[Moon-net] FY Expe EME 144 update

[Jean-marc BORD]

Guido,
Thank you very much for helping us to spread the information and updates

Some more informations :
- You'll find a google earth kml attached  which should be very near to 
our expedition spot, the  map is too cloudy and without good resolution, 
so it's my best guess.
- The callsign was confirmed two days ago and is TO3EME
- The location will be Ile Royale / Les iles du Salut / French Guyana 
IOTA SA-020, so on HF we should be operating SSB IOTA freq or PSK31 
usual freqs
- not sure we will have a website or a blogspot that time , we are 
fighting against time, we will keep you posted


Yes you're right, we got requests from Dan for 70cm try and Lance for 6m 
attempt, but we are aiming on 2meters only at this stage, there is still 
a huge amount of work to be done, and Jacques & I are looking for 'easy' 
operation on HF because it's already a big deal to operate there on EME 
for a week with a 4 yagis array !.

Christian, F6HLC came up with a good suggestion to mix some 70cm 
vertical yagis elements in the 4 H yagi stack (probably a six vertical 
70cm yagi) , the major issue is the metallic H frame (and 
weight+PA+...), we will try to address this issue another time.

We knew that there is a better moon pass end of May , but we cannot 
accomodate the dates with our 'business' (snip) constraints, but this 
one isn't so bad, I'm just wondering if the Sun and Moon aren't too 
close few hours in the slot for Europe ?.

Best regards
Jean-marc & Jacques