[Moon] 3cm activity at PY2BS.

[Bruce Halasz]

Hi all,


my 3cm station was finally completed last week, all together a two years long project.

It’s a fully new setup : 3.7m dish , 50 W sspa ( 30 W out now ), and K3 xcvr.

Luckily, due to ARRL’s contest, there was nice activity on the band last weekend to try it for the first time.

Although I've built linear polarisation control in it, could not play much as I was busy enough taking care of the basics, including manual doppler on CW  ( on JT4 it's taken care by WSJT-X ).

I’m very happy achieving 16 QSOs during the weekend, first ever 3cm from PY, 11 firsts DXCC - PY on 3cm :

Saturday: 
SP6JLW(cw), OZ1LPR(cw), HB9Q(cw), UA6HTS(cw), OK1KIR(cw), DF1OI(cw), DL0EF(cw), PA3DZL(cw), WA3LBI(jt4), 

Sunday
W5LUA(cw), DL7YC(cw), VE4MA(cw), OK1CA(cw), G4CBW(jt4), HA/G3WDG(jt4), PA3DZL(jt4).

Despite nice spkr copy from W6YX, could not decode enough in JT4F to complete it, some freq. drift may be blamed, hope next time.

Had to stop earlier on Sunday due to rain, as the sensitive equips at the feeder are not WX protected yet.

If I missed you, and you’re interested on a sked, please let me know, will be very happy to try it.

Thank you all  !


GL & 73


Bruce PY2BS