[Moon] Microwave Activity Weekends 2014

[Ingolf, SM6FHZ]

Thanks for your great initiative Peter!

I was on from 23Z to 24Z on Aug 15 and from 0530Z to 0930Z on Aug 16. A
total of 7 stations were worked, among them two initials (JA8ERE and
IZ2DJP).

Two QSO's make me especially happy; IZ2DJP (3m, 10W) and SM6PGP (1.8m,
80W). It proves that you do not need a big station to work EME on 6 cm.
Both QSO's had some margin with respect to signal strength and we were ~1
dB worse than Perigee today, so even smaller stations would be feasible to
work. Let us prove it! N.B. Both QSO's were pure random, answers to my CQ's.

For as long I can remember this was the first time I worked all stations
that I heard. That is a big step forward, has always been one or two CWNR
or never got a chance to call at all.

Following the chats on HB9Q I could see that some stations had a busy time
exchanging feeds from 13 cm to 6 cm. A big thank you to you who did that.
It raised the activity level on 6 cm!

73 / Ingolf, SM6FHZ


2014-08-05 9:42 GMT+02:00 Peter Blair <g3ltf at btinternet.com>:

>   This year, for a number of reasons, I did not suggest to the microwave
> EME community dates for activity weekends, (AW). My apologies and thanks to
> those who have prodded me.  For new readers, an AW is when we attempt to
> get all those with capability on a specific band to come on and make QSOs,
> run tests for those needing signals, test new feeds, preamps etc. No
> pressure, no scoring, use the reflector, use any mode, just activate the
> band.
> After taking soundings I suggest the following.  Sat./Sun. Aug. 16/17 - 6
> cm ;  Sat. Sept. 20 - 3 cm , and Sun. Sept. 21 - 9 cm.
> I know this is not ideal and  I know that Aug16/17 is the 70cm digital
> contest but I dont think there are too many stations that will find that a
> big conflict, its not a contest after all,  but an AW is an opportunity to
> give the gear a check before theARRL Microwave contest on October 11/12th.
> If you can be there good, if not, CU in October.
> Next year it seems we start to get a better alignment of high declination
> with low path loss and we will suggest dates in the first months of the
> year.
> 73 Peter G3LTF
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