[Moon] 2018 DUBUS EME Contest

[M. Watanabe]

Hi folks, 
After many troubles last year, my station and antenna became well-perfoming again, and I really enjoyed this exciting contest.
Activities were great, I had 34 QSO's with 8 initials including K5SO, VA7MM, VE6BGT, N6OVP, ON5GS, EA8DBM, IK1FJI, and S59DCD. 

Specially, K5SO Joe has a booming echo, that was my great pleasure. I visited him before the Dallas EME conference, but it was an initial QSO. TNX, Joe! !

Since many trees around my shack grow up year by year, the lower limits became appoximately 5 degrees higher than last year. It causes great losses of one-and-a-half hours both in moon-rise and moon-set.

Fortunately, a cell-phone station about 300 meters away in the south seemingnly doesn't give my RX any more.  
A sharp resonating input of LNA and a sharp BPF of the output work very fine.

I will send QSL's for the initials, and to someone if not having received my QSL yet. 

TNX for the QSO's my friends, and I do appreciate Joe/DUBUS keeping this fantastic contests well-arranged!! 


Mike JH1KRC