[Moon] [Moon-Net] D44TVD update 5

[Sam Jewell]

It was a pleasure to work HB9Q, UA3PTW and IK3COJ on 2320MHz yesterday. I am now at EME #20.  Unfortunately I did not see any sign of a trace from Hermann on my 2.3m dish (0.25d nfLNA). While setting up I heard (decoded) PY2BS, OK1DFC, ES5PC and PA3DZL. I think most of these stations would have been workable on CW, although I have a marginal preference for digital because of my poor CW.
On 5.7GHz I am now suffering from not preparing the dish mount base  levelling properly. The pallet mount is now beginning to 'list' a bit and when I set up east there is a significant elevation error  to the west. I can get away with this on 23 and 13cm, but on 6cm it makes a significant difference. I can see about 0.4dB moon noise and 9.5dB sun noise (currently) on 6cm, so the system is working (2.3m dish).

73 de Sam, G4DDK






Sent tomorrow from my time machine


> On 13 May 2016, at 19:58, Daniel Gautschi, HB9CRQ <dan at hb9q.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
>  
> Hermann  did work 9 stations on 13cm until now… now he is QRX due to too high elevation, max he can do is 70dgr… he needs to wait until moon is back below 70dgr again. That will happen at 21.15z May 13th. He will be on HB9Q-logger. For US guys please let him know you hear him and call him, than he will RX on 2304. He is using 2320.100 1st JT65c listening on his echo… so make sure to put your echo on his!
> His QTH is HK85FA (not HK84!).
> He has heavy wind now, not easy to stay on moon.
>  
> Good luck all!
> Vy 73, Dan HB9Q
>  
>  
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