[Moon-net] ARI 144 MHz CW

[Joe Taylor]

I was able to be QRV on 144 MHz CW for a little over five hours on 
Saturday morning and another three hours Sunday morning.  It was a great 
pleasure to work the following 30 stations on CW:

IK3MAC,SV1BTR,OK1MS,F1FLA,SP7DCS,G3ZIG#,SM2CEW,I1AXE#,
IK1FJI#,LZ2US,DL100DAN#,I3EVK#,RA6DA,ES6RQ,YO2AMU#,DK3EE,
KB8RQ,F3VS,OH6CH#,PA3CWN,OK1KKD#,SM2A#,SM7GVF#,YU1CF,
IV3GBO#,DL5MAE#,W7MEM,SV3AAF#,RU1AA,G4DHF#

The 14 new initials bring my total on 144 MHz to 329*.

I now have very firmly imprinted on my mind the slow, perfectly sent CW 
from Stan, OK1MS; the nice "swing" in the cadence of CW from Roy, G3ZIG 
(along with his not-quite-stable QRG); the extra letter-spacing of the 
precise CW from from Jimmy, SV1BTR, and the extra-slow SK dit...dit at 
the end of each of his QSOs; the frequent extra dit on the "6" 
("dah-di-di-di-di-dit") from Ants, ES6RQ; the incredibly loud signal and 
crisp CW from Graziano, IK3MAC ... and the fist, signal strength, and 
signal quality of nearly every other operator that I heard and listened 
to.

I worked everyone I heard except for I1ANP and N1WR (called once or 
twice each, with no response) and RN6MT (heard him once only).  Does 
anyone know what N1WR was doing, and from where?  He had a strong 
signal, and called a few very short CQs (just 15 seconds or so), but I 
never heard him make any QSOs.

I judged the activity from EU to be fairly good, but from NA it was 
somewhere between poor and non-existent.  I was not on for the JA-VK-ZL 
windows.

All in all, it was a most enjoyable EME weekend.  Many thanks to ARI for 
organizing the event, and to all those who responded to my calls!

	-- 73, Joe, K1JT