I went to Per's station to see, if I could work some of EME guys around. Weather was very lousy with very high winds that forced me to go QRT again after 2 hours of operation. Activity was low but first of all I wanted to "feel" the new transistor PA working. I have never heard such big echoes before. Even FM echoes are almost noise free.
Christoph DF9CY
20.15 1296 K5JL EM15 CW EME .... 569 - 599- 7842 20.22 1296 VE6TA CW EME .... 549 - 579- - 21.28 1296 OZ6OL CW EME .... 449 - 569- -
I wanted to be QRV for a longer time at this weekend, but I could not use the station on Saturday. So I was limited from moonrise until about 14 UT on Sunday afternoon. Even the PA is mounted at the feed there is still noise enough in the shack, which is a sort of a container beside the dish. After two hours the headphones ceased functioning on one side and I had to listen to the speaker. That made life really hard. Nevertheless I worked 21 stations. I am not sure if I copied OM6AE right, but I got so many R's. Per DK7LJ wanted to be on with DL0SHF call in the evening, but I do not have a feedback so far. In the next future I will make the station ready for WSJT.
Christoph DF9CY
09.16 1296 SK0UX CW EME .... 449 - 579- SM 09.39 1296 OZ6OL CW EME .... 449 - 569- OZ 09.48 1296 F1ANH CW EME .... 449 - 559- F 09.56 1296 JA8IAD CW EME .... 339 - 559- JA 10.15 1296 OM6AE ?? CW EME .... -O- - 559- OM 10.22 1296 OZ4MM CW EME .... 569 - 579- - 10.30 1296 IK3COJ CW EME .... 449 - 559- I 10.35 1296 HB9Q CW EME .... 569 - 579- HB9 10.54 1296 F6KHM CW EME .... 569 - 579- - 11.00 1296 HB9BBD CW EME .... 569 - 599- - 11.07 1296 G4CCH CW EME .... 559 - 579- G 11.14 1296 OH2DG CW EME .... 559 - 569- OH 11.28 1296 SM3AKW CW EME .... 559 - 569- - 11.37 1296 G3LTF CW EME .... 559 - 589- - 11.51 1296 JF3HUC CW EME .... 549 - 559- - 11.59 1296 JA6AHB CW EME .... 449 - 579- - 12.06 1296 DF3RU CW EME .... 549 - 579- DL 12.10 1296 LA8LF CW EME .... 549 - 589- LA 12.10 1296 ZS6AXT CW EME .... 449 - 589- ZS 12.45 1296 F6CGJ CW EME .... 569 - 579- - 13.00 1296 DL1YMK CW EME .... 439 - 539- - for 21 QSOs in 12 countries.* hrd: HB9JAW, UR5LX
I drove to DL0SHF early in the morning after a quite short sleep due to our baby ... This time I had taken some parts of my equipment including my notebook and my headphones. It worked well. I used SPECTRAN as visual aid and the built in filter when signals were marginal like OH3MCK. I am very pleased to work them. Signal was very weak but I could copy. Funny enough 23cm EME signals can look VERY different from the ONE birdie on 1296.025 which was a clean signal. EME signals ALL looked spread over at least 20 Hz. Very easy to see. Exept a few stations I called on their CQ, I stayed calling CQ on 1296.027. The station worked without any problems with about 1 kW at the feed of the 9,5m solid dish. It was big fun to work so many old friends again. Hopefully I can be active again on 23 cm on 4/5 December, where I do have some other events I have to go to also. Unclear is the situation in the 13cm and up weekend, which is almost full with other commitments. Perhaps I can make it on for a few hours.
73 de Christoph
The following list is not complete yet:
09.10.2004 04.49 1296 OK1CA CW EME .... 559 - 589- OK 1 1
09.10.2004 04.55 1296 OZ4MM CW EME .... 579 - 589- OZ 2 1
09.10.2004 05.03 1296 F1ANH CW EME .... 549 - 579- F 3 1
09.10.2004 05.08 1296 HB9SV CW EME .... 579 - 589- HB9 4 1
09.10.2004 05.12 1296 IK2MMB CW EME .... 569 - 589- I 5 1
09.10.2004 05.18 1296 IK3COJ CW EME .... 449 - 559- 6
09.10.2004 05.26 1296 OH2DG CW EME .... 569 - 579- OH 7 1
09.10.2004 05.39 1296 OH2AXH CW EME .... 579 - 579- 8
09.10.2004 06.22 1296 SM6CKU CW EME .... 439 - 579- SM 9 1
09.10.2004 06.43 1296 G3LTF CW EME .... 569 - 589- G 10 1
09.10.2004 07.29 1296 F5VHX CW EME .... 559 - 579- 11
09.10.2004 07.38 1296 IK2RTI CW EME .... 559 - 579- 12
09.10.2004 07.45 1296 K9SLQ CW EME .... 579 - 579- *IN 13 1
09.10.2004 07.50 1296 HB9BBD CW EME .... 589 - 589- 14
09.10.2004 08.00 1296 G4CCH CW EME .... 569 - 599- 15
09.10.2004 08.10 1296 SK0UX JO99 CW EME .... 569 - 589- 16
09.10.2004 08.22 1296 GW3XYW CW EME .... 559 - 569- GW 17 1
09.10.2004 08.38 1296 WA4OFS CW EME .... 339 - 449- *FL 18 1
09.10.2004 08.42 1296 WB5AFY CW EME .... 559 - 579- *TX 19 1
09.10.2004 08.47 1296 PA3CSG CW EME .... 569 - 569- PA 20 1
09.10.2004 08.55 1296 K9BCT CW EME .... 339 - 559- *(FL) 21 1
09.10.2004 08.55 1296 OZ6OL CW EME .... 569 - 579- 22
09.10.2004 09.11 1296 W2DRZ CW EME .... 559 - 559- *NY 23 1
09.10.2004 09.20 1296 SM3AKW CW EME .... 569 - 579- 24
09.10.2004 09.32 1296 K2UYH CW EME .... 569 - 589- *NJ 25 1
09.10.2004 09.40 1296 PY5ZBU CW EME .... 559 - 559- PY 26 1
09.10.2004 09.42 1296 N2UO CW EME .... 569 - 569- *(NJ) 27
09.10.2004 09.48 1296 NA4N CW EME .... 449 - 569- *VA 28 1
09.10.2004 09.53 1296 W7BBM CW EME .... 559 - 559- *AZ 29 1
09.10.2004 09.58 1296 K0YW CW EME .... 579 - 599- *CO 30 1
09.10.2004 10.19 1296 OH3MCK CW EME .... -M- - -O-- 31
09.10.2004 10.24 1296 DL1YMK CW EME .... 569 - 559- DL 32 1
09.10.2004 10.36 1296 K5JL CW EME .... 559 - 579- *OK 33 1
09.10.2004 10.39 1296 VE9DW CW EME .... 569 - 579- *NB 34 1
09.10.2004 10.47 1296 HB9FX CW EME .... 549 - 559- 35
09.10.2004 10.59 1296 HB9Q CW EME .... 579 - 559- 36
09.10.2004 11.08 1296 K5GW CW EME .... 589 - 559- *TX 37 1
09.10.2004 11.26 1296 OM6AA CW EME .... 439 - 579- OM 38 1
38* 25* 100
DK7LJ Per made some contacts this weekend. I am not sure if all data is correct here for 13 and 3 cm.
05.15 2320 WB5LUA SSB EME .... 44 - 55 - - DK7LJ 05.20 2320 OZ4MM SSB EME .... 55 - 55 - - DK7LJ
06.33 10368 DL0EF SSB EME .... 44 - 52 - - DK7LJ 06.33 10368 IQ4DF JN45 SSB EME .... 56 - 52 - 1003 DK7LJ ?? 10368 K2UYH SSB EME .... 43 - 54 - - DK7LJ
The contest is over and I ended up with 57*35 = 199500.There were many other things to do during this 2nd leg of the ARRL contest, but I did not want to miss it completely. I am very pleased to work a lot more stations. It is a pity that I missed the JA window, but there was no chance to be at DL0SHF, which is 45 minutes of drive from my home. I found conditions somewhat mixed with strong libration fading over long periods. Funny enough I had to fight some weak birdies in the EME portion of the 23cm band. I never had this before. I received some complaints about that our receiver does not work OK but we receive very good Sunnoise and Moonnoise is also there where it should be. I believe many stations copy DL0SHF very strong and there may be some discrepancy, because there is almost NO feedline loss from the PA to the antenna while most stations have 1 or 2 dB of loss. On the other hand I found weak stations calling me some 4 Khz away from me on top of another station. So I did not answer. Sometimes CQs were answered by a couple of weak stations on almost the same frequency. Even with the aid of the DSP filter and the Spectran program I could not distinguish between the stations. So I am very pleased to have worked W6XY with their 20W. So it looks like things are working. Even I had only limited time, I am very pleased with result in the ARRL contest and I had great fun operating DL0SHF - as single operator. Per DK7LJ did some QSOs in the "13cm and Up part" and I only received a small notice paper with the QSO dates on.
QSL cards can go to me and will be answered immediately.
73 de Christoph DF9CY
05.19 1296 SK0UX CW EME .... 559 - 569- - DUPE
05.50 1296 HA5SHF CW EME .... 449 - 579- - HA 39
06.06 1296 I5MPK CW EME .... 559 - 599- - 40
06.27 1296 DL1YMK CW EME .... 559 - 569- - DUPE
06.42 1296 VE6TA CW EME .... 449 - 559- - *AB 41 1
06.54 1296 9H1ES CW EME .... 549 - 559- - 9H 42 1
07.05 1296 UR5LX CW EME .... 449 - 559- - UR5 43 1
07.11 1296 DK0ZAB CW EME .... 559 - 569- - 44
07.26 1296 ON7UN CW EME .... 569 - 559- - ON 45 1
07.56 1296 WA6PY CW EME .... 569 - 569- - *CA 46 1
08.04 1296 KA0Y CW EME .... 579 - 579- - *IA 47 1
08.14 1296 W9IIX CW EME .... 449 - 559- - *IL 48 1
08.20 1296 F6CGJ CW EME .... 569 - 579- - 49
08.26 1296 SM2CEW CW EME .... 579 - 589- - 50
08.45 1296 OE5EYM CW EME .... 579 - 579- - OE 51 1
09.45 1296 DF3RU CW EME .... 549 - 569- - 52
09.50 1296 VA7MM CW EME .... 449 - 559- - *BC 53 1
10.01 1296 LA9NEA CW EME .... 449 - 549- - LA 54 1
10.20 1296 W6YX CW EME .... 449 - 549- - *(CA) 55
10.27 1296 N2IQ CW EME .... 569 - 589- - *(NY) 56
10.29 1296 F2TU CW EME .... 589 - 579- - 57
57* 35* 100 =199500