[Moon] FW: [Moon-Net] What can you work on 1296 with a small 2.4M dish?

[g4bao]

And don't forget what you can work on 13cm with a REALLY small dish and
very little activity!

Here with 200W to a 1.9m dish, Septum feed plus choke ring and DDK VLNA13
I've so far worked 20 CW initials and 8 JT initials.

It's about time all those 23cm stations tried the "next band up"

;-)

73
John G4BAO

On 1 February 2015 at 21:34, Barry Malowanchuk <ve4ma at shaw.ca> wrote:

> From AZ I have worked 38 different stations worked on 1296 from AZ ( 21 on
> CW) with a 5 ft offset and 175W….so I can agree with this. I could  have
> worked many more on 1296 digital given time ( limited due to 3.4 and 5.7
> GHz activity). I note the comment on 1296 vs 144.  I think 1296 is the best
> band for EME
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> Barry
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> *From:* moon-net-bounces at mailman.pe1itr.com [mailto:
> moon-net-bounces at mailman.pe1itr.com] *On Behalf Of *Les Listwa
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 01, 2015 3:22 PM
> *To:* moon-net at mailman.pe1itr.com
> *Subject:* [Moon-Net] What can you work on 1296 with a small 2.4M dish?
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> The answer is a.... smaller dish.
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> Yesterday, with not great moon conditions, with my little 2.4M dish and
> 250W, I worked Dick, PA2DW with his smaller 2.0M dish, using WSJT.
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> With my very modest 1296 setup, I had hoped to work a couple dozen of the
> larger dish station, so I am more then pleased.
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> We are not talking an expensive or highly optimized station here. It is
> actually a lot less complex then my 2M EME station which has a much larger
> footprint antenna.
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> All I am using is a TS-2000X, WA2ODO preamp,  a 250W SSPA, and a simple
> Scaler feed (N4QH), with LMR-400 and a single relay, simple stuff. The dish
> is turned with only a G-5400, so a pointing accuracy of 5% or so.
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> No GPS synchronized 10 MHZ standard, No expensive Helix, nothing fancy or
> costly.
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> My point is that 1296 EME is not only do-able,  but even with a minimal
> investment you can work work hundreds of 1296 EME stations, even other
> little dishes,  I just proved it to myself.
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> AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR 1296 DIGITAL EME ( No insult meant to the CW crowd).
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> 73
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> Les
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> W2LPL/W2DBL
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