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[g4bao]

Related to my previous posting here, I just read a lovely quote on another
reflector from g3pho.

" A thousand receivers make no noise"

😊

73 John
On 14 Mar 2016 12:25, "g4bao" <john at g4bao.com> wrote:

> This was my first experience of a 23cm Dubus CW event and I had great fun!
> I'm not sure why there is so much concern about the demise of CW, it seems
> alive and well on 23cms! If only we could encourage more activity outside
> the contests. Only surprise was the lack of Americans, I didn't hear one
> the whole weekend!
>
> Running just 120 Watts (my power seems a little down) to a 1.9m RF-Ham
> design dish with the excellent SM6FHZ patch feed and a 0.2dB G4DDK VLNA23 I
> worked 19 stations on CW and 2 on JT.
>
> 23cm Initials were HB9CW, SP7DCS,OK1CA,SP6JLW,OK1KIR,ES5PC,OZ4MM,F5SE/P on
> CW plus G4DDK and ZS6JON on JT.
>
> Notable "got aways" were PA3DZL, DL1YMK, DJ8FR, and DL6SH Jac was quite
> weak, but the latter 3 of that list were stronger than many I worked but
> just didn't hear me, despite endless calling. Most unusual!
>
> I found that "search and pounce" worked much better for me, calling CQ
> brought some QSOs and a couple of stations that were just too weak for me
> to work, which made me question the reciprocity of the 3 in the list above,
> or maybe it was just QRM?
>
> The slow QSB was very different to what I've experienced on 13cm with the
> fade rate being "just right" to take out Morse characters!
>
> In all, great fun, and it made me think that the "demise of CW" that some
> bang on about is just down to the problem even the terrestrial microwave
> bands suffer from, namely  lack of people bothering to come on and
> transmit, instead, checking the internet, seeing no activity and not
> switching the rigs on!
>
> 73
> John G4BAO
>
>
>
> On 14 March 2016 at 09:55, Dominique Fässler <dfaessler at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>> the Dubus EME contest was again the highlight of the year. Although I did
>> not have the opportunity to work after noon and therefore did not work any
>> stations along moon-set, I ended with 70 QSO in the log. Among them are
>> rather small stations as 15:05 G4BAO 549/559 or 12:37 SP6GWN 529/OOO
>> (10W/1,2m dish). A big bunch of never worked stations again! Since I
>> stopped
>> counting initials due to the insane mix-up of modes I just enjoy EME in
>> its
>> finest form: CW, ALL TRULY RANDOM, new calls popping up, and the absence
>> of
>> stress during the contest.
>> The EME beacon ON0EME was on during the whole time and was among the
>> strongest signals!
>> 10 days ago I had a bad lightning just next to the dish into a HV line.
>> The
>> farmer as my host of the site had to replace almost everything like
>> dishwasher, washing machine, audio and tv-set etc. The only damage at my
>> rig
>> was one of the sensor interfaces for El-control. It counted the wrong
>> sense,
>> so I had to mechanically turn it by 180 degrees... see attached picture..
>> 73 HB9BBD/HB9CW
>> Dominique
>>
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