[Moon-net] ES5PC 13cm and 6 cm weekend report

[Viljo Allik]

Hi,

Here is my final list of stations worked:

On 13cm:
HB9SV, SM4DHN, OK1KIR, IK2RTI, G3LTF, F2TU, DF3RU, SM3AKW, RW1AW, F5JWF,  
K1JT, OK1CA, OH2DG, VE6TA, WD5AGO, WA6PY, NA4N, DL4MEA, KL6M, VK3NX,  
JA4BLC,
HB9Q, IW2FZR, G3LQR, OE9ERC, JA8IAD.

On 6cm:
F2TU, RW1AW, OK1KIR, VK3NX, OK1CA.

It was apparently a good improvement on 6 cm after tracking software  
improvement. Worked OK1KIR easily on sunday evening and after that  
successful skeds with VK3NX and OK1CA. Many thanks to Charlie for  
activating the Australian continent on both 13cm & 6cm!
Also heard JA6CZD on 6 cm. Otherwise it was really good activity and  
strong signals on 6 cm on Sunday evening. I can also confirm significant  
improvement
with the septum feed compared to the circular patch feed I used before. I  
had my echoes audible 100% of the time. Also I find the SDR-IQ receiver  
very helpful for monitoring the activity on the bands during the contest.

Today evening (1st of October) I worked VK7MO on 2301 MHz in all three  
JT65 modes ( JT65C, B, A ). We saw no difficulties with decoding, even in  
JT65A. The signal strength was reaching -16dB (speaker copy). VK7MO has  
GPS locked frequency, on my station I have a 10 MHz high precision OCXO  
for phase locking the LO.
Later I also worked OE9ERC on 2320 MHz JT65C.
I'm still available for skeds during this week and possibly next week.

73,

Viljo ES5PC