[Moon-net] G3LTF 3.4GHz report

[Edward Cole]

Peter,

I've been reading the mail about the activity weekend on 3.4 GHz and 
looks like quite a bit of activity is there.  In time (goal:fall 
2007) I will have my 4.9m dish up and running; first on 1296 but I 
have two DEMI 144/3456 xvtrs and two Toshiba amps which could become 
a fair 9cm eme station.  Haven't addressed how to operate at 3400 but 
I suspect receive might be possible with the DEMI unit by running a 
lower IF (?).

I suspect there are fair number of these Toshiba 40w amps out there 
in mw'ers hands and all they need is for some activity to convince 
them to get a suitable dish.  Here in the USA there is a ample supply 
of idle c-band dishes in the 2-3m range...often available for the 
taking.  I had one offered to me just this week.  with 4-foot, two 
6-foot, 8-foot and 16-foot dishes, I really do not need another.  Not 
counting the smaller dishes for portable mw!

Once we have the 1296 eme station running, I will only need to build 
a feed and get a LNA for 3456.  One obstacle was overcome a month ago 
in the form of 215-feet of donated 1-5/8 inch hardline (for the price 
of two L7NF connectors)...Tnx KL7FB.

Recently, I've been asked if I have a design for combining two 
Toshiba amps.  I have not done this yet but would wonder if anyone 
out there has and can offer help/guidance in this?

73 Ed - KL7UW
PS: we will be at CSVHF 2007.

At 12:59 PM 6/18/2007, peter blair wrote:
>  This was a very rewarding weekend of eme experimenting and 
> operating. On the 17th I worked  on 3400MHz VK3NX O/M,  OK1KIR 
> 569/O, LX1DB 579/569 also on ssb ,G4NNS 559/539 VE4MA O/O cross 
> band, W5LUA 569/449 on 3456MHz and  OK1CA 559/559 . This made 10 
> QSOs and 6 new initials over the weekend. I believe that the VK3NX 
> QSO is a new record terrestrial distance for this band. Equipment 
> here is 6m dish 0.375 f/d, septum feed with choke, 30W at feed Sun 
> noise measured 15dB with 68 SFU.
>  I think everyone enjoyed the weekends activity,  I suspect that 
> most went away with a long "to do" list having learned something 
> about their station that they didnt know before.  I believe the 
> activity generated can be used to help the case for keeping this 
> allocation even if it turns out to be narrower than current. I 
> think we can all go away and work more on the CP feeds and share 
> the results of that. Please send your full reports to Al Katz for the NL.
>Thanks to all  for the great QSOs and to Joe K1RQG and DF6NA for their help.
>73 Peter G3LTF
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73,
Ed - KL7UW
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