[Moon-net] EME results today

[Lance Collister]

I am very pleased to report that I was able to complete on 6m EME with 
Pop, YU7EF, who is in Nepal until the end of next month and using the 
callsign 9N7JO (in NL27qr).  We had about 6 minutes worth of window on 
my moonrise today, and we completed in 3 minutes.  We were VERY lucky 
that the polarity was reciprocal for us both at the same time!  His 
JT65A signals were -24 dB here.  Pop is using one of the legendary ACOM 
1000 amplifiers along with a 6 element homebrew antenna (YU7EF design) 
constructed from materials he could find over there in Nepal.  This was 
my first opportunity to run a sked with Pop, and it was on his moonset, 
which seems to work quite well.  We don't know anything about his 
moonrise yet except that  he has increasing horizon elevation on 
azimuths greater than 90 degrees.  Anyway, the bottom line is that Pop 
has put together a 6m EME station over there and it certainly is 
working!  Congratulations to him for overcoming one obstacle after 
another!  His availability for EME is on weekends or when he is not 
working, provided the hour is not too late....he usually works Monday 
through Friday from approximately 0030Z to 1200Z.

Also I am happy to report I was able to find 3DA0HL on 2m EME and 
completed with Hal.  Then the 2m EME array azimuth system broke down, so 
array is stuck aiming where we worked....looks like another maintenance 
project before I can tie that array back down again :-(

GL and VY 73, Lance




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Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
P.O. Box 73
Frenchtown, MT  59834  USA
QTH: DN27UB
TEL: (406) 626-5728   
URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815