I do have a 1.2 meter offset
dish that would have been much better, but no 9cm feed for
it. It was a spur of the moment attempt using what I had on a
24 hr notice.
73, Jon
W0ZQ
On Friday, December 29, 2023 at 11:09:20 AM CST, Mary
Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
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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