Paul WA6PY ----- Original Message ----- From: "peter blair" To: "M. Watanabe" ; ; ; ; ; ; "Paul Chominski" ; "Allen Katz" Cc: "Murray G6JYB" Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM > That all sounds pretty good, (Me, I'll build a receiver anywhere), but it > might be worth noting that if you look at the IARU region 1 bandplan for > 13cm we have > 2,390.000-2,392.000 MHz " Moonbounce" and 2,400.000-2,450.000 as " > satellites" I dont know how that is divided between up and down links. > http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/bandplans/2009/rsgb_bandplan_2009.htm > > 73 Peter G3LTF > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. Watanabe" > To: ; ; "M. Watanabe" > ; ; ; > ; "Paul Chominski" ; "Allen Katz" > > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Moon] 2424 MHz QRM > > >> Hello Paul, >> >> Thank you for the comment. We will try to see how >> it looks like on the lower edge of 2400MHz, and then >> try to find a way to get the frequency. >> >> Mike JH1KRC >> >> >> ---- Paul Chominski wrote: >>> Hi Mike and Yoshiro, >>> >>> I checked low end of 2400 MHz band with the spectrum analyzer in my >>> office and with spectrum analyzer and full EME setup at home. >>> >>> In both locations on spectrum analyzer with RBW = 10kHz, Max Hold I can >>> still see bursts even 2 MHz below 2400 MHz. QRM in the receiver is >>> dramatically lower and probably acceptable on 2400.100 in compare with >>> 2424 MHz. >>> In both locations I have relatively strong CW tone at 2400.000 MHz +/- >>> 1kHz. But this tone seems to be very clean, unmodulated and therefore >>> narrowband. >>> >>> I think if JA can not move below 2400 we should keep EME frequency as >>> low as possible. 2404 starts to be very noisy. >>> Maybe JA can get allocation at 2390 MHz, this frequency seem to be >>> cleaner then 2400. >>> >>> Even if there is no direct transmitter on 2390 MHz switching transients >>> of the WiFi bursts have wide spectrum and can still create some >>> interference. >>> >>> GL 73 Paul WA6PY >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "M. Watanabe" >>> To: ; ; >>> ; ; ; >>> "Allen >>> Katz" >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:02 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Moon] OK1KIR recent activity >>> >>> >>> > Hello Tonda, and 13cm EME guys: >>> > >>> > Congratulations on high activites and good results of last >>> > week-end on 13cm. Unfortunately these years, the JA EME >>> > frequency 2424MHz is on the main load of LAN frequency, >>> > not only in JA, but in other countries, I guess. >>> > >>> > JA EME ops are ok for listening other frequencies, such as >>> > 2304 and 2320. But it causes a problem for domestic QSOs >>> > and they feel threatening of making RFI onto LAN frequency of computer >>> > systems here and there. This could be a good >>> > reason to apply for the new frequency. >>> > (But such RFI is not reported fortunately.) >>> > >>> > According to Yoshiro JA4BLC, 2300-2400 was allocated for JA >>> > amateurs before but got deprived of later. >>> > JA Band Plan, the frequency allocation offered from JA telecom. >>> > office, shows lower edge of the 13cm band 2400-2402 is for >>> > satellite communications. >>> > >>> > So how about changing the JA EME frequency from the present >>> > 2424 to 2400-2400.1, or so? >>> > It might be the easiest way of getting a new EME frequency, as Yoshiro >>> > suggests. >>> > >>> > Please let us know the good frequencies of 13cm, and how it >>> > sounds like on and around 2400 in your area. >>> > >>> > Mike JH1KRC >>> > on behalf of Yoshiro, JA4BLC >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon May 11 09:11:49 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:11:49 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 3.4 GHz Activity Weekend- reminder pt1 Message-ID: <75192EB771C049AAA283B1EFD2D5898B@D7BX6Z0J> My posting on this was too long for the moon reflector so those who dont see moon-net missed it. Here it is again in two parts. In the DUBUS contest last weekend there were 9 stations active on 9cm, about double last year's activity so it seems a good point to remind everyone of the Activity Weekend (AW) on 9cm on June 20/21st. If you have a 9cm allocation in your country but are not yet active then look at the links below for some more information. http://www.moonbounce.info/3.4%20GHz%20Moonbounce%20Made%20Easy.pdf http://www.ntms.org/files/Florence_%203_4.pdf and http://vk3nx.com/9cm.html There is also more info on QSOs etc in the 432 and Above EME newsletters for July / August 2007 and 2008, see http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm_arc.html Most activity now is on 3400.100 +/- but if you have only 3456 MHz capability then all the NA stations and several other stations around the world can operate on 3456 or work crossband, so dont be put off giving 9cm eme a try. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090511/15e2b4ec/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon May 11 09:11:54 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:11:54 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 3.4GHz Activity Weekend pt2 Message-ID: <3EA8564F7A4948A1961D20749F458113@D7BX6Z0J> The idea of an AW is simply to have some EME fun, test equipment, make QSOs, make measurements and boost activity. Joe, K1RQG has offered to run a sked list for the weekend, send your requests to him at k1rqg at aol.com . There should be at least 3 or 4 fairly loud stations on the band from Europe and the US. With 5 weeks to go there's still time to put something together. Theres lots of information around but if you have queries then post them on the reflectors and the active stations will answer them or direct you to who / where answers can be found. The links above are a good place to start. There is a list of stations on DF6NA's website who are active/ building http://www.moonbounce.info/3400.htm but this does need updating and I'm sure Rainer will do this for us. info to df6na at df6na.de Before this AW we also have the MI/ DL1YMK expedition on 9cm on May 27th GL 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090511/d29aad6a/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Mon May 11 12:09:59 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:09:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 10 MHz splitter Message-ID: Hi EME gang, anybody has available solution for splitting 10 MHz rubidium normal to more ways? I need to connect in one time 4 units. Thanks 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/20090511/67c1fbfd/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Mon May 11 12:16:14 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:16:14 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 10 MHz splitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, in my reference, I solved it by using video amplifiers from Maxim... One input, 4 outputs... 73, G?nter (dl4mea) ________________________________ From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of ext OK1DFC Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 12:10 PM To: Moon-Bounces; Moon Net Subject: [Moon] 10 MHz splitter Hi EME gang, anybody has available solution for splitting 10 MHz rubidium normal to more ways? I need to connect in one time 4 units. Thanks Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090511/698a30a2/attachment.htm From i5wbe at i5wbe.it Mon May 11 13:01:23 2009 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:01:23 +0000 Subject: [Moon] C37DXU Andorra V-UHF EME Message-ID: <4A080583.8070302@i5wbe.it> //Hello Emer's, Referring to the EME expedition call C37DXU on VHF and UHF you can find all the info at this address : http://www.eme2008.org/c37dxu You can see a test of the antennas and rigs on the web or also here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPT6XNC7bY Vy 73' and GL de Enrico i5wbe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090511/549afe4c/attachment.htm From g4hup at btinternet.com Mon May 11 20:40:17 2009 From: g4hup at btinternet.com (dave powis) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 18:40:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 10 MHz splitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415553.95589.qm@web86309.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi Zdenek Please see the units on my webpages at http://g4hup.com/DA/DA1_4.htm. There are two kits available, each taking a single input and splitting it 4 ways. The difference bewteen them is that the DA1-4L is the general purpose version, and the DA1-4G has extra power feeding components in it to allow it to feed a 5v active GPS antenna so that it can distribute the signal to several GPS receivers. Both models have usable gain up to approx 2GHz - there is no frequency filtering included in the basic design, you can provide this eternally if required. I am currently using them in my own station - in addition to 10MHz distribution, I use one to feed two GPS receivers for GPSDO's (DA1-4G) and I use another one (DA1-4L) to feed my 23cm Rx signal to the TS2k and also to a DB6NT converter down to the SDR IQ rx for system performance and noise measurements. Maxim used to make very useful video amplifiers which could be used for this purpose (although without the wide bandwidth of the DA amps), but these all appear to be obsolete now. Hope this helps! Best 73, Dave http://g4hup.com ________________________________ From: OK1DFC To: Moon-Bounces ; Moon Net Sent: Monday, 11 May, 2009 11:09:59 AM Subject: [Moon-net] 10 MHz splitter Hi EME gang, anybody has available solution for splitting 10 MHz rubidium normal to more ways? I need to connect in one time 4 units. Thanks 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090511/b69b8130/attachment.htm From David.Hilton-Jones at clneuro.ox.ac.uk Mon May 11 20:46:01 2009 From: David.Hilton-Jones at clneuro.ox.ac.uk (David Hilton-Jones) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:46:01 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 10 MHz splitter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A08725B.49AC.0069.0@clneuro.ox.ac.uk> Look also at G4HUP website David, G4YTL >>> "DW Harms" 11/05/2009 16:25 >>> Hi Zdenek et all, I will ask Jos PA3ACJ, who has made a simple splitter for this purpose. Will scan it and mail it to you and anyone who needs it. VY 73, Dick PA2DW Op Mon, 11 May 2009 12:09:59 +0200 schreef OK1DFC : > Hi EME gang, anybody has available solution for splitting 10 MHz rubidium > normal to more ways? I need to connect in one time 4 units. > Thanks > 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 > -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From la9nea at online.no Tue May 12 08:25:18 2009 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:25:18 +0200 Subject: [Moon] LA9NEA, summer dish Message-ID: Hello EME friends The 2.85 meter solid summer dish is on its tower, and rotators and other stuff will be installed the next days. All will be ready to the upcoming Dubus contest, and the DL1YMK expedition. On 23 cm I will use my 250 watt SSPA installed close to the tower, Sun noise test will be done in next week. Planned activity on 13 cm too 73 Viggo LA9NEA LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: Icom 756 pro II TR1296H trv Kuhne MKU 13200B 250 watt SSPA, 2.85meter dish, VE4MA Feed 1.stage Kuhne MGF 4953A 0.4 dB JO59dx Autotracking by W2DRZ, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090512/84eb328a/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Tue May 12 21:53:03 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:53:03 +0200 Subject: [Moon] MI/DL1YMK Message-ID: WEB of Michael?s pedition MI/DL1YMK upgraded http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm 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/20090512/a4ba7b29/attachment.html From wa3qpx at atlanticbb.net Fri May 15 15:41:41 2009 From: wa3qpx at atlanticbb.net (wa3qpx at atlanticbb.net) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:41:41 -0400 Subject: [Moon] FLEX 5000A external switching Message-ID: I operate digital modes with preamps. Question is in TX1 on back of flex does this relay output close before Flex starts transmitting with zero delay time indicated? I have blown quite a few expensive preamps for eme using ICOM rigs with their initial keyup spikes. I would like this closure to key the amp also through my SSB sequencer that handles the preamp. Paul wa3qpx From tikaluna at bigpond.com Sat May 16 03:47:22 2009 From: tikaluna at bigpond.com (Doug McArthur) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:47:22 +1000 Subject: [Moon] Update .. VK3UM EMECalc Ver 6.01. (15 May 2009) Message-ID: <20090516014728.XKBS20732.nschwotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com@tikaluna-jjn6i8.bigpond.com> Hi Gents The VK3UM EMECalc Ver 6.01. is now available (I have jumped to Ver 6.xx from the 5.xx series because of the notable changes implemented in this release) During the past month or so Peter G3LTF and I have been investigating the discrepancy between the theoretical feed efficiency measurements and those that are obtained in 'real world' situations. Our focus was on the actual realised values of dish efficiency, spillover and feed through. Given the reference data from Paul W1GHZ we have been able to ascertain, through practical measurements, what the realised values of efficiency are for the dish feed types provided in the program. In addition, and again with the considerable assistance of Peter G3LTF, we have also refined the calculations of Effective ground temperature and C/S - Ground. Results now reflect actual measurements (to a very high degree) efficiency, spill over, feed through, sky, and the ground noise interaction. A significant, although seemingly minor at first glance, improvement in accuracy. Those that use yagi arrays, sorry, you will still need to derive their own 'spillover', (side lobes), and 'feed thru' , (front to back) values commensurate with their own installation. The variables are just too large to provide a meaningful result if derived from a data base. You will still need to obtain your data from actual on site polar plots. This revision also includes another VE4MA 'standard option feed' and now caters for both flush and 0.15L (normal) ring configurations. The EIA Dual Dipole feed has also been included which fills the gap for those with 70cm feeds. RA3AQ feed types will be added later when time permits. Finally I have included a Planet 'reality check' calculation option for those that believe EVE is feasible from your back yard! A demonstration station file Venus-EVE.cal, based on known (and assumed) values of the Bochum Dish, has been included for your interest. The integral Help file has been updated and includes a detailed explanation with respect the changes and additions. The software in a zip format may be obtained from http://sm2cew.com/download.htm (available soon) http://www.ve1alq.com/vk3um/ http://www.vk3bez.org/vk3um_software.htm For those that would like their own Station data included in the distributed files please send me your *.cal file. I am particularly interested in data for 3.4GHz and above. 73 Doug VK3UM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No takers yet on the RS2024 cavity ( I can provide a tube ) 73 Jan From adkins92rod at earthlink.net Tue May 19 19:01:42 2009 From: adkins92rod at earthlink.net (Rod Adkins) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:01:42 -0700 Subject: [Moon] 5.8GHz NEC amp sold by DEM - info requested Message-ID: <380-22009521917142765@earthlink.net> I have an NEC 91689B RF Amp 82-6 intended for 5.8GHz A number of these were sold by Down East Microwave Unfortunately, the unit I acquired came without documentation, & DEM no longer have any data (they did look hard!) Info on DC required and power in/out would be greatly appreciated The unit is 12 inches long, 5 inches wide & 4.25 inches deep It has a 30-pin connector in two lines of 15 pins each Rod Adkins WI6M nr San Diego 17917 Lyons Valley Road Jamul, CA 91935 (619) 468-9194 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090519/50b7939b/attachment.htm From pa3cwn at tele2.nl Wed May 20 11:41:41 2009 From: pa3cwn at tele2.nl (Oene) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:41:41 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] Sequencing a FT-736 In-Reply-To: <22D7DB5ABE44D04690A07D0277F83FFC023E92F3E5@BROWN2.ad.ulalaunch.com> References: <22D7DB5ABE44D04690A07D0277F83FFC023E92F3E5@BROWN2.ad.ulalaunch.com> Message-ID: <4A13D055.5040207@tele2.nl> Hello John I use TX inhibit on the FT736 and about half a year ago I explained this in a message to Moonnet Here is the story: Because I had to change my sequencing, I wondered if the older Yaesu FT-736R was also capable of some kind of TX inhibit which modern Yaesu transceivers have. TX inhibit is a point, with some voltage applied to it, that prevents RF Output, even if the trx is keyed and the TX led burns red. It is most commonly found in the schematics in the neighbourhood for an external antenna tuner and i.e. with a FT100 it is one pin at the pigtail cable. In fact the FT-736R is very simple to modify for a TX inhibit. Only one simple transistor i.e BC547 is necessary for this. On the TX-board at the far left corner (when sitting in front of the rig) very close to the AC input terminal, there is a 4 wire connector located : called J08 The wire next to the brown wire is the SEND line. Attach the collector of the transistor to this point and connect the emittor to ground. The base of this transistor is now your TX-inhibit line and placing a voltage on this, will prevent RF power output till the base goes 'low' again. You can bring this TX-line to the CAT DIN jack at the bacside of the transceiver where pin 5 is free and not connected. Now you have a TX inhibit immediately available. This tx inhibit line is usefull in combination with a sequencer and I.E. W6PQL is also refering to this TX inhibit at his sequencer page. Good luck with this modification. It's joy is it's simplicity Hope it's helpfull Vy 73 Oene PA3CWN Maetta, John schreef: > Hello, > > I am trying to properly sequence my amateur radio club's Yaesu FT-736. My plans are to sequence the events in the following order with my four event sequencer: > > Event #1 - Bypass antenna preamp > Event #2 - Enable amplifier > Event #3 - > Event #4 - Enable FT-736 TX > > The FT-736's service manual defines two I/O ports, STBY and PTT. > > The STBY port is simple; it supplies the PTT (GND) signal to external devices. I plan to use this output to start the sequencer. > > I can not locate an I/O signal that will hold off RF until a sequenced signal is applied to the transceiver. > > The PTT port is connected in series with the MOX button on the front panel and is used by external devices to key the FT-736. I am afraid some users would inadvertently use this MOX function button; which would bypass the sequencing and destroy the preamp. > > Has anyone properly sequenced a FT-736? > > Thank you. > > 73 > > John > N6VMO > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > > > > > E-mailbericht gecontroleerd door Internet Security (5.5.1.322) > Databaseversie: 5.12420e > http://www.pctools.com/nl/internet-security/ > > From ndevries at kvi.nl Wed May 20 11:42:24 2009 From: ndevries at kvi.nl (Nanko de Vries) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:42:24 +0200 Subject: [Moon] LZ2US testing on1296 Message-ID: <7317AE1CB46F41979FEB1161B251A58B@WINDOWS.KVI.NL> LZ2 US will test today his new setup , between 10.30 and 11.00 UTC QRG 1296.025 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Planned activity to morrow on 1296 mc , in CW and JT65.. If any want to try 2320 sked I will change to 13 cm in next week. Pse give me an call if you copy my CQ call in CW at 1296015...... QRV 23 may 1100z-----------1700z. 73 Viggo LA9NEA QRV on HB9Q logger during operation time. LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: Icom 756 pro II TR1296H trv Kuhne MKU 13200B 250 watt SSPA, 2.85 mtr dish VE4MA Feed 1.stage preamp.Cavity NE32484 0.28 dB 2.stage Kuhne MGF 4953A 0.4 dB JO59dx Autotracking by W2DRZ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090522/7d30161b/attachment.htm From lz2us at orbinet.bg Fri May 22 11:27:35 2009 From: lz2us at orbinet.bg (Marko Tsekov) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:27:35 +0300 Subject: [Moon] TS2000X 23 cm TX Message-ID: <008201c9dabf$8b085e80$a2f1cb58@Me> Hello, Perhaps somebody knows which modifications must be made in the 23 cm RF transmitting part? I remember similar discussion in the reflictors before, unfortunately I already do not have this info. We have similar observations here ........... 1 watt in CW mode is more than enough to drive the stages followed TS2000X, but in SSB mode even 2 watts seem not quite ok, seems not too much linearity. 73, Marko LZ2US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chominski" To: "Bert, VE2ZAZ" ; Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Moon-net] TS-2000X 1.2GHz Tx audio problem > Bert, > This is known problem caused by mistake in the design. Bias voltage to the > final PA modul is to low. > I forced Kenwood to modify my TS2000X under waranty although I discovered > this problem 1 year after waranty past. > Many of us had this problem in the past. > GL: 73 Paul WA6PY > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bert, VE2ZAZ" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:29 AM > Subject: [Moon-net] TS-2000X 1.2GHz Tx audio problem > > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I just found a problem with my Kenwood TS-2000X on the L-band. This rig >> is at the foundation of my migration to 1296MHz EME, so I am quite >> upset... >> >> Basically, the Tx SSB signal is very distorted, to the point that the >> other party has a hard time understanding me. The Tx Monitor audio sounds >> good. When listening to the transmitted signal's background sounds (Mic >> ptt engaged, no talking) I cannot hear anything, on other bands I can >> hear the wall clock ticking. So it sounds as if there was audio gating >> plus severe distortion when I speak. Rx is all fine. Tx output power >> appears nominal. All other bands are fine. AM seems OK, FM seems >> distorted. CW appears nominal. >> This just showed up lately; everything was fine a month ago. The radio is >> of a recent release, 2-3 years old max. >> >> Looking for similar behaviors from others, or hints of what to look for. >> >> Thanks in advance. Will report back on my findings. >> >> Bert, VE2ZAZ >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________ >> Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new >> Yahoo! Mail: http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/newmail/overview2/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090522/080a9dbe/attachment.htm From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Fri May 22 11:31:38 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:31:38 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV 144MHz DUBUS CW EME Event, Message-ID: <003601c9dac0$1d106700$4d2ef23e@privatqvfgt3vl> Hi EME'ers, I will be QRV tomorrow 23. mai in both parts of the 144MHz DUBUS CW EME Event at 0400 - 0700 UTC. and 1400 - 1700 UTC. Good luck to all and I hope to hear a lot of signals on the band. If any stations would like to try a sked with me the comming days, please send me a mail. 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/20090522/c29204d4/attachment.htm From valter_dls at yahoo.it Fri May 22 19:32:54 2009 From: valter_dls at yahoo.it (valter dolso) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:32:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] CW dubus event may 23 Message-ID: <195812.7294.qm@web24307.mail.ird.yahoo.com> May 23??? 04.00 - 07.00? and second window? 14.00 - 17.00 utc? ?IK1FJI? qrv dubus event cq 051 +-? hope see a lot of you? ? 73? ???? Valter IK1FJI JN44LL? Genova It 4x12 2.84 wl? tx ic-275h + GU78B?? rx?? atf 33143? ts 2000 linrad From sm2cew at telia.com Fri May 22 20:39:11 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:39:11 +0000 Subject: [Moon] CW dubus event may 23 In-Reply-To: <195812.7294.qm@web24307.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20090522183328.6CEE730F41@mail.allt1.se> SM2CEW will also be QRV 2m CW EME tomorrow, hoping for good conditions despite daytime moon during both windows. GL to all! 73 de Peter SM2CEW http://www.sm2cew.com/dubus-aw.html At 17:32 2009-05-22 , valter dolso wrote: > >May 23 04.00 - 07.00 and second window 14.00 - 17.00 utc > > IK1FJI qrv dubus event cq 051 +- hope see a lot of you > > 73 Valter IK1FJI JN44LL Genova It > >4x12 2.84 wl tx ic-275h + GU78B rx atf 33143 ts 2000 linrad > > From hughd at cogeco.ca Fri May 22 21:00:57 2009 From: hughd at cogeco.ca (Hugh Duff VA3TO) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:57 -0400 Subject: [Moon] FS: W6PO amp compartment Message-ID: <4A16F669.8010002@cogeco.ca> I have a commercially made W6PO VHF amplifier compartment for sale. Well made and complete. The hard work is all done (I would know as I built one from scratch a couple of years ago ;) . Just needs a front panel with meters & switches, a fil transformer, bias & control circuitry (a G3SEK Triode board would be ideal !), HVPS and of course an 8877/ 3CX800a7 tube for completion. Details and pictures can be seen under the "For Sale" link at: http://www.va3to.com 73, Hugh VA3TO From hughd at cogeco.ca Fri May 22 21:18:10 2009 From: hughd at cogeco.ca (Hugh Duff VA3TO) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:18:10 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Correction... FS: W6PO amp compartment In-Reply-To: <4A16F669.8010002@cogeco.ca> References: <4A16F669.8010002@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <4A16FA72.4030600@cogeco.ca> Oops...I made a typo in the ad. It should read "... 8877/ 3CX1500a7 tube..." not 3CX800a7. Thanks to WW2R for pointing it out. 73, Hugh VA3TO Hugh Duff VA3TO wrote: > I have a commercially made W6PO VHF amplifier compartment for sale. > Well made and complete. The hard work is all done (I would know as I > built one from scratch a couple of years ago ;) . > Just needs a front panel with meters & switches, a fil transformer, bias > & control circuitry (a G3SEK Triode board would be ideal !), HVPS and of > course an 8877/ 3CX800a7 tube for completion. > > Details and pictures can be seen under the "For Sale" link at: > http://www.va3to.com > > 73, Hugh VA3TO > From lz2us at dir.bg Fri May 22 22:23:44 2009 From: lz2us at dir.bg (Marko Tsekov) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:23:44 +0300 Subject: [Moon] SHF: LZ2US TESTING AT 1296 Message-ID: <006d01c9db1b$34ac8050$a2f1cb58@Me> LZ2US will test the new 23 cm setup tomorrow 23 may between 09:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC at 1296,050. CW or SSB. No Internet at the EME QTH. 73, Marko lz2us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No Internet at the EME QTH. 73, Marko lz2us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090522/dca48f68/attachment-0001.htm From lz2us at orbinet.bg Fri May 22 22:25:49 2009 From: lz2us at orbinet.bg (Marko Tsekov) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:25:49 +0300 Subject: [Moon] SHF: LZ2US TESTING AT 1296 Message-ID: <007801c9db1b$7f4cf680$a2f1cb58@Me> LZ2US will test the new 23 cm setup tomorrow 23 may between 09:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC at 1296,050. CW or SSB. No Internet at the EME QTH. 73, Marko lz2us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Another problem is that sometimes the rotor decides to rotate by itself without command , so it is mandatory to stop the PSU when not in shack if one doesn't need annoying failures.then it is bad for the eeprom :0( 73 Dom/F6DRO From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sat May 23 11:04:39 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:04:39 +0200 Subject: [Moon] MI/DL1YMK Message-ID: Hello EME guys, EME pedition to GI is upgraded http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm Sorry for delay, I was last week in G and next week I am traveling in DL. Best regards and do not forget to call Michael according his information included on web page. 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/20090523/769b59e8/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat May 23 18:47:53 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:47:53 +0100 Subject: [Moon] g3ltf QRV 23cm Message-ID: <8464C2B53EAB4BEE904F7A2BC0D9CCCD@D7BX6Z0J> I am QRV on 1296.010+/- for an hour or so looking for QSOs . 16.47Z 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090523/5cdd8095/attachment.htm From marchi.g at libero.it Sun May 24 09:36:25 2009 From: marchi.g at libero.it (Giorgio Marchi) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:36:25 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Reminder ARI Digital EME Contest Message-ID: <001901c9dc42$582064c0$0100a8c0@graf> Hi all, our 4th Italian EME Digital Contest will be kept on the last weekend of May 2009, on the 30th and 31st. It is open to all bands, vhf and up, only it does not have multiband cathegory. As usual, stations will be classed according to antenna dimensions, it is a fair battle between similar stations. The rules can be found: In English at: http://www.arisanremo.it/index.php?name=Content&pid=66 In Italian at: http://www.arisanremo.it/index.php?name=Content&pid=65 We hope to see many of you, and please let us have your logs. Good luck from Mario I1ANP manager EME -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090524/78a23ae7/attachment.htm From bpaloma at telefonica.net Sun May 24 16:05:45 2009 From: bpaloma at telefonica.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Benjamin_Pi=F1ol?=) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:05:45 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 144/432 Andorra expedition C37DXU Message-ID: <9F02AFEE5D81494AA78CF3E131524A44@ea3xu39b533e50> Hi all. C37DXU 144/432 Andorra Expedition information in: http://www.eme2008.org/c37dxu/ Mu best regards. Bebnjamin EA3XU -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090524/17bd4143/attachment.htm From bpaloma at telefonica.net Sun May 24 16:08:51 2009 From: bpaloma at telefonica.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Benjamin_Pi=F1ol?=) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:08:51 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Andorra expedition 144/432 C37DXU Message-ID: <6D4D8778FED44563A603BFF8F251AB1F@ea3xu39b533e50> Hi all. C37DXU 144/432 Andorra Expedition information in: http://www.eme2008.org/c37dxu/ Mu best regards. Benjamin EA3XU -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090524/aff69109/attachment.htm From jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Sun May 24 19:18:19 2009 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 2:18:19 +0900 Subject: [Moon] SHF: LZ2US TESTING AT 1296 In-Reply-To: <007801c9db1b$7f4cf680$a2f1cb58@Me> Message-ID: <20090524171819198.VKJG.8707.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Hi Marco, Did you finish Plisch HPA mods for 23cm? Mike JH1KRC ---- Marko Tsekov wrote: > LZ2US will test the new 23 cm setup tomorrow 23 may between 09:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC at 1296,050. > CW or SSB. No Internet at the EME QTH. > > 73, Marko lz2us From frankddr at tele2.it Sun May 24 21:43:18 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:43:18 +0200 Subject: [Moon] R: Andorra expedition 144/432 C37DXU In-Reply-To: <6D4D8778FED44563A603BFF8F251AB1F@ea3xu39b533e50> Message-ID: Hello Benjamin, well done. I wish to work someone from C37 on 2m CW, like in the good old days. Many thanks to all the components of the crew, but particularily, to you and Pau (EA3BB). 73' de IK2DDR,Francesco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di Benjamin Pi?ol Inviato: domenica 24 maggio 2009 15.09 A: moon at moonbounce.info Oggetto: [Moon] Andorra expedition 144/432 C37DXU Hi all. C37DXU 144/432 Andorra Expedition information in: http://www.eme2008.org/c37dxu/ Mu best regards. Benjamin EA3XU -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Problematic was that the ground besides the house, which we decided as compromise location for the dish (with limited moon window), consists of loose gravel and that the anchors for the tripod didn?t finf hold in the ground ? so the dish would not withstand higher windspeeds. We rose very early in the morning to put the meshes in. After a few echo tests with only very marginal echoes on 23 cm we optimised the position of the feed several times and got reasonable echoes. As with the years before we needed a strong signal to calibrate the moon position ? which again was made possible by the kind and reliable help of HB9BBD, thanks Dominique! The moon was high enough over the bushes, so we called CQ and worked PA3CSG. Than we heard the strong signal of K5JL as first US station. The following hours we worked: SP6JLW, K1RQG (first in CW, than in SSB, fantastic fun, Joe) W7BBM, VE6TA, W5LUA, K0YW, OZ4MM, DF3RU, K2DH, DJ9YW, HB9Q, SM2CEW, ES5PC, OE9ERC, WW2R, OE9ERC in SSB (no word was lost!), and G3LTF switching the light off. In total we worked 19 stations from 16 DXCC?s (if counted right) on the first day. Meanwhile, we realised that we have absolutely no internet access or cell phone connection from the house, so we have to look for positions on the next hill top to inform about our limited moon window. Late afternoon 2 local hams dropped by and gave a helping hand Jim GI1CET promised to supply us with better anchors (we now have solid stuff) and yes, of course he will send the mails for us. So far the first day. We are now sure about the limitation of the moon window to our East: on 25th we can only operate from 0640 UTC (that means: Doug, VK3UM and Yoshi, JA4BLC could you postpone skedslots to 0640 for VK3 and 0700 for JA4..I know you will have ground noise, Doug, but it?s worth the effort?we have to be quick!). On 26th all skeds from 0800 onwards are ok, on 27th all skeds are feasible. So now we will try to drop these lines off?.keep your fingers crossed!!!! 73 / 88 de M & M, struggling hard as always.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And it is very windy! To the west a pictoresque hill > reduces the moon window considerably?Sam, you are right, this place is > not suitable for EME! After deciding, that we want to and will get qrv > from MI, we began to build up the dish until midnight. Problematic was > that the ground besides the house, which we decided as compromise > location for the dish (with limited moon window), consists of loose > gravel and that the anchors for the tripod didn?t finf hold in the > ground ? so the dish would not withstand higher windspeeds. > > We rose very early in the morning to put the meshes in. After a few echo > tests with only very marginal echoes on 23 cm we optimised the position > of the feed several times and got reasonable echoes. As with the years > before we needed a strong signal to calibrate the moon position ? which > again was made possible by the kind and reliable help of HB9BBD, thanks > Dominique! The moon was high enough over the bushes, so we called CQ and > worked PA3CSG. Than we heard the strong signal of K5JL as first US > station. The following hours we worked: SP6JLW, K1RQG (first in CW, than > in SSB, fantastic fun, Joe) W7BBM, VE6TA, W5LUA, K0YW, OZ4MM, DF3RU, > K2DH, DJ9YW, HB9Q, SM2CEW, ES5PC, OE9ERC, WW2R, OE9ERC in SSB (no word > was lost!), and G3LTF switching the light off. In total > we worked 19 stations from 16 DXCC?s (if counted right) on the first day. > > Meanwhile, we realised that we have absolutely no internet access or > cell phone connection from the house, so we have to look for positions > on the next hill top to inform about our limited moon window. > > Late afternoon 2 local hams dropped by and gave a helping hand Jim > GI1CET promised to supply us with better anchors (we now have solid > stuff) and yes, of course he will send the mails for us. > > So far the first day. We are now sure about the limitation of the moon > window to our East: on 25^th we can only operate from 0640 UTC (that > means: Doug, VK3UM and Yoshi, JA4BLC could you postpone skedslots to > 0640 for VK3 and 0700 for JA4..I know you will have ground noise, Doug, > but it?s worth the effort?we have to be quick!). > > On 26^th all skeds from 0800 onwards are ok, on 27^th all skeds are > feasible. > > > > So now we will try to drop these lines off?.keep your fingers crossed!!!! > > > > 73 / 88 de M & M, struggling hard as always.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon May 25 09:37:37 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:37:37 +0100 Subject: [Moon] MI/DL1YMK Message-ID: Good signal from MI/DL1YMK this morning. 1296.030 73 GL Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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IT9 6) 0659??? RX1AS????? RO? O????? RX1 7) 1420?? ?K5QE?????? RO? O?????? K5 8) 1433?? ?K9DX??????? O?? RO???? K9 9) 1450?? K9MRI????? O??? RO??? ----- 10) 1501 OZ1HNE? RO?? O???? OZ1??? SENT 549? RX? 559 11) 1514 OK1MS?? RO? O??????OK1 12) 1527 DF1CF??? O?? RO??? DF1 13? 1534 SM7GVF O?? RO???? SM7 13X10X12 =?? 1560? POINTS Heard:?? FOCXO? UA3PTW?? agn sorry for the 20 minutes qrz to someone with?? 3? G? ??? who was ????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 73, Valter IK1FJI ????4x12? 2.84? wl? tx ic275h to GU78b?? rx? atf 33143? 24? 0.3? ts-2000 linrad From eme_ww2r at g4fre.com Mon May 25 20:45:50 2009 From: eme_ww2r at g4fre.com (eme) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:45:50 -0500 Subject: [Moon] ww2r weekend activity report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Having arrived on 1296Mhz 7 days too early for the DUBUS contest I worked LZ2US and later on MI/DL1YMK both for new countries on saturday Put in the 13cm feed sunday afternoon and was surprised to work W5LUA, G4DDK (for a new initial) and ES5PC on monday morning (on 23xxx.080; found by panadaptors?) all with good signals Dave ww2r -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090525/24fe6ef1/attachment.htm From DL1YMK at aol.com Tue May 26 08:54:51 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 02:54:51 EDT Subject: [Moon] Update 25.05 Message-ID: Report 25-5-09 Hi folks, the third day of MI-DXpedition is very cold (around 10 degrees) and it is raining continuously (it is similar to the famous ?Landregen? in our home country, the M?nsterland, hi), but no winds, which is most important for us. The forecast sounds not really good, because we expect higher winds on Wednesday, which would be very problematic for the first trial ever on 9 cm ? we never did it with our portable homebrew dish. The second day on 23 cm we worked as new initials: VK3UM (Doug, fantastic that we made it despite our limited window to theEast, you were really fast, Doug, perfect job!), JA4BLC (fine, that you received the new sked time), SP7DCS, IK3COJ, OE5JFL, LX1DB (only in SSB, what a smashing signal!), ES6RQ, SM3AKW, UT5JCW, SV3AAF, IZ1BPN, PA3FXB, K2UYH, N2UO, OZ6OL, LA9NEA (the smallest dish so far!), F2TU, K5PJR, DL4MEA, WA6PY, WA5WPC, AL7RT (sorry, it was hard copy because of strong auroral distortion on your signal). In total we made 47 QSO?s so far, with 41 stations in 29 DXCC?s. The signals were mostly very good and readable with own echoes the whole day, louder than last year?s DXpedition to Uruguay. Perhaps the reason is a new corrugation ring around the squareseptum feed, which I built only 3 days before our departure from copper sheets, 0,5 mm thick, hence light weight. I will try to upload a photo to the homepage of OK1DFC (Zdenek, many thanks for your support, even during a business trip to Cologne!). It was an idea from G4DDK, who wrote he took a baking form as corrugation ring, but Monika would not give me her?s and Lidl was sold out, so I built my own one?. For tomorrow we change the feed (still the old septum without choke ring, maybe try a flare on it?) to 13 cm and try to work according the sked list. Tailending is welcome, but please respect the next sked slot, TNX. Concerning 9 cm on Wednesday: we try to keep everyone updated, despite poor internet access from time to time (only GPRS like, slow motion, hi!) Vy 73 M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/4f84a605/attachment.htm From DL1YMK at aol.com Tue May 26 15:34:23 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:34:23 EDT Subject: [Moon] 13cm MI/DL1YMK Message-ID: Folks, don't know, if this can be sent to i-net, but:if we just disappear, we have to tie the dish down in gale force winds. Hold on, if possible we re-take operation, whenever wind is down. Quick fronts moving in from Irish Sea... 73 Michael, MI/DL1YMK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/867b1a49/attachment.htm From vihraw1 at gmail.com Tue May 26 15:57:47 2009 From: vihraw1 at gmail.com (Barry Wright) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 07:57:47 -0600 Subject: [Moon] Oregon - DN14ma QRV: Skeds Wanted Message-ID: <000001c9de09$f4e4b130$deae1390$@com> I would like to setup 70cm skeds from my QTH for next weekend, 29, 30, 32 May and 1 June UTC. I will have a favorable window to Europe and North America beginning about 2000 UTC. Japan and the rest of Asia and the western Pacific should be accessible beginning around 0200 UTC. I like CW but won't rule out other possibilities. I don't expect low elevations to work as well as they did in winter as there are now leaves on the trees surrounding my back yard. My station description can be found on this URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry10a/2752956141/in/set-72157606664072445/. Please respond by email if interested. Vy 73, Barry - KA7V Oregon - DN14ma KA7V at ARRL.NET http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry10a/sets/72157606664072445/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/c26c1f33/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Tue May 26 17:55:07 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:55:07 +0100 Subject: [Moon] 9cm Activity Weekend Message-ID: <16895F0DF2704820B61B13C215007581@D7BX6Z0J> Not long to go before the AW on June 20/21st and so its time to identify who is likely to be on and set up skeds. Even if you dont want skeds, it would be nice to know who is likely to be on. In the last two years the following 20 stations have been active on 9cm. DL4MEA, DL1YMK, DF9QX, G3LTF, G3LQR, G4NNS, GM4ISM, LX1DB, N9JIM, OK1CA, OK1KIR, OK1DFC, OZ6OL, PA0BAT, RW1AW, VE4MA, VE6TA, VK3NX, WD5AGO, W5LUA, WW2R. I think N9JIM was a one off operation. I've highlighted in bold those who I am pretty sure will be on. I think there could be at least two more G stations QRV. So, please indicate if you plan to be on and if you want skeds e-mail K1RQG, k1rqg at aol.com 9cm EME is great fun, If you have 30-50W and a 2.4m dish you will be able to work the larger stations. 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/22dd1b86/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Tue May 26 21:29:52 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:29:52 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 9cm Activity Weekend In-Reply-To: <16895F0DF2704820B61B13C215007581@D7BX6Z0J> References: <16895F0DF2704820B61B13C215007581@D7BX6Z0J> Message-ID: Hello, for DL4MEA only personally arranged skeds with those who are not sure for working me in random. (like G3LTF, OK1CA, OK1KIR, DL1YMK, LX1DB, W5LUA, VK3NX, RW1AW and so on) Currently skeds are a problem for me because they are fixing me. I am currently doing some little radio in gaps between family events. Even MI/DL1YMK is done that way in random these days. I will be QRV, surely. I cannot promise having time all the weekend. Thats life, isn't it? 73, G?nter (dl4mea) ________________________________ From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of ext peter blair Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:55 PM To: moonbounceboard; freetalk moonnet Cc: Al Katz Subject: [Moon] 9cm Activity Weekend Not long to go before the AW on June 20/21st and so its time to identify who is likely to be on and set up skeds. Even if you dont want skeds, it would be nice to know who is likely to be on. In the last two years the following 20 stations have been active on 9cm. DL4MEA, DL1YMK, DF9QX, G3LTF, G3LQR, G4NNS, GM4ISM, LX1DB, N9JIM, OK1CA, OK1KIR, OK1DFC, OZ6OL, PA0BAT, RW1AW, VE4MA, VE6TA, VK3NX, WD5AGO, W5LUA, WW2R. I think N9JIM was a one off operation. I've highlighted in bold those who I am pretty sure will be on. I think there could be at least two more G stations QRV. So, please indicate if you plan to be on and if you want skeds e-mail K1RQG, k1rqg at aol.com 9cm EME is great fun, If you have 30-50W and a 2.4m dish you will be able to work the larger stations. 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/cbb0b391/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Tue May 26 22:09:19 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:09:19 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Report 26-5 Message-ID: <8CBAC54FCEE4EA9-1E14-8D0@FWM-D05.sysops.aol.com> Report 26-5 ? Hi lunatics, the day on 13 cm was a hard battle against permanent gusty winds, storm, rain and hail. The locals: you?ve got 4 seasons in an hour ? confirmation! We had to stop 3 times and tied the dish down with several ropes, because we were in fear the struts would break. The tripod was reasonably stable, thanks to the anchors, which Jim, ?GI1CET, drove into the gravel ground. ? In the morning it was the merrit of LX1DB (thanks Willi for calling such a long time!) that we found the moon, because our echoes were only weak. The reason was the limited window again, because of the corner of the house obstructed parts of the dish. Sorry for JA4BLC, on 23cm we had better luck?!? We heard reasonable echoes, when the moon arrived 76/22 degrees, but we lost the moon because of the high winds making the dish rocking and rolling around. ES5PC gave us a beacon for hours (many, many, thanks!), so we were able to recalibrate the position again and again. During long hours Monika was outside in the cold trying to stabilise the dish a little. It was the Iceland feeling, once again. ? In the end we were lucky enough to work the following stations: LX1DB, OK1CA (we were very surprised to hear Franta instead of OK1KIR!), OZ4MM, F2TU, G3LTF, G4CCH, OK1KIR, SV3AAF, SM3AKW, ES5PC, G4DDK (Sam , the fading was because the second OP was not on track at that time, hi), PA0BAT, OE9ERC, DF9QX, OH2DG, OE9ERC (SSB, 55/55), HB9Q, W5LUA (Al: you made it!!!!), W7BBM, DL4MEA, WA6PY, WW2R, N2IQU and finally SM2CEW, this means 22 initials in 16 DXCC?s. ?For those who missed us: if there is interest, we can make new skeds for 13 cm on June, 1st, ?pse mail to DL1YMK, we try to log in to the? internet once a day.? ? For tomorrow the weather forecast remains bad, so the problems will be the same with the dish, but we will try to work the skeds. On 9.20 UTC we will have 77/20 degrees, so we should be on the moon for the first sked with OZ6OL. Willi, could you call us from 9.10 UTC to give the pathfinder again (the ?odd QRG?)? We had never worked on 9 cm with this dish, so full risk tomorrow morning, keep your fingers crossed, it?ll surely harder than 2day?. ? Vy 73 / 88 de M & M ? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort k?nnen Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090526/17a8cceb/attachment-0001.htm From vihraw1 at gmail.com Tue May 26 23:06:26 2009 From: vihraw1 at gmail.com (Barry Wright) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:06:26 -0600 Subject: [Moon] Oregon - DN14ma QRV: 70cm Skeds Wanted Message-ID: <000001c9de45$d6026280$82072780$@com> Sorry for the extra bandwidth but someone indicated that in my previous email I didn't specify the frequency I wanted skeds on. I did so in the body of the email but not in the subject line. I would like to setup 70cm skeds from my QTH for next weekend, 29, 30, 32 May and 1 June UTC. I will have a favorable window to Europe and North America beginning about 2000 UTC. Japan and the rest of Asia and the western Pacific should be accessible beginning around 0200 UTC. I like CW but won't rule out other possibilities. I don't expect low elevations to work as well as they did in winter as there are now leaves on the trees surrounding my back yard. My station description can be found on this URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry10a/2752956141/in/set-72157606664072445/. Please respond by email if interested. Vy 73, Barry - KA7V Oregon - DN14ma KA7V at ARRL.NET http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry10a/sets/72157606664072445/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you for the random QSOs, they are greatly appreciated! 73, GL for the following days of operation, Petros sv3aaf --- On Tue, 5/26/09, dl1ymk at aol.com wrote: From: dl1ymk at aol.com Subject: [Moon] Report 26-5 To: ok1dfc at seznam.cz, moon at moonbounce.info, k1rqg at aol.com Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 11:09 PM Report 26-5 ? Hi lunatics, the day on 13 cm was a hard battle against permanent gusty winds, storm, rain and hail. The locals: you?ve got 4 seasons in an hour ? confirmation! We had to stop 3 times and tied the dish down with several ropes, because we were in fear the struts would break. The tripod was reasonably stable, thanks to the anchors, which Jim, ?GI1CET, drove into the gravel ground. ? In the morning it was the merrit of LX1DB (thanks Willi for calling such a long time!) that we found the moon, because our echoes were only weak. The reason was the li mited window again, because of the corner of the house obstructed parts of the dish. Sorry for JA4BLC, on 23cm we had better luck?!? We heard reasonable echoes, when the moon arrived 76/22 degrees, but we lost the moon because of the high winds making the dish rocking and rolling around. ES5PC gave us a beacon for hours (many, many, thanks!), so we were able to recalibrate the position again and again. During long hours Monika was outside in the cold trying to stabilise the dish a little. It was the Iceland feeling, once again. ? In the end we were lucky enough to work the following stations: LX1DB, OK1CA (we were very surprised to hear Franta instead of OK1KIR!), OZ4MM, F2TU, G3LTF, G4CCH, OK1KIR, SV3AAF, SM3AKW, ES5PC, G4DDK (Sam , the fading was because the second OP was not on track at that time, hi), PA0BAT, OE9ERC, DF9QX, OH2DG, OE9ERC (SSB, 55/55), HB9Q, W5LUA (Al: you made it!!!!), W7BBM, D L4MEA, WA6PY, WW2R, N2IQU and finally SM2CEW, this means 22 initials in 16 DXCC?s. ?For those who missed us: if there is interest, we can make new skeds for 13 cm on June, 1st, ?pse mail to DL1YMK, we try to log in to the? internet once a day.? ? For tomorrow the weather forecast remains bad, so the problems will be the same with the dish, but we will try to work the skeds. On 9.20 UTC we will have 77/20 degrees, so we should be on the moon for the first sked with OZ6OL. Willi, could you call us from 9.10 UTC to give the pathfinder again (the ?odd QRG?)? We had never worked on 9 cm with this dish, so full risk tomorrow morning, keep your fingers crossed, it?ll surely harder than 2day?. ? Vy 73 / 88 de M & M ? Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f?r eine reibungslose Kommunikation! -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090527/95c162c6/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Thu May 28 00:17:19 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:19 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Update 27-5 MI/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CBAD3008C6EA8A-ABC-258@webmail-db05.sysops.aol.com> Report 27-5 ? Hi fellow-EMEer?s, ? today started as an extremely frustrating day, but with a happy end, as we finally managed to activate the third band of our MI-DXpedition. When we tried to start in the morning on 9 cm with our ?beacon?, LX1DB, we didn?t hear anything, neither Willi, nor our own echoes. The dish was again obstructed by the corner of the house, which obviously had a more severe impact than on 23 and 13 cm. As forecasted, the weather was terrible with high winds and the dish was rocking and wobbling all over. An additional problem was the frequency instability of the LO, when becoming warmer by the dissipation heat of the 30 W driver PA. This needs to be adressed by either a TCXO or a GPSDO, when back home. It is only due to the extreme patience of Willi, LX1DB and Peter, G3LTF, who motivated us to hang on? for repeated trials to get us on the moon, even by using the SDR-waterfall display of Peter. The aperture of the dish on 9 cm turned out to be unexpectedly narrow, that one degree offset lead to significant attenuation of received moonbounce signals. The dish seems to be borderline on 9 cm in combination with the reduced positioning accuracy of the rotator used! Very close to giving up on it, we made a last attempt with Willi, when he got again a moon window in the early afternoon. All of a sudden the wind calmed down and already when Willy started, we heard him calling right=2 0on the spot. Meanwhile the xverter was so hot that the LO came to relative stability. The QSO was quickly completed and than we heard G3LTF calling on tailend, and we finished the second QSO ? uff!. The following QSO?s with OK1KIR and OE9ERC seemed to be comparatively easy, as we had the correct moon pointing by then and the quartz didn?t move further down as it was warm, not to say cooked?.. OK1KIR was ?calling some kHz above us later and thus gave us a helping hand to retrack the moon several times. The next in line was W5LUA, who was on exactly in the scheduled time frame. According previous contact with Al via mail we decided to stay with 2.5 min sequences rather than 5 min perods, as we again feared to lose the correct moon position, but we finshed without any problem . The 9 cm episode was completed by QSO?s with *** (wants to remain incognito ;-) )and at last WW2R. In the morning we already had heard OK1CA very loud (the loudest signal this day), but obviously Franta didn?t hear us, when the LO still was on the run. Another station was calling in the afternoon and we received ?RO?, but missed the callsign, very sorry! We would like to say a warm ?thank you? to all extremely skilled 9cm operators, who kept us on the moon today, as it was only for their activity that we were able to activate our third band from MI! We intend to give a last chance to those, who missed on 9 cm on Monday 1st, weat her permitting, right after 13 cm. We will check the ?safe? windows for the next days and post them tomorrow.? We assume that it will be for a long time until MI will get on moon again on the mw bands. Tomorrow we will be QRV from 12.30 UT on 23 cm for the skeds and of course random traffic, as long we have a moon window. See you on the moon! ? Vy 73 / 88 de M & M ________________________________________________________________________ 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/20090527/a86f8db8/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Thu May 28 07:01:11 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 07:01:11 +0200 Subject: [Moon] TH-327 Filament transformer In-Reply-To: <5FE25CD1AE6840D780E32018754582DC@augusta> References: <5FE25CD1AE6840D780E32018754582DC@augusta> Message-ID: Hello Gary, IMHO the 6.3V is sufficient, but you anyway have to lower heater voltage due to backheating. So if you insert some inductor/transformer/resistor into the primary in order to adjust the heater on the secondary, thats pretty fine. There is a document available on the net, quite easy to find, which describes the methode. About like that you go down with heater until you see the TX power decreasing and then increase the heater by 10%, if I remember correctly. My Plisch TH347 amplifier commercially provides this option. You can wind such a transfomer by yourself: Take a ring shaped transformer with suitable size and then wind the secondaries by yourself. Normally these transformers are at around 0.5-1V/turn, so not very much is needed for 6V. 73, G?nter (dl4mea) ________________________________ From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of ext Gary Abercrombie Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:59 AM To: moon at moonbounce.info; moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Subject: [Moon] TH-327 Filament transformer Was wondering if anyone can recommend a source for a 5.8-6.0VAC @ 34A TH-327 filament transformer ? I requested a quote from the folks that took over Peter Dahl but no response yet. I did find a 6.3VAC @ 28A filament transformer but unsure if this will be sufficient. I have made most of the mods on the cavity for 1296Mhz operation and am starting the process of getting the control and metering circuits assembled. Also need a Coaxial Dynamics (Bird) slug for this PA. Any leads are greatly appreciated! Gary, N8CQ -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090528/e42607ed/attachment-0001.htm From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Thu May 28 13:46:50 2009 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:46:50 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Update 27-5 MI/DL1YMK In-Reply-To: <8CBAD3008C6EA8A-ABC-258@webmail-db05.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBAD3008C6EA8A-ABC-258@webmail-db05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <4A1E79AA.3040101@orange.fr> Hello, I could easily follow M & M all the time from the moment he called OK1CA. Its frequency was not stable but with the 1000 Hz filter was easy to seek and find. There was a QSB because of his offset dish. His signal was 539 if not offset. Heard: OZ6OL 539, LX1DB 569 , OK1KIR 569, OK1CA 569, DF9QX 559, G3LTF 559, OE9ERC 559, W5LUA 569. Congratulation to M & M Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr dl1ymk at aol.com a ?crit : > Report 27-5 > > Hi fellow-EMEer?s, > > today started as an extremely frustrating day, but with a happy end, > as we finally managed to activate the third band of our MI-DXpedition. > When we tried to start in the morning on 9 cm with our ?beacon?, > LX1DB, we didn?t hear anything, neither Willi, nor our own echoes. The > dish was again obstructed by the corner of the house, which obviously > had a more severe impact than on 23 and 13 cm. As forecasted, the > weather was terrible with high winds and the dish was rocking and > wobbling all over. An additional problem was the frequency instability > of the LO, when becoming warmer by the dissipation heat of the 30 W > driver PA . This needs to be adressed by either a TCXO or a GPSDO, > when back home. It is only due to the extreme patience of Willi, LX1DB > and Peter, G3LTF, who motivated us to hang on for repeated trials to > get us on the moon, even by using the SDR-waterfall display of Peter. > The aperture of the dish on 9 cm turned out to be unexpectedly narrow, > that one degree offset lead to significant attenuation of received > moonbounce signals. The dish seems to be borderline on 9 cm in > combination with the reduced positioning accuracy of the rotator used! > Very close to giving up on it, we made a last attempt with Willi, when > he got again a moon window in the early afternoon. All of a sudden the > wind calmed down and already when Willy started, we heard him calling > right on the spot. Meanwhile the xverter was so hot that the LO came > to relative stability. The QSO was quickly completed and than we heard > G3LTF calling on tailend, and we finished the second QSO ? uff!. The > following QSO?s with OK1KIR and OE9ERC seemed to be comparatively > easy, as we had the correct moon pointing by then and the quartz > didn?t move further down as it was warm, not to say cooked?.. OK1KIR > was calling some kHz above us later and thus gave us a helping hand > to retrack the moon several times. The next in line was W5LUA, who was > on exactly in the scheduled time frame. According previous contact > with Al via mail we decided to stay with 2.5 min sequences rather than > 5 min perods, as we again feared to lose the correct moon position, > but we finshed without any problem . The 9 cm episode was completed by > QSO?s with *** (wants to remain incognito ;-) )and at last WW2R. In > the morning we already had heard OK1CA very loud (the loudest signal > this day), but obviously Franta didn?t hear us, when the LO still was > on the run. Another station was calling in the afternoon and we > received ?RO?, but missed the callsign, very sorry! > We would like to say a warm ?thank you? to all extremely skilled 9cm > operators, who kept us on the moon today, as it was only for their > activity that we were able to activate our third band from MI! We > intend to give a last chance to those, who missed on 9 cm on Monday > 1st, weather permitting, right after 13 cm. We will check the ?safe? > windows for the next days and post them tomorrow. We assume that it > will be for a long time until MI will get on moon again on the mw bands. > Tomorrow we will be QRV from 12.30 UT on 23 cm for the skeds and of > course random traffic, as long we have a=2 0moon window. See you on > the moon! > > Vy 73 / 88 de M & M > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hier klicken und auf AOL > das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und > Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f?r eine reibungslose > Kommunikation! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ok1dfc at seznam.cz Thu May 28 19:48:40 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:48:40 +0200 Subject: [Moon] GI pedition follow up Message-ID: Hi EME gang, I am back from trip in G and DL in past 14 days and have a done upgrade of Michael's web EME pedition including photos. Hope that WX stop to be crazy and I will be QRV during next weekend EME DUBUS contest. Best regards to all 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/20090528/3e0fd2bd/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Thu May 28 20:03:12 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:03:12 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] GI pedition follow up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: sorry forget link http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm 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: Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:49 PM To: Moon-Bounces; Moon Net Cc: K2UYH Subject: [Moon-net] GI pedition follow up Hi EME gang, I am back from trip in G and DL in past 14 days and have a done upgrade of Michael's web EME pedition including photos. Hope that WX stop to be crazy and I will be QRV during next weekend EME DUBUS contest. Best regards to all 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 i5wbe at i5wbe.it Thu May 28 22:54:03 2009 From: i5wbe at i5wbe.it (Enrico Baldacci) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:54:03 +0000 Subject: [Moon] VUSHF Meeting to Ham Radio Message-ID: <4A1EF9EB.7090604@i5wbe.it> Hello VUSHF- EME- MS Friends Remember : Friday 26 June at 13.00 local time we have our yearly meeting to Ham Radio in front of QSL-Wall. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 19.30 in front of Entrance HAM RADIO MESSE meeting for LINDAU HAM FEST Dinner at 20.30 C/O Altschule Ristorante Altschuleplatz 2 Lindau - for info see http://www.alteschule.de/alteschule.html Partecipants 2008 : about 40 frm 9A - F- I - G - D - OE - HA - S5 - HB - EA For Dinner reservation please send e-mail to me TNX 73' de Enrico i5wbe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/624e18ae/attachment.htm From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Fri May 29 20:02:22 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:02:22 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA 70cm In-Reply-To: <8CBAE5FD3F1A6CB-B04-3BCD@webmail-mf08.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBAE5FD3F1A6CB-B04-3BCD@webmail-mf08.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hi, this evening I have 70cm installed. Heard K1RQG working MI/DL1YMK earlier with a strong signal, but unfortunately only a faint trace from Michael, so no chance for a QSO. If anyone wants a sked, give me a note via mail. As well I will try to call CQ around 432.010 at around 2000UT I do not know what I will do during the weekend, most probable family business... 73, G?nter (dl4mea) ________________________________ From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of ext dl1ymk at aol.com Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:32 PM To: moon at moonbounce.info Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK Hi Gents, because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to 432.035 for all skeds and rnd today 73 / 88 de M & M ________________________________ Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f?r eine reibungslose Kommunikation! -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/e8d7754e/attachment.htm From fr5dn at izi.re Fri May 29 20:04:07 2009 From: fr5dn at izi.re (FR5DN-Phil) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:04:07 +0400 Subject: [Moon] Update 27-5 MI/DL1YMK In-Reply-To: <8CBAD3008C6EA8A-ABC-258@webmail-db05.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBAD3008C6EA8A-ABC-258@webmail-db05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <4A202397.4020403@izi.re> Hello, Just to let Mickael know that he had very nice signal on 70cm today! Glad to get a new country in the log! Many tks Mickael!! GL and Vy73 - Phil - FR5DN From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Fri May 29 21:10:53 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 21:10:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] 70cm EME - any new station for sked? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <18817.28198-26615-151361885-1243624253@seznam.cz> Hi all Today I worked my 5th WAC continent on 70cm with FR5DN in JT65. Phil was in peek -23dB and we made it thanks to openned text in JT65, (as he sent me via Moon that UA4AQL is making him QRM so I told to Al at N0UK to qrx until we finish sked and we made it :-) My BIG thanks to Phil and his patience! I'd rather to work him in CW however I have no free space left yet to add more antennas :-( Now I'm looking for anybody from South America to complete my dream: Digital or Mixed 70cm WAC diploma with single 5,7m long yagi. Maybe that LU7DZ will get new faster PC with installed WSJT 6 and we'll try. However if you know anything about PY5ZBU on 70cm (is he qrv only 23cm?), pse tell me. (btw how about "big dish" guys in OA?) During this weekend I'm qrv in JT65/CW for any of new 70cm sked. On wanted list remain: NC1I, DL5FN, ZS6WAB, K3MF, W7AMI, S53RM etc.. 73 Matej, OK1TEH - http://ok1teh.nagano.cz/eme_log432.htm 23el dk7zb 5,7m long + GS31b PA with 1HP PEP in CW and 450W in JT65 From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Fri May 29 23:05:25 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:05:25 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK In-Reply-To: <8CBAE5FD3F1A6CB-B04-3BCD@webmail-mf08.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Michael's web upgraded http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm 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-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On Behalf Of dl1ymk at aol.com Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:32 PM To: moon at moonbounce.info Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK Hi Gents, because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to 432.035 for all skeds and rnd today 73 / 88 de M & M ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f|r eine reibungslose Kommunikation! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/95126666/attachment.htm From DL1YMK at aol.com Sat May 30 01:45:20 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:45:20 EDT Subject: [Moon] Update 28./29.03. Message-ID: Report 28/29-5 Hi lunatics, today we completed the first ever 4-band EME-DXpedition! After activation of Northern Ireland on 23, 13 and 9 cm we managed to work today 17 initials on 70 cm in 15 DXCC?s. It was really hard work because of heavy libration fading, which we experienced already the last days on the other bands. Even skeds failed due to this, very sorry. A few stations finished calling early, probably because they didn?t hear us immediately, this was pity, we should have managed the qso with some patience, because we heard them reasonably well despite a marginal antenna gain at our end. The best signals we got today were from the dish stations, where we exchanged 549 to 559-reports. An essential advantage today was adjustable polarisation: I started to TX vertical with VK3UM in the morning and Doug?s signal was received best also vertical, strange enough ?. In the afternoon a quickie with SM2CEW was completed in 5 minutes, but TX/RX only horizontal. In contrast to other parts of Europe and the States we had smooth weather 2day without storm and rain, sometimes sunshine, but throughout the morning also thick fog over the Irish Sea. The ferries to Scotland and England, which we (normally) can see from the dining room were blowing their horns the whole day long. On 70 cm we worked today: VK3UM (despite the corner of the house, professional operator with quick key), UA3PTW, OH2DG, DL9KR, G3LTF, DK3WG, OK1KIR, FR5DN, I1NDP, PA3CSG, HB9Q, SP6JLW, OZ4MM, F2TU, DF3RU, K1RQG (559/559), SM2CEW . Yesterday we worked a few additional stations on 23 cm in CW and SSB, but also some JT-contacts. These stations are: OH2DG, PA0BAT, RW3BP, OK3RM, G4DDK, LZ1DX (all stations in CW) and finally K1RGQ as dupe in CW and SSB. In JT 65C we worked: PY2BS, PA3FXB, VE7BBG, HB9HAL. In total we made 58 QSO?s on 23cm, 4 of these in SSB and 4 in JT, all other contacts in CW. So we tried all EME-suitable modes, hi! According some further sked requests we changed the schedule and will show up again on all 4 bands. The new schedule is as follows: 30./31.5. 23cm DUBUS Contest 01.06.: 1600-1830 UTC 9cm, 1900-2230 UTC 13 cm (some sked proposals were sent, tailending is welcome) 02.06.: 1700-1900 UTC 23cm JT 65B and CW, 2000-2300 UTC 70 cm Sked request please directly to DL1YMK at aol.com We plan to finish mw operation on 03.06. 09 and change to 2m, playing in the evening hours a little bit on MS and EME and enjoying relaxed holidays during daytime.... Vy 73, M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/90bcee12/attachment-0001.htm From na4n at hughes.net Sat May 30 23:18:47 2009 From: na4n at hughes.net (Greg Drzyzga) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 17:18:47 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Moon Digest, Vol 31, Issue 31 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: sp6jlw on 018 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:46 PM Subject: Moon Digest, Vol 31, Issue 31 > Send Moon mailing list submissions to > moon at moonbounce.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > moon-request at moonbounce.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > moon-owner at moonbounce.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Moon digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK (dl1ymk at aol.com) > 2. Re: Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK (OK1DFC) > 3. DL4MEA 70cm (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) > 4. Re: Update 27-5 MI/DL1YMK (FR5DN-Phil) > 5. 70cm EME - any new station for sked? (OK1TEH Petrzilka) > 6. Re: Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK (OK1DFC) > 7. Update 28./29.03. (DL1YMK at aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 06:31:57 -0400 > From: dl1ymk at aol.com > Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Message-ID: <8CBAE5FD3F1A6CB-B04-3BCD at webmail-mf08.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Gents, > > > ? > > > because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to 432.035 > for all skeds and rnd today > > > ? > > > 73 / 88 de M & M > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort k?nnen Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL > email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/fb32184e/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:46:39 +0200 > From: "OK1DFC" > Subject: Re: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > To: , > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > terrible wind and heavy raining here QRT sorry > > 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-bounces at moonbounce.info > [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On > Behalf Of dl1ymk at aol.com > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:32 PM > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > > > Hi Gents, > > because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to > 432.035 > for all skeds and rnd today > > 73 / 88 de M & M > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, > Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f|r eine > reibungslose Kommunikation! > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/624e18ae/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:02:22 +0200 > From: "Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)" > Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA 70cm > To: , "moonbounceboard" > > Cc: dl1ymk at aol.com > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > this evening I have 70cm installed. Heard K1RQG working MI/DL1YMK earlier > with a strong signal, but unfortunately only a faint trace from Michael, > so no chance for a QSO. > > If anyone wants a sked, give me a note via mail. As well I will try to > call CQ around 432.010 at around 2000UT > > I do not know what I will do during the weekend, most probable family > business... > > 73, G?nter (dl4mea) > > > ________________________________ > > From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] > On Behalf Of ext dl1ymk at aol.com > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:32 PM > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > > > Hi Gents, > > because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to 432.035 > for all skeds and rnd today > > 73 / 88 de M & M > > > ________________________________ > > Hier klicken und auf AOL das > Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle > erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f?r eine reibungslose Kommunikation! > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/e8d7754e/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:04:07 +0400 > From: FR5DN-Phil > Subject: Re: [Moon] Update 27-5 MI/DL1YMK > To: dl1ymk at aol.com > Cc: moon at moonbounce.info > Message-ID: <4A202397.4020403 at izi.re> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Hello, > > Just to let Mickael know that he had very nice signal on 70cm today! > Glad to get a new country in the log! > Many tks Mickael!! > > GL and Vy73 - Phil - FR5DN > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 21:10:53 +0200 (CEST) > From: OK1TEH Petrzilka > Subject: [Moon] 70cm EME - any new station for sked? > To: Moon Net > Cc: moon at moonbounce.info > Message-ID: <18817.28198-26615-151361885-1243624253 at seznam.cz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi all > Today I worked my 5th WAC continent on 70cm with FR5DN in JT65. > Phil was in peek -23dB and we made it thanks to openned text in JT65, > (as he sent me via Moon that UA4AQL is making him QRM so I told to Al > at N0UK to qrx until we finish sked and we made it :-) My BIG thanks > to Phil and his patience! I'd rather to work him in CW however I have > no free space left yet to add more antennas :-( > > Now I'm looking for anybody from South America to complete my dream: > Digital or Mixed 70cm WAC diploma with single 5,7m long yagi. Maybe that > LU7DZ > will get new faster PC with installed WSJT 6 and we'll try. However if you > know anything about PY5ZBU on 70cm (is he qrv only 23cm?), pse tell me. > (btw how about "big dish" guys in OA?) > > During this weekend I'm qrv in JT65/CW for any of new 70cm sked. > On wanted list remain: NC1I, DL5FN, ZS6WAB, K3MF, W7AMI, S53RM etc.. > > > 73 Matej, OK1TEH - http://ok1teh.nagano.cz/eme_log432.htm > 23el dk7zb 5,7m long + GS31b PA with 1HP PEP in CW and 450W in JT65 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:05:25 +0200 > From: "OK1DFC" > Subject: Re: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > To: , > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Michael's web upgraded > > http://www.ok1dfc.com/Peditions/MIped/miymk.htm > > 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-bounces at moonbounce.info > [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]On > Behalf Of dl1ymk at aol.com > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:32 PM > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Subject: [Moon] Breaking News 70 cm MI/DL1YMK > > > Hi Gents, > > because of strong birdie on 432.030 MHz we have to move upwards to > 432.035 > for all skeds and rnd today > > 73 / 88 de M & M > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Hier klicken und auf AOL das Beste & Top-Aktuelle aus Nachrichten, Sport, > Szene-Klatsch und Lifestyle erfahren - dazu das sichere AOL Mail f|r eine > reibungslose Kommunikation! > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/95126666/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:45:20 EDT > From: DL1YMK at aol.com > Subject: [Moon] Update 28./29.03. > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Cc: K1rqg at aol.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Report 28/29-5 > Hi lunatics, > today we completed the first ever 4-band EME-DXpedition! After activation > of Northern Ireland on 23, 13 and 9 cm we managed to work today 17 > initials > on 70 cm in 15 DXCC?s. It was really hard work because of heavy libration > fading, which we experienced already the last days on the other bands. > Even > skeds failed due to this, very sorry. A few stations finished calling > early, probably because they didn?t hear us immediately, this was pity, > we > should have managed the qso with some patience, because we heard them > reasonably well despite a marginal antenna gain at our end. The best > signals we got > today were from the dish stations, where we exchanged 549 to 559-reports. > An essential advantage today was adjustable polarisation: I started to > TX > vertical with VK3UM in the morning and Doug?s signal was received best > also > vertical, strange enough ?. In the afternoon a quickie with SM2CEW was > completed in 5 minutes, but TX/RX only horizontal. > In contrast to other parts of Europe and the States we had smooth weather > 2day without storm and rain, sometimes sunshine, but throughout the > morning > also thick fog over the Irish Sea. The ferries to Scotland and England, > which we (normally) can see from the dining room were blowing their horns > the > whole day long. > On 70 cm we worked today: VK3UM (despite the corner of the house, > professional operator with quick key), UA3PTW, OH2DG, DL9KR, G3LTF, > DK3WG, OK1KIR, > FR5DN, I1NDP, PA3CSG, HB9Q, SP6JLW, OZ4MM, F2TU, DF3RU, K1RQG (559/559), > SM2CEW . > Yesterday we worked a few additional stations on 23 cm in CW and SSB, but > also some JT-contacts. These stations are: OH2DG, PA0BAT, RW3BP, OK3RM, > G4DDK, LZ1DX (all stations in CW) and finally K1RGQ as dupe in CW and > SSB. In > JT 65C we worked: PY2BS, PA3FXB, VE7BBG, HB9HAL. In total we made 58 > QSO?s > on 23cm, 4 of these in SSB and 4 in JT, all other contacts in CW. So we > tried all EME-suitable modes, hi! > According some further sked requests we changed the schedule and will > show > up again on all 4 bands. The new schedule is as follows: > 30./31.5. 23cm DUBUS Contest > 01.06.: 1600-1830 UTC 9cm, 1900-2230 UTC 13 cm (some sked proposals were > sent, tailending is welcome) > 02.06.: 1700-1900 UTC 23cm JT 65B and CW, 2000-2300 UTC 70 cm > Sked request please directly to DL1YMK at aol.com > We plan to finish mw operation on 03.06. 09 and change to 2m, playing in > the evening hours a little bit on MS and EME and enjoying relaxed > holidays > during daytime.... > Vy 73, M&M > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090529/90bcee12/attachment.htm > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > > End of Moon Digest, Vol 31, Issue 31 > ************************************ > From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun May 31 01:07:11 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 01:07:11 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 1296 MHz activity Message-ID: Hi EME gang, due to strong wind and very bad WX I worked from 18:00 UTC today only. In log finally 40 QSOs. Expecting to be QRV tomorrow from Moonrise. Conditions very well, good copy signals. Used VLNA G4DDK and 1,5kW whole time. Looking forward to work with many of you tomorrow. 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/20090531/5731d4ac/attachment.htm From la9nea at online.no Sun May 31 08:22:55 2009 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:22:55 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 1296 eme activity report Message-ID: Hello All. Was on 1296 Dubus event last nite ,during my short operation time I worked this fine 1296 eme stations: K5JL 569/549, HB9MOON 559/559, K0YW 549/559, G3LTF 549/439,OZ4MM 559/449,SP6JLW 549/449,OK1CA 559/549,F2TU 559/549,ON4BCB 539,529 and WA6PY RO/O. Plan to be on to nite again, and will change to 13 cm 1th june for a new attempt MI/DL1 . 73 Viggo LA9NEA 2.85 meter Dish 250 watt SSPA on 1296 250 watt SSPA on 2320. VE4MA Feed/ 13 and 23 cm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090531/d410de9c/attachment.htm From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sun May 31 09:33:49 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:33:49 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF activity report Message-ID: <5B198E00B86F44129F95DEE53F084FA9@D7BX6Z0J> Despite my limited moonrise window at these low declinations I managed 48 stations yesterday, the activity level at times was amazing. Conditions seemed to be very good for some reason. Weaker stations that I could hear working others but didnt find them calling CQ were W9IIX, RW6AG, VA7MM and N2NQI. Hope to find them today and maybe others. 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090531/b504b491/attachment.htm From f2tu.philippe at orange.fr Sun May 31 13:26:37 2009 From: f2tu.philippe at orange.fr (F2TU Philippe) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 13:26:37 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Dubus 23cm, first day Message-ID: <4A22696D.7000707@orange.fr> Hello, Good conditions but with strong wind and an offset of + / - 0.5 ? on the dish. Missed G3LQR, N2UO, VA7MM (QRM) and very low K2DH: 5dB Noise with the moon behind the trees. Starting today at 12:30. From 22:00, the moon will begin to disappear behind the trees and impossible for QRP. I hope many QSOs GL 73 -- Philippe PIERRAT - F2TU http://F2TU.perso.orange.fr From k2dh at frontiernet.net Sun May 31 18:44:59 2009 From: k2dh at frontiernet.net (Dave Hallidy) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:44:59 -0400 Subject: [Moon] K2DH 23cm EME Today Message-ID: <745F3B2F1EC0402491CA96D112BE0B06@DAVE> All- I hope to be on after moonrise today, but right now the winds are huge- 40-50mph. If they don't subside by 1830Z or so, I won't take the dish out of its parked position. Hoping for the best a little later. 73 Dave K2DH From guenter.koellner at nsn.com Sun May 31 23:41:51 2009 From: guenter.koellner at nsn.com (Koellner, Guenter (NSN - DE/Munich)) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:41:51 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA report 23cm DUBUS 2009 Message-ID: Hello, within very little available time I managed to do 30 QSO. New initials seem to be RK3WWF, SM6FHZ and GW3XYW (Just from my memory, not verified in the lists). None of the stations was a real problem to read, just at RK3WWF OK1DFC gave me QSP because I didn't catch the unusal callsign. 4.5m dish, G4DDK preamp, 500W at the feed Maybe I shall apply for Multi-OP this time, because Mr. Murphy was here as a 2nd operator: * First, I left the door of my cabinet behind the dish open, so that the two counterweight bars stroke against it and finally broke the door off. So I had to dismantle 13cm from it, but anyway, this is the right time to make some more space in order to place some more components in it. * Second, somehow I got a short circuit in the 24V running to the dish, so that the preamp safety relay did not protect the preamp and I lost one preamp. This is just possible since the wire from "preamp has switched" to "enable PA" is temporarily removed. AAAAAhhhh.... What does that tell you: Make everything really safe... 73, G?nter (dl4mea) -------------- n?chster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20090531/0c677292/attachment.htm