From mail01 at df9cy.de Thu Oct 1 21:12:59 2009 From: mail01 at df9cy.de (Christoph Petermann) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:12:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 70cm YL1050 amplifier (IV) Message-ID: <4AC4FF3B.4050509@df9cy.de> The 70cm YL1050 amplifier IS still available. I have added some more information. I really would like to see it going into the EME community !! Have a look here: http://www.df9cy.de/afusale.htm 73 de Christoph -- Christoph Petermann DF9CY || www.df9cy.de || www.cpetermann.de From ON4BCB at skynet.be Thu Oct 1 23:15:17 2009 From: ON4BCB at skynet.be (Walter Crauwels ON4BCB) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:15:17 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 70cm YL1050 amplifier (IV) In-Reply-To: <4AC4FF3B.4050509@df9cy.de> References: <4AC4FF3B.4050509@df9cy.de> Message-ID: If anyone need an additional tube never used , I have one available ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Petermann" To: ; Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:12 PM Subject: [Moon-net] 70cm YL1050 amplifier (IV) > The 70cm YL1050 amplifier IS still available. I have added some more > information. I really would like to see it going into the EME community !! > > Have a look here: > > http://www.df9cy.de/afusale.htm > > 73 de Christoph > > -- > Christoph Petermann DF9CY || www.df9cy.de || www.cpetermann.de > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.1/2407 - Release Date: 10/01/09 06:34:00 From vladimir.masek at volny.cz Fri Oct 2 09:26:12 2009 From: vladimir.masek at volny.cz (vladimir.masek at volny.cz) Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:26:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] =?iso-8859-2?q?=5BMoon-net=5D_70cm_YL1050_amplifier_=28IV?= =?iso-8859-2?q?=29?= In-Reply-To: References: <4AC4FF3B.4050509@df9cy.de> Message-ID: <05b6ce69fb5a0f691718e36052ee149f@www2-mail.volny.cz> Hi Christoph, FYI, links at your images does not work properly. Can't open them, sri. 73, Vlada, OK1DAK ----- P?VODN? ZPR?VA ----- Od: "Walter Crauwels ON4BCB" Komu: "Christoph Petermann" , moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net, moon at moonbounce.info P?edm?t: Re: [Moon-net] 70cm YL1050 amplifier (IV) Datum: 1.10.2009 - 23:15:17 > If anyone need an additional tube never used , I have > one available > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christoph Petermann" > To: ; > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:12 PM > Subject: [Moon-net] 70cm YL1050 amplifier (IV) > > > > The 70cm YL1050 amplifier IS still available. I have > > added some more > > > information. I really would like to see it going > > into the EME community !! > > > > > Have a look here: > > > > http://www.df9cy.de/afusale.htm > > > > 73 de Christoph > > > > -- > > Christoph Petermann DF9CY || www.df9cy.de || www.cpetermann.de > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are > > at > > > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.1/2407 - > Release Date: 10/01/09 > 06:34:00 > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are > at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > From pe1lwt at xs4all.nl Sat Oct 3 09:43:06 2009 From: pe1lwt at xs4all.nl (Jurgen) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:43:06 -0000 Subject: [Moon] live cq logger running Message-ID: <95967DBB26034C20A0D0BBEE265E2ED9@lwtshack> Hi Lunatics, As some of you already figured out Rene PE1L his cq logger is running on a test base. On http://www.livecq144.com/ you can see the results and you can feed your own cq input. So far its very nice to see/hear positive reactions. NO qso info will or can be spotted. Target: more qso's without passing chat info about running qso. More fun with hunting on stations that calls cq. More activity If you don't like it, don't use it. Its as easy as it is. Jurgen PE1LWT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/9834fdf9/attachment.htm From la9nea at online.no Sat Oct 3 10:53:13 2009 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:53:13 +0200 Subject: [Moon] LA9NEA activity report 2 + 3 oct 1296 eme Message-ID: <2704B8FC0BA9416A878387EFD87D2D4C@LA9NEA> Hello ! Worked this fine 1296 CW EME stations last nite. UA3PTW 549/569( new), K1RQG 579/589, K5SO 569/589, K5JL 569/579, W4OP 559/569, VE6TA 569/569 and VE3KRP RO/O ( had problems to copy VE3KRP this time....) heard but not worked WW2R 549. Will be on during the first part of the 1296 ARRL EME contest next weekend. 73 Viggo LA9NEA LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: Icom 756 pro II TR1296H trv Kuhne 6 x 7289 ring PA ,500 watt, 5.2 meter dish VE4MA Feed JO59dx Autotracking by W2DRZ, F1EHN Tracking program -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/b22da2cc/attachment.htm From howard at g4cch.com Sat Oct 3 18:45:41 2009 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:45:41 +0100 Subject: [Moon] NEC 6GHz SSPA info needed Message-ID: <265817357/mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.13.99/10/03/09/17:45:32@mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com> I have acquired an NEC 6GHz SSPA and need some information to see if it could be suitable for 5.7GHz EME. On the back of the PA heatsink its marked: NEC 939490 RF AMP 84-2 No 1026 It has a PSU attached which is 48V input and is marked: NEC 90540 FET PS 83-12 No 5414 I will post photo's on my website if this isn't sufficient detail. And information would be appreciated if available. Thanks and best 73 Howard, G4CCH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/9e450699/attachment.htm From howard at g4cch.com Sat Oct 3 20:42:13 2009 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:42:13 +0100 Subject: [Moon] NEC 6GHz SSPA info needed - photos Message-ID: <269699543/mk-filter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.13.99/10/03/09/19:42:04@mk-filter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com> I have posted some photo's of the SSPA on my website: http://www.g4cch.com/data/station/NEC_6GHz_SSPA/nec_6ghz_sspa_information_ne ed.htm Please email me if you have any info Thanks Howard, G4CCH ============================================================= I have acquired an NEC 6GHz SSPA and need some information to see if it could be suitable for 5.7GHz EME. On the back of the PA heatsink its marked: NEC 939490 RF AMP 84-2 No 1026 It has a PSU attached which is 48V input and is marked: NEC 90540 FET PS 83-12 No 5414 I will post photo's on my website if this isn't sufficient detail. And information would be appreciated if available. Thanks and best 73 Howard, G4CCH -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3546 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/1c1a7f60/attachment.bin From g3ltf at btinternet.com Sat Oct 3 23:38:08 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:38:08 +0100 Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK QRV now on 23cm Message-ID: Michael is a good signal on 1296.045 and has been working a steady stream of stations. GL, 73, Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/ded0f5d1/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sun Oct 4 02:05:03 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:05:03 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Report 3rd October XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com> Hello lunatics, ? After two days of travel by car and 2 ferries we arrived at our ?mystery? DXpedition site. Problems as usual (and expected?): WX is horrible, storm and rain, cold, but we managed to set up the dish as a compromise between a free moon sight and at least some shelter against the wind. So two juniper trees now minimise our moon windows to East and West. To the East our moon window opens with around 115 degrees AZ, to the West it ends around 260 degr. ?And regarding the South, we are happy to have a high moon declination, because there is also a juniper, hi. We hope this compromise helps the dish to survive the next days, because the weather forecast says, that we will get stormy days on the island. ? First we didn?t hear our echoes and it was difficult to find the moon until HB9BBD sent his strong signal ? you were the first as usual, Dominique! In the following pile up, we didn?t hear properly, because all signals were somewhat faint ? After 11 QSOs we went outside despite the pouring rain and changed the feed position in the dark ? we had obviously put the 23 feed in the position marked for the 13 cm feed?.hmmm, getting older?. ? On the first day on 23 cm we worked: HB9BBD (569/579), SV1BTR (559/529), SP6JLW (559/559), VK3UM (559/559), LX1DB (569/569), F2TU (569/549), OK1KIR (549/549), PA3CSG ( 559/539), JA4BLC (549/539), S M2CEW ( 559/549), JA6AHB (559/549), OZ4MM (569/569), LX1DB (55/53 SSB!), OE9ERC ( 579/579), G3LTF (559/559), SP7DCS ( 549/549), DF3RU (559/559), SM3AKW (559/559), ES5PC (559/549), PA0BAT (539/539), OZ6OL (549/549), UA3PTW ( o/ro), G4RGK (ro/o), DJ9YW (549/549), K1RQG (579/579), ? In total we made 25 initials to 17 countries so far. ? We hope all enjoyed to decode the call with the prefix of our DXpedition site ? it is really a handful to key?. All QSOs were random, in CW (one in SSB).? ? Tomorrow we will change the feed to 13 cm (2320.100 and 2304.100 and 2301.975, only listening). According to the limitation in the moon window we will start around 1900 UTC. If some fellow EMEers make ?noise? on the moon around this time, it would be very much appreciated; it helps us to find the moon quickly. ? Vy 73, Monika and Michael ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091003/391c1d88/attachment.htm From howard at g4cch.com Sun Oct 4 16:12:28 2009 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:12:28 +0100 Subject: [Moon] NEC 6GHz SSPA more clues and photo's Message-ID: <269423968/mk-filter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.13.99/10/04/09/15:12:20@mk-filter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com> I have followed Petros SV3AAF's advice and opened the SSPA to see what's inside. I suspect by the way its constructed that its quite old, but still hoping it could be useful. More photos' are posted on my website - http://www.g4cch.com/data/station/NEC_6GHz_SSPA/nec_6ghz_sspa_info_reqd.htm There are 7 stages in total, and the last 3 stages are NEC 45001C + 45003C + 2 x 45003 I will look try to identify the lower power devices later. A quick search on google found nil... so if anyone know's anything then please email me. Thanks and best 73 Howard, G4CCH -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3714 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091004/5aaaf0d7/attachment.bin From john at sygonnex.co.za Sun Oct 4 17:51:01 2009 From: john at sygonnex.co.za (John Sygo) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:51:01 +0200 Subject: [Moon] HV Thordarsen Transformer Message-ID: Hi All. Just a question for advice please. I have a HV Transformer made by Thordarsen. It's a big bugger and HEAVY. It has the following Markings: 1510-0-1510 .5 Amp RMS. On the second secondary tapping I reach 3500V DC easily. My question is: Would this transformer run a GS35B 2m/70cm amplifier? I see on the specs of the GS35B that it requires 1A. Output power required 1-1.5kw. Thankyou John ZS6JON From dl1ymk at aol.com Sun Oct 4 19:45:12 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:45:12 -0400 Subject: [Moon] New Timetable for XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC13318EC2FAD0-292C-3224B@webmail-m041.sysops.aol.com> Hello Lunatics, Due to the limited moon window we have to modify the schedule for the next days. The beginning is much later than estimated previously. So here is the new timetable with the starting time (all times given in UT): ? 5th October 2000 on 9cm 6th October 2030 on 70 cm 7th October 2130 8th October 2200 9th October 2320 on 70 cm 10th October 2350 on 23 cm ? For 7th and 8th October we have no band preferences so far. We made a sked on 9cm for 7th October with VK3NX on 2000 UTC, which we have to cancel herewith due to the limited moon window. Concerning the skeds on 5th October for 9 cm we will make new proposals, see next mail. If anyone may have interest in a sked on 7th and 8th October for a particular band, he may drop us a line. Perhaps on 7th October again 13 cm?? ? Vy 73, M&M ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091004/aa65d119/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sun Oct 4 19:47:09 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:47:09 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Sked Proposal on 9cm for XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC1331D4D0CF7E-292C-32285@webmail-m041.sysops.aol.com> Helo lunatics, We have to shift all times for the European skeds for 9cm on 5th October. The sked times on 6th October in the morning hours for US will be unchanged. To optimise the chance for us to find the moon as soon as possible, we would again like to start with the strongest stations. So here is the new proposal: 5th October 2000 OK1KIR (VK3NX tail ending if we are ready??) 2030 OK1CA 2100 G3LTF 2130 PA0BAT 2200 DL4MEA (G?nter, if it is too late for you, try tail ending earlier) ? 6th October 0230 W5LUA 0300 WW2R (Dave, we still reserve this sked, if you are able to change the feed) 0400 VE6TA ? We change to 2,5 min sequences to save time. All home stations first, YMK second. To all: please respect all skeds, only tail ending, if sked is finished or if we call cq. ? Vy 73, Monika and Michael ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091004/18acfbcd/attachment.htm From jewell at btinternet.com Mon Oct 5 11:56:49 2009 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:56:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] Final request for DXCC scores In-Reply-To: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <774484.25540.qm@web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Folks, The RSGB Convention is this coming weekend. I am just finalising my slides for the VHF/Microwave stream. The title of my talk is 'Achieving DXCC at Microwave'. This is principally about EME. The reason for choosing this title is that this was originally an HF convention and there will be many HF DX ops in attendance. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase what we do at microwave and particulary what can be achieved on EME. Maybe we will get a few converts from HF and even VHF, once they realise what can be done on these bands. Thanks to your responses to my previous postings and the DF6NA Toplist, I have a list of what people have scored so far. However, I realise this is already probably out of date. I would be very keen to get an update on your DXCC scores for 23cm and above before the weekend, please. I haven't heard anything from VK/ZL/JA yet. You must have worked a few DXCC entities by now! I am sure there have been several new DXCC entities added to all your scores, with all the activity over the summer months, and now the activity from Michael and Monika from .....! Please help me to ensure this is an up to date list of YOUR achievements for the Convention participants to see on the 10th October. And you guys in the USA. Remember, I'll be at MUD in a few weeks to ask why I haven't heard from you! 73 de Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091005/7e7e8488/attachment.htm From df2zc1 at googlemail.com Mon Oct 5 15:15:59 2009 From: df2zc1 at googlemail.com (DF2ZC) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:15:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores In-Reply-To: References: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com> <774484.25540.qm@web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002001ca45bd$fbe16a70$f3a43f50$@com> Btw...Frank DH7FB and I plan to activate another DXCC in Europe in 2010. We will be QRV as XXX/DH7FB and XXX/DF2ZC from dd1.mm1.2010 to dd2.mm2.2010. Working frequency is 144.xyz and we will tx 1st or 2nd period. 73 Bernd DF2ZC -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of Russ K2TXB Sent: Montag, 5. Oktober 2009 14:33 To: moon at moonbounce.info Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Subject: Re: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores "and now the activity from Michael and Monika from ....." OK, I gotta ask - why all the secrecy about where they are operating from? This seems to be a comspiracy that everyone is participating in but I have no clue as to why. In any case it sure would be nice for us who are not able to get on, to know where they are. Russ K2TXB > -----Original Message----- > From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net > [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of SAM JEWELL > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:57 AM > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net > Subject: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores > > Folks, > The RSGB Convention is this coming weekend. I am just > finalising my slides for the VHF/Microwave stream. The title > of my talk is 'Achieving DXCC at Microwave'. This is > principally about EME. > > The reason for choosing this title is that this was > originally an HF convention and there will be many HF DX ops > in attendance. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase what > we do at microwave and particulary what can be achieved on > EME. Maybe we will get a few converts from HF and even VHF, > once they realise what can be done on these bands. > > Thanks to your responses to my previous postings and the > DF6NA Toplist, I have a list of what people have scored so > far. However, I realise this is already probably out of date. > I would be very keen to get an update on your DXCC scores for > 23cm and above before the weekend, please. I haven't heard > anything from VK/ZL/JA yet. You must have worked a few DXCC > entities by now! > > I am sure there have been several new DXCC entities added to > all your scores, with all the activity over the summer > months, and now the activity from Michael and Monika from .....! > > Please help me to ensure this is an up to date list of YOUR > achievements for the Convention participants to see on the > 10th October. > > And you guys in the USA. Remember, I'll be at MUD in a few > weeks to ask why I haven't heard from you! > > 73 de Sam > _______________________________________________ > 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 g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon Oct 5 15:34:30 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:34:30 +0100 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores References: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com><774484.25540.qm@web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Simple answer Russ ... we dont have to enter the call into any computer.... we dont have to look on a logger....we dont use our " memory list" of all the ~ 1000 different calls that we have previously worked on EME .... we read it off the radio as it comes.... with our ears and brains... its a lot of fun! 73 Peter G3LTF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ K2TXB" To: Cc: Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores > "and now the activity from Michael and Monika from ....." > > OK, I gotta ask - why all the secrecy about where they are operating from? > This seems to be a comspiracy that everyone is participating in but I have > no clue as to why. In any case it sure would be nice for us who are not > able to get on, to know where they are. > > Russ K2TXB > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net >> [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of SAM JEWELL >> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:57 AM >> To: moon at moonbounce.info >> Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net >> Subject: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores >> >> Folks, >> The RSGB Convention is this coming weekend. I am just >> finalising my slides for the VHF/Microwave stream. The title >> of my talk is 'Achieving DXCC at Microwave'. This is >> principally about EME. >> >> The reason for choosing this title is that this was >> originally an HF convention and there will be many HF DX ops >> in attendance. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase what >> we do at microwave and particulary what can be achieved on >> EME. Maybe we will get a few converts from HF and even VHF, >> once they realise what can be done on these bands. >> >> Thanks to your responses to my previous postings and the >> DF6NA Toplist, I have a list of what people have scored so >> far. However, I realise this is already probably out of date. >> I would be very keen to get an update on your DXCC scores for >> 23cm and above before the weekend, please. I haven't heard >> anything from VK/ZL/JA yet. You must have worked a few DXCC >> entities by now! >> >> I am sure there have been several new DXCC entities added to >> all your scores, with all the activity over the summer >> months, and now the activity from Michael and Monika from .....! >> >> Please help me to ensure this is an up to date list of YOUR >> achievements for the Convention participants to see on the >> 10th October. >> >> And you guys in the USA. Remember, I'll be at MUD in a few >> weeks to ask why I haven't heard from you! >> >> 73 de Sam >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 jewell at btinternet.com Mon Oct 5 15:35:54 2009 From: jewell at btinternet.com (SAM JEWELL) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:35:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores In-Reply-To: References: <8CC129D74F3747D-2428-1ECFC@webmail-m060.sysops.aol.com> <774484.25540.qm@web87014.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <402076.20072.qm@web87003.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi Russ, I don't think there is any secrecy other than the rather interesting idea of encouraging operators to decode their prefix rather than 'guess' at what might have been 'copied'. There can be little doubt that this does excite interest and avoids the 'look up' phenomenon. As the user of a small dish system (2.3m) I found it virtually impossible to 'decode' the prefix they were using on 13cm last night. Far from being upset at this, it made me more detrmined than ever to concentrate on my CW and really try to ensure I copied the callsign correctly. In discussions with another op this morning it transpires that I may even now have got it wrong. I think that the actual location will be announced after the weekend's contest. 73 de Sam ________________________________ From: Russ K2TXB To: moon at moonbounce.info Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Sent: Monday, 5 October, 2009 1:33:09 PM Subject: Re: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores "and now the activity from Michael and Monika from ....." OK, I gotta ask - why all the secrecy about where they are operating from? This seems to be a comspiracy that everyone is participating in but I have no clue as to why. In any case it sure would be nice for us who are not able to get on, to know where they are. Russ K2TXB > -----Original Message----- > From: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net > [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of SAM JEWELL > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:57 AM > To: moon at moonbounce.info > Cc: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net > Subject: [Moon-net] Final request for DXCC scores > > Folks, > The RSGB Convention is this coming weekend. I am just > finalising my slides for the VHF/Microwave stream. The title > of my talk is 'Achieving DXCC at Microwave'. This is > principally about EME. > > The reason for choosing this title is that this was > originally an HF convention and there will be many HF DX ops > in attendance. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase what > we do at microwave and particulary what can be achieved on > EME. Maybe we will get a few converts from HF and even VHF, > once they realise what can be done on these bands. > > Thanks to your responses to my previous postings and the > DF6NA Toplist, I have a list of what people have scored so > far. However, I realise this is already probably out of date. > I would be very keen to get an update on your DXCC scores for > 23cm and above before the weekend, please. I haven't heard > anything from VK/ZL/JA yet. You must have worked a few DXCC > entities by now! > > I am sure there have been several new DXCC entities added to > all your scores, with all the activity over the summer > months, and now the activity from Michael and Monika from .....! > > Please help me to ensure this is an up to date list of YOUR > achievements for the Convention participants to see on the > 10th October. > > And you guys in the USA. Remember, I'll be at MUD in a few > weeks to ask why I haven't heard from you! > > 73 de Sam > _______________________________________________ > 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/20091005/052e0843/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Mon Oct 5 16:16:05 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:16:05 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Report 4th October XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC13DD82BAC8CC-9D18-3A98B@webmail-d047.sysops.aol.com> Hello lunatics, ? on 23 cm we would like to add several ?stations to our list already published, because during the night we worked successful to the West (mostly). On 4th October between 0000 and 0300 (this means 0600 local time, when we went to bed, hi), we worked: K5GW (569/569), G4CCH (559/569), ES6RQ (549/549), W7JM (559/559), K5SO (569/569), N0OY (549/549), W7BBM (559/559), W4OP (o/ro), VE6TA (559/559). This means in total 33 initials into 23 different DXCCs. Very sorry for those we missed, we heard some stations calling, but were not able to get the full call out of the mud (sri Dave, try again). If a weaker station is interested in a sked, we still have time available on 7th October from 2130 UTC until 8th October 0900 and on 8th October from 2200 until 9th October 1000. ? During the night the wind calmed down, so the worst weather seems to be over. One comment we got: ?this godforsaken weather??? ? damned right my friend! After a breakfast around 1300 local time (ok, it was more a brunch) we changed the feed to 13 cm (with a brand new choke ring for the DFC-septum feed) and optimised the position with the sun noise. Than we put together the 13 cm station with a new PA with ?good? output, which we have never tested for longer than a few minutes ? but survived the rugged DXpedition so far?. ? Due to th e limitation in moon window we started on 1900 UT and were very happy to hear our own echoes from the beginning. The dish was standing quiet, no wobbling feed as usual, because one of the junipers gives shelter against the heavy wind from West, which came with the dawn together with a slight drizzle of rain. So the decision to minimise the moon window to get shelter against the wind was just resonable. After a first call the pile up was just overwhelming and we needed quite some time to identify one after the other J We worked : ES5PC (559/549), SP6OPN (559/559), OK1CA (569/559), OK1KIR (559/549), OZ4MM (569/559), LX1DB (569/569), G4CCH (559/559), HB9Q (569/559), F2TU (569/559), G3LTF (559/559), SM2CEW (549/559), LZ1DX (539/559), PA0BAT (539/539), DF9QX (539/559), LX1DB (55/55, the second band in SSB, fantastic Willi!!), F2TU (54/53, what a surprise to hear a second SSB signal, thank you Philippe!!), G3LQR (539/539), SM3AKW (539/559), OE9ERC (599/589), OE9ERC (56/55, the third station in SSB, Erich, what a fun) ? than waiting for 2 hours until the window to the US opened and we worked: K5GW (559/559), WW2R (o/ro, glad to work you on 13 cm on first shot, Dave), WD5AGO (o/ro, the new dish working fine, Tommy), W5LUA (559/559, in time back from camping, Al!!), VE6TA (559/449, Grant switched the lights off as usual). In total we worked 23 initials to 16 DXCCs, not bad for a portable station in the wilderness with pouring rain and storm, also as usual, hi. ? Vy 73 M&M-team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091005/7be56f3f/attachment-0001.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Mon Oct 5 18:11:34 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:11:34 -0400 Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC13EDA4FAF5BF-7324-1D475@webmail-m011.sysops.aol.com> Hello to those, who search the challenge to decode our call with the unknown prefix, ? thank you to all for the very nice comments we got via mail and for not disclosing, where we are and for not spoiling the fun. It seems to be a real fun for those EMEers, who are searching for the thrill of decoding unknown callsigns with their brain. A big compliment to the many stations having decoded our call instantaneously - and to the others: try again, there will be second chance on every band. ? Today (5th October from 19.45UT) we are on 9 cm (3400.100 MHz, until 6th October 0500), tomorrow (6th October from 2130 or a little bit earlier) on 70 cm (432.045) (until 7th October around 0500). On 7th October in the evening we will put again the 13 cm feed in the dish and try with some smaller stations, also in JT 65 C ? of course YMK 1st period?as we are a 100% not in the deep search database ;-) Available on 7th from 2130 UT 2230 G4DDK (first CW, if unsuccessful JT from 2315) Next morning 8th of October: 0130 PY2BS (JT) Any other sked request on JT or CW for this moon window?? ? Let?s have fun, folks!! ? vy 73 de M&M team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091005/e14b2e19/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Mon Oct 5 19:11:13 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:11:13 +0000 Subject: [Moon] SM4IVE web update In-Reply-To: <0A77BB09A15947B0B5270C93608848B3@RADIO> Message-ID: <20091005171116.2A554411DB@mailrelay.alltele.net> Well done Lasse (and Kjell)!! Looking forward to hearing your BIG signal via the moon again! 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com At 16:33 2009-10-05 , Lars Pettersson wrote: > > Hello all moon friends. > Just want to let you know that my new dish are getng closer to be ready for > lift up. With some luck i might be on in a month or soo (of course we are > dependig of the weather up here) > > www.sm4ive.com check dish page > > 73 de lars SM4IVE > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove > you from the list From frankddr at tele2.it Mon Oct 5 22:58:24 2009 From: frankddr at tele2.it (Francesco) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:58:24 +0100 Subject: [Moon] R: SM4IVE web update In-Reply-To: <20091005171116.2A554411DB@mailrelay.alltele.net> Message-ID: Congrats Lars. 73' Francesco,IK2DDR -----Messaggio originale----- Da: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info]Per conto di Peter Sundberg Inviato: lunedi 5 ottobre 2009 18.11 A: Lars Pettersson; moon at moonbounce.info. Oggetto: Re: [Moon] SM4IVE web update Well done Lasse (and Kjell)!! Looking forward to hearing your BIG signal via the moon again! 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com At 16:33 2009-10-05 , Lars Pettersson wrote: > > Hello all moon friends. > Just want to let you know that my new dish are getng closer to be ready for > lift up. With some luck i might be on in a month or soo (of course we are > dependig of the weather up here) > > www.sm4ive.com check dish page > > 73 de lars SM4IVE > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 pchomins at san.rr.com Tue Oct 6 05:14:38 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 20:14:38 -0700 Subject: [Moon] SM4IVE web update References: <0A77BB09A15947B0B5270C93608848B3@RADIO> Message-ID: <008101ca4633$24492410$6401a8c0@your7008ffa13b> Hej Lars, Congratulation! this is very impressive. I will look for you on 70 cm and other bands. VY 73 Paul WA6PY / SM0PYP ----- Original Message ----- From: Lars Pettersson To: moon at moonbounce.info. Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: [Moon] SM4IVE web update Hello all moon friends. Just want to let you know that my new dish are getng closer to be ready for lift up. With some luck i might be on in a month or soo (of course we are dependig of the weather up here) www.sm4ive.com check dish page 73 de lars SM4IVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091005/6b84d699/attachment.htm From pchomins at san.rr.com Tue Oct 6 05:26:01 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 20:26:01 -0700 Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK References: <8CC13EDA4FAF5BF-7324-1D475@webmail-m011.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <009401ca4634$bb4140e0$6401a8c0@your7008ffa13b> Hello Monica and Michael, My 70 cm window on 7-th October starts at 4:00 UTC My 13 cm window on 8-th October starts at 5:00 UTC. I will look for you on both bands. I hope to find you on 23 cm during the contest. GL, 73 Paul WA6PY ----- Original Message ----- From: dl1ymk at aol.com To: moon at moonbounce.info ; K1rqg at aol.com Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:11 AM Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK Hello to those, who search the challenge to decode our call with the unknown prefix, thank you to all for the very nice comments we got via mail and for not disclosing, where we are and for not spoiling the fun. It seems to be a real fun for those EMEers, who are searching for the thrill of decoding unknown callsigns with their brain. A big compliment to the many stations having decoded our call instantaneously - and to the others: try again, there will be second chance on every band. Today (5th October from 19.45UT) we are on 9 cm (3400.100 MHz, until 6th October 0500), tomorrow (6th October from 2130 or a little bit earlier) on 70 cm (432.045) (until 7th October around 0500). On 7th October in the evening we will put again the 13 cm feed in the dish and try with some smaller stations, also in JT 65 C ? of course YMK 1st period?as we are a 100% not in the deep search database ;-) Available on 7th from 2130 UT 2230 G4DDK (first CW, if unsuccessful JT from 2315) =0 D Next morning 8th of October: 0130 PY2BS (JT) Any other sked request on JT or CW for this moon window?? Let?s have fun, folks!! vy 73 de M&M 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091005/0f24f4ff/attachment-0001.htm From w7cs at theriver.com Tue Oct 6 05:30:59 2009 From: w7cs at theriver.com (Chuck Smallhouse) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:30:59 -0700 Subject: [Moon] Secret DXpedition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20091005202909.34D1BAC3@dm0219.mta.everyone.net> Peter, Don't you think that keeping the pre-fix of the DX station secret is a bit unfair to the "No Code" Extra licensees ! ?? W7CS From sm2ekm at telia.com Tue Oct 6 06:39:28 2009 From: sm2ekm at telia.com (Jan Erik Holm) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:39:28 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SM4IVE web update In-Reply-To: <008101ca4633$24492410$6401a8c0@your7008ffa13b> References: <0A77BB09A15947B0B5270C93608848B3@RADIO> <008101ca4633$24492410$6401a8c0@your7008ffa13b> Message-ID: <4ACACA00.7080807@telia.com> Nice Lars! By the way I still remember your big fat signal on 70cm, years and years ago just when I got started on 70 and only had a single 27 el Yagi. Too bad I?m QRT on 2/70 now, good old days are gone and me too. 73 Jim SM2EKM ---------------------------- Paul Chominski wrote: > Hej Lars, > Congratulation! this is very impressive. I will look for you on 70 cm > and other bands. > VY 73 Paul WA6PY / SM0PYP > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Lars Pettersson > *To:* moon at moonbounce.info. > *Sent:* Monday, October 05, 2009 9:33 AM > *Subject:* [Moon] SM4IVE web update > > Hello all moon friends. > Just want to let you know that my new dish are getng closer to be > ready for lift up. With some luck i might be on in a month or soo > (of course we are dependig of the weather up here) > > www.sm4ive.com check dish page > > 73 de lars SM4IVE > From guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de Tue Oct 6 08:11:11 2009 From: guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de (Guenter Koellner) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:11:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] DL4MEA 9cm report 05.10.2009 In-Reply-To: References: <4AC911B0.20107@sabinenet.com> Message-ID: <50188.217.10.60.85.1254809471.squirrel@intern.netexpress.de> Hello, I am somehow back on EME. Some of you know that I decided to leave my company after 20 years because headquarter in Finland had decided to move my department to a far distant city. That meanwhile got completed and I am working for a new company. 13cm was out of service because I had crashed my box behind the dish and anyway had decided to make it wider, so that parts fit better into it. After competion, I restored all, but am getting 3dB less sun noise than before, even having not changed feed and preamp assembly. Strange, but to find why. I now have new PA (Andrews UMTS) giving me 225W out and since I optimized the cable it is hopefully 200W at the feed. I worked XXX/DL1YMK for first XXX/DL on 13cm. I missed Michael's 23cm on Sunday because of other activities and need for sleep. I was QRV on 9cm yesterday, worked OK1KIR 549/439, heard LX1DB and PA0BAT, but did not hear neiter see a trace from Michael. I hope to do some few QSOs on 23cm during the weekend, but I think it is not the right time to think about a serios participation in the contest due to some personal commitments and feelings (nothing to do with CW/WSJT). 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From ha5cw at netscape.net Tue Oct 6 10:54:25 2009 From: ha5cw at netscape.net (ha5cw at netscape.net) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:54:25 -0400 Subject: [Moon] IC-910 power Message-ID: <8CC1479BD40A505-5A98-BFE4@webmail-m056.sysops.aol.com> Hi All! I'd like to save an amplifier stage between my IC-910's UT-910 (1,3 GHz) unit and 4xMRF286 PA. I am sure, that the design engineers at Icom are cautious gamblers, therefore the factory setting the unit is 10W only. However the devices applied could deliver far more. The unit's PA section applies an M-57762 type Mitsibishi hybrid module driven by a Toshiba 2N2855 and a 2N2854. The Hybrid module's data sheet tells minimum 18W output, while the the driver is a Toshiba 2N2855, capable for 31 dBm (that is 1.25 W), while it's 2N2854 pre-driver for 23 dBm, (that is 200 mW) so insufficient driving power seems to be out of question. I found no related note at http://www.mods.dk/ . Has anybody tried and collected long time positive experiences having set the UX-910 to the nominal rated power of the Hybrid module or at least to 15W? 73: Joska, HA5CW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <005601ca46c3$ce2eefb0$6a8ccf10$@com> ...is now for download at http://www.df2zc.de/newsletter/ sri...forgot to post this here... vy 73 Bernd DF2ZC (JO30RN) www.df2zc.de ____________________________________________ 144 MHz EME NewsLetter: www.df2zc.de/newsletter 144 MHz DXCC #21 144 MHz WAC 2002 Kenwood TS 2000 2 x GU74b by LZ2US 4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd full elevation From dl1ymk at aol.com Wed Oct 7 00:59:53 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:59:53 -0400 Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK 2days 70 cm Operation cancelled Message-ID: <8CC14EFD99CC1A2-3824-10291@webmail-m085.sysops.aol.com> Hi gang, ? due to a vigurous storm front moving in from the West we had to cease 2nites? 70cm operation at 2200UTC unfortunately. We had to tie down the dish with ropes, but is is heavily distorting in the gusts. If we can bring the dish through the night, there will be another chance for 70 cm on Saturday. Supposed the dish survives the night, we will be on 13 cm 2morrow evening. We will drop a line to the moon reflector to keep you up to date. ? 73 de M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091006/64a506e7/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Wed Oct 7 01:55:58 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:55:58 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Report 5th October YMK /skeds 13 cm 2morrow Message-ID: <8CC14F7AF581F20-2144-2B7AE@webmail-d049.sysops.aol.com> Hi gang, ? The 5th October was dedicated to our highest and also most problematic band: 9 cm. Fortunately, the weather forecast was wrong, it was a calm evening with bright moonshine, so we could correct the position of the dish optically from time to time by? aiming over the feed to the moon. The beamwidth of our dish on 9 cm is surprisingly narrow (obviously less than 1 degree), so our tracking system was not able to follow the moon with sufficient resolution. Monika was outside every 5 minutes to correct the position of the dish, hi - that?s what 2nd operators are dedicated to, honestly? Compared to the MI-Dxpedition we had more power now and we thought to have stabilized the frequency by a new 60?C - OCXO, but this point is back on the to-do-list, as Peter, G3LTF, reported, tnx Peter for the hint. We have to handle this ultimately for the next DXpedition?.the winter is long, hi! The first 2 skeds failed, because the dish was obviously partly obstructed by a big pine tree, than we found our own echoes even on 9 cm and were able to work OK1CA (o/ro) as the first station. Afterwards, we worked (partly random, partly as sked): LX1DB(o/ro), G3LTF (o/ro), F2TU (o/ro), PA0BAT (o/ro), OK1KIR (o/ro) and after 2 hours of sleep: ?W5LUA (o/ro) and finally OE9ERC (559/559). 9cm was a hard piece of work again, so thanks to all, who tried it with us. ? Actually, I thought to have copied OZ 6OL calling us, but I could not find Hans back again, what a pity! ? Tomorrow 7th October evening and 8th October in the morning we will get qrv on 13 cm, if the dish survives the storm this night. We made a few skeds for smaller stations (2320.100, 2,5 min sequences) and will hear in between for random. 7th October 2230 G4DDK CW (YMK first) 2315 G4DDK JT 65 C if CW failed (YMK first) ? 8th October 0130 PY2BS JT 65 C (YMK first) 0400 PA3CSG? CW (CSG first) 0500 looking for WA6PY and other US stations (listening on 2304.100) ? Vy 73 M&M ? ?????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Any information welcome. vy 73, Rainer -- ----- VHF/UHF/SHF Online Toplist: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html DF6NA Homepage: http://www.df6na.de/ Amateurfunk-Flohmarkt: http://www.afu-flohmarkt.de/ VHF-DX.net: http://www.vhf-dx.net/ From DL1YMK at aol.com Wed Oct 7 12:38:18 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:38:18 EDT Subject: [Moon] XXX/DL1YMK survived the storm Message-ID: Gents, gee, what a stormy night! First: the dish survived, got no idea, why and how, but it did - somehow. It is in camouflage style now, all covered with pine tree needles. Did change the feed early this morning to 13cm, after very breathtaking moments to see, if the rotator head was still functional, checked sun noise and looks okay. Will be on 13cm 2nite from 2200UT on, when the moon clears off the trees. Sorry to say we were just for 2 hours on 70cm yesterday, b4 the storm forced us to QRT. It was just impossible to go on, and if we would have known b4 about the strength of the storm, we surely would have dismantled the dish. It was a rather sleepless night, getting up from bed after every roaring gust to look out of the kitchen window, if that was the one to desintegrate the dish?don?t really need that. These are the moments, when you start to think: what the hell am I doing here?? Only 5 stations logged on 70 cm yesterday: VK3UM, DL9KR, UA3PTW, OZ4MM and I1NDP. The new feed behaved decently, did stand the power fed into it and has a clear and sharp destinction between H and V. All stations worked were clearly H and disappered completely, when switched to V; so will stay with the feed also on Saturday, 10th October, when we will be back on 70 cm from 0000UT onwards. We will work the skeds on 13cm 2nite as confirmed. In case someone else thinks to need a sked, just drop us a line by mail. Feel free to give us a shout on 13cm 2nite, it appears that 13cm now is our best band so far. Stay tuned? Vy 73 de M & M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091007/ae6dfbfc/attachment.htm From sp7dcs at wp.pl Wed Oct 7 21:54:16 2009 From: sp7dcs at wp.pl (Chris SP7DCS) Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:54:16 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SP7DCS qrv ARRL EME Contest - 2m, 70cm, 23cm CW Message-ID: <4ACCF1E8.7090107@wp.pl> Hi, I plan to be qrv in ARRL EME Contest this weekend on 2m, 70cm and 23cm. I will operate CW RANDOM without any assistance. My son SP7MC will join me as a second operator. We do hope to work a lot of stations on all bands. Equipment: 2m: 16x8el Hpol, gs35b 70cm: 4x25el Hpol, 400W SSPA 23cm: 3m dish, RA3AQ feed, 400W SSPA Good luck and have fun, VY 73 !!! de Chris SP7DCS -- Chris SP7DCS email - sp7dcs at wp.pl, sp7dcs at o2.pl, sp7dcs at smrw.lodz.pl EME PAGE - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl From w7qx at msn.com Wed Oct 7 22:51:29 2009 From: w7qx at msn.com (Jerry Kleker) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:51:29 -0700 Subject: [Moon] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz In-Reply-To: <4ACC60C7.9070805@df6na.de> References: <4ACC60C7.9070805@df6na.de> Message-ID: Hi Rainer, I think you would have trouble getting these transistors to work on 2.4 GHz. They are specifically designed to operate at a narrow band around 2.1 GHz. http://www.freescale.com/files/rf_if/doc/data_sheet/MRF5S21130H.pdf Good luck trying. 73, Jerry W7QX ----- Original Message ----- From: Rainer To: Moon-net ; Moon at moonbounce.info ; W1MBA uWave Reflector Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:35 AM Subject: [Moon] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz Hello, I got hold of an Andrew amplifier board marked RF500246 Rev C 2004 The two final transistors and the driver are MRF5S21230HS and the two stages before that are each 2 transistirs marked '15A' and 'FP1189 H001-2'. http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200182.JPG http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200183.JPG http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200184.JPG I want to convert them for 2320MHz. Any information welcome. vy 73, Rainer -- ----- VHF/UHF/SHF Online Toplist: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html DF6NA Homepage: http://www.df6na.de/ Amateurfunk-Flohmarkt: http://www.afu-flohmarkt.de/ VHF-DX.net: http://www.vhf-dx.net/ _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091007/92ea209a/attachment.htm From df6na at df6na.de Thu Oct 8 07:31:51 2009 From: df6na at df6na.de (Rainer) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:31:51 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Mw] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz In-Reply-To: <0KR600MGY0FN3E17@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> References: <4ACC60C7.9070805@df6na.de> <0KR600MGY0FN3E17@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: <4ACD7947.4000700@df6na.de> Hi all, my email was a bit misleading. I already have datasheets for the driver and final as well as for the Anaren couplers. What I could not identify are the two stages before the MRF21085. So I do not know if they are 12V or 28V and what bias they need. I have moved some MRF21120 to 2320MHz sucessfully in my Ericsson amplifier and get >340W with abt. 1mW of drive. So Andy you're right - it's possible and well worthwhile! Thanks for all the replies so far. vy 73, Rainer Andy Furlong schrieb: > Hi Gang...Hi Ranier...if you have an X-Acto knife...a 'diddle-stick' > (a Q-Tip) with a small piece of copper glued on it...they can be > made...with varying amounts of copper....YOU CAN CHANGE THE MATCHING > in BOTH input and output circuits. Jerry is probably right...they > ARE internally matched, but....if they can be > be moved 200 MHz Narrow banding too will bring up the power as > well. Might take some time, but unless you can un-cap them and have > access to a wire bonder...changing the matching network in and out is > you only option. Even if you loose 1 db of Pout...you will still > have a working amp. > One needs if some variable drive, input bi-directional coupler(2-4 > GHz)..Birds $UX above 1800 MHz... > and a good load and bi-directional (2-4 GHz) on the output...and a > pair of (or a switch between the 2 coupled ports-spdt) HP 435 at the > coupled port and THEY WILL BE MOVED...the coupler will need a bit of > snow-flaking too..silver paint work well for 3-4 years...but > eventually with heat and cooling..deteriorates and change 'C' and has > to be re-touched up. Using the diddle-stick where touching the > matching or transmission line and power drops..cut s real small > amount of copper...where power increases..that's where you will need > to add 'C'. The devices will move more easily perhaps than hybrid > couplers. But no coupler is extremely narrow banded. > But tools necessary are listed above. I've done this with long pulse > Avionic 'L' Band parts and move them up almost 200 MHz to > 1296. Devices 1800-2100 MHz ARE MUCH HARDER TO MAKE WORK on 2400 > than 2100-2200 MHz. Rainer.....I BELIEVE YOU CAN DO IT! it IS worth the try. > Andy WA2FGK > > At 04:51 PM 10/7/2009, Jerry Kleker wrote: > >> Hi Rainer, >> >> I think you would have trouble getting these transistors to work on 2.4 GHz. >> They are specifically designed to operate at a narrow band around 2.1 GHz. >> >> http://www.freescale.com/files/rf_if/doc/data_sheet/MRF5S21130H.pdf >> >> Good luck trying. >> >> 73, >> >> Jerry W7QX >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Rainer >> To: Moon-net ; >> Moon at moonbounce.info ; W1MBA uWave >> Reflector >> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:35 AM >> Subject: [Moon] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I got hold of an Andrew amplifier board marked >> RF500246 Rev C 2004 >> >> The two final transistors and the driver are MRF5S21230HS and the >> two stages before that are each 2 transistirs marked '15A' and 'FP1189 >> H001-2'. >> >> >> http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200182.JPG >> >> http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200183.JPG >> >> http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200184.JPG >> >> I want to convert them for 2320MHz. Any information welcome. >> >> vy 73, Rainer >> >> -- >> -- ----- VHF/UHF/SHF Online Toplist: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html DF6NA Homepage: http://www.df6na.de/ Amateurfunk-Flohmarkt: http://www.afu-flohmarkt.de/ VHF-DX.net: http://www.vhf-dx.net/ From rein0zn at ix.netcom.com Thu Oct 8 07:55:10 2009 From: rein0zn at ix.netcom.com (rein0zn at ix.netcom.com) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 01:55:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Moon] 432 and Above EME Newsletter for October 2009 Message-ID: <15819010.1254981310354.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hello All, The 432 MHz and Above EME Newsletter for October 2009 by K2UYH is at: http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html More info on the JT44 Echo Mode for EME. Enjoy! 73 Rein,W6SZ From jimmyv at hol.gr Thu Oct 8 13:50:01 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:50:01 +0300 Subject: [Moon] connectors attenuation SHF Message-ID: <20091008145001.i08mhekxcs088o44@easymail-app.hol.gr> Hello all where available, could you provide measured insertion loss info on 23cm-13-9-6cm for: 1/2 inch: N male 1/2 inch, 7/8, 1-5/8 coax: 7/16 male & female, right angle male 7/16, 7/16 barrel adaptor female Superflex: 7/16 male and right angle 7/16 male? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you & 73 Jimmy SV1BTR From dl1ymk at aol.com Thu Oct 8 14:33:09 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:33:09 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Report XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC162AA09A62BF-4AFC-603E@webmail-d086.sysops.aol.com> Hello fellow-EMEers Time is passing by quickly and the end of our stay on X-land is foreseeable. Yesterday we had a second day on 13 cm and worked G4DDK, SV3AAF, PY2BS (the only JT 65C for us on 13 cm with a lot of free text, that was fun, Bruce, tnx) and WA6PY. We ended on 13 cm with 27 initials from19 DXCCs. Tomorrow morning, this means Friday, 9th October, we will be on 23 cm for some skeds and QSO?s outside the oncoming contest. Only for this particular activity period we will be on 1296.055 MHz (not .045!!) because of birdies at DZU. During the contest we will be on the usual DXpedition frequency +/- QRM again. The skeds so far: 0500 G4DZU (CW, YMK first) 0530 G4DDK (CW, YMK first) If we fail: both in JT 65 C? from 0615 in the same sequence, YMK first from 0645: looking for K2UYH and WW2R in CW Other QSO?s of course more than welcome, but please respect the skeds with smaller stations! During the ARRL contest we will be on 70 cm on Saturday, 10.10.09, from 0000 UTC onwards, hopefully this time without any storm to give more stations the chance to work X-land than the 5 stations we worked under heavy windgusts. The second day, Sunday, 11th October , we will be on 23 cm from 0000 UT, but only until 1000 UT, because we have to dismantle the dish and put all things in the car for our way home.? Vy 3 M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091008/eec262bd/attachment.htm From pe1lwt at xs4all.nl Thu Oct 8 20:20:07 2009 From: pe1lwt at xs4all.nl (Jurgen) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:20:07 -0000 Subject: [Moon] Live CQ logger Message-ID: <767728159A084A63A5D5B789AADEC57E@lwtshack> Hi Lunatics, With 134 unique users on www.livecq144.com Rene,PE1L seems to have build a nice program to spot CQ EME traffic. Also the group of map65(iq) spotters are growing. If you want to join, pse ask Rene for a upload tool. The map 65 users only post CQ,CQH,CQV,QRZ and QRT messages Up to now it's very interesting too see what polarization is doing between the different receive stations. You can see the pol shifting within a few minutes. Hopefully old and new EME'ers start hunting for the spotted stations and have fun with making a QSO without sharing pre-information before the QSO starts. Even without map 65 you can add your CQ spot, or a CQ spot you receive (copy and past from WSJT) NO mode is given, so you can use it for WSJT,CW or any other mode :-) Have fun, and as said before, if you don't like it, don't use it. Jurgen PE1LWT During the ARRL contest I probably use our clubcall PI9CM, not a new init this time as I use it from my homestation. I will S&P for any station in any mode. 4x 9el Xpol .2dB nf WSE modules/Linrad/Map65 K3/TR144H+40 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091008/bcb88302/attachment.htm From tikaluna at bigpond.com Fri Oct 9 01:29:58 2009 From: tikaluna at bigpond.com (Doug McArthur) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:29:58 +1100 Subject: [Moon] VK Windows for ARRL Contest Message-ID: <20091008233034.LDEY9934.nschwotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com@tikaluna-jjn6i8.bigpond.com> Gentlemen The following are the VK (East Coast add 20 minutes for VK5MC) windows for the ARRL Contest. Saturday 10th Oct 2009 1510z - 0030z (Sunday) Add and subtract ~ 10 minutes for ground noise as appropriate. Sunday 11th Oct 2009 1600z - 0000z (contest period end) You will note that we have only one window into Europe. For us down here it has never been a "Contest" just an event that we support. Inclement Wx on Saturday will mean no Eu contacts. Hence we have always wished for 2 Contest weekends. I will be operating as usual EBE (ear brain ear with integral deep search) and do my best to work all I can on 70 and 23. 73 Doug VK3UM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091009/cf50de97/attachment-0001.htm From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Fri Oct 9 08:11:43 2009 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:11:43 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K6PF QRV in Contest Message-ID: <007c01ca48a7$5fe28720$6401a8c0@Office> Hello 2m EME Friends: I will be QRV during both nites of this weekend on 2m, CW, random & unassisted. Will try to stay awake during my entire window w/ EU & again later look for CQs fm Japan. My moonrise on the 10th is ~0600z & on the 11th it's ~0700z. Hope to work as many of you as possible during this weekend as long as my noise level remains low. GL to all during the contest. Vy 73, Bob, K6PF 4 x M^2 2MXP20's (19dBd, x-pol) 8877 HPA running 1.5 KW From ON4BCB at skynet.be Fri Oct 9 09:04:30 2009 From: ON4BCB at skynet.be (Walter Crauwels ON4BCB) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:04:30 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Report XXX/DL1YMK In-Reply-To: <8CC162AA09A62BF-4AFC-603E@webmail-d086.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CC162AA09A62BF-4AFC-603E@webmail-d086.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Nice to have a second occasion to work the XXX team on 23cm I was QRV at 05:00 UTC and listened first with respect to the skeds. After the QSO I noticed a hughe pile-up with no respect at all !!! Went down for coffee =) 06:47 I was worked XXX/DL1YMK with RST 55N See you during the activity weekend, and thanks for all the efforts M&M Walter ON4BCB ----- Original Message ----- From: dl1ymk at aol.com To: moon at moonbounce.info Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:33 PM Subject: [Moon] Report XXX/DL1YMK Hello fellow-EMEers Time is passing by quickly and the end of our stay on X-land is foreseeable. Yesterday we had a second day on 13 cm and worked G4DDK, SV3AAF, PY2BS (the only JT 65C for us on 13 cm with a lot of free text, that was fun, Bruce, tnx) and WA6PY. We ended on 13 cm with 27 initials from19 DXCCs. Tomorrow morning, this means Friday, 9th October, we will be on 23 cm for some skeds and QSO?s outside the oncoming contest. Only for this particular activity period we will be on 1296.055 MHz (not .045!!) because of birdies at DZU. During the contest we will be on the usual DXpedition frequency +/- QRM again. The skeds so far: 0500 G4DZU (CW, YMK first) 0530 G4DDK (CW, YMK first) If we fail: both in JT 65 C from 0615 in the same sequence, YMK first from 0645: looking for K2UYH and WW2R in CW Other QSO?s of course more than welcome, but please respect the skeds with smaller stations! During the ARRL contest we will be on 70 cm on Saturday, 10.10.09, from 0000 UTC onwards, hopefully this time without any storm to give more stations the chance to work X-land than the 5 stations we worked under heavy windgusts. The second day, Sunday, 11th October , we will be on 23 cm from 0000 UT, but only until 1000 UT, because we have to dismantle the dish and put all things in the car for our way home. Vy 3 M&M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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. 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Have tried to glue the plastic cog-wheel together but no success. I understand this weekend is gone but if anyone has this piece in the junk-box I would be very glad. mny 73 to all SM3JQU /Per ----- Original Message ----- From: "Viggo Magnus LA9NEA" To: Cc: "Moon" Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:07 PM Subject: [Moon-net] 23 cm EME contest > Hello > > I will be qrv this weekend during the first leg of the ARRL 23 cm EME > contest. Glad to see some of the 3 meter and smaller 23 cm EME stations > will be qrv, and for sure I will look for you > Planned start for me will be saturday at 0300z > > GL to all > > 73 Viggo LA9NEA > > LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: > Icom 756 pro II / SDR IQ > TR1296H trv Kuhne > 6 x 7289 ring PA ,400 watt > 5.2 meter dish, > VE4MA Feed > 1.stage preamp.Cavity NE32484 0.28 dB > 2.stage Kuhne MGF 4953A 0.4 dB > JO59dx > Autotracking by W2DRZ, > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at > http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > From Bruinier at t-online.de Fri Oct 9 10:09:00 2009 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 09 Oct 2009 08:09 GMT Subject: [Moon] GM on 432 MHz CW EME Message-ID: <1MwAXp-1qJwdU0@fwd00.aul.t-online.de> Andrew, I've checked my QSL cards with the following result: GM3YGF/P Aug 83, GM4TXX May 88, GM0ONN Nov 91, GM3JFG (sk) May 92, GM4ISM Nov 05. Looking fwd to work you on CW. 73, Jan DL9KR. From dj3jj at gmx.net Fri Oct 9 10:58:27 2009 From: dj3jj at gmx.net (Andreas Haefner) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:58:27 +0200 Subject: [Moon] =?iso-8859-1?q?Spektakul=E4re_Aktion_im_All=3A_NASA_bombar?= =?iso-8859-1?q?diert_Mond?= Message-ID: <20091009085827.210660@gmx.net> Washington (dpa) - Mit einer spektakul?ren Aktion will die US- Weltraumagentur NASA heute (Freitag) die Existenz von Wasser auf dem Mond nachweisen. Dabei lassen die Wissenschaftler die Raketenstufe einer Raumsonde wie ein Geschoss in einen Krater am S?dpol des Erdtrabanten st?rzen. Dadurch wird Mondstaub aufgewirbelt, den die Raumsonde LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) auf Spuren von Wasser untersuchen soll. Nur wenige Minuten sp?ter wird auch die Sonde auf dem Mond zerschellen. Der Einschlag der Rakete im Cabeus-Krater ist f?r kurz nach 13.30 Uhr deutscher Zeit geplant. Die Rakete soll mit einer Geschwindigkeit von fast 9000 Stundenkilometern aufschlagen. Die NASA-Wissenschaftler gehen davon aus, dass der Mondstaub bis zu zehn Kilometer hoch aufsteigt. F?r das Spektakel hat ein Mitarbeiter sogar ein Lied geschrieben. Das gesamte Unternehmen kostet rund 79 Millionen Dollar (rund 53 Millionen Euro). Die Sonde war am 18. Juni gestartet worden. Zeitgleich flog ein weiterer Orbiter los, der jetzt den Mond umkreist und Aufnahmen von der "Bombardierung" machen soll. Zwar hatten Wissenschaftler erst k?rzlich Wasser auf dem Mond ausgemacht. Diesmal geht es aber um den definitiven Nachweis, hei?t es bei der NASA. http://portal.gmx.net/de/themen/wissen/weltraum/9081994-Spektakulaere-Aktion-im-All-NASA-bombardiert-Mond.html -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser From vallik at telia.com Fri Oct 9 11:54:06 2009 From: vallik at telia.com (Viljo Allik) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:54:06 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ES5PC new 2m & 70cm EME setup + plans for ARRL EME Contest Message-ID: Hi, As some of you may have already noticed I have adde two more bands to my EME setup: 2m & 70cm. The new setup was completed in August. Many thanks to ES6RQ, ES5RY, ES5QX, ES5MG, ES5RAL, ES5PW and others who helped me on this big project! During just a bit more than one month I have worked stations from 45 countries on 2m, from 12 countries on 70cm. Unfortunately most of the stations were worked in JT65, not so many on CW, mostly because of lack of activity. I think at least 30-40% of the stations worked in JT can be worked also in CW because the signals from them were fully audible. Also it would be nice to see more activity on 70cm. Many QSL-s have been already sent but still many needs to be posted. There is no need to include a SASE with your card as I use already stamped envelopes to send out cards. Instead, you can include an adhesive label with your adress printed on it. If you miss a QSL card from me for any EME QSO before August 2009 please just let me know and I will post it ASAP. The stations who accept cards via bureau please let me know. I also accept cards via bureau. Here is a short description of my new 2m & 70cm setup: 2m: 4 x M2 5wl (17el) HPol, stacking dist. 4.26m H+V, LZ2US PA ( 2xGU74 ) capable of at least 1.5kW, PA3BIY preamp NF abt. 0.4dB, TX feedline: 20 m of 7/8-inch heliax. 70cm: 4 x M2 9wl HPol, stacking dist. 1.7m H+V, LZ2US PA ( GS23B ) capable of at least 1.5kW, PA3BIY preamp NF abt. 0.5dB, TX feedline: 20 m of 7/8-inch heliax. Both stacks are mounted on the same tower, 70cm stack inside the 2m stack. The center of the antennas is about 11magl. Prosistel rotator for azimuth, SPID for elevation. Max elevation is currently only 30 deg. which means my Moon window is limited at high Moon declination. Before moonset I have usually quite good ground gain at about 3 deg elevation at azimuths above 270 deg. Currently I have experienced strong powerline noise at 180 deg azimuth. It does degrade my 2m RX performance at up to 15 deg elevation. For band monitoring I use SDR-IQ + Linrad + MAP65-IQ, running on a single PC. It has typically somewhat worse sensitivity regarding very weak signals compared to WSJT + Icom IC7400 but sometimes decodes signals not decoded by WSJT. The reported signal strength difference between WSJT and MAP65 is typically within +/- 1 dB. The new setup is also mostly ready for remote control over Internet. I will be QRV in upcoming ARRL EME Contest weekends hopefully on all 6 bands ( 2m, 70cm, 23cm, 13cm, 6cm, 3cm ) where I'm currently QRV. On 2m & 70cm I will be QRV only when Moon is at below 30 deg elevation. On 23cm and above I have almost full moon window but I can operate only on one band at a time. To switch between 2m/70cm/23cm it will take 1-2 minutes + eventually about 5 min warm-up for 2m or 70cm PA. In ARRL contest I operate both CW & digital. I completely agree with Peter, G3LTF that small stations (and big ones too!) should call CQ more often. We will find you, and there will be more QSO-s! And also a little challenge to the EME community: who will be the very first station to be in my log worked on all 6 bands EME where I'm currently QRV? There is also a pretty good chance that 9cm band will be allowed in ES for amateur radio use from next year! I hope for many more QSO-s and wish GL in the contest! 73, Viljo ES5PC From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Fri Oct 9 13:37:47 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:37:47 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV ARRL EME contest on 144MHz, Message-ID: <20091009113740.DUQX488.fep44.mail.dk@pcjon> Hi EME?ers I will be QRV on 144MHz in the ARRL EME contest this weekend, and I will operate CW random without any assistance. I can not be QRV full time, but as much as possible. I look forward to hear a lot of activity on the band. Good luck and a lot of fun to all. See you via the moon during the weekend Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091009/f511290f/attachment.htm From DL7UDA at versanet.de Fri Oct 9 20:11:41 2009 From: DL7UDA at versanet.de (DL7UDA) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:11:41 +0200 Subject: [Moon] DL7UDA next contest Message-ID: <4ACF7CDD.8010107@versanet.de> Hi all, I will work only Sunday from around 0600 till 1130 utc. 144 MHz 2x10 DK7ZB 1kW (CW) and JT65B 432 MHz 4x21 DK7ZB 1.5kW CW and JT65B Wx forecast: rain, rain..... hope to meet some station on both bands! 73 Dietmar DL7UDA From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Fri Oct 9 21:55:38 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:55:38 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 1296 MHz Message-ID: Hi EME gang, finally I arrived home from long trip and will try to activate my station during first leg of ARRL EME contest. Looking forward to all of you via Moon. Best regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091009/40162ad1/attachment.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sat Oct 10 13:46:42 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:46:42 +0200 Subject: [Moon] [Moon-net] 1296 MHz In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 40 QSO in first Moon window, heard but did not work W5LUA and VE4SA, all others in log. WX looks promising also for next window and I will be QRV. GL and 73 to all 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, October 09, 2009 9:56 PM To: Moon-Bounces; Moon Net Subject: [Moon-net] 1296 MHz Hi EME gang, finally I arrived home from long trip and will try to activate my station during first leg of ARRL EME contest. Looking forward to all of you via Moon. Best regards 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 dl5mae at yahoo.de Sat Oct 10 14:50:02 2009 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] was QRV 2m and 70cm Message-ID: <743830.68013.qm@web23707.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi All, I was QRV this morning/afternoon during ARRL EME Contest on 2m and 70cm. On? 70cm I have no elevation and only a single yagi. To keep it short : Nothing heard / worked on 432MHz. I wonder if antenna not big enough or no activity during EU moonset? On 2m I was QRV? for 2-3 hours. Worked: OZ1HNE, K9MRI, SP7DCS, LA8YB, W5UN. Called without reaction: Yo2AMU, IK1FJI, K1JT, F0CXO Heard: IT9CJC, IK2DDR, SM2CKR, F1FLA, 9A9B, Ok1MS, AA7A. If WX OK then I will try to show up tonight about 22z for a while. vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verf?gt ?ber einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091010/47c0706e/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sat Oct 10 20:19:50 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:19:50 -0400 Subject: [Moon] Last Call for XXX/DL1YMK Message-ID: <8CC17ED6432657A-5790-59F1@webmail-m047.sysops.aol.com> Hello lunatics, this night we were at first qrv on 70 cm, than on 23 cm. 70 cm was a hard piece of work, because it is now obviously our weakest band after we optimised the 3 other bands. In contrast to 23, 13 and 9 cm, we don?t hear our own echoes, so we have to find the exact position of moon with the signals of other stations and this was the real problem, because of the broad beamwidth of the dish on 70 cm. It was frustrating to hear stations calling, but to be unable to get the calls out of the ?mud? with a high level of librations fading, especially if 2 stations were calling at the same time. So we worked this night additionally HB9Q, DL7APV, G3LTF, DL9KR, UA3PTW, SP6JLW, OK1KIR, K1RQG, OZ4MM, DF3RU, K1JT/K2UYH before changing the feed to 23 cm. Sorry for those, who called, but were not heard! Still not really certain, if the new H/V-switchable short backfire loop feed is advantageous in the stressed dish?some reports were encouraging, though. Will have to work on improvement of LNA, the current one is at 0.45 dB NF?well, the winter is long and every tenth of a dB counts. 23 cm was again very easy, so we worked in the remaining time of our limited moon window: DL0SHF, LA9NEA, SP6JLW, DF3RU, IQ4DF, OK1DFC, IZ1BPN, W6YX, SM6FHZ, RA3AQ, OH2DG. ?Tomorrow it will be the last chance on 23 cm to work XXX/DL1YMK ? nearly 100 stations, who worked us on the 4 bands already know, that this is a very interesting DXC C! We will start? Sunday, around 0100 UT and end around 11 UT to knock down the dish and stuff all bits and pieces in the car. ? Vy 73 de M&M ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091010/1ee41b31/attachment.htm From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Sun Oct 11 02:22:50 2009 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:22:50 -0700 Subject: [Moon] 1st Pass Results Message-ID: <002701ca4a08$f7690850$6401a8c0@Office> Hello 2m EME Friends: 1st pass condx was disappointing on 2m CW. Was QRV fm 0715 - 1015z & worked 5 stations - F1FLA, LA8YB, SP7DCS, W5UN, & OK1MS (vy difficult QSO). Called IK2DDR for quite awhile on both polarities but only got QRZs. Called a couple of other stations also with no answer & didn't hear anyone come bk to my limited calling of CQs. Echos were gud sometimes to non-existent. Degradation was 4.25dB when I started & should be lower for 2nd pass. Hoping for btr condx & gud activity tonite. Will be QRV around my moonrise at 0700z. GL & 73, Bob, K6PF 4 x M^2 2MXP20's (19dBd, x-pol)\ FT-1000MP, LT-2S, 8877 HPA running legal limit From dl5mae at yahoo.de Sun Oct 11 13:05:04 2009 From: dl5mae at yahoo.de (Wolfgang Schlaffer) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Moon] ARRL EME COntest final result Message-ID: <342392.35123.qm@web23705.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hi all, here my final result in ARRL EME Contest (2m CW ): Wkd: OZ1HNE, K9MRI, SP7DCS, W5UN, LA8YB, SV1BTR, IK3MAC, F0CXO, OK1MS, RU1AA, IK1FJI. Many others heard ! Especially this morning was very poor result. Heard the Californian EMEers WA6PY and K6PF never that loud before (up to 559). Called Paul, WA6PY, for 30 minutes and only got a "DL2?" , Bob (K6PF) did not hear me at all. QRT @ 0930 utc - others duties.....Was QRV just about 7 hours.... On 70cm I heard? only one EME signal from JJ1NNJ during my moonrise last night. No QSO. Using only single yagi. Some years ago it seemed to be easier to do CW EME QSOs. Is it just the lack of practising it enough by the people? vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verf?gt ?ber einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091011/ae8c966a/attachment.htm From Bruinier at t-online.de Sun Oct 11 15:32:00 2009 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 11 Oct 2009 13:32 GMT Subject: [Moon] ARRL first part Message-ID: <1MwyXk-0fGi5A0@fwd05.aul.t-online.de> Hi Joe and all, it was great to work you with your usual 589 signal, TNX! I was on only sporadically but enjoyed 47 CW Qs though being hampered by increasing bio blockage of my western window. There were even 2 initials, F6FHP (of 2m fame) #891 and ES5PC (loud) #892. Conx were good. However, we had a cold front passage with heavy rain and close-by lightning strikes on Saturday morning. TNX, GL & 73! Jan DL9KR. From ok1tehlist at seznam.cz Sun Oct 11 16:12:45 2009 From: ok1tehlist at seznam.cz (=?us-ascii?Q?OK1TEH=20Petrzilka?=) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:12:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] ARRL first part with single yagi In-Reply-To: <1MwyXk-0fGi5A0@fwd05.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <19782.30467-20490-1320149171-1255270365@seznam.cz> Hi all, I was QRV with 1x10el dk7zb + 1kW PEP on 2m and 1x23el dk7zb + 1HP on 70cm. On 70cm I worked on random HB9Q JT65 with great signal and nice opened text chat ;) and DL9KR in CW (tnx!). Also heard were I1NDP (no answer on my calling over 1h long), G3LTF (vy weak) and SM2CEW (hrd in QRM - unfortunately I suffer from big local qrm between 432.016-021 MHz). During today moonset I found an American station on .070 in JT65, however he qrt after my first call ;). Wanted still remains NC1I... On 2m I worked 3x CW random contacts with IK3MAC (amazing signal this time!), SV1BTR and LA8YB. Heard were RU1AA, SP7DCS, OZ1HNE (not on his QRG). Pity that the main traffic is only between 144.039 - 144.060 MHz as several stations in OK/DL are too strong via tropo and too close from each other. I'll be qrv after today moonrise at 22utc so cu then. 73 Matej, OK1TEH From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun Oct 11 18:27:15 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:27:15 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 1296 MHz 1st leg Message-ID: Hi EME gang, thanks to all for nice activity during weekend. Sorry for strong wing in Sunday, I was not able to operate dish last 8 hours of the contest. I hope the next leg in December will be much better. Finally I have worked 67 stations, 4 new # RD3YA #261, OH0/DL1YMK #262 and DXCC64, great surprise Michael, very nice new station 9A5AN #263, K8EB #264, Erv was very strong and N4PZ #265. With N4PZ I had big problem, calling him many times, including spread of call to letters in groups. His signal 579 very strong, but he has problem with RX I thing. For first count I have 67x36 multi. Looking forward for MW ARRL EME where I will be QRV 13cm and 3cm. Up to MW part I will travel in QRL and do not have chance to prepare something special, but I thing 3cm working well and have tested unit during tropo kontest here. From 1st of Nov up to 9th of Nov I am in W4 N.C. Hickory. Best regards Zdenek - OK1DFC www.ok1dfc.com QRV EME 432-1296-2320-3400 MHz WAC 432 - 1296 MHz QRO 10m dish ICQ-397994501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091011/c2056a29/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sun Oct 11 19:19:49 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:19:49 -0400 Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT Message-ID: <8CC18AE2BE673E9-60A4-8096@webmail-d085.sysops.aol.com> Hello lunatics, first a big thank you to all fellow-EMEers,? who worked us and did not disclose the call during our stay on Aland, in order not to spoil the fun for others, who had to decode the call for themselves. Interesting enough some stations thought until this morning we were on OJ0, hi. Perhaps this might be the destination for a new DXpedition?? Well, we think we had enough storms with this one?next will be calmer, hopefully. Yes, we are on Aland, OH0, a group of 4500 islands with only 28000 residents, located 2 hours by ferry in front of the Swedish East coast, but belonging to Finland. It is a really nice, picturesque place ? if there is no storm, which seems to be very common during autumn and winter. Our holiday home was located in JP90sf at the West coast of one of the main islands near Ecker?. The idea, not to disclose where we are, was born in the European moon reflector discussing the question, what a real random QSO is all about. OK, 140 of our 150 QSO?s, which we made in the last 8 days on 4 bands were ?really? random for both sides, whereas we had sometimes the more difficult part, as we had to decode many, many different stations, often in huge pile ups ? but CW is king! 23 and 13 cm were really fun and very easy. We heard continuously our own echoes and were copied by many stations, so the optimisations we made was worth the effort during the months after MI. The 9 cm - band is stil l difficult as our signal still is not as stable in frequency as it should be. The weakest band now seems to be 70 cm, here is room to improve.? During this morning we were again on 23 cm and worked several stations dupe for the contest and as initials: HB9Q, DL4MEA, LZ2US, OK3RM, PY2BS (JT), HB9SV, UT5JCW, K5JL, K8EB, RD3YA, W5LUA, IK2MMB, WW2R, IW2FZR, SM3LBN. In total we made 96 qso?s? on 23 cm? and worked 67 initials in 32 DXCC?s. Now we are awfully tired, because we were out for sightseeing during daytime and EME during the dark, but there was not enough time for sleeping ? we urgently need holidays, hi The dish was knocked down in the afternoon, the stuff is packed into the car (difficult enough!), and tomorrow morning we are on our way back home. A big thanks to all, who shared this experience with us, M & M-team hopes you had the same fun we had during the past week. For those we could not dig out of the mud:?past a DXpedition is before a DXpedition?CU from ???? ? ? 73/88 de M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Gary, N8CQ From ON4BCB at skynet.be Sun Oct 11 20:07:40 2009 From: ON4BCB at skynet.be (Walter Crauwels ON4BCB) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:07:40 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT In-Reply-To: <8CC18AE2BE673E9-60A4-8096@webmail-d085.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CC18AE2BE673E9-60A4-8096@webmail-d085.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8FFCE1F50CC540D8B2EAFDCA4986013F@LaptopDell> Hereby I would like to thank the M&M team, I worked them friday before the contest and on sunday the second pass Have a save trip back De ON4BCB ----- Original Message ----- From: dl1ymk at aol.com To: moon at moonbounce.info ; k1rqg at aol.com Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 7:19 PM Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT Hello lunatics, first a big thank you to all fellow-EMEers, who worked us and did not disclose the call during our stay on Aland, in order not to spoil the fun for others, who had to decode the call for themselves. Interesting enough some stations thought until this morning we were on OJ0, hi. Perhaps this might be the destination for a new DXpedition?? Well, we think we had enough storms with this one?next will be calmer, hopefully. Yes, we are on Aland, OH0, a group of 4500 islands with only 28000 residents, located 2 hours by ferry in front of the Swedish East coast, but belonging to Finland. It is a really nice, picturesque place ? if there is no storm, which seems to be very common during autumn and winter. Our holiday home was located in JP90sf at the West coast of one of the main islands near Ecker?. The idea, not to disclose where we are, was born in the European moon reflector discussing the question, what a real random QSO is all about. OK, 140 of our 150 QSO?s, which we made in the last 8 days on 4 bands were ?really? random for both sides, whereas we had sometimes the more difficult part, as we had to decode many, many different stations, often in huge pile ups ? but CW is king! 23 and 13 cm were really fun and very easy. We heard continuously our own echoes and were copied by many stations, so the optimi sations we made was worth the effort during the months after MI. The 9 cm - band is still difficult as our signal still is not as stable in frequency as it should be. The weakest band now seems to be 70 cm, here is room to improve. During this morning we were again on 23 cm and worked several stations dupe for the contest and as initials: HB9Q, DL4MEA, LZ2US, OK3RM, PY2BS (JT), HB9SV, UT5JCW, K5JL, K8EB, RD3YA, W5LUA, IK2MMB, WW2R, IW2FZR, SM3LBN. In total we made 96 qso?s on 23 cm and worked 67 initials in 32 DXCC?s. Now we are awfully tired, because we were out for sightseeing during daytime and EME during the dark, but there was not enough time for sleeping ? we urgently need holidays, hi The dish was knocked down in the afternoon, the stuff is packed into the car (difficult enough!), and tomorrow morning we are on our way back home. A big thanks to all, who shared this experience with us, M & M-team hopes you had the same fun we had during the past week. For those we could not dig out of the mud: past a DXpedition is before a DXpedition?CU from ???? 73/88 de M&M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2428 - Release Date: 10/11/09 06:39:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091011/4a4b979f/attachment-0001.htm From ok1dfc at seznam.cz Sun Oct 11 21:14:55 2009 From: ok1dfc at seznam.cz (OK1DFC) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:14:55 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT In-Reply-To: <8CC18AE2BE673E9-60A4-8096@webmail-d085.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Great pedition as usually, CONGRATS and BIG THANK!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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: Sunday, October 11, 2009 7:20 PM To: moon at moonbounce.info; k1rqg at aol.com Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT Hello lunatics, first a big thank you to all fellow-EMEers, who worked us and did not disclose the call during our stay on Aland, in order not to spoil the fun for others, who had to decode the call for themselves. Interesting enough some stations thought until this morning we were on OJ0, hi. Perhaps this might be the destination for a new DXpedition?? Well, we think we had enough storms with this one?next will be calmer, hopefully. Yes, we are on Aland, OH0, a group of 4500 islands with only 28000 residents, located 2 hours by ferry in front of the Swedish East coast, but belonging to Finland. It is a really nice, picturesque place ? if there is no storm, which seems to be very common during autumn and winter. Our holiday home was located in JP90sf at the West coast of one of the main islands near Ecker?. The idea, not to disclose where we are, was born in the European moon reflector discussing the question, what a real random QSO is all about. OK, 140 of our 150 QSO?s, which we made in the last 8 days on 4 bands were ?really? random for both sides, whereas we had sometimes the more difficult part, as we had to decode many, many different stations, often in huge pile ups ? but CW is king! 23 and 13 cm were really fun and very easy. We heard continuously our own echoes and were copied by many stations, so the optimi sations we made was worth the effort during the months after MI. The 9 cm - band is still difficult as our signal still is not as stable in frequency as it should be. The weakest band now seems to be 70 cm, here is room to improve. During this morning we were again on 23 cm and worked several stations dupe for the contest and as initials: HB9Q, DL4MEA, LZ2US, OK3RM, PY2BS (JT), HB9SV, UT5JCW, K5JL, K8EB, RD3YA, W5LUA, IK2MMB, WW2R, IW2FZR, SM3LBN. In total we made 96 qso?s on 23 cm and worked 67 initials in 32 DXCC?s. Now we are awfully tired, because we were out for sightseeing during daytime and EME during the dark, but there was not enough time for sleeping ? we urgently need holidays, hi The dish was knocked down in the afternoon, the stuff is packed into the car (difficult enough!), and tomorrow morning we are on our way back home. A big thanks to all, who shared this experience with us, M & M-team hopes you had the same fun we had during the past week. For those we could not dig out of the mud: past a DXpedition is before a DXpedition?CU from ???? 73/88 de M&M -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091011/795c212f/attachment.htm From sm2cew at telia.com Sun Oct 11 21:37:17 2009 From: sm2cew at telia.com (Peter Sundberg) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:37:17 +0000 Subject: [Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT In-Reply-To: <8CC18AE2BE673E9-60A4-8096@webmail-d085.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <20091011193720.7C9436800A@mailrelay.alltele.net> Dear M&M! Thank you for the fun!! I am amazed, your /portable gear would stand out and shine in anyones shack. Yet you drag your gear along to remote (cold) places, hold the stuff down in howling winds while pumping the key to hand out new DXCC countries to us mere mortals who have enough trouble keeping our home stations going. My hat is off to M&M for another EME expedition completed in grand style. BTW, we had the same BIG storm up here as you had during the week. At one point during the night I was expecting to see dish debris from OH0 flying past me on route to the north pole.. But you had tied the dish to the Aland rock pretty well it seems. Very happy for my QSO's with OH0 on 23cm and 13cm, thanks. I had dish elevation problems and an oscillating 70cm preamp on Saturday. When I got the dish pointed at the moon I heard and called you briefly on 70cm, but after transmitting my preamp oscillated merrily. Took me too long to find the problem and fix it, so unfortunately I missed you on 70cm. Again, thanks for the CW EME fun M&M! 73 de Peter SM2CEW www.sm2cew.com At 17:19 2009-10-11 , dl1ymk at aol.com wrote: > > Hello lunatics, > first a big thank you to all fellow-EMEers, who worked us and did not > disclose the call during our stay on Aland, in order not to spoil the fun for > others, who had to decode the call for themselves. Interesting enough some > stations thought until this morning we were on OJ0, hi. Perhaps this might be > the destination for a new DXpedition?? Well, we think we had enough storms > with this one???next will be calmer, hopefully. Yes, we are on Aland, OH0, a > group of 4500 islands with only 28000 residents, located 2 hours by ferry in > front of the Swedish East coast, but belonging to Finland. It is a really > nice, picturesque place ??? if there is no storm, which seems to be very > common during autumn and winter. Our holiday home was located in JP90sf at > the West coast of one of the main islands near Ecker??. > The idea, not to disclose where we are, was born in the European moon > reflector discussing the question, what a real random QSO is all about. OK, > 140 of our 150 QSO??s, which we made in the last 8 days on 4 bands were > ???really??? random for both sides, whereas we had sometimes the more > difficult part, as we had to decode many, many different stations, often in > huge pile ups ??? but CW is king! 23 and 13 cm were really fun and very easy. > We heard continuously our own echoes and were copied by many stations, so the > optimi sations we made was worth the effort during the months after MI. The 9 > cm - band is still difficult as our signal still is not as stable in > frequency as it should be. The weakest band now seems to be 70 cm, here is > room to improve. > During this morning we were again on 23 cm and worked several stations dupe > for the contest and as initials: HB9Q, DL4MEA, LZ2US, OK3RM, PY2BS (JT), > HB9SV, UT5JCW, K5JL, K8EB, RD3YA, W5LUA, IK2MMB, WW2R, IW2FZR, SM3LBN. > In total we made 96 qso??s on 23 cm and worked 67 initials in 32 DXCC??s. > Now we are awfully tired, because we were out for sightseeing during daytime > and EME during the dark, but there was not enough time for sleeping ??? we > urgently need holidays, hi > The dish was knocked down in the afternoon, the stuff is packed into the car > (difficult enough!), and tomorrow morning we are on our way back home. > A big thanks to all, who shared this experience with us, M & M-team hopes you > had the same fun we had during the past week. For those we could not dig out > of the mud: past a DXpedition is before a DXpedition???CU from ???? > > > 73/88 de M&M > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Bruinier at t-online.de Sun Oct 11 22:29:00 2009 From: Bruinier at t-online.de (Johann Bruinier) Date: 11 Oct 2009 20:29 GMT Subject: [Moon] XXX/M&M Message-ID: <1Mx52N-0u0TbM0@fwd10.aul.t-online.de> Hi you wonderful adrenaline producers! Thanks meg for another superb expedition! And additional kudos to Monika who courageously maintained the dish position in the "gloom of storms". Have a safe journey home. 88/73 Jan DL9KR. From ve1alq at nbnet.nb.ca Sun Oct 11 23:21:36 2009 From: ve1alq at nbnet.nb.ca (Darrell) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:21:36 -0300 Subject: [Moon] Happy Thanks Giving Message-ID: <20091011212150.XPFB1211.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@ve1alq.nbnet.nb.ca> Happy Thanks Giving to All, those not celebrating Thanks Giving, have a beer and Celebrate something. It's RAINING here AGAIN Regards & Happy Holiday, Darrell Regards & Thanks, Darrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091011/c176de37/attachment.htm From valter_dls at yahoo.it Mon Oct 12 00:09:47 2009 From: valter_dls at yahoo.it (valter dolso) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:09:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Moon] IK1FJI First Leg ARRL 144 CW result Message-ID: <526112.36589.qm@web24303.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hello all I was qrv in the arrl? first leg contest for about 13 hours,? i was glad to see a quite good number of stations in the cw band. I can worked 38 cw random qso, most on my cq and others looking at my poor 12khz linrad windows, but i can saw the band from about? 144040 to 144060 with deep attenuation on the lowest and highter? qrg. Sorry for some stations then i cannot pull out of noise, due my low antenna gain, hope to work them in second leg. Conditions up and down, sometime i saw 90 degrees shift, i presume, because i can heard only the well equipement stations with a vertical antennas in their array. Nice to work again after long time some stations like W5UN, WA6PY; DL5MAE, SM2CKR ?and others old friends Hope all have fun?and? see you in the next leg ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????? vy 73, Valter IK1FJI 4x12 2,84WL?18.5 DBd ? tx ic275H to GU78b? near full power? RX? lna atf 34143 24db gain? 0.25 NF? T-paddle att 5DB to TS2000 to slow AMD 1.1 ghz?(!!!)?pc with Linrad 2.58? BF? Pioneer stereo amplifier? to phillips stereo headphone. From eddie at tbaytel.net Mon Oct 12 01:58:28 2009 From: eddie at tbaytel.net (Fast Eddie) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:58:28 -0400 Subject: [Moon] [Mw] Happy Thanks Giving In-Reply-To: <20091011212150.XPFB1211.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@ve1alq.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <20091011212150.XPFB1211.torspm04.toronto.rmgopenwave.com@ve1alq.nbnet.nb.ca> Message-ID: <4AD27124.7060007@tbaytel.net> Same to you Darrell... we had snow here yesterday and we're aiming it east... Take care! 73, Eddie VE3KRP Darrell wrote: > Happy Thanks Giving to All, those not celebrating Thanks Giving, have > a beer and Celebrate something. It's RAINING here AGAIN > > Regards & Happy Holiday, Darrell > > Regards & Thanks, Darrell > > _______________________________________________ > Microwave mailing list > microwave at lists.valinet.com > http://www.valinet.com/mailman/listinfo/microwave > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2428 - Release Date: 10/11/09 06:39:00 > -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.10/2429 - Release Date: 10/11/09 18:34:00 From g3ltf at btinternet.com Mon Oct 12 02:17:51 2009 From: g3ltf at btinternet.com (peter blair) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:17:51 +0100 Subject: [Moon] G3LTF first pass results, 200,70,23cm Message-ID: Lots of activity, more NA stations on than last year, conditions on 432 quite variable, sometimes sharply defined polarisation and also some long fades. 1296 libration a bit difficult at times. I worked my highest first pass total ever, 23cm 69x35 70cm 33x22 and 2m 2x2 total of 104 QSOs. Very enjoyable, but going out and changing the dish feed over at 3AM is getting harder. Thanks to all for some good eme fun. 73 Peter G3LTF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091012/988d9495/attachment.htm From k6pf at sbcglobal.net Mon Oct 12 05:06:54 2009 From: k6pf at sbcglobal.net (Bob Kocisko) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:06:54 -0700 Subject: [Moon] ARRL Contest - 1st Weekend Results Message-ID: <007d01ca4ae9$0de8dac0$6401a8c0@Office> Hello 2m EME Friends: Found condx both passes challenging much of the time with hi noise & polarizations that, at times, were abnormal. Makes me appreciate x-pol. My apologies to those who called me but either rcv'd no reply or lengthy QRZs. Think LZ1DP holds the record for me. I called QRZ after my CQ for 20 minutes trying to dig out Christo's callsign but just couldn't get it. Reluctantly, I gave up, called CQ agn & this time copied him well. Here's my results for both passes: 1st pass (QRV 3 hours): worked F1FLA, LA8YB, SP7DCS, W5UN, & OK1MS 2nd pass (QRV 3 hours): worked SV1BTR, OZ1HNE, OK1MS (dupe), RU1AA, F0CXO, LZ1DP & IK3MAC Total 1st weekend results (QRV 6 hrs): 11 QSOs x 10 multiplier. I would hv bn QRV longer but wasn't getting replies to my CQs & didn't hear any new stations. Getting too old to stay up all night & morning. I plan to be QRV during the 2nd weekend of the contest & sure hope to work many more stations. Vy 73, Bob, K6PF 4 x M^2 2MXP20's (19dBd, x-pol) 8877 HPA running 1.5KW From pchomins at san.rr.com Mon Oct 12 06:19:57 2009 From: pchomins at san.rr.com (Paul Chominski) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:19:57 -0700 Subject: [Moon] WA6PY report References: <1Mx52N-0u0TbM0@fwd10.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <00a301ca4af3$423ddfa0$6401a8c0@your7008ffa13b> First I would like to thanks Monica and Michael for another very successful expedition. Conditions on second night on 144 were muche bette. I worked more stations. My final result for this weekend in alphabetic order is: 144 MHz: DL2HWA F0CXO F1FLA IK1FJI OK1MS OZ1HNE RU1AA SM2CKR SP7DCS W5UN 432 MHz: DL7APV G3LTF I1NDP K0RZ K1JT OZ4MM SV1BTR UA3PTW 1296 MHz: AL7RT DF3RU DLOSHF F5JWF G3LTF IK3COJ IZ1BPN K2DH K5JL K8EB LZ1DZ LZ2US NA4N OE5JFL OH0/DL1YMK OH2DG OK1DFC ON4BCB OZ4MM OZ6OL PI9CAM RA3AQ SD3F SM2CEW SM6FHZ SP6JLW SP7DCS SV1BTR SV3AAF UT5JCW VA7MM VE6TA W5LUA W6YX W9IIX WW2R I hope I did not mistype any callsign. VY 73 Paul WA6PY From oz1hne at post8.tele.dk Mon Oct 12 13:15:10 2009 From: oz1hne at post8.tele.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen_Kristiansen?=) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:15:10 +0200 Subject: [Moon] OZ1HNE QRV 144MHz CW EME, Message-ID: <20091012111511.FVFJ770.fep45.mail.dk@pcjon> Hi EME?ers I can be QRV on 144MHz CW EME the next days, so if any stations would like to try a sked, please send me a mail. I am here using 8 x 8 elm. crossyagi?s H/V and 8877. See you via the moon and good luck. Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091012/b45d5a54/attachment.htm From dfaessler at bluewin.ch Mon Oct 12 14:47:46 2009 From: dfaessler at bluewin.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dominique_F=E4ssler_=28HB9BBD=29?=) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:47:46 +0200 Subject: [Moon] New initial? In-Reply-To: <91189F7A838D439FAEE45BA29F6D0B6C@EWArltx64> References: <91189F7A838D439FAEE45BA29F6D0B6C@EWArltx64> Message-ID: <002201ca4b3a$35fefc50$a1fcf4f0$@ch> Ernst and all EME'ers This issue of initial counting has been very clear some time ago. Initial counting has been the logic performance indicator for many years. Unfortunately this is no longer possible. On one hand initials across CW/SSB and digital modes have little to no evidence and are useless. On the other hand some newcomers use endless different calls on the very same station which makes initial counting impossible even for those who honestly search for the true initial. We may know or may not know that SM3AKW has got a new call - this is not too difficult to figure out and it has nothing to do with confusing us. It is much different in the case where clubstations pop up with individual calls (and a club call). It seems to me that we have to reset our rules to remedy the disorder in "initials" which are clearly not. I personally have stopped making QSO's with stations using different calls for these reasons. Some may have recognized that yesterday. 73 HB9BBD Dominique -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net [mailto:moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] Im Auftrag von Ernst Wawrzik Gesendet: Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 13:55 An: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net Betreff: [Moon-net] New initial? Yesterday I worked RU1AA from his QTH in KO48VR. In my first qso with him, he was in KP40XD. So does my yesterdays QSO count as new initial or are initials only referred to callsigns? Thanks Ernst, DK1VI _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html From yo2amu at hotmail.com Mon Oct 12 22:42:47 2009 From: yo2amu at hotmail.com (Doru Zaslo) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:42:47 +0300 Subject: [Moon] ARRL EME Contest activity YO2AMU Message-ID: Hi Moon-bouncers, For a total of 7 hours of activity in ARRL Eme Contest-First Leg (due the job commitment), I found conditions fair. Low activity in classic mode unassisted. WKD: OZ1HNE(539/539),F0CXO,9A1CAL,9A9B,IK1FJI,OK1MS,IT9CJC,IK2DDR,SM2CKR,PA2CHR,SP7DCS,K1JT,F1FLA,SV1BTR(579/559),OK1KKD,LZ1DP, I3EVK,LA8YB(559/559),IK1UWL,RA6DA,RU1AA(539/529),K9MRI,DL8UCC. CWNR:DL2DDA(?),W5UN,K6PF. I hope for more stations from USA/Canada in the second leg -December 2009! It is very bad to mix the modes in the same contest!My oppinion is to use first leg for classic modes and the second leg for digital modes! It is my modest oppinion. CU in december _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091012/c51424c6/attachment.htm From vallik at telia.com Mon Oct 12 23:18:24 2009 From: vallik at telia.com (Viljo Allik) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:18:24 +0200 Subject: [Moon] ES5PC result in ARRL 1st leg Message-ID: Hi, It was a busy weekend for me, was qrv this time on 3 bands. Worked total of 105 stations: 62 on 23cm, 19 on 70cm and 24 on 2m. Worked both CW & JT, unassisted. As my maximum elevation for 2m & 70cm stacks is limited to 30 degrees the time on these bands was also limited. A big disappointment was calling CQ in JT65 on 2m unassisted. The QSO rate was probably about only 1-2 per hour! At the same time there was about 50 stations visible in MAP65 bandmap simultaneously! To maximize the number of QSOs I decided to switch back to 23cm CW instead, there were always some stations to work and I hope to work many more in the next leg. It was also nice to work a few stations on all 3 bands. I agree that it may be a good idea to separate CW and digital operation between diffetrent weekends. In multiband operation where you have to share the time between different bands it will increase the probability for stations to be in the same mode and on the same band at the same time. Here is a snapshot from MAP65 bandmap from sometime in Saturday: 102 *CT1HZE 121 *I3EVK 132 *PA4PS 103 *S52LM 122 *DL8GP 133 *DK7DR 103 *DC9YC 124 *DL8YAU 133 *DK3EE 104 *EA3BB 124 *EA6VQ 133 *EA3BB 106 *DK2PH 124 *K6MYC 136 *YO7NE 111 *SP2NJI 124 *AD4TJ 139 *RK3FG 111 *G4FUF 124 *OK1UGA 140 *RU1AA 113 *UT6UG 124 *OE3FVU 140 *RK3FG 115 *IK7EZN 125 *DL8GP 140 *RU1AA 118 *K1JT 127 *KB8RQ 140 *DF6SM 118 *DL1RPL 130 *RA1TBH 140 *YO9FRJ 119 *HA0HO 130 *YO3DDZ 141 *DL2FCN 119 *W3SZ 131 *PA4PS 141 *DK8ZJ 119 *F5KCH 132 *W4RBO 144 *RU1AA 119 *DL9MS 132 *NT0V 147 *UA4ALU 119 *3Z7PCN 132 *9A2TK 149 *K9MRI 120 *IK1UWL 132 *PA3CMC 121 *IK7EZN 132 *DK2PH Many thanks for all the nice QSO-s and I hope to be QRV also in the microwave part on 13, 6 & 3cm and second leg of 50-1296 MHz part. Also sked requests are welcome. GL & 73, Viljo ES5PC From w7qx at msn.com Tue Oct 13 02:03:51 2009 From: w7qx at msn.com (Jerry Kleker) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:03:51 -0700 Subject: [Moon] Ground gain on 2 meter EME Message-ID: Hi Roger, I live in central Arizona where the horizon is the Earth. No trees or bushes or paraphernalia in the way. I am either pointing at the ground, the clear sky, or the Moon. I thought you would be interested in the fact that ground gain may present itself when the Moon is BELOW the horizon. Actually not visible! Not knowing whether you have foliage on the horizon or not, I pass the following information hesitantly. Try to hear your own echoes and/or make your schedules for a longer period, let's say, 20 minutes before and after Moon rise or Moon set. As I recall (I am presently QRT), the 2 meter band was most predominant regarding the "Moon below the horizon phenomena". Check with K5GW about it. Keep trying! 73 es GL Jerry W7QX DM44ar From vladimir.masek at volny.cz Tue Oct 13 09:21:25 2009 From: vladimir.masek at volny.cz (vladimir.masek at volny.cz) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:21:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] =?iso-8859-2?q?=5BMoon-net=5D_N4PZ_deaf_on1296=3F?= Message-ID: <66caa2860dd36f68c26560af0c8c213b@www2-mail.volny.cz> Hi Steve, just a small hint. If you hammer our common reflector with such an excess power, you should try to optimize your dish noise performance even on the penalty of a bit lower efficiency of the dish illumination. Your ears would appreciate that even more than just dig the call from much more samples. You could gain e.g. more than 2dB on receive while loosing less than 1dB on transmit. It is quite good business, isn't it ? The best feed to choice from will depend on your dish f/D ratio, but principially the point is to decrease the dish overillumination when receiving by illuminating less the dish edges while maintaining the side and back-lobes of the feed as low as the state of the art enables. E.g. famous W2IMU dual-mode feed used at lower f/D ration than abt. 0.5 (for maximum efficiency)seems to be one of the best candidates as shown by computer simulation. Among others, esp. W1GHZ resources, one new will come in next issues of ham-radio DUBUS magazine written by Rasto,OM6AA. However the principle was clearly mentioned already by W2IMU many many years ago. GL and 73, Vlad, OK1DAK/OK1KIR ----- P?VODN? ZPR?VA ----- Od: "steve gross" Komu: moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net P?edm?t: [Moon-net] N4PZ deaf on1296? Datum: 13.10.2009 - 1:22:41 > Hello Guys > I am hearing that some of you are of the opinion that > my receive capabilities are poor. > ? > I have a wd5ago preamp .28 DB NF and 38 DB gain., a > ve4ma feed and a 3 meter dish. > I see 10-11 DB of sun noise which is all I can expect > from a 3 meter dish. > I have a full 1500 watts AT THE FEED. > It sounds to you that such a big signal should be easy > to contact, I get 569 to 579 signal reports all the > time, so it's understandable that you will question > my ablilty?to hear. > ? > ?I'm also working on getting used to the filter system > on my Kenwood TS-2000. > ? > Working on a 5 meter dish which I will have in the > spring. > ? > In the meantime please be patient. > ? > ?Send my call a few times but your call many times. > I can pick out my call easily. > 73 > Steve N4PZ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are > at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > From k7xq at elite.net Tue Oct 13 10:36:43 2009 From: k7xq at elite.net (K7XQ) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:36:43 -0700 Subject: [Moon] K7XQ Activity Weekend Report Message-ID: <006001ca4be0$4b707860$6601a8c0@K7XQH> Hello All, Got on this weekend to see who I can work. I was too tired to stay up late both nights so I missed over half of each EU window on both nights.The objective this weekend was to prove out the finality of the 432 array performance which did a great job ( 8 X 28 ele presently configured for vertical polarity ) and to prove out the new 2 X 7 ele 50 MHz array with full az/el and polarity rotation ( worked better than expected ). 50 MHz JT : MM0AMW #9, GM4WJA #10, ZL3NW #11, N3CXV #12. ( all initials and all single yagi QSO's with N3CXV being only 5 ele ). 432 MHz CW: OZ4MM 559/559, DL7APV 549/559, I1NDP 549/559, VE6TA# 449/449, SM2CEW 559/559, DL9KR 569/579, K1RQG 569/559, JA6AHB 449/559 1296 CW: SM4DHN 579/539, K5JL 589/559, OK1DFC 579/559, SP6JLW# 579/559. 432 libration was the deepest I ever heard ever on this band especially during the daylight hours this weekend where signals would peak S6 down to almost nothing making QSO's very difficult.1296 libration was minor this weekend for me. Also just acquired a RF space SDR-IQ receiver and it was fun to look at all the CW traces ( 12 at one time ) across the band on 1296 while working 432 at the same time. I want to use this receiver to pick out weaker CW stations with a sharper brickwall filter response. K7XQ Jeff Atwater,CA. K7XQ logbook and webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091013/328eb330/attachment.htm From df6na at df6na.de Wed Oct 14 17:32:59 2009 From: df6na at df6na.de (DF6NA) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:32:59 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Vorsicht ! - Attention ! In-Reply-To: <1MwAXp-1qJwdU0@fwd00.aul.t-online.de> References: <1MwAXp-1qJwdU0@fwd00.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <4AD5EF2B.4060705@df6na.de> Hello all, if you got an email similar to this delete it and do NOT follow the link: falls jemand eine solche email erhalten hat bitte sofort l?schen und nicht auf den Link klicken: = = = = = = Dear user of the moonbounce.info mailing service! We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (moon-owner at moonbounce.info ) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link: http://moonbounce.info/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=moon-owner at moonbounce.info&from=moonbounce.info&fromname=moon-owner Best regards, moonbounce.info Technical Support. = = = = = = 73, Rainer From sp7dcs at wp.pl Wed Oct 14 22:42:55 2009 From: sp7dcs at wp.pl (Chris SP7DCS) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:42:55 +0200 Subject: [Moon] SP7DCS in ARRL Contest Message-ID: <4AD637CF.803@wp.pl> Hello, I was very happy to be qrv on 3 bands on CW random unassisted. On 2m and 70cm high degradation and fast Faraday changes made some qsos a little harder, but in the same time 23cm was like an HF. The only bad point on 23cm was that I had very short window to VK in this declination due to some buildings and I did not managed to catch any VK friends. During full weekend I was supported by my son Maciek SP7MC as a second operator. We did our best to make as much qso as it is possible with our station. Final score for the weekend is 84 qsos (+1 dup) which consist of 33 qsos on 2m, 7 qsos on 70cm and 44qsos on 23cm (+1 dup). It is much more than I expected and it is the best score after first weekend ever. Achiving such good score wouldn't be possible without improvement to the stations that were made recently. My dish mounted SSPA gives now 500W on 23cm and new preamp improved my sun noise by 2dB - I really was feeling like I had a bigger dish hi hi. Great tool was also SDR by Rafal SQ4AVS monitoring 9MHz stage in my IC746. As result I was able to see about 15kHz of selected band on Winrad screen - it really helps... Equipment: 2m - 16x8el Hpol, gs35b 70cm - 4x25el Hpol, 400W SSPA 23cm - 3m dish, RA3AQ feed, 500W SSPA I do hope that second weekend in December will be similar success and same good fun. See you then! VY 73 !!! de Chris SP7DCS -- Chris SP7DCS email - sp7dcs at wp.pl, sp7dcs at o2.pl, sp7dcs at smrw.lodz.pl EME PAGE - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl From jimmyv at hol.gr Fri Oct 16 03:09:44 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:09:44 +0300 Subject: [Moon] 13cm random operation frequency ranges Message-ID: <20091016040944.7jzqgnrwg08kk8gg@easymail-app.hol.gr> Qrl abroad permitting, I plan to do my 1st eme tests on 13cm on October 31st sometime in rise and set. Could someone let me know which is the normal operating random frequency range (in contests and activity events) for EU/US/JA/VK on their respective allocations? e.g. 2320.xxx to? 2304.xxx to? 2301.95 to 2302.00?? 2424.xxx to? Since i like to make things more challenging for me, I use the traditional ''turn the dial and find'' method. Therefore, no visual aids and no wideband receiver spectrum at my end. Just wondering how much up/down to keep on with the manual search...hi Thank you & 73 Jimmy SV1BTR From guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de Fri Oct 16 08:18:24 2009 From: guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de (Guenter Koellner) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:18:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Moon] 13cm random operation frequency ranges In-Reply-To: <20091016040944.7jzqgnrwg08kk8gg@easymail-app.hol.gr> References: <20091016040944.7jzqgnrwg08kk8gg@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: <45257.217.10.60.85.1255673904.squirrel@intern.netexpress.de> Hello Jimmy, welcome to the 13cm world. Usual traffic on 13cm (and above) is around the .100 frequencies, so 2304.100, 2320.100 and 2424.100. Basis of operation is 2304, 2320 and 2424MHz. It is just for VK that they are using a different basis on 2301.900MHz. Special on 13cm is crossband - and it also seems to be the first band where doppler correction is really essential because doppler will be as much as +/-5kHz. Crossband is quite easy: Remember for usual random operation, you always put your echo onto the frequency that you hear your partner. (*1) On 13cm you also do, in case of crossband in an "as if also heard in my TX band" mode. So if you hear a 2304-only station on 2304.080, you put your echos on 2320.080. In the same way, the partner has to listen on his echo on 2304.xxx, parallel to that 2320.xxx and if possible on 2424.xxx. With the VKs it is easy doing if we keep a little bit of discipline and let them do as they did, so when VK3NX/VK4AFL says he transmits on 2301.950, you listen, chatch him for example on 2301.945, then you answer with your own echo beeing on 2320.045. AS HAPPEND IN PAST, PLEASE NON-VK STATIONS (VK .NEQ. OK) DO NOT TX ON 2301.9XX, THAT ONLY MAKES CONFUSION BIGGER AND THE USAGE OF THE ANYWAY SHORT VK WINDOW MORE DIFFICULTY. Charlie recently also noted that he won't answer calls on 2301MHz any longer. I have a personal wish to those capable of 2304: In the recent activity we noted that there was so much traffic on 2304 (it seems that most stations are allowed to use this allocation), that many did not check 2320 and we were a little bit bored because we did not get answers. Even HB0/DF1SR suffered from this problem!!! Would you please check 2320 in a random matter, so probably leave one going on 2304 in favour for a 2320-only ham? Thanks! 73, G?nter (dl4mea) (*1) For those not able to hear your echo (really? In times of SDR and waterfall nearly everyone should at least see his echo) Just take any doppler calculation SW, even with error they will be close enougth. From moonrise to zenith you have to RX higher by the given doppler than you TX, from zenith to mooonset you have to RX lower than you TX. On 13cm/moonrise you RX about 5kHz higher than you TX. PS: Currently preparing, but dish is in a bad shape (never use cable wraps that are not UV resistant) we got first snow and no chance for repairs. > Qrl abroad permitting, I plan to do my 1st eme tests on 13cm on > October 31st sometime in rise and set. > > Could someone let me know which is the normal operating random > frequency range (in contests and activity events) for EU/US/JA/VK on > their respective allocations? > e.g. 2320.xxx to? 2304.xxx to? 2301.95 to 2302.00?? 2424.xxx to? > > Since i like to make things more challenging for me, I use the > traditional ''turn the dial and find'' method. Therefore, no visual > aids and no wideband receiver spectrum at my end. Just wondering how > much up/down to keep on with the manual search...hi > > Thank you & 73 > Jimmy SV1BTR > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon mailing list > Moon at moonbounce.info > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > Please enter/update your standings: > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and > remove you from the list > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Z1 SecureMail Gateway Info - http://www.zertificon.com | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | - Die Nachricht war weder verschluesselt noch digital unterschrieben | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > From wd5ago at hotmail.com Fri Oct 16 13:47:58 2009 From: wd5ago at hotmail.com (Tommy Henderson) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:47:58 -0500 Subject: [Moon] FW: [Moon-net] 13cm random operation frequency ranges In-Reply-To: <45257.217.10.60.85.1255673904.squirrel@intern.netexpress.de> References: <20091016040944.7jzqgnrwg08kk8gg@easymail-app.hol.gr> Message-ID: Hello Jimmy Along what Guenter already posted, you will find your echo to be your best friend on 13cm. I always heard them with 2.4m - 8' dish. With new 3.1m dish they are +7dB. Finding cross band is not difficult, and like you, the dial works fine, so I would find the station if with in 5 or so kHz on cross band frequency. We use the same rig now for 2301 - 2304 - 2320 so alignment is ok, I use a HB converter output to 450 MHz on 2424. As of right now, the only problems we find on 13cm is sometimes, when the moon here in the states is about 40 deg ele, we run into the path of one of the Sats (+20dB at times) , and on 2320 your EME signal is toast. 2304 is desenced, but not as much by the Sat as near 2330. This is not often and it has NOT discourage me from operating, but 2320 would be off line until the noise goes back down. I find the crossband action kind of fun, so I do not list it as a problem. What is becoming a problem is crossband stations calling CQ on the same mirror frequency, I guess twice the return information. Maybe one group above and the other group below the center line of .100, like soccer. With so many positives (ie.. fantastic SS power 80W to 300W at about $1 a watt), good CP feed designs (most of them work - septums -square or round, rod polarizer), LNA's in the 0.3 to 0.5 dB n/f range and of course cheap 3m dishes, and great echoes, what's not to like. Good Luck, CU on in a few weeks Tommy WD5AGO > > > Qrl abroad permitting, I plan to do my 1st eme tests on 13cm on > > October 31st sometime in rise and set. > > > > Could someone let me know which is the normal operating random > > frequency range (in contests and activity events) for EU/US/JA/VK on > > their respective allocations? > > e.g. 2320.xxx to? 2304.xxx to? 2301.95 to 2302.00?? 2424.xxx to? > > > > Since i like to make things more challenging for me, I use the > > traditional ''turn the dial and find'' method. Therefore, no visual > > aids and no wideband receiver spectrum at my end. Just wondering how > > much up/down to keep on with the manual search...hi > > > > Thank you & 73 > > Jimmy SV1BTR > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moon mailing list > > Moon at moonbounce.info > > http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon > > > > Please enter/update your standings: > > http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html > > > > When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and > > remove you from the list > > > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | Z1 SecureMail Gateway Info - http://www.zertificon.com | > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | - Die Nachricht war weder verschluesselt noch digital unterschrieben | > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091016/d68ae21b/attachment.htm From jimmyv at hol.gr Tue Oct 20 01:30:53 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (jimmyv at hol.gr) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:30:53 +0300 Subject: [Moon] Omission in EME ARRL Contest rules & correction in Summary sheet Message-ID: <20091020023053.jy8d5w8xvoc4sw4w@easymail-app.hol.gr> In order to assist ARRL I noticed the following omission in the ARRL EME Competition 2009 rules and an error on the score summary sheet, which I would like to bring to the Contest Manager and fellow EME participating stations notice. At http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/eme.html Section 5, Scoring does not mention multi-band score calculation. 5. Scoring: 5.1. QSO points: Count 100 points for each complete EME contact. 5.2. Multiplier: Each US State and Canadian Province, plus each DXCC entity (excluding the US/Canada) worked via EME on each band. Thus, missing is what existed in all previous years' rules. Therefore: 5.3. Final Score: Multiply QSO point total by the sum of multipliers worked from each band. Shouldn't 5.3. be added and rules being corrected in ARRL webpage? Moreover, at http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/eme.frm.html the summary sheet is outdated, does not match the current rules entry categories (section 3). Therefore, the official ARRL EME Contest Summary Sheet must be corrected in its respective ARRL webpage. 73 Jimmy SV1BTR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Reporting: Entries must be emailed or postmarked no later than 2359 UTC on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 and must include complete log data as well as an official ARRL EME Contest Summary Sheet. Official forms are available on the ARRL Web at http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/ or with a SASE request to the Contest Branch. No other forms of the summary sheet will be accepted. Each line of QSO data in the log should contain band, mode, date and time in UTC, callsign of station worked, exchange sent, exchange received, each new multiplier, and points earned. Photocopies of the log form and official Summary Sheet are acceptable. Logs should be emailed to EMEcontest at arrl.org and hand-written paper logs or diskettes mailed to: EME Contest, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111 USA From sm4ive at telia.com Wed Oct 21 23:21:04 2009 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:21:04 +0200 Subject: [Moon] sm4ive webbpage uppdate Message-ID: <468D4BFF3F3B4452B3B3A20409107ED7@RADIO> My webb page uppdated again :-)) 73 de Lars SM4IVE www.sm4ive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:21 AM Subject: [Moon] sm4ive webbpage uppdate My webb page uppdated again :-)) 73 de Lars SM4IVE www.sm4ive.com From eric.vanoffelen at skynet.be Thu Oct 22 12:38:34 2009 From: eric.vanoffelen at skynet.be (Eric Van Offelen) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:34 +0200 Subject: [Moon] JA stations qrv on 3 cm ? Message-ID: Hi, I would like to know which japanese hams are QRV on 3 cm EME and get in touch with them. Tnx and 73's Eric ON5TA 2.3 m offset dish, +/- 30 W at feed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Congrats! Perhaps, will work you on 70cm randomly with my single yagi! vy 73 de dl5mae Wolfgang --- Lars Pettersson schrieb am Mi, 21.10.2009: Von: Lars Pettersson Betreff: [Moon] sm4ive webbpage uppdate An: moon at moonbounce.info. Datum: Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009, 23:21 My webb page uppdated again :-)) ? 73 de Lars SM4IVE ? www.sm4ive.com ? -----Integrierter Anhang folgt----- _______________________________________________ Moon mailing list Moon at moonbounce.info http://www.moonbounce.info/mailman/listinfo/moon Please enter/update your standings: http://www.vhf-dx.net/top.html When you decide to remain anonymous I may consider this unpolite and remove you from the list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091022/8e08c1ec/attachment.htm From sm4ive at telia.com Fri Oct 23 06:52:22 2009 From: sm4ive at telia.com (Lars Pettersson) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: [Moon] Wanted HF400 koax relay Message-ID: Im looking for a HF400 koax relay Yes i know there are new ones but im trying to save some bucks. So if anyone have a relay im interested. Lars SM4IVE www.sm4ive.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091023/fc796bef/attachment.htm From jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp Sat Oct 24 04:31:56 2009 From: jh1krc at syd.odn.ne.jp (M. Watanabe) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:31:56 +0900 Subject: [Moon] JA stations qrv on 3 cm ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20091024023156841.TVBF.8223.wememta101.odn.ne.jp@mta101.odn.ne.jp> Hello Eric, The only active 3cm op in JA is Shichiro, JA6CZD. He worked OK1KIR and F2TU a month ago. Shichiro had added 2.5mm square mesh over the 6mm hexagonal mesh of his 5m dish before these QSOs. I wrote an article about this topic in JA CQ ham radio magazine of the latest issue. As I know, JA stations who intend to opereate 3cm are: JA4BLC, JH3ERQ possibly, and JH1KRC are in the queue. JA7BMB took off his fine mesh dish a few years ago, SRI. Mike JH1KRC ---- Eric Van Offelen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know which japanese hams are QRV on 3 cm EME and get in touch with them. > > Tnx and 73's > > Eric ON5TA > > 2.3 m offset dish, +/- 30 W at feed From df6na at df6na.de Sun Oct 25 09:18:06 2009 From: df6na at df6na.de (DF6NA) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:18:06 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz In-Reply-To: References: <4ACC60C7.9070805@df6na.de> Message-ID: <4AE409BE.80707@df6na.de> Hi Jerry, just a little note to let you know that the amplifier is running on 2320MHz. As I could not get any information on the first two stages I just run the driver and final stage and get >20dB gain. BTW: there is a little ic that measures drain current via a resistor. It's a smd ic marked 'ADIU' - can't find information about that. 73, Rainer Jerry Kleker schrieb: > Hi Rainer, > > I think you would have trouble getting these transistors to work on > 2.4 GHz. > They are specifically designed to operate at a narrow band around 2.1 GHz. > > http://www.freescale.com/files/rf_if/doc/data_sheet/MRF5S21130H.pdf > > Good luck trying. > > 73, > > Jerry W7QX > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Rainer > *To:* Moon-net ; > Moon at moonbounce.info ; W1MBA uWave > Reflector > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:35 AM > *Subject:* [Moon] Andrew Amplifier 2100-2200MHz > > Hello, > > I got hold of an Andrew amplifier board marked > RF500246 Rev C 2004 > > The two final transistors and the driver are MRF5S21230HS and the > two stages before that are each 2 transistirs marked '15A' and > 'FP1189 > H001-2'. > > http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200182.JPG > http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200183.JPG > http://www.df6na.de/df6na/surplus/P8200184.JPG > > I want to convert them for 2320MHz. Any information welcome. > > vy 73, Rainer > From DL1YMK at aol.com Sun Oct 25 12:23:31 2009 From: DL1YMK at aol.com (DL1YMK at aol.com) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:23:31 EDT Subject: [Moon] Email adress Message-ID: Hi Gents, does anyone have a valid email adress for Sergej, RW3BP ? Thanks for any info, 73 de Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091025/bdd39806/attachment.htm From howard at g4cch.com Sun Oct 25 13:08:31 2009 From: howard at g4cch.com (Howard Ling) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:08:31 -0000 Subject: [Moon] Email adress In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <275942413/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/88.104.58.20/10/25/09/12:08:33@mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com> Hi Michael, The last email from Sergei came from - rw3bp at vhfdx.ru I hope that works for you. Best 73 Howard, G4CCH _____ From: moon-bounces at moonbounce.info [mailto:moon-bounces at moonbounce.info] On Behalf Of DL1YMK at aol.com Sent: 25 October 2009 11:24 To: moon at moonbounce.info Subject: [Moon] Email adress Hi Gents, does anyone have a valid email adress for Sergej, RW3BP ? Thanks for any info, 73 de Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091025/d5488e46/attachment.htm From ha5cw at netscape.net Mon Oct 26 10:34:46 2009 From: ha5cw at netscape.net (ha5cw at netscape.net) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:34:46 -0400 Subject: [Moon] 5,7 GHz units Message-ID: <8CC2436B0C2291D-1604-C883@webmail-d095.sysops.aol.com> Hi Gentlemen! Maybe, somebody at the list can take use of theses 22...26 dB gain, 5W broadband amplifier units at 5,7 GHz . http://cgi.ebay.de/WJ-5300-77-FET-Amplifier-Watkins-Johnsen-4-8GHz-5Watt_W0QQitemZ200394103501QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDE_TV_Video_Elektronik_Funkger%C3%A4te?hash=item2ea86b5acd http://cgi.ebay.de/WJ-5300-77-FET-Amplifier-Watkins-Johnsen-4-8GHz-5Watt_W0QQitemZ200396313862QQcategoryZ12968QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BIEW%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D11%26ps%3D63 73: Joska, HA5CW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091026/bcfc748b/attachment.htm From df2zc1 at googlemail.com Mon Oct 26 22:45:24 2009 From: df2zc1 at googlemail.com (DF2ZC) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:45:24 +0100 Subject: [Moon] The 144 MHz EME Newsletter October Issue... Message-ID: <02b901ca5685$a0aa60c0$e1ff2240$@com> ...is now for download at http://www.df2zc.de/newsletter/ vy 73 Bernd DF2ZC (JO30RN) www.df2zc.de ____________________________________________ 144 MHz EME NewsLetter: www.df2zc.de/newsletter 144 MHz DXCC #21 144 MHz WAC 2002 Kenwood TS 2000 2 x GU74b by LZ2US 4 x 2M18XXX 21 dBd full elevation From guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de Wed Oct 28 22:28:08 2009 From: guenter.koellner at mixed-mode.de (Guenter Koellner) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:28:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Moon] (DL) Looking for source of connectors Message-ID: <1384.89.55.205.181.1256765288.squirrel@intern.netexpress.de> Hello, sounds strange, but is: I haven't bought parts for quite a few years, and had lived from my stock, so I guess the the dealer situation in DL has changed quite a lot. I also havn't visited any ham fair for more than 10 years now. Gigatech is not available in the moment, so I am asking the list for a source of that. I am looking for N connectors with a BNC size flange, and a 4mm dia, 4mm long Teflon stub at the end. I am looking for 10 female and one male. In the online catalogue of Gigatech such are noted. Price should be below EUR 5,- per piece. (That most probably excludes UKW-Berichte) I really appreciate any help. Thanks a lot! 73, G?nter (dl4mea) From jimmyv at hol.gr Fri Oct 30 18:59:07 2009 From: jimmyv at hol.gr (Dimitris Vitorakis) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:59:07 +0200 Subject: [Moon] 13cm moon tests Message-ID: <8346C80AB7394578BF3F515A5E0F8F30@mar.intralot.com> Hi all Going to the EME qth tomorrow to test for 1st time the 13cm setup via the moon. If all is operational and depending on traffic, I plan to be qrv in cw, 2320.xxx & 2304.xxx as follows: Oct 31: 1930-2100 Nov 1: 0000-0130 Pls note that I will rx +/- where my echoes are. Thank you & 73 Jimmy SV1BTR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091030/28ac05da/attachment.htm From ja4blc at web-sanin.co.jp Fri Oct 30 23:31:07 2009 From: ja4blc at web-sanin.co.jp (Yoshiro Mataka JA4BLC) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:31:07 +0900 Subject: [Moon] 3cm EME soon Message-ID: <4AEB692B.3040906@web-sanin.co.jp> Hi 3cm moonbouncers My radio authority is planning to inspect my 3cm gear on Nov 4th and if finish successfully, I will get the final permission on 3cm moonbounce. If the weather permits, I will QRV, NOV 6th 1330-1530UT for North America with vertical polarization. NOV 7th 2200-0100//UT for Europe with horizontal pol. ( // means next day.) NOV 8th I will be on 5760. If interested, let me see please. Note: JA transmit frequency is 10,450 MHz and we can listen both 10,368MHz and 10,450MHz. My equipments: 4.2m dish(no good reflector), W2IMU linear pol. horn, 25W SSPA, G3WDG transverter and TS2000 for 144MHz IF. Sun noise 11dB, moon noise 1.2dB and G/CS 4.1dB. Echo detectable at perigee. Shichiro JA6CZD will also QRV 10GHz EME same weekend as above. GL de Yoshiro JA4BLC From la9nea at online.no Sat Oct 31 08:05:46 2009 From: la9nea at online.no (Viggo Magnus LA9NEA) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:05:46 +0100 Subject: [Moon] Activity report 30 oct 2009./23 cm EME Message-ID: <85AB0679FCAF409EAE3A2183970B33E7@LA9NEA> Hello I was qrv last nite and worked following fine 1296 EME stations IW2FZR cw 559/559, YO8BCF JT65c -17, PE1HNG JT65c -20, SM6CSO cw 549/439, K1RQG cw 569/589, N4PZ cw 559 +RO/ O 439. I will change feed to 13 cm this weekend for the upcoming contest next weekend, have now possibility to listen on the USA band on 13 cm 73 Viggo LA9NEA LA9NEA 23 cm EME set up: Icom 756 pro II TR1296H trv Kuhne 6 x 7289 ring PA ,500 watt, 5.2 meter 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... 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I will be QRV tonite Saturday from 18.30Z till 23.00Z on or around 1296.012. Not QRV tomorrow. 73, Anders LA8LF. www.LA8LF.com From eric.vanoffelen at skynet.be Sat Oct 31 19:17:59 2009 From: eric.vanoffelen at skynet.be (Eric Van Offelen) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:17:59 +0100 Subject: [Moon] ON5TA - 3 cm Message-ID: <3DE92E847F0C4D5DB65FC8E6A0F322D3@erice5fea1e11a> Hi all Fair conditions tonight with good echoes on 10 GHz. If someone wants to test, I will regularly check e-mail and HB9Q logger VY 73 Eric ON5TA 2.3 m offset abt 30 W at feed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.moonbounce.info/pipermail/moon/attachments/20091031/887278ea/attachment.htm From dl1ymk at aol.com Sat Oct 31 23:06:53 2009 From: dl1ymk at aol.com (dl1ymk at aol.com) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:06:53 -0400 Subject: [Moon] First QSO from DL1YMK alternative Message-ID: <8CC288D969D6280-362C-942B@webmail-d092.sysops.aol.com>