[NLRS] 3400 MHz EME attempt

[Mary Brown]

Fun isn't it! To bad you don't have a small dish! 4' would have done it!

On 12/29/2023 11:02 AM, Jon Platt via NLRS wrote:
> HB9Q posted that they are loosing the 9cm band starting in 2024 and 
> they were looking for any last initial EME contacts on that band.  Dan 
> has a 10m solid dish and 100W at the feed and said /"You only need a 
> minimal station to work me/".   Well, ..... I have a minimal station!  
>  How about 30 watts and a 5 foot loop yagi, 20 dBi, my rover antenna?  
> After setting up my "rover stuff" in the garage and mounting my mighty 
> 5' looper on my Az/El mount in the driveway I met Dan on the HB9Q 
> logger and we gave it a go.  My setup was a DB6NT transverter 
> converted from 3456 to 3400 via a LeoBodnar GPSDO, no preamp, and a 
> Tosibia amp. The antenna was fed through about 5' of LDF4.  The good 
> news is that I did get a number of decodes from Dan, the bad news is 
> that he never got any decodes from me, so no Q.  Q65C-60 and Dan was 
> doing all the frequency correction on his end (not to mention all the 
> heavy lifting).  So despite the no-Q, it was fun to see HB9Q decodes 
> pop out of the ether using a very minimal system (on my end).
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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