[Meteor-Scatter] Fwd: MS on 432MHz

[Shelby Ennis, W8WN]

Could some of you fellows who are active on 432 MS give Aulis some information?
Please send directly to him at    oh6jw at pp.inet.fi

>From: "Aulis Kiviluoma" <oh6jw at pp.inet.fi>
>Subject: MS on 432MHz
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:16:23 +0200
>
>I am a member of OH8K ( also OH9O ) , ARC Sotkamo in KP44HE. We have made 
>some MS QSOs on 2m on peditions to rare and semirare squares in Finland, ( 
>there is a map of visited squares on the web -site, about 30# ).
>     During 2004 we made over 1000 MS QSOs, mainly on FSK441,  and 
> together we have made over 2000 MS-QSOs since 1999, when we started 
> as  novices to run MS. But because 2m MS is now very normal way to keep 
> QSOs, our amateur radio club is looking for new challenges on MS.
>
>     I have a question to you Shelby. Have U kept MS-QSOs on 432MHz?  Or 
> is there somewhere more info about MS-QSOs on 432MHz ? How much it needs 
> ERP on that band ? 30-50kW ERP is enough ??  Any info would be nice.
>     I think with FSK 441 it should be much much easier than with HSCW. 
> But so far we have not made any efforts to make QSOs on 432MHz , because 
> our group has only 180W power on that band. But something may happen next 
> summer.
>    Do U know if anyone has kept MS-QSOs on 1296MHz? I think that might be 
> very difficult, but with antenna-system with 26dBd or more gain and 
> 100-200W, which we will have next summer , with 80-100kW ERP it might be 
> possible ???
>    We have kept some test QSOs on 2m via EME, with an antenna 15dBd and 
> 500W it is quite easy with big stations with JT65B mode. But EME on 
> peditions is not tempting, because mostly stations hunt DXCC-countries, 
> so peditions to QTHs like OH0 or OJ0 with EME are OK , but maybe too 
> expensive to our club.
>   If U are interested, U can look our club's WEB-site , link 
> http://www.oh8k.org . There is logs from all our peditions and some 
> photos also.
>
>73 de Aulis OH6JW , a member of OH8K , OH9O