[Moon] What equipment you need to work A21EME on 23, 13, 9, 6 and 3cm?
Daniel Gautschi, HB9CRQ
dan at hb9q.ch
Thu Sep 19 21:38:42 CEST 2019
Hi All
In a month we will become QRV on microwave from Botswana with the A21EME
team. To show you what equipment YOU need to work us and to motivate YOU not
to miss this opportunity, we have prepared a summary of the results we have
had so far with our DXpedition station.
Our equipment:
1.5m dish 1x2mm mesh, homemade automatic az and el control
23cm: 100W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
13cm: 90W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
9cm 80W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
6cm: 80W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
3cm: 50W at feed, v-pol, preamp at horn
In less than 2 years, from October 2017 to May 2019, we did 5 DXpeditions
with our microwave DXpedition equipment. We have been active as
3DA0MB on 23, 13, 9, 6 and 3cm
ZS6EME on 6 and 3cm
EA6/HB9COG on 23, 13, 6 and 3cm
HB0/HB9DBM on 23, 13, 9, 6 and 3cm
SV9/HB9CRQ on 23, 13, 9, 6 and 3cm
During this 5 DXpeditions we worked a total of 680 QSOs:
110 in CW
149 in QRA64D
397 in JT65C
24 in JT4F.
Looking at the numbers by band we have the following results:
23cm
316 QSOs for a total of 125 initials
24 CW QSOs with 12 different stations
292 JT65C QSOs with 121 different stations
Smallest station worked: 2.35m mesh dish 150W
13cm
93 QSOs for a total of 34 initials
20 CW QSOs with 11 different stations
73 JT65C QSOs with 32 different stations
Smallest station worked: 1.9m offset dish 210W
9cm
44 QSOs for a total of 19 initials
11 CW QSOs with 7 different stations
30 JT65C QSOs with 17 different stations
3 JT4F QSOs with 3 different stations
Smallest station worked: 2.4m offset dish 50W
6cm
105 QSOs for a total of 34 initials
32 CW QSOs with 16 different stations
63 QRA64D QSOs with 23 different stations
8 JT4F QSOs with 6 different stations
2 JT65C QSOs with 2 different stations
Smallest station worked: 2.4m offset dish 30W
3cm
122 QSOs for a total of 42 initials
23 CW QSOs with 11 different stations
86 QRA64D QSOs with 36 different stations
13 JT4F QSOs with 11 different stations
Smallest station worked: 1.2m solid dish 40W
Summary
You don't need to have a QRO station to work us on any of the bands! Even if
you have a below average size station you can work us! We think that up to
90% of the active microwave EME community is capable to work us! During the
last 5 DXpeditions we spent hours calling CQ with no takers. We definitely
have a lot of time to work many more stations on all 5 bands! Hopefully
we'll work YOU! Don't miss the opportunity to work A21EME!
We are looking forward to work YOU from Botswana!
Vy 73, Dan HB9Q and A21EME team member
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