November 15th 2016 |
BY on 9 cm |
| We completed QSO with BD4SY on 9 cm today evening. It is the first BY-OK QSO. Zhu uses 3 m mesh dish and 45 W output. |
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November 14th 2016 |
24 GHz Activity Weekend |
| Condition was quite good on 24 GHz on weekend after rainy Friday. There were QRV lot of station, so participants could be satisfied. We completed 11 CW QSOs with 10 stations and 7 QSOs on JT4F with 6 stations. New initial on CW is JA8ERE with 4.5 m dish and 20 W and on JT DL7YC and EA3HMJ. EA3HMJ used 1.8 m offset dish and 4 W. This is the first EA-OK QSO on 24 GHz. |
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November 12th 2016 |
Condition for WAS AWARD on 70 cm fulfiled. |
| QSO with KH6TY before Moon set completed all US stated for WAS AWARD on 70 cm. Skyp uses 4x15 ele. yagi and 500 W. Short while after this QSO we also operate John N4CNN with 3 m dish abd 250 W. It took us more than 40 years from our first QSO with W6LET on May 1976 to complete WAS Award on 70 cm. |
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October 23rd 2016 |
ARRL EME contest - the frirst part - lower band |
| We selected 23 cm band in this part of contest even we are not participating in it. We focused on new initial. We succeeded 3 CW and 9 JT new stations. On JT we operate N4CNN from SC as new US state. |
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October 17th 2016 |
Extended weekend thnaks to expeditions S9YY and XT2AFT |
| There was expedition S99YY on 70 cm on Thursday 14th October. Hermann DL2NUD operate as XT2AFT on 23 cm in the night from Friday to Saturday and on 70 cm on Saturday evening. Planned operation on 13 cm was canceled. |
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September 25th 2016 |
the second orbit of ARI Trophy and ARRL EME contests |
| Tonda continue in nice weather and we finished with 19 CW and 1 JT QSO on 6 cm. He also made three CW initials during short QSY to 13 cm. |
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September 24th 2016 |
the first orbit of ARI Trophy and ARRL EME contests |
| We were QRV on 6 cm where we made 12 CW and one JT QSO. We made the first PY-OK QSO with Bruce PY2BS after we QSY to 3 cm. |
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September 18th 2016 |
Expedition K5QE and 13 cm Activity Weekend |
| Tonda operated expedition K5QE/P to US states LA, MS and AL on 70 cm during week. These QSOs are new JT initials, another initial was FR5DN. There was very low number of station in the 13 cm Activity Weekend. Tonda operated only 3 CW QSO, DK3SE as new initial, he uses 1.8 m dish with linear feed and 100 W SSPA. There were only 3 QSO on JT65 as well. |
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August 28th 2016 |
the second orbity of 6 cm activity weekend |
| 7 more CW and one JT QSO were done on Sunday. In total we made 27 CW and 5 JT QSOs. There were active 7 JA station in the activity weekend. |
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August 27th 2016 |
the first orbity of 6 cm activity weekend |
| Tonda operates 20 CW stations and 4 JT4F station in quite good conditions. Zdenek OK1DFC was initial on CW and JT and JA6XED on CW. When he QSY to 13 cm he operates IK5QLO as initial on CW and JT. |
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August 1st 2016 |
EME 3 cm Activity Weekend |
| Very good activity during 3 cm AW compared to 9 cm AW brought 18 CW, 2 SSB and 17 JT4F QSOs. Among them as new CW initials UN6PD and SA6BUN. On the central US states conference in Minnesota Al, W5LUA arranged a promotion of 3cm EME with 1m off-set dish and 40W pwr. Easy QSO with him presents new JT initial and new US state. Similar activity presented Rex, VK7MO with his 77cm dish and 50W on the club meeting in VK7. Overall six VK7 stations used his equipment to make QSO with us till Charlie, G3WDG got the Moon on horizon. Furthermore VK4CDI, PE1LWT and G3LTF were only listening being still without reasonable rf power. Back and forth remounting to 13cm was evaluated with successful JT QSO with EW1AA as 1stEU-OK on 13 cm. Friday before 3cm AW brought very nice SSB and JT QSOs on 13 cm with Alex, ZS6EME. After years Alex enables ZS again on 13cm EME. |
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July 3rd 2016 |
6 cm part of European EME Contest |
| The last part of European EME Contest was on 6 cm. We succeeded to operate 34 QSOs; UA4HTS, OH1LRY and WA9FWD as CW initials and UA4AAV as JT initial. We used both Moon rises to work VK7MO expedition on 3 cm, this brought us 7 new locators in VK. |
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May 14th 2016 |
EME expeditions |
| We haven't succeeded with Hermann D44TVD on 6cm because his weak signal was lost in local WiFi interference on Thursday. We worked Hermann on 13 cm as the first D4-OK QSO on Friday. We operate expeditions EA6/PA2CHR and KB7Q to WY on 70 cm today. Later on, after LNA repair we made QSO with D44TVD on 23 cm. |
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May 8th 2016 |
Second Moonpass in DUBUS EME Contest. |
| Contest closed with 35 stations in the log but missed W7CJO while we were doing JT tests when activity on the band was low. Total contest result counts 35 x 33. As new initials made JF3HUC and SP2HMR. In JT4F test just after our moonrise Rex VK7MO tried to decrease his rf power from 50W down to 5W and we still decoded at -18dB (WSJT10). Later worked two new JT initials OZ7Z and K2UYH. On Sunday the conditions were a bit worse than on Saturday. |
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May 7th 2016 |
First Moonpass in DUBUS EME Contest and P40MB on 70cm. |
| First Moonpass allowed to work with 23 stations. Among them DF1SR and LA8LF as new initials. Dxpedition P40MB on Arubu was heard immediately at their Moonrise but after that signal become weak and we were unable to decode them. After long time signal improved and we finally succeeded. |
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April 18th 2016 |
9cm part of EU EME Contest |
| We started with big delay because of 3 cm activities on rainy Saturday. Even thou we were able to work on CW 23 station and 22 multipliers. OH1LRY as new CW initials and two JT4F QSOs out of contest, Zdenek OK1DFC was new JT initilal. |
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April 16th 2016 |
QSO with UN6PD on 3 cm |
| We succeeded in JT4F QSO with UN6PD on 3cm today. Nikolai uses 3m dish and SSPA 25 W. His signal was weaker than expended from 25 W. |
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April 11th 2016 |
ARI EME Trophy Contest - spring part |
| We participate during both orbits on 6 cm because JA station announced their activity on this band. The results is three new CW and four new JT initials. It was a nice look on SDR screen when 6 JA stations were calling CQ in 5 kHz distances. All our QSOs are in logs. |
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March 14th 2016 |
23 cm part of EU EME contest |
| It was high participation from all continents in very good condition close to perigee. We operate 89 CW stations and 72 multipliers; that includes 10 initials. Out of contest we operate five new JT initials. |
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February 15th 2016 |
KH6/KB7Q finally in the log! |
| We made it ! KH6/KB7Q (Gene) on 70cm as the 1st KH6-OK and 49th US state. It is our 200th 1st QSO from OK (178 EME and 22 tropo). |
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