[Moon-net] ARRL Contest

[Joe Taylor]

Thanks to all for another highly enjoyable EME contest weekend!

I operated my small 2m EME station on both JT65B and CW.  No loggers, no 
clusters, no internet, no telephone, no skeds.  I finished with 93 QSOs 
(84 on JT65B, 9 on CW) and 47 multipliers.

If anyone tries to tell you a small station can't make EME QSOs without 
assistance, don't believe them.  It's not only possible, it's a *lot* of 
fun!

A comment on operating procedure: using a Linrad receiver for the first 
time in a contest, I found that it is *much* more efficient for me to 
work in Search and Pounce mode than to call CQ.  To put it simply, I can 
find you more easily than you can find me.  \

As shown in the following table, nearly all of my QSOs were made in S+P 
mode:

QSO initiated by           JT65   CW
-------------------------------------
S+P, I called someone:       71    9
Someone answered my CQ:       4    0
Someone tail-ended my QSO:    9    0

If those using the loggers to arrange QSOs -- presumably "just for fun," 
rather than as contest entrants -- would develop the habit of staying on 
frequency after a QSO, I estimate that I could have made another 10-20 QSOs.

I will look forward to working old and new EME friends alike -- in the 
next contest, or any time!

	-- 73, Joe, K1JT

144 MHz: 2x10 xpol, 1.2 kW