[Moon-net] 3400 MHz EME Report

[Edward Cole]

At 05:21 PM 6/8/2008, Al Ward wrote:
>Hello to all
>
>It was a nice weekend on 3.4 GHz EME. I worked VK3NX, OK1KIR, OK1CA (partial
>for some reason), G3LQR, PA0BAT, G3LTF, GM4ISM, VE4MA, and WD5AGO and I was
>heard by F2TU on both CW and SSB. New contacts bring my initial count to 20.
>Rig is a 5M dish and 200 watt TWT with about 150 watts at the feed.
>
>Looking forward to the next outing.
>
>Best 73
>
>Al W5LUA
>
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That's cool!

So using a 5m dish how did stations running 40w or 80w sound?  What 
were the smallest antennas copiable, etc.  Just curious how I can 
expect to do with 16-foot dish and one or two 40w Toshiba amps.  I'm 
probably not going to get the DEMI xvtr and a feed built until next 
winter.  1296 is first priority when dish gets installed hopefully 
latter part of summer.

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73, Ed - KL7UW              BP40iq, 6m - 3cm
144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xp20, 185w
http://www.kl7uw.com     AK VHF-Up Group
NA Rep. for DUBUS: dubususa at hotmail.com
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