SV3AAF:
Dear All,
I have been QRV for the most of my moon-time during ARRL EME contest ’07 on 70cm & 2m. Was happy to hear the bands alive although there were extended periods with the CQ callers receiving no replies, mostly during second leg.
I completed with the following stations working unassisted on CW mode:
144Mhz:
SV1BTR, IK3MAC, RN6BN, RA6DA, F1FLA, OK1MS, F0CXO, SP7DCS, LZ2US, F3VS, K9MRI, IK2DDR, OK1VVP, K9DX, YO2AMU, OZ1HNE, RU1AA, LA8YB, OK1KKD.
432Mhz:
DL9KR, HB9Q, K1FO, OH2PO, UA3PTW, I1NDP, K1RQG, OE5JFL, KL6M, SV1BTR, DF3RU, DL7APV, G4RGK, RW3PX, K0RZ, VK3UM, OZ4MM, JA6AHB, JA9BOH, SP6JLW, JJ1NNJ, G3LTF, DK3WG, FR5DN, YO2IS.
Conditions at this end:
Thankfully WX cooperated during the two weekends while some days before or after it could have spelt disaster with high winds and rain.
Equipment/antenna system worked seamlessly throughout the long hours of operation.
EME propagation was from good to excellent with some faraday and extra attenuation during second leg mostly effecting 2m while long libration periods made operation on 70cm more enjoyable both weekends.
Best Regards,
73 de Petros sv3aaf [km17ko]
SV1BTR:
Lunar Reflection Fans
Here are my results for ARRL EME Competition 2007, Single Operator Multiband 50-1296MHz , ANALOG.
All QSOs in CW mode, all QSOs on Random (no passive / active internet use, no skeds, no external help).
Total: 152 stations, 157 QSOs
2m: 100 stations, 104 QSOs (4 dupe)
70cm: 52 stations, 53 QSOs (1 dupe)
I would like to take the opportunity and thank all the 2m & 70cm dedicated and occasional EME ops, regardless of mode. Those I worked and those not completed due to partial copy or merely qrz. Know that I tried hard and hope next time I will not miss you. Especially I would like to thank the 2m new to EME, newcomers to CW and QRP mixed operators. It has been a real pleasure to me to work again down to single yagi and 250w stations on random, as well as being the 1st or 2nd ever CW QSO to previously only digital, ops. The EME old timers always wisely said for CW: ''if you can't hear them you can't work them''. Therefore copying and working QRP stations in CQ EME has been once more a real pleasure to me, since my 2m array has similar gain to 4*11m long yagis.
Activity on 70cm was good. I am glad because this band has long time lasting, dedicated, excellent CW ops.
Conditions:
WX was perfect. I was vy lucky in this respect. In 2nd leg, propagation conditions on 2m featured deep QSB in all 3 passes for both polarities. On 70cm there were periods with good signals without problems of Faraday, and extended periods with signals in both polarities being steady, but down by 2db.Echoes on both bands indicated the same findings as above, all over the weekend.
Murphy visits 2nd leg:
I faced problems with 70cm new azimuth, pointing errors (fortunately there was full moon so i tracked it by going out of the shack every now and then:-) ) On both bands I had lesser elevation errors this time due to some improvements, of up to 2.5 degrees which varied non-stop according to the readout wishes...not the best in narrow main lobe, arrays. On 70cm continuous PA flashovers forced me to decrease power by 1.5db to be able to remain QRV.
But as they say....no pain, no gain!
Below are the stations worked in each band, per leg:
2m - 2nd leg:
ON4DPX (dup) WA4NJP F8DO OK1VVP (dup) WW8M DL2FCN W3SZ OZ1HNE K9MRI LA8YB AD4TJ K6AAW N6CW SM3AKW OK1KKD (dup) VA3TO YU7AA (dup) SM5TSP ON7EH RU1AA I5WBE G4PCS PA3CEE DF0BV G3LTF W8PAT DK3T HB9Q DK5WL YU7XL RN6MT JH0WJF OK2POI JH5FOQ EA2AGZ F5KCH YU1IO DF9YF SM5CUI OZ1LPR
2m - 1st leg:
RN6BN IK2DDR K9DX DL8UCC SV3AAF RA3EC RX1AS IK1UWL I3EVK LZ2US WA8CLT 9A9B YO9FRJ UA4AQL DK5YA PA3CWN OK1MS OK1KKD IK3MAC W0PT OK1VVP SP7DCS W5UN 4X1IF RW1AW K9JI YO2AMU OZ4MM K6PF F9HS SM7GVF K1CA SM2CKR F3VS DK3BU IV3GBO JN1CSO F1FLA HA6NQ RZ3BA/1 F0CXO VE2JWH ON4DPX SK0UX RA6DA LZ1DP AA1YN K1JT N5KDA WA6PY DL5MAE W7MEM WQ5S JH0MHE YU7AA PA2DW UT2XQ DG5CST CT1HZE OK1TEH JH2COZ EI4DQ DF2ZC DL7FF
70cm - 2nd leg:
VK3UM JJ1NNJ SM3BYA OE5JFL UT5JCW DK8VS YO2IS JS3SIM S53RM DL5FN (dup) K4EME F3VS WE2Y UA6LGH KE2N RW1AW K3MF
70cm - 1st leg:
FR5DN UA3PTW SV3AAF RW3PX UT2EG VK4AFL KL6M DL9KR DF3RU DL5FN OH2PO DL1YMK G3LQR I1NDP OZ4MM DL7APV SM3JQU JH4JLV HB9Q SM2A PE1ITR K1FO K1RQG DL7UDA W8TXT G3LTF K0RZ KL7HFQ SP6JLW I5CTE JA9BOH JA5NNS G4RGK JA6AHB JA0TJU SM3AKW
Thank you all & 73
Jimmy SV1BTR
2m: 16*6el. xpol 21.5dbd
70cm: 8*26el. H pol & 8*20el. V pol
KM18no
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DATUM ZEITRUFZEICHEN LOCATOR TX RX ART
BEMERKUNG QRB
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17/11/2007 13:28 OH6JW KP12AJ RO O JT65 best
-20db 1530
18/11/2007 19:50 RZ4HF LO43 RO O JT65 best
-23db 2815+-
21/11/2007 00:15 K7MI CN73TC RO O JT65 best
-23db 8528
21/11/2007 17:01 RW3WR KO71IM RO O JT65 best
-24db 1903
21/11/2007 17:22 OM3BC JN98VG O RO JT65 best
-24db 966
21/11/2007 18:46 EA3BB JN01VS RO O JT65 best
-21db 1127
21/11/2007 19:00 HA6NQ JN98WA O RO JT65 best
-20db 983
21/11/2007 23:29 S52LM JN65TX O RO JT65 best
-19db 754
22/11/2007 17:30 LZ1DP KN22TR RO O JT65 best
-24db 1684
22/11/2007 17:40 OE5MPL JN78CJ O RO JT65 best
-24db 597
23/11/2007 00:19 EB2FJN IN83QE RO O JT65 best
-25db 1156
23/11/2007 00:35 PA3COB JO32MF O RO JT65 best
-26db 111
23/11/2007 22:14 W9JN EN54DN O RO JT65 best
-27db 6714
23/11/2007 23:27 AN3JT JN01 O RO JT65 best
-22db 1175+-
24/11/2007 01:33 W0HP EN34IJ RO O JT65 best
-21db 6927
24/11/2007 02:49 N6KK DM03 O RO JT65 best
-20db 9218+-
24/11/2007 03:35 KA1VHF EM89 RO O JT65 best
-20db 6703+-
24/11/2007 19:55 RN6BN KN95LC O RO JT65 best
-12db 2435
25/11/2007 00:10 CN3A IM52JJ RO O JT65 best
-29db 2480
25/11/2007 00:39 IK1UWL JN33VT O RO JT65 best
-20db 826
25/11/2007 01:56 AO6VQ JM19 O RO JT65 best
-19db 1339+-
25/11/2007 03:00 OK1MS JO70SL O RO CW best
419
596
25/11/2007 04:00 K6AAW CN80TE RO O CW best
319
8730
26/11/2007 19:02 SM5CFS JO99IQ RO O JT65 best
-21db 1187
26/11/2007 19:15 VK7JG QE38NN RO O JT65 best
-26db 16798
28/11/2007 01:10 3X5A IJ39JJ RO O JT65 best
-27db 5007
28/11/2007 05:00 RV9UV NO34GA O RO JT65 best
-26db 5079
28/11/2007 05:44 K6MYC DM07DB O RO JT65 best
-18db 8914
29/11/2007 02:50 WA2ODO EM94NX O RO JT65 best
-21db 6925
29/11/2007 03:15 VE3FGU FN04GG RO O JT65 best
-24db 6134
Special thanks to K6AAW for his patience with me in CW and ofcourse to CN3A and 3X5A for their nice expeditions!
kind regards, sincerely
73 de D L 8 E B W Guido (Guy)
qrv from JO31NF for VHF-DX: MS & EME
RIG: IC275H 2*12elM2 750W ATF-Preamp
A Team-Member of MMMonVHF DX Portal
look: http://www.MMMonVHF.de/
Email: dl8ebw@MMMonVHF.de
K7XQ:
I had a great time operating all three weekends of the contest. Conditions were extremely unusual on 144 MHz where signals would very from 20 dB out of the noise, even moving the S meter at times, to NIL in a matter of seconds but with no faraday changes. This was why I didn’t do too well on 144 but 1296 was stable as a rock with unusually stronger signals. I did much better on 2304 after the contest after I found a blown/shorted regulator in the preamp causing a overvoltage condition to the front end device creating excessive gain and a very high noise figure.
I will be submitting as single operator, CW only, random unassisted, mixed band entry ( all call signs included below ).
Any assisted contacts will not be included in the ARRL submitted log but are located on my webpage logbook.
First Contest Weekend:
2304: OK1MS#, KL6M#
Second Contest weekend:
144: F3VS, IK3MAC, OK1MS#
1296; SM4DHN#, K9SLQ, N9JIM, K4QI#, OK1DFC, G3LTF, LA9NEA, HB9Q, OZ6OL, RW1AW, K1JT, G4CCH, N9JIM, WA6PY
JA4BLC#, JA6CZD#, JR4AEP#, OK1CA, OE5JFL#, RW1AW#, IW2FZR#, OZ4MM, DL4MEA#, OH2DG#, AL7RT#, N0OY#
Third Contest Weekend:
432: G3LTF#
1296: DF3RU#, K2DH#, K5SO, K5JL, VK3UM#, VE6TA#, VK4AFL#, W2DRZ#, JR4ZZS#, VA7MM#
The 432 array is only partially built as 2 X 9 W.L. XPOL @ 20 dBd total gain but was pleased that the GS35b amp stayed stable with very little power drift on this band at a full 1500 watts.
Next contest will alternate the bands more often and try not to stay on any one band too long. Could have picked up more on 144 although as K6PF described recently, it is not as populated on CW like it used to be.
Congrats to K2TXB on his only contact during the contest :)))
K7XQ Jeff
Atwater , CA. Grid: CM97qi EME, Satellites, Meteor Scatter CW, JT-65 , SSB 50 MHz: 2 X M2 6M7 1000 watts 2 X 3-500 144 MHz: 4 X XPOL M2 2MPX28 XPOL 1500 Watts Single GS35b 222 MHz: 1 X M2 5 W.L. 350 watts Single 8930 432 MHz: 4 X M2 9 W.L. Modified for XPOL 1500 Watts single GS35b 1296 MHz: 3.0 meter dish VE4MA circular feed 350 Watts single GS15 water-cooled 2304 MHz/2320 MHz/2424 MHz: 3.0 meter dish VE4MA circular feed 200 watts Spectrian SSPA 10 GHz: early 2008 K7XQ Webpage: http://www.elite.net/~k7xq/k7xq.html
SP7DCS:
Hello!
During the first weekend I was QRV only on 2m and 23cm, but during second weekend I added also 70cm band. I was QRV on CW random only, without assistance, internet etc... and I managed to work 98qsos (6 duplicates).In my opinion conditions were good on all bands, even for single polarized stations. On 2m I used big system and QRO so I had good echo almost all the time,up to 25dB over the noise.
On 70cm I was totally QRP, but I was very happy to put 7 big gun stations into my log. 23cm was nice surprise once again, even with so small station I was able to hear a lot - band was sometimes like on HF.
Unfortunately many stations were not able to hear my small signal, so maybe I just need to increase my power before next time. So, I was my first contest on 3 bands and I very liked it. Multiband work is totally different thing and is very interesting.
During first weekend I spent about half of QRV time on 2m and on 23cm. During second, I was only short time QRV on 2m and I decided to concentrate on 23cm and 70cm. Of course it decreased my total QSO count as I am QRP on those bands, but I had great time and a lot of fun!
The only exception from random work was sked with P43L on 23cm. Unfortunately I did not have luck. Pity, because I could hear them ok the day before. Anyway congrats for great expedition! Congratulations goes also to OZ1HNE and LA8YB for getting back to 2m eme!!!
144MHz, CW, 60 QSOs (4dupe)
Equipment: 16x8elH-polYagi/GS35b/LNA-FHX35/IC746/DSP MFJ784b/WINRAD/
27.10.2007
RA3EC# RN6BN IK2DDR PA3CWN I3EVK OK1MS RX1AS LZ2US IK1UWL IK3MAC N9JIM#
OK1KKD OK1TEH SV1BTR YO9FRJ W5UN F3VS SM7GVF OZ4MM JN1CSO DL5MAE YO3FFF
OK1IA 9A9B F0CXO SK0UX
28.10.2007
SV3AAF SP3XBO# K6PF K9MRI K1JT WA6PY JH0WJF F1FLA UT2XQ# HA6NQ DG5CST
RA6DA VE1ZJ EI4DQ RU1AA YO2AMU
24.11.2007
OZ1HNE JH0MHE LA8YB#300 OK1KKD F0CXO(dupe) IK1UWL(dupe) G4PCS#
SV3AAF(dupe) WA8CLT W0EKZ#302
25.11.2007
ON4DPX W0PT G4DHF DK3T(station DK3EE) RN6MT JH0WJF(dupe) OK1VVP YU1IO
432MHz, CW, 7qso
Equipment: 4x25el.H-polYagi/250W at shack/LNA-FHX35/MMT432-144/IC746/DSP MFJ784b/WINRAD/
24.11.2007
DL9KR OH2PO UA3PTW# OZ4MM VK3UM# OE5JFL# DF3RU#10
1296MHz, CW, 31qso(2dupe)
Equipment: 3m dish/150W at feed RA3AQ/LNA-ATF54143/TCVR23cm by
SP9WY/IC746/DSP-MFJ784b/WINRAD/
27.10.2007
OE5JFL G3LTF N9JIM# K1JT(station K2UYH) SP6JLW K9SLQ# HB9Q# G4CCH OK1CA
RW1AW# SK0UX# OK1KIR# OZ4MM# N9JIM(dupe) W5LUA# WA6PY# OK1DFC
28.10.2007
DF3RU# RA3AQ# OZ6OL
24.11.2007
LA9NEA VE6TA# K5JL# DL1YMK# DL4MEA# OE5JFL(dupe) ON7UN#
25.11.2007
K2DH# HB9BBD# ES5PC IZ1BPN#35
Some signals are already on my page and I hope to add more soon.
My next activity is planned for 21-22 December during Dubus Event:
http://www.sm2cew.com/dubus-aw.html http://web.telia.com/~u37031777/
GL 73 de Chris SP7DCS
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Chris SP7DCS
email - sp7dcs@wp.pl, sp7dcs@o2.pl, sp7dcs@smrw.lodz.pl
EME PAGE - http://sp7dcs.webpark.pl
OZ1HNE:
Hi EME'ers-
I was QRV in the second part of the ARRL EME contest on 144 MHz CW and worked 27 stations in about eight hours. I was calling CQ all the time just to test and play with the new antenna. Weather was very bad with rain and strong wind, so I had to close down. Thanks to all for the QSO's and sorry for the stations I not could dig out of the noise. I am very glad to be back on EME and I will be QRV on CW in the future.
Here are the stations I worked:
IK2DDR
I3EVK
WA4NJP
W3SZ
F8DO
F1FLA
F0CXO
SV1BTR
LA8YB
YO2AMU
OK1KKD #
OK1VVP #
YO9FRJ
K1JT #
OK1MS
K6AAW #
LZ2US
WA8CLT
SV3AAF #
K6PF
WA6PY
JH0MHE
SP7DCS
OZ4MM
WQ5S #
IK1UWL
DK3T #
Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen.
8 x 8 elm. Crossyagi's and 8877.
OK1DFC:
Everything what happened here in ARRL EME 07 you can find and download here: http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/arrl07/arrl07.html
More info about my station here: http://www.ok1dfc.com/EME/emeweb.htm All is available and free download for you.
Zdenek - OK1DFC
www.ok1dfc.com <http://www.ok1dfc.com>
QRV EME 144-432-1296MHz
WAC 432 - 1296 MHz
QRO 10m dish
ICQ-397994501
SM2CEW:
Pretty much everything has been either not possible to use, or has been running in "limp mode" during this years ARRL contest. During the first leg we had very strong winds that prevented operation except for a few hours when I could be QRV on 144 MHz. This resulted in 11 contacts.
The second leg was no different.. The 144 MHz array was totally iced up, and SWR very high -> "unusable" My dish elevation was frozen solid in the park position, and while trying to get it going on Friday I managed to damage the elevation mount. Early Sunday morning I could get the dish going, but only at very limited elevation angles. The problem was not the snow, but the thick layer of ice under the snow.
http://www.sm2cew.com/sm2cew_dish_nov_07.jpg
At 0630 GMT on Sunday I heard P43L working N2UO on 1296 MHz, and Al (K2UYH, guest at P43L) had a really good signal. Unfortunately P43L had to stop operation right then and there as torrential rain was making the /portable operation under a tarp impossible.
I worked 18 stations in an hour and a half on 23cm, new initial was AL7RT. On 432 managed to get on for an hour as the moon came above the trees on moonrise, and worked 8 stations. Conditions on 432 sounded really good, despite heavy aurora. Due to the earlier problems, my elevation drive jammed at 29 deg elevation, so I had to stop with many hours of good moon still available on Sunday evening.
Sorry for missing those treasured CW QSO's with a lot of you guys, but this is life at the Arctic circle. 37 QSO's only in this years contest, snow and ice last weekend, and strong winds that kept me off for most of the time during the first leg.
But best of all, all QSO's were done on CW, without the help of loggers...hi!
The new rules that allow chat board communications and self spotting by using Internet communications really bother me. This has absolutely no place in a radio contest. As the rules were written this time, the assisted category was supposed to be for small stations, and newcomers to EME. But the outcome was, that all station, big or small, were doing the same thing. They constantly self spotted, and used the internet chatboards to talk themselves through their so called contest QSO's.
Because of this, I choose not to submit a contest log this year, except for a checklog to help the organizers determine that QSO's listed with me were ok. A contest really is about skills and tactics on the air, not how many stations one can line up via internet chatboards. That looks more like using a telephone listing to make contact with your friends.
Having operated every year in this fine event since 1985, my suggestions to the organizers are the following:
- do not mix modes, run separate weekends for analog/digital.
- do not allow self spotting, or chatboard communications during the event.
- allow operators to enter different categories, depending on how they desire to do so, for instance enter Single band/Single Op on 432, 1296 and 2304 MHz respectively.
- please find a contest format that will survive >12 months, and not be changed every year because some people think it is too difficult to make random contacts on the radio!
As I know it, the ARRL were the first to organize an EME contest, handing out awards to everyone who made at least one EME-contact. This has been a TREMENDOUS source of inspiration through the years. It would be terribly sad to see good moonbouncers let the opportunity to compete and have
EME fun pass them by, just because the rules reflect more on internet-based communications rather than radio communications.
73 de Peter SM2CEW
www.sm2cew.com
http://blog.sm2cew.com
WA6PY:
This year it was again very good activity on 3, 13 and 23 cm. Great signals. On 70 cm I was using dual dipole feed extended with 8 WL of directors. This antenna is like cross yagi, but noise temperature is quite high. I was surprised to hear echoes with this antenna. This was probably thanks to the perigee. I managed to make 11 QSO on this band.
TNX 73 Paul
SM5LE:
I did focal adjustments just before ARRL contest and it paid off. I did better that the contest before.
73 Sven SM5LE
DL5MAE:
I am not surprised about too low number of input. ARRL EME Contest rules just became too complicated and too much internet orientated. This is not what radio contesters looking for.
And there are still categories completely forgotten (i.e. single OP, assisted, analog ).
blog.sm2cew.com may give you more reasons for the lack of contest logs and comments from big guns.
vy 73 de dl5mae Wolfgang
OZ1HNE:
I was active in the ARRL EME contest 2007 just like the last 18 years, but this time I decide not to send the log because of the very unfair rules comparing digital and CW. In my view Digital and CW is two very different modes and have to be split up like in the European EME contest. I really hope ARRL will listen and split up Digital and CW in two separate modes, and it will again be interesting to send in the log and we will again enjoy to work the ARRL EME contest.
Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen.
HB9Q:
The main target at HB9Q is to work QRPP stations on 144, 432 and 1296MHz.We enjoy giving newcomers a chance to work EME. For many of them it is their very first experience and the first QSO off the moon. Many got started that way and are now QRV with bigger antennas and/or more power. Several of them start to become QRV on CW as well. In an effort to help newcomers we chose to use self-spotting on the loggers. The effort did pay-out well, we worked on 432 14 stations (for 7 it was their very 1st EME QSO) with 1 yagi and 100W or less. Some of the smaller ones are VE2DSB (1x22y 30W), IT9CJC (1x13y 40W), ZS6TW (50W into a 3ft long yagi) and WD6DBM (1x18y 33W).
vy 73
Dan, HB9CRQ/KT6Q
head of HB9Q
K1JT:
The EME stations of K1JT and K2UYH, just six miles apart, were combined into a multi-operator effort under the competition's "neighborhood provision." We used the callsign K1JT. Our operating strategy aimed to take best advantage of prevailing activity patterns on the 144, 432, 1296, and 2304 MHz bands, using both CW and JT65. We used no internet or other liaison assistance during the contest.
Our team grew progressively through the three contest weekends, starting with the home-station operators Joe and Al in September. We operated on the 2.3 GHz band using the K2UYH 8.5 m dish, with circular polarization, an 80 Watt solid state amplifier, and separate IF radios covering the 2304 and 2320 MHz band segments simultaneously. All operation during this weekend was on CW.
In October Al operated his station on 432 and 1296 MHz, this time aided by KC2TA. Feeds on the 8.5 m dish provided rotatable linear polarization on 432 and circular on 1296 MHz; transmitter power was 1000W and 500 W, respectively. We used mostly CW, but did make one digital QSO on 1296 MHz.
Meanwhile Joe was operating the K1JT station on 144 MHz. His station hardware includes four dual-polarization 14-element yagis with separate receive preamplifiers for the two polarizations. The two resulting signals are converted to baseband and then digitized under control of the Linrad software package. For CW operation, Linrad was configured to display a 60 kHz range on a slow, high-sensitivity waterfall. Tuning a CW signal is a point-and click operation on the waterfall. A few additional clicks serve to match the received linear polarization angle to that of the incoming signal, and once the received polarization angle is known, the best transmit polarization (H or V) is determined. For JT65 operation a full 90 kHz passband is sent in digital form from Linrad to a second software program, MAP65. This program searches a specified frequency range for JT65 signals, optimizes the received polarization angles separately for each one, and decodes them. We normally set the range to 144.100--144.160 MHz (or 144.070--144.130 when the Moon was up in Japan). Selection of a particular EME signal is again a point-and-click operation, and the program advises the operator on the optimum Tx polarization angle. On 144 MHz we operated almost exclusively in search-and-pounce mode, because with this hardware/software setup it is easy to find stations calling CQ or to tail-end on other QSOs in both CW and JT65 modes. The transmitter at K1JT provides about 1100 W to the antenna.
In the November contest weekend Al operated as P43L, putting Aruba on the moon for a few days on both 432 and 1296 MHz while enjoying the Caribbean sunshine. This time the K2UYH station was manned by K2LNS and K1DS, and again most of the effort on these bands was on CW. However, when the going got slow a number of JT65 QSOs were made as well. Operations on 144 MHz were aided this time by N4HY and AB2BK. Both JT65 and CW were used on 144, according to the perceived activity levels in each mode.
WD5AGO:
We were on 13cm with our 8 foot extended to 9ft dish and had our best score ever on 13cm EME. Heard over 25 stations and worked most of them, students had interest when it is speaker copy!
The following month we designed a new scalar feed for 23cm and put it in with only 100watts. Worked 10 stations but heard 30! As this was just for fun and not to compete we did not turn a log in for this band, maybe next year.
73
Tommy WD5AGO
N6CW:
My first EME contest since 1988. Conditions were good during both weekends for me. I entered mixed mode and worked 8 CW and 81 digital contacts with my modest 4x9 antenna system. While JT65B is an easy way to get on EME, I find it to be a very frustrating contest mode. It can be a mighty long minute to find out is someone has answered you or someone else.
Terry Baxter/N6CW
G4CCH:
At times, the bottom 35 KHz of 23cm was crammed with stations, and some of them were VERY loud... like HB9SV, HB9BBD, K5SO, HB9Q, OZ4MM and OK1DFC.