[Moon-net] ARRL EME Contest summary by ES5PC

[Viljo Allik]

Hi,

This was my first EME contest to operate on 6 bands EME. It has been  
somewhat difficult to share the operating time between different bands.
As the weather was not good during the microwave weekend I had to limit my  
band changes to almost minimum and lost several possible QSO-s because of  
that. A separate weekend for MW bands above 2.3 GHz would be very welcome  
in the future. As the activity on 13 cm has increased
significantly and will increase likely even more it may be worth to  
consider.

On 13cm I was able to transmit also on 2424 MHz but this feature only  
resulted in one(!) QSO with... OE9ERC. I called JA8IAD on his 2424  
frequency and received no reply. Then switched TX to 2320 and worked him  
immediately. Perhaps the QRM from WLAN band makes listening on 2424 much  
more difficult than 2320 or 2304 in JA?

On 23cm a new RA3AQ feed and G4DDK preamp was installed. Most of the time  
it felt like my echoes and stations on the band were a bit stronger than  
with my old feed/preamp. I'm planning to perform more measurements on my  
system soon. But as the Sun is going already too low here I cannot perform  
any correct Sun noise measurements before spring.

I operated both CW and digital. During the last weekend I noticed that the  
number of stations calling CQ has been íncreased compared to the first  
weekend. Most of the time it was possible to find a new station calling CQ  
immediately after completing a QSO with previous one. Only at the very end  
of the contest it was difficult to find more stations to work. I called CQ  
in JT sometimes too but during the last weekend it resulted no QSO.
As my 2m & 70cm elevation is limited by 35 degrees my operating time on  
these bands was limited as well.
SDR-s and MAP65 are great tools to be able to find stations during  
unassisted operation.

Here is the summary of stations worked on all 6 bands all modes and all 3  
weekends (duplicates not removed from the lists):

Total number of QSO-s was 221 with total number multipliers of 132.

144 MHz: 67 QSO-s, 14 CW/53 JT,  mult.= 36

SM2CKR, LA8YB, OK1MS, K1JT, RA6DA, DK8ZJ, AD4TJ, HB9Q, RW9USA, JR3REX,  
JM1GSH, VK3AXH, IK3MAC,
F0CXO, IK1FJI, K9MRI, IK1UWL, EB1DNK, IK7EZN, PA3CMC, F1FLA, PA5MS,  
7K3LGC, UA3PTW, W0PT, K6JEY,
NT0V, HA8CE, SV8CS, DK3WG, DL9MS, RZ4HF, PA3ECU, WW8M, W4ENN, VE7DXG,  
KL7UW, OK7FA, DF2ZC,
WA6PY, SP7DCS, K6PF, OZ1HNE, K6MYC, RL3BM, JO1LVZ, JE1TNL, UN7GK, YT3I,  
SV1BTR, OK1UGA, GM6VXB,
RV3YM, CN8LI, F6APE, S52LM, ZL3TY, LZ1DP, ES6RQ, VK2KU, JM1WBB, OM3BC,  
OH7PI, PA3DOL, OY4TN, EA2ASB, UA4AQL

432 MHz: 30 QSO-s, 20 CW/10 JT, mult.=21

HB9Q, K1JT, OK1KIR, I1NDP, SM2CEW, OZ4MM, VK3UM, JJ1NNJ, JA5NNS, DJ1KJG,  
DL7APV, KL6M, SV1BTR,
DL9KR, G3LTF, K3MF, F6HP, PI9CAM, K1JT, K7XQ, DL2NUD, OK1POI, SP6JLW,  
SD3F, SM4IVE, OK1CA,
JA5NNS, SV3AAF, LZ1DX, DF3RU, W7AMI, UA3PTW

1296 MHz: 76 QSO-s, 70 CW/6 JT, mult.=42

UT5JCW, RA3AQ, SP6JLW, RD3YA, JA4BLC, DL0SHF, DF3RU, SV3AAF, LZ1DX, LZ2US,  
PA3FXB, UA9UHN,
G4DZU, LA9NEA, K2DH, IQ4DF, SD3F, PY2BS, ON4BCB, F5JWF, N0OY, IW2FZR,  
OH2DG, OE5JFL, HB9SV,
SM6FHZ, OK1DFC, W6YX, K1JT, VA7MM, AL7RT, VK3NX, IK3COJ, G3LTF, IZ1BPN,  
HB9MOON, HB9BBD,
UA3PTW, JH5LUZ, DL3EBJ, HB9Q, OH0/DL1YMK, SP7DCS, OK1KIR, OE9ERC, OK3RM,  
OZ4MM, K5JL, VE6TA,
VE4SA, SV1BTR, W5LUA, NA4N, PI9CAM, K8EB, WW2R, G4CCH, VE3KRP, VK3UM,  
JA6AHB, OZ6OL, JA8ERE,
HB9MOON, RW3PX, UT2EG, YO8BCF, VE3KRP, W3HMS, K5GW, F5JWF, VK5MC, F2TU,  
CT1DMK, G3LQR, DL4MEA,
DF1SR, W4OP, DL6SH

2300 MHz: 39 QSO-s, 37 CW/2 SSB, mult.=24

PA0BAT, OH2DG, SP6OPN, SV3AAF, LZ1DX, SV1BTR, G3LTF, HB9Q, PI9CAM, OK1CA,  
OK1KIR, IK2RTI, F5KUG,
SP6GWN, SD3F, DL4MEA, K1JT, PY2BS, F2TU, OE9ERC, W5LUA, W7JM, WD5AGO,  
W9IIX, K5GW, JA8IAD, G4CCH,
DL3EBJ, RK3WWF, K8EB, DF3RU, OZ4MM, IW2FZR, LA9NEA, PA3DZL, SM2CEW, K7XQ,  
WA6PY, NA4N, OE9ERC

5760 MHz: 5 QSO-s, all CW, Mult.= 5

OK1KIR, VK3NX, F2TU, PI9CAM, CT1DMK

10368 MHz: 4 QSO-s, all CW, mult.=4

WA6PY, DL0SHF, IQ4DF, ON5TA

Many thanks for all the QSO-s and hope to meet you soon again on EME.

73,
Viljo ES5PC