[Moon] OH0/DL1YMK now QRT

[Walter Crauwels ON4BCB]

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 Eckerö. 
  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




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