[Moon-net] ARRL EME contest 2007

[Joe Taylor]

Many thanks to all those we worked in the ARRL EME contest, and 
apologies to those we missed!  The contest was a wonderful learning 
experience for us, and great fun as well.

We operated under the contest's "Neighborhood Multi-Op" rule, making 144 
MHz QSOs at the K1JT station and 432, 1296, and 2304 MHz QSOs at the 
station of K2UYH.  We used both CW and JT65, without assistance.  Our 
QSO and multiplier totals were:

Band    CW  JT65  Total  Mults
------------------------------
  144    26   149   175    67
  432    28     1    29    22
1296    74    10    84    35
2304    18     0    18    15
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Total: 146   160   306   139

Claimed score: 306*100*139 = 4,253,400


Station setups:

Band  Power  Antenna
(MHz)  (W)
--------------------------------------------
  144  1200   4 x 14 dual-polarization yagis
  432  1000   28 ft dish, rotatable linear pol
1296   500   28 ft dish, circular pol
2304    80   28 ft dish, circular pol
--------------------------------------------

For our digital QSOs we used the Linrad+MAP65 combination on 144 MHz, 
and WSJT on 432 and 1296 MHz.

We will post some additional details on the ARRL web site's "soapbox" 
forum for this contest,
http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=146

73 to all, and see you on the Moon!

Joe (K1JT), Al (K2UYH), Herb (K2LNS), Rick (K1DS),
Hank (KC2TA), Bob (N4HY), and Frank (AB2KT)