I have done a fair share of portable 2M EME activations and recently activated 432 on the moon for the first time in history from CY9C and CY0S. I thought it would be fun to start going a bit higher in frequency and hopefully take a lot less gear on future DXpeditions as weight and size limitations are getting more and more difficult. The second most popular band on the moon is 23cm (1296mhz) and the activity seems to be…
QSL INFORMATION: SASE+POSTAGE V26PD MyQSL Service PO BOX 375 PAWLING, NY 12564 USA After I lost the last EME array on CY9C, I decided to try another design of antenna for the next round of 2m EME tests. After a number of recommendations from prominent EME enthusiasts I settled on a pair of custom designed 144mhz optimized 9 element EME yagi’s from DUAL https://www.antennas-amplifiers.com/2-meter-best-portable-antenna-9-element I had been testing these at my home QTH for a number of months with very…
When I first started testing WSJT on the mac it was with the original version of WSJT (v.10) not the “X” version. This was working fairly well in with earlier versions of OSX prior to 10.12. I found this useful doc from ZS6TW on installing it under OSX. Once 10.12 was released something in the audio device probing broke and WSJT could not list the sounds devices. I was able to hack around this by trying device id’s and was…