Moon-net November 2021

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by Pete M

I have been playing with a new Triquint ULNA device (TQP3M9036). It Shows a lot of promise. It is like a MAR or MSA device in that it is 50ohm in and out. and has a claimed NF about .4db nf ( their numbers). I have built several pramps to test them and have gotten even better than they claim and they cover 50-1296 with ease and NF is .4ish or below. The S11 and S22 are both great and the OIP3 is +35db also ...very nice device. It has great promise as a good terrestrial LNA. Preamps are foolproof to build and would cost under $50 if all the best quality parts are used. Just for information only ... Pete WA2ODO -- ++++++CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE++++++ The information in this email may be confidential and/or privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual or organization named above. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system.

5 months, 4 weeks

SP9VFD 23cm ARRL Contest report

by Rafal Grygorowicz SP9VFD

Hi All, I'd like to inform that I was active in October part of the ARRL EME Contest at single operator CW only category. I had 32 QSO's CW random with: JH1KRC, YL2GD, SM7FWZ,I5MPK, G3LTF, SM4IVE, SM6FHZ, K2UYH, SM5DGX, WA6PY, KL6M, WA9FWD, K2QM, W2BYP, K0PRT, G4RGK, DL6SH, F2CT, UA3PTW, OK2DL, F5KUG, IK3MAC, DG5CST, DF3RU, SP7DCS, SP6JLW, OK1CS, SP6ITF, OK1CA, OK1KKD, DL0SHF, G4CCH Many thanks to all operators for amazing qso's. Special thanks to Mike JH1KRC for patience... Heard a lot of other stations and hope to work them in December part of the ARRL.It was my first parcitipation on 1296mhz EME. By the last years my EME experienses involved me only around 432Mhz EME with linear polarisation and homemade 8x23el. yagi set.After a lot of time spend on garage/garden works and putting personal efforts I was at last able to rise up my new dish (6.4m f/d=0.4) and take a chalange with EME in next steps. The dish, tower and AZ/EL rotators, OE5JFL controller are my homemade constructions. At now Im using RA3AQ feed and homemade G4DDK LNA. Certainly my new EME system at start require a bit of optimisations. The first measurements made at Sun SF=71 looks not bad, the SUN/CS = 17dB, CS/GND=6,7dB. At follow link some further info about my EME dish construction: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y7kbamQ6S-ULFED3GCKwpHeDUq1rfnvX?us… In October part of the ARRL EME Contest I was active with PWR only 80W still fading and fading, hour by hour. At sunday PWR dropped down to 60W or even less. I haven't yet final solution for SSPA 1296Mhz but plann to change it for next time. It will be my pleasure to see new stations in my log at the next part of the ARRL EME Contest in December. TNX 73 Raf SP9VFD

1 year, 6 months

FS: EME stuff

by Leslie L

Hi All, Been cleaning out the shack and these must go. 1) SSB SP-70 432 Preamp with built in T/R relays. In the box and unused SSB SP-70 . HRO sells them for $379, Asking $250 plus shipping. 2) Rigblaster Advantage with a built in soundcard, plug and play Even has Rig control interface for Cat, CI-V and DB9. Perfect for WSJT-X. Sells for $199 asking $125 plus shipping. 3 Kenwood TS-2000X Serial number is in the B16xxxxx range, so one of the newer ones with the good filters!! Comes with the original box and power cable. Very good condition/ Asking $1200 plus shipping. 73 Les W2LPL

1 year, 6 months

Re: [Moon-Net] Moon-net Digest, Vol 550, Issue 4

by Gary

Jean-Louis F6ABX and the group, 1. We wrote a post about our EME operation for the ARRL EME contest on November 20 & 21. This is what Jean-Louis wrote us about:EME (Earth Moon Earth) Moon Bounce Communicating on the weekend of November 20 & 21, 2021 – Deep Space Exploration Society (dses.science) (http://dses.science/eme-earth-moon-earth-moon-bounce-communicating-on-the-w…) 2. I replied to his email this morning directly: Hi Jean-Louis, Thank you very much for writing me about the EME contacts. And thank you for identifying those mistakes for me. Yes, those were typos. I was the person making the CW contact with you. I do remember hearing you on the air, during our contact and at other times during the contest. On our electronic log record, I did log you correctly. I confirm our QSO information: Station F5KUG with K0PRT (operator WA2JQZ) CW, 23cm EME (1296.007 MHz) sent 539, received 569, power 150 Watts, 60-foot dish antenna. I revised the post on dses.science. The QSO data was uploaded to ARRL Logbook of the World. You are welcome to write us by mail for a hard-copy QSL card if you wish. (K0PRT - Callsign Lookup by QRZ Ham Radio) I mistyped DL7UDA also. In that case I mistyped that on our log as well. But I kept the hand-written QSO CW messages I wrote during the contest to check, in case I made a mistake. I now corrected that error too. I remember looking up his callsign during the contest, because I have been to Berlin, where he is located. We plan to be on the air again for the last round of the ARRL EME contest in December. Look forward to meeting you via the Moon again also. Vy 73, Gary WA2JQZfor DSES K0PRT -----Original Message----- From: moon-net-request(a)mailman.pe1itr.com To: moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com Sent: Tue, Nov 30, 2021 4:00 am Subject: Moon-net Digest, Vol 550, Issue 4 Send Moon-net mailing list submissions to moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.pe1itr.com/mailman/listinfo/moon-net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to moon-net-request(a)mailman.pe1itr.com You can reach the person managing the list at moon-net-owner(a)mailman.pe1itr.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Moon-net digest..." Today's Topics: 1. QSO K?PRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296 (F6ABX) 2. Re: QSO K?PRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296 (F6ABX) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:57:30 +0100 From: "F6ABX" <f6abx(a)wanadoo.fr> To: "'Moon-Net'" <moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com> Subject: [Moon-Net] QSO K?PRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296 Message-ID: <1cf44013473953c5e9ec1f8a87ca6259(a)opmta1mto11nd1.rouen.francetelecom.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi EMErs I am F6ABX main operator of F5KUG Radio-Club. Who can help me to email Gary WA2JQZ ? I can't find his address . This weekend I was reading his report on K?PRT during ARRL EME 1296 . http://dses.science/eme-earth-moon-earth-moon-bounce-communicating-on-the-we ekend-of-november-20-21-2021 He typed a typo on F5KUG's callsign ,F5KUJ reported . I would like to know if it is a typo or if he did not correctly copy the callsign F5KUG in CW ? (Yet I heard :" F5KUG de K?PRT " at his come back! ) In this case our QSO is not valid and we will have to try again ! Only 35 QSO's this first leg against 43 last year .I hope to do better for the second leg . Vy 73 J.Louis F6ABX for F5KUG

1 year, 6 months

Re: [Moon-Net] QSO KØPRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296

by F6ABX

Thank you very much Steve .I saw Gary is in copy of your reply , may be he can answer. Vy 73 to all sorry for the B.W. Jean-Louis F6ABX _____ De : wohnfeld(a)aol.com [mailto:wohnfeld@aol.com] Envoyé : mardi 30 novembre 2021 10:28 À : F6ABX; Gary Agranat Objet : Re: [Moon-Net] QSO KØPRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296 Louis, Gary's email address is gca7sky(a)aol.com. Steve Plock KL7IZW. Sent <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aol.mobile.aolapp> from the all new AOL app for Android On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 1:59 AM, F6ABX via Moon-net <moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com> wrote: Hi EMErs I am F6ABX main operator of F5KUG Radio-Club. Who can help me to email Gary WA2JQZ ? I can't find his address . This weekend I was reading his report on KØPRT during ARRL EME 1296 . http://dses.science/eme-earth-moon-earth-moon-bounce-communicating-on-the-we ekend-of-november-20-21-2021 He typed a typo on F5KUG's callsign ,F5KUJ reported . I would like to know if it is a typo or if he did not correctly copy the callsign F5KUG in CW ? (Yet I heard :" F5KUG de KØPRT " at his come back! ) In this case our QSO is not valid and we will have to try again ! Only 35 QSO's this first leg against 43 last year .I hope to do better for the second leg . Vy 73 J.Louis F6ABX for F5KUG _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html

1 year, 6 months

QSO KØPRT / F5KUG ARRL EME 1296

by F6ABX

Hi EMErs I am F6ABX main operator of F5KUG Radio-Club. Who can help me to email Gary WA2JQZ ? I can't find his address . This weekend I was reading his report on KØPRT during ARRL EME 1296 . http://dses.science/eme-earth-moon-earth-moon-bounce-communicating-on-the-we ekend-of-november-20-21-2021 He typed a typo on F5KUG's callsign ,F5KUJ reported . I would like to know if it is a typo or if he did not correctly copy the callsign F5KUG in CW ? (Yet I heard :" F5KUG de KØPRT " at his come back! ) In this case our QSO is not valid and we will have to try again ! Only 35 QSO's this first leg against 43 last year .I hope to do better for the second leg . Vy 73 J.Louis F6ABX for F5KUG

1 year, 6 months

Re: [Moon-Net] Logging contacts in the EME contest....

by mike＠kl6m.com

> WHY must we suffer these conditions when another weekend had degradations of 1.7 to 2.2db(all this on 2M)????? Because choice of weekend is a compromise among four bands, two of which don't care much about degradation. And the primary consideration ALWAYS needs to be peak declination. And next month its Christmas. My two cents. Mike, KL6M > > I wish all the best to everyone for the second leg of this contest. > > 73 Marshall K5QE<hr>_______________________________________________ > Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html

1 year, 6 months

For Sale: Microlab/FXR Signal Samplers 50Mhz to 12GHz, PWR 500W & other nice items

by JdB PA3DZL de Bruijn

Hello EME friends, I have again some Microlab/FXR Signal Samplers HX-10N type with build-in detector for DC output. Very nice for power indication !! General Specifications Frequency Range: 50Mhz to 12GHz Insertion Loss: 0.2dB max Impedance: 50ohm Power Rating: 500W avg., 5kW peak I have a datasheet available, email me direct for more information pa3dzl(a)icloud.com Also available: High Power DowKey relays Freq. 50 to 1296Mhz (50 and 144 >1kW) 24-30Vdc Several other items: directional couplers to 4Ghz and to 18GHz, power splitters 18GHz, Multi 6-8-10x switches SMA, 3x N female relays, 2W SMA attenuators etc etc email me for more detailed information. 73s de Jac, PA3DZL

1 year, 6 months

Wanted: BEKO HLV-800 amplifier

by Ton PA0TBR

Hello all, I am looking for a BEKO HLV-800 23cm PA to complete my EME station. If someone in Europe is willing to sell one in good condition then please contact me off list. 73, Ton pa0tbr

1 year, 6 months

70cm 1KW PA for sale

by Mick

Hello all, I noticed that occasionally there are requests on the list for 70cm amplifiers. Hence before I list mine on eBay I thought I would list here. Recently our ACMA (FCC) granted me permission to run 1KW for EME operations. The gods have been kind to me and I have acquired a Beko amplifier hence have not the need for my W6PQL 1KW amplifier . Details are 1KW (2 transistor) pallet with the big cu heat spreader, heatsink from Jim, directional coupler/ LPF (driving 2 LED BARS for FWD REV PWR), W6PQL amplifier control board that controls fans, SWR sense, overtemp, etc, professional (RS components case) and a 30Amp DC ammeter. It's only been used at 400W so you will need to change the ammeter or shunt it. You need to supply the 48VDC power supply. The fans are 24VDC and I have run the control board a 24VDC. These can be changed to 48VDC etc i.e. single supply. Please contact me off the list if you are interested. I also have 4x15LFA available for VK hams. cheers Mick VK2CMP

1 year, 6 months

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