[Moon-net] Jamesburg Earth Station Report - 7/7/7

[Jim Moss]

All,
We had a lot of fun working 2M CW EME in period 2.
We worked 9 stations and heard 2 more.
IK3MAC seemed to have the strongest signals.

Our rebuilt preamp (1.1dB full system) and sequencer worked great.
We were able to measure sun noise of 9.6dB.
Estimate gain at 26.8dBi  (that makes us about 24% efficient with a 2 ele Horizontal beam feed below the subreflector)

My Call: N9JIM
Date       Time  Call      Rprts     QSO Pts     Multiplier
20070707   0815  G4LFM     559/559   1p          G4
20070707   0820  IK3MAC    599/549   1p          IK3
20070707   0827  SV1BTR    559/529   1p          SV1
20070707   0901  WA6PY     0/0       1.5p        WA6
20070707   0909  LZ2US     0/0       1p          LZ2
20070707   0921  SM2CEW    559/529   1p          SM2
20070707   0935  IK1FJI    0/0-529   1p          IK1
20070707   0946  IK2DDR    429/539   1p          IK2
20070707   0959  G4DHF     0/0       1p

20070707 
Total= 9.5p x 8 mult = 76 points

Heard: K6PF (tried for 10  min)  K9DX (tried 3 diff times)

After the test everyone dissappeared or QSY to JT65!
JT65 was not operational so we could only listen to the CW ID's.
Heard very nice JT65 signal from EB5EEO, sounded SSB workable. Called on SSB & CW, but no answer.

AD6IW was also active on 1296 at the same time, now with 300W.
Worked G4CCH(SSB) VE6TA(SSB/CW) JA6AHB(CW) WB2BYP(CW)

Will be active next Sunday on 3400/3456.
Will also have 144 available.

Jim
N9JIM
Operations Manager for Jamesburg Earth Station
www.jamesburgdish.org