[Moon] The Swedish 4Th 432 & UP EME meeting CW

[Chuck Smallhouse]

Ed,

If it's 50 W at the dish, then no big deal.  About 10 years ago, when 
I  first got on 1296, with my 5 M dish, I was getting about 125 W out 
of my 7289 PA, in the shack (> 60' of coax, 50% was1/2" 
Superflex).  In no more than 4 weekends, I worked >50 initials,  Some 
were using 10' - 12' dishes and low power also.  I could weakly hear 
my echoes.  The only tracking that I had, was pure optical via a TV 
camera, which I think was more accurate than computer aided tracking then.

Hopefully LNAs and feed efficiencies have improved since then .

Chuck,  W7CS


At 11:56 AM 8/17/2014, Edward R Cole wrote:
>Lars,
>
>Well I challenge you to copy my 50w on 1296-CW.  N4PZ made a valiant 
>try with his 4.9m dish when I first QRV a few month's ago and just 
>couldn't quite get me.  But the same day I made my first two 23cm 
>eme contacts using JT65C with stations having 3m dishes.
>
>So JT65 is not just useful in high-noise but also in weaker weak-signals.
>
>I will not be tied to JT65 for long as I have a 300w sspa in process.
>
>I will try tonight on 1296.070 JT65C if anyone is interested.  I'll 
>get a good sun-noise boresight and tests of the PA today so I am 
>more confident all is working.
>
>73, Ed - KL7UW
>4.9m - 50w
>
>At 08:02 AM 8/17/2014, Lars Pettersson wrote:
>
>>>Russ
>>>i will make it a short comment :-)
>>>I suppose you have the same noise level on 70 cm and 23 cm since 
>>>many of you prefere WSJT on these bands aswell.
>>>Have a nice sunday
>>>Btw i was on 70 cm  briefly this morning   heard K2UYH 
>>>N4GJV    both S7   and OZ4MM S8-9
>>>Lars  !
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