[Moon-net] NA6MF Yuri's Night Operation Pictures

[Mark (G4PCS)]

Hi!

your post reminded me...

it probably isn't common knowledge, not least because it happened a while ago - but there actually has been a mobile (i.e. vehicle-in-motion) EME contact made!

Myself, Graham G8MBI (now F5VHX), and Dave G8KBV had a 144MHz mobile EME qso, as G8MBI/M, with Dave W5UN way back on April 20th, 1991, between 00 and 01 UTC. OK, one side of the qso wasn't mobile ;)

We were using a 4CX350 amp, into a 13el tonna strapped to two small masts mounted on a land rover roofrack. Vehicle speed during the qso was 45MPH, which we still claim as a moonbounce land-speed record... There are some pictures on Graham's website, some way down the page.

I don't think anyone's done it since, so it's probably unique? If I remember correctly, it did inspire someone (G4YRY?) to mount an EME system on a boat and make a /MM qso sometime shortly afterwards.

I suspect these days we'd  immediately get arrested for attempting such endeavours :P

Regards, Mark G4PCS


Edward Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net> wrote: At 06:57 AM 4/14/2008, Jim Moss wrote:
>Thanks for the contacts!
>Worked 3 on 1296.
>Copied 2 on 144. (issues with preamp and local noise)
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/n9jim-6/sets/72157604519871420/
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>http://www.ok1dfc.com/friends/ad6iw.htm
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>YOUTUBE links may follow later.
>
>NASA Ames Amateur Radio Club, The 50 MHz and Up Group, and Jamesburg EME Team
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I got a charge out of your "Mobile EME"!
Here's mine:
http://www.qsl.net/al7eb/  or
http://www.kl7uw.com/eme10368.htm
look for the "ultimate rover" photo.

the photo is one of moving my 8-foot dish to our new home in 
2006.  The link is forwarding from my old website to the new one.

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144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xp20, 185w
http://www.kl7uw.com      AK VHF-Up Group
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