[Moon] Microwave Activity Weekends 2014

John Worsnop johnworsnop at gmail.com
Sat Aug 16 18:11:14 CEST 2014


Sorry Peter of course it was you I worked!  I've got "Lars on the brain"
today! Was just Tweeting him earlier and my brain said 2CEW but my fingers
said 4IVE!

73
John
On Aug 16, 2014 4:42 PM, "Peter Sundberg" <sm2cew at telia.com> wrote:

> Hi John!
>
> Note, it was SM2CEW you worked this morning on 13cm, not SM4IVE  :-)
>
> I was very glad to make the QSO with you, tks för coming back for another
> try
> after I hastily connected the new 28V PSU to the amp. The PSU was lying in
> the
> wheel barrel beside the tower..
>
> 73
> Peter SM2CEW
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 15:09 2014-08-16 , you wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, good initiative Peter! Glad we also got good 13cm activity as well.
> 2
> > new 13cm DXCCs on CW for me, SM4IVE and OZ4MM. I plan to be on tomorrow
> as
> > well with 2304 receive.
> > 73
> > John
> > On Aug 16, 2014 4:03 PM, "Ingolf, SM6FHZ"
> > <<mailto:ingolf.fhz at gmail.com>ingolf.fhz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.Â
> >>
> >> 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
> >> <<mailto:g3ltf at btinternet.com>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 ;Â  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
> >> Â
> >>
> >> Â
> >>
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