[Moon-net] IK5QLO 23cm Qrp EME weekend report

[Andrea Ghilardi]

Hello,
As a very QRP station  I am quite satisfied of this contest
weekend, few qsos but a lot of fun.
I spent hours calling station by station in CW and getting
QRZs, definitely I need more power! The JT side was much
easier and faster hi.Unfortunately could not find on air  
many of the big stations heard in the first leg.

The best  qso were the CW ones with Yoshiro JA4BLC (worked
before the contest)  and Stig OZ4MM.

These are qso with log time friends:
Yoshiro helped and pushed me to be QRV again on EME and our
contact had the plus to be the third band (144-432-1296) QSO
with him in 20 years! The same was with Stig, OZ4MM, who we
first worked on 2m in the far 1989 and later on 70cm. TNX!

worked all random not assisted:
CW    : K5GW,K5JL,PI9CAM,OZ4MM,SP6JLW, 
JT65C:HB9Q,UA3PTW,PY2BS,OK1KIR,PA3FXB,RD3YA,K1JT
after the contest end: OE9ERC on sked CW   

HRD/Called (cw) were:
HB9MOON,IZ1BPN,G4CCH,RA3AQ,DL4MEA,DF3RU,K1JT,VK3UM  

Rig  FT847, db6nt trv, pre 0.5db NF, abt 150W at the Septum
feed (CW) 100w (JT), solid dish diameter 2,4mt

73s  Andrea IK5QLO


p.s. best wishes of quick recovery to to Karl SM3AKW