[Moon] Microwave Activity weekends 2015

g4bao john at g4bao.com
Mon Feb 9 23:54:39 CET 2015


Hi Peter,
Speaking as relative newbie to EME, who's QTH precludes me from ever having
a 10m dish and 1kW, these weekends should aim to generate NEW activity, not
the same old people coming on again and again and working each other. That
soon gets very boring for everyone very quickly.

Therefore, I think its a no brainer to include 13cm as it should be
considered "next band up" by the many 23cm EMErs out there who are in
similar QTHs as me. I certainly will try to support that band unless (as
usually seems to happen) I'm on vacation that weekend. Can I suggest  we
also have some Winter activity weekends? Why none already or am I missing
something?

Activity seems at the moment to be at an all time low on 13, I guess that's
because it's "old hat" to those who've been around for a long time and
"been there, done that" and there is much more activity on 23. They will be
getting bored soon so we need to point the way to the next band. In fact, I
see more activity on 3cm, but that is not a "beginner" band whereas 13 can
be.

Hope these thoughts are helpful.
Those who want to read more about what can be achieved with a "REALLY"
small dish (not a 3m one which seems to be considered small by some!) look
at.

http://www.g4bao.com/Files/MRT2010.pdf
http://www.g4bao.com/Files/G4BAO_MRT2013.pdf

73
John
www.g4bao.com


On 8 February 2015 at 11:09, Peter Blair <g3ltf at btinternet.com> wrote:

>   For newcomers: The idea of activity weekends is to encourage activity
> on the less well used microwave bands outside contest weekends, no
> restrictions... if you wish then use the logger, telephone, HF....use any
> mode. It enables everyone to make QSOs, test new equipment, feeds, preamps
> etc. Hopefully some of the big guns get on and give signals for newcomers
> to look for.  In past years I have suggested dates but last year I screwed
> up and left it rather late so this year I’m trying to be a bit earlier. I’m
> assuming that there is still support for the idea.
>
> My thoughts for this year are as follows.
> 1) High Northern declination weekends give the highest number of
> participants, otherwise SM, W6 and KL7 get a very short window. The VKs
> have less of a horizon problem than us in the N, if there’s a tree in the
> way they just cut it down. We cannot have, at present, high N dec. and low
> loss, but remember the loss variation is only +/- 1.2dB.
> 2) Should we  include 13cm this year? Activity has been dropping recently
> but IMHO it is the best band for EME ( lowest sky noise, plenty of SS power
> and low NFs and HB dishes easy to achieve)
> 3) Should we leave out 24 GHz this year and go for 13,9,6 and 3cm?
> 4) I can see four weekends that look reasonable .. date, declination,
> loss.  (One of these dates I can’t make because of a granddaughter’s
> wedding but I wont say which one.) Maybe you have other weekends  to
> suggest?
>   June 20/21 12 deg  2.2dB
> July 11/12  14 deg  1.25dB
> July 18/19 10 deg  2.3dB
> August 8/9 15deg  1.4dB
> If you are active on these bands or planning to be active this year then
> please give this some thought on bands and dates and reply to the
> reflectors with them and we’ll try and get a schedule together.
> Note that the latest VK3UM planner software now makes looking for suitable
> dates very simple. http://www.vk3um.com/eme%20planner.html
> 73 Peter G3LTF
>
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