[AK-VHF] [PNWVHFS] Re: Sept. VHF Contest

[Edward R Cole]

Paul,

Poor choice of words.  I meant I chose not to operate eme for the 
contest.  Moon was at the lowest declination so very limited view, 
plus I needed to spend the evening with my wife (movie night).

I will probably try some eme this coming weekend with higher 
declination angles.  The dish is ready for its initial test on the 
Moon with 50w on 1296.  Then I will remove the septum feedhorn and 
modify the supports for the new W2IMU horn which arrived last 
Monday.  When it is tested and installed the dish will be QRV on 
1296-eme.  The IMU horn will theoretically improve received signals 
by 3-dB due to much lower sidelobes (spillover temp <20K).

I installed a 80-lb counterweight on the dish yesterday.  This places 
a lot less stress on the elevation actuator.  I have some cable 
cleanup and one to pull thru the buried conduit and four dish back 
braces to replace, but the dish is functional now.

Next project is digging a hole for the concrete tower base for the 
6-element 6m yagi and then finishing the 800-1100w sspa for 6m 
MS/EME.  Hoping to have it QRV by end of October.

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 08:48 AM 9/16/2013, Paul Kiesel wrote:
>Ed,
>
>If you made those 2m EME contacts during the contest period, you 
>should report them and state that you are not claiming them. If you 
>don't report them, the stations you worked might be docked points 
>because the QSOs don't appear in your log.
>
>73, Paul K7CW
>
>From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
>To: ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net; pnwvhfs at googlegroups.com
>Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 12:05 AM
>Subject: [AK-VHF] Sept. VHF Contest
>
>Pretty good turnout.
>
>I had a modest score as I went off frequency during the high activity
>period probably missing several stations.
>
>50-MHz  KL6M BP51
>               KL7XJ BP40
>               KL3JI/R BP50
>144-MHz KL6M BP51
>               KL7XJ BP40
>               KL3JI/R BP51
>               KL3JI/R BP50
>               KL7AA BP51
>               KL4E BP51
>223-MHz KL6M BP51
>about two hours on Sat. and an hour on Sunday am.
>qso = 10
>points = 11
>mult = 7
>score = 77  single-opr, low power
>
>I did try working N6SPP via 50.260 MS but heard not returns
>
>attempted 1296 SSB/CW with both KL6M and KL7XJ  nothing heard by either.
>223.50 was S9++ with KL6M and the 224.94 KL7AA/R was also S9+
>
>432 and 927 were not QRV this time.  I decided not to include 2m-eme.
>
>
>
>73, Ed - KL7UW
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