[Moon] [Moon-Net] DUBUS / REF CW EME contest 3.4GHz

[Peter Blair]

Don, Did you see these two posts last year? [Moon-Net] FCC seeks to clear radio amateurs out of 3.4 GHz AMSAT-UK
http://mailman.pe1itr.com/pipermail/moon-net/2019-December/041166.html 
Typically the DUBUS CW contest attracts between 30 and 40 participating stations. The ARRL and ARI contests are multi-mode but they are also multi-band and so participation is lower. In most years there is also a 3.4GHz activity weekend encouraging activity in any mode. I dont recall if you were active in those last year.
Please take a look at what Al K2UYH wrote in the latest NL, see the top of the first page here http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/NLD/eme2002.pdf
The key thing for us all is to get the level of activity up. It would be a great shame if the USA, where 9cm EME was pioneered, was to lose the band.
73 Peter G3LTF 

From: Don Hawbaker 
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2020 1:31 PM
To: Peter Blair ; freetalk moonnet ; Moon-Net 
Cc: alkatz at tcnj.edu 
Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] DUBUS / REF CW EME contest 3.4GHz

If the purpose of this activity is really to encourage use of the 3.4 GHz band as it says on the contest web site, then it seems silly to exclude WSJT.  What new scientific boundaries are we exploring using a 150 year old mode?  State of the art?

Anyhow, I will be listening and if I can copy anybody, I will try to answer with my one hundred watts and 3 meter dish.

WA3RGQ


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Subject: [Moon-Net] DUBUS / REF CW EME contest 3.4GHz 

This weekend is the first of the microwave contest weekends. See here for the rules. http://www.marsport.org.uk/dubus/EMEContest2020web.pdf 
We surely dont need a reminder on how much this microwave band is under threat accross the globe from 5G. 
Lets use it while we still have it and enable those who negotiate for us to have the evidence of activity by serious experimenters so that they can try and carve out a segment that we can preserve (as has been done in several countries already) 
I will be QRV, the wx looks OK, with 6m dish and 90W at feed.
73 Peter G3LTF