Subject: NET NOTES OCT 10 2004
From: K1RQG
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vy 73, Rainer
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Al, K2UYH, editor of the 432 & Above News Letter, reminds all that the
NL is available via e-mail and the internet. You can get the NL in .pdf
or .txt format from W2WD <[email protected]>
Current and back issues of the 432 & above News Letter by K2UYH
can be found at the PA0ZN web site. This is the direct link to
the site. Please copy and save to your favorites.
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html
Latest skeds will always be on DL4EBY web page. You can find
links at the PA0ZN page through the 432 & Above EME NET NOTES.
This is a direct link to the latest skeds. Copy and save it to
your favorites.
http://www.dl4eby.de/ltskd.htm
This is a direct link to the latest EME directory 432 & up. Copy and save
it to your favorites.
http://www.dl4eby.de/eme_dir.htm
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Subj: DL8OBU qrt
Date: 10/9/04 12:00:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Jürgen Kaufer)
To: [email protected]
Dear Al,
thanks for et-news and news-letters all the years.
Because I gave up amateur radio now (after 32 years of enthusiastic ar-works),
please cancel me from your email-list.
Well I'm still alife and feel fine, but started a new hobby, which needs as much
time as the old one, so decided to finish the old hobby.
I wish you and the whole EME-community much fun on EME.
Best regards, and best 73s
Jürgen
DL8OBU
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Subj: K6JEY first Weekend 432
Date: 10/10/04 5:48:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Doug Millar)
To: [email protected]
It was an interesting two days. I was on more often than I usually am.
Aurora was unusually intense according
to http://aurora.n1bug.net/ which may have accounted for some of the
signals. Some were 7 S units above the noise on peaks with wide QSB. N2IQ
was consistently the loudest. I bid adieu to my old 8938 amp "Kate Smith"
and installed a new Henry 3004A to be called " Mario Lanza". You know-
portly, stout, sings high notes very well, fairly classy, and always had a
good time. So far works fine. 1,500 watts output with no problem. Kate is
going to someone else to sing. I'll miss that great pair of lungs.
I worked
DL9KR
N2IQ
KL7M
OE5JH
OH2PO
HB9Q
WA6PY
K1FO
Hope everyone else had a great time. I hope to be on 1296Mhz for
the last weekend and look forward to my first EME QSO's on that band.
K6JEY
70cm
4x25el K1FO's, .22db nf, 1500w
144Mhz
2-2.5wl,1kw portable only
1296
7' Dish, .2db NF, 150 Watts
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Subj: [Moon-net] 1296
Date: 10/10/04 5:17:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Bengt A Jockert)
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Before I go to bed
Worked 21 stations with my 50 watts today. Heard and called a number of
stations incl. would-be-initials SK0UX, NA4N, K9BCT, W9IIX and DF3RU. Will
have to work on the amp, I guess.
Good night
Ben
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Subj: [Moon-net] Weekend Results from SK0UX
Date: 10/10/04 4:51:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Hans Gustavsson)
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected] (Moon_Net)
Hello all and thanks for all qso:s this weekend!
Back home after a weekend with a minimum of sleep!
This is a small summary of what we worked during the weekend.
We were on 144 almost full time. On 432 and 1296 we had to change
the feed, preamps and pa:s at the dish when we went from one band
to the other.
144Mhz Total of 47 qso:s, 25 new initials! (About 50/50 cw and jt65).
Wkd: I2FAK, I3DLI, IK3MAC, SP7DCS, DK3BU, RU1AA, HB9Q, F3VS,
IK2DDR, SK6EI, LZ2US, DF7KF, G3ZIG, UA4AQL, S52LM, ON5IQ, ZS5LEE,
F1AFJ, ZS5Y, K5GW, W5UN, KB8RQ, W0HP, SV1BRT, IK7EZN, LZ1DP,
RN6BN, RW1AY/1, IK1UWL, JN1CSO, UA9FAD, JH5FOQ, OH7PI, I6WJB,
F9HS, PA2CHR, ES6RQ, UA9SL, DL1DWI, DK8ZJ, EA2AGZ, DL1GGT,
PA0JMV, DJ9CZ, K7MAC, OK2DL, IK1FJE.
432Mhz Total of 23 qso:s 21 new initials.(cw only) This was really the
first serious
attempt at 432 from SK0UX. We used our 6m dish with a patch-feed (dual
polarity)
that we made just a few days ago. It seems to work ok, some stations not
heard
at all in one polarity came up to readability 5 when changing polarity.
We used 650w in the feed, that was not enough, we heard and called several
more stations that could not hear us.
Wkd: VK3UM, OH2PO, HB9Q, DL9KR, VK4AFL, OZ4MM, F6KHM,
SM3AKW, DL0GER, OH2DG, DL7APV, JA6AHB, G3LTF, G4ERG,
SM2CEW, PA3CSG, N2IQ, K1FO, KL6M, N9AB, K2UYH, DF3RU,
EA3DXU.
1296Mhz This was fun! Good activity and good conditions. We made a total
of 41 qso:s during the weekend. 10 new initials! (cw only)
DL0SHF, OH2AXH, F5VHX, HB9SV, HB9BBD, G4CCH, GW3XYW,
OK1CA, K9SLQ, IK2MMB, W2DRZ, K5JL, G3LTF, SM3AKW,
K5GW, K0YW, VE9DW, K9BCT, W2UHI, PA3CSG, N2UO, PY5ZBU,
WA6PY, OZ4MM, K4QI, OH2DG, JA4BLC, OZ6OL, JA8IAD, OM6AA,
HA5SHF, LX1DB, K2UYH, W9IIX, WB5AFY, DL1YMK, IK3COJ,
DF3RU, F6CGJ, VA7MM, OE5JFL.
We are already looking forward to the Microwave part and the second leg
of 50-1296!
73:s from SK0UX crew.
/Hans SM0MXO
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Subj: [Moon-net] IK2RTI eme 23 cm
Date: 10/10/04 4:29:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Gianfranco Carubelli)
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
I made a short appearance on saturday 9th October in 23 cm because I had some
business. I heard several stations, but I only worked five of them, with very
good signals, although the noise was strong. This let me test a two concentric
helixes feed and the result was good,according to me, considering that the
feed is placed together with three other W2IMU feeds for 2.3 , 5.7 , 10 GHz on
a homemade 4.8 m dish with f/D 0.52 . I'd like to know if there are other
stations with this kind of feed in 23 cm. I'll be QRV in the second part of
the ARRL contest.
73 Gianfranco
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Subj: ARRL first part 432
Date: 10/10/04 1:18:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Bernd Wilde)
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Hello Joe, hi all,
here is a short report about my first part ARRL 2004 on 432.
wkd 35x24 so far.
QSO:
DL0GER, VK4AFL, F6KHM, JA6AHB ,DL9KR, G3LTF, S52CW, OH2PO, OZ4MM, G4ERG, JJ1NNJ
DL1YMK, SM3AKW, OH2PO dupe, UT3LL, OH2DG, VK3UM, SK0UX, DF3RU, JA9BOH,
I5CTE, DJ6MB, SP6JLW, EA3DXU, HB9Q, K1FO, PA3CSG, DL7UDA, K0RZ, VE6TA
N9AB ,K4EME, N2IQ, SM2CEW, K2UYH, SV1BTR, YO4FRJ
Cwnr JL1ZCG, KE2N (3 times!)
Runaways were
KL6M, YU1EV, UA3DJG ?, SK0CC, YO2IS, SM2ILF, RZ3BA/1, G4RGK
35x24 so far
condx saturday : night ok, after sunrise 90dg Faraday and medium activity
condx sunday : night ok , after sunrise agn 90dg Faraday and lousy activity on
US window.
Hope to work a lot more next part.
73 Bernd DL7APV
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Subj: [Moon-net] OH3MCK QRV for 23cm skeds
Date: 10/10/04 1:13:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Hello,
I am available for 1296 MHz skeds Monday and Tuesday
between 0600 and 1400 UTC both days.
I have 200W and ~27dBi (hor.pol.), JT44, JT65 or CW modes.
73 de Petri OH3MCK, loc. KP11WL
petri.kotilainen@(nospam)nokia.com
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Subj: NET NOTES FOR OCT 10, 2004
Date: 10/10/04 11:39:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Mike)
To: [email protected]
Hi Joe
Thanks for the effort to try to copy me today. Rough condx.
I was trying to report the following:
So far this weekend I have 33 QSOs, only about 5 heard but not worked, quite a
few I expected to hear, but nothing.
For the microwave contest, I will try to be QRV 13cm. I have a septum feed
about 3/4 finished, and have to fire up the 200w brick for the first time.
On 4-Dec I hope to be QRV 23cm, and possibly some 2m activity.
73
Mike, KL6M BP51dc Webpage: http://www.qsl.net/kl6m
432 EME - FT-736; FT-767; 9.2 Meter Dish; RYT 0.16dB NF; 1500 WATTS
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Subj: [Moon-net] Contest first weekend, W2DRZ
Date: 10/10/04 8:40:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (w2drz)
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected] (moon-net-new)
Hi all. This is our report for the 23 CM only multi operator effort at
W2DRZ. Operators were K2TXB and W2DRZ.
This was our best weekend ever from this location. We ended up with 42
contacts and 30 multipliers. The station seems to be working very well
with the new HB9BBD preamp and the new 500 watt power amp right at the
dish. We certainly were hearing much better than ever before although
there were still signals I wished I could copy - but I guess that is
always the problem, I have never been satisfied that any of my VHF or
microwave receiving systems was good enough, hi hi.
The weaker stations we worked were: W9IIX, NA4N, IK3COJ, and JA6AHB. We
were right at moonset Sunday when working JA6AHB and ground noise was
certainly a factor in making the copy difficult. We also heard and
copied the 50 watt signal from SM6CKU, but never heard him call CQ or
got an answer to ours.
There were some real strong stations as usual, but even stronger here
this year. HB9BBD, DL0SHF, K5GW, HB9Q, K5JL, all got a 579 from me, and
there were a few of the others that were that loud later after they were
worked. There were over a half dozen stations that were 569, and 10
that were 559. These are real S-Meter readings (over noise) on the
FT-1000MP. So lots of strong signals. Congratulations to all the guys
with the fine stations.
On the down side, I felt there was a sad lack of activity on Sunday. We
only worked 10 new stations Sunday and the band never sounded as active
as it did on Saturday. A number of stations were notable by their
absence. We heard comments on the 20 meter net that guys would be on 23
cm "next month". I wonder if everyone realizes that next month is 2304
and above only, and it will be December for the second half for 6-1296?
December is heavy snow season here in Western NY, so it is questionable
if we will be able to get on then.
I'd sure like to urge more of the US hams to get on the air for the
contest on 23 cm. Once the moon is down in Europe the band becomes a
wasteland here. With the new rules allowing US states and Canadian
Provinces to be multipliers there is no reason why we cannot have a very
active period of working each other after we loose the EU gang. We did
work 11 states and 2 provinces, giving a multiplier count in excess of
what we did in the whole contest last year (30 vs 24), and making our
score larger already than last year's. Of course one cannot really
compare the contests that way due to the scoring changes.
It was fun working Willi, LX1DB on SSB and also caught VE7BBG via JT65B
for our first ever digital contact (and only attempt). And we worked 4
JA stations this year which is the most for us, but did not hear some we
worked in previous years.
Personally, I had a ball and will be looking forward to the December
part where I will be operating 2 meters from home in NJ. But if the
weather is cooperative, look for someone to be operating W2DRZ on 23 cm
then too.
73 all, Russ K2TXB (operator at W2DRZ - FN02, New York State)
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HB9BBD: very tired.. activity was good.. more DXCC mult and more mult with
Province & states.. 16 states and 24 DXCC .. crashed dish feed into
the service tower.. but fixed the situation.. only got jammed.. no
dammaged...
K0RZ/M: 34x21 .. on 70cm....
N2IQ: been sick for gays.. but been on 70cm all weekend.. good start, down
a bit from last year.. not too many weak stations.. a few .. small
stations in short supply.. worked a few JA and VK/ZL.. still on moon..
W2UHI: did not get on this morning at all.. yesterday did much testing of
different methods..
K9BCT/M: amp is back up to normal.. all is well.. had a good time.. was using
the TS-2000X and pleased with results.. anyone worked K9BCT, he is in
Florida.. condx good til about 1200z..
W2DRZ: now on moon.. activity seems down a bit.. at 38 so far..
WA9FWD: not active this weekend .. been feverishly working on the dish
tracking. now seems to be working as far as accurate tracking..
needs to slow down the motors.. hopes to be on 13cm and up weekend
with better tracking.. also hopes to be on Dec on 23cm..
VE4MA: not too much to report.. tried to get a driver running for the 23cm amp
and hopes to be on Dec on 23cm.. but prime consideration is for 47ghz
and also the microwave weekend ..
K5JL: rcvd e-mail from ZL1KA and Brent says activity down .. looking for more
activity from State..
WA0WPJ: hello to all on the net.. hopes to attend the 2006 EME conference..
W7QX/M: not on contest.. mobile now.. will be at microwave update.. will be on
the Oct 30/31 weekend 10ghz.. as well as Dec 4/5 on 23cm .. will also
be on 20 meter mobile on way to Dallas..
W5LUA: did listen on 70cm, heard one on horizon.. and checked out 222mhz..
222mhz is operational..
W4CGR/M: listening to net .. interested in EME..
WA1JOF: when in control.. blows fuse occasionally.. but will overcome..
W9IIX: been on moon..reasonable activity this morning.. 19 in log now..
KL6M: spent time on 70cm and 33 QSO s.. only 5 today.. will try 23cm and
2 meters in Dec.. [see e-mail above]
DL7APV: 36 qso so far.. dissappointed in low activity .. moonrise to sunrise
condx were very good.. after sunrise, not so good.. Mother passed
away last week.. and took a lot of Bernd time.. only 14 days from
diagnose to passing..
G4ALH: first time on 70cm since DUBUS contest.. increased drive to amp [brick]
and half way through QSO with G3LTF died, original brick back and all
is well. 9 QSOs.. just finished with SM2CEW..
WB7QBS: opinion on tracking program..
N4PU: tracked the moon this morning.. from 4am till 7:30am and heard a lot
of stations.. HB9BBD, F6CGJ, OH2AXH, & K5GW and a lot of weaker ones.
K4EME: fun yesterday.. but no more new ones this morning.. weak ones were
down .. continually heard a lot of the stations worked yesterday..
18 so far.. will be on this afternoon.. already worked 2 VK.. missed
a few on CQs..
G4RGK: was all running this morning.. was on a couple hours .. worked 10
condx were ok.. but had high winds and had problems with az drive
with the wind.. missing a lot of the big stations.. QRT with wind..
M0EME: should be on 100w and 4xfo22 next activity weekend.. already worked
HB9Q but procedures were not right..
OH6JKW: friend of John Risas.. [personal]
WB5AFY: worked 21 on 23cm yesterday.. happy .. and first time on contest..
ready for more.. 15' dish? .. 8x7289..
W5UN: tnx to K5JL for contact.. still on Moon..
AD5RY: interested in a dish .. anyone got one???
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