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…
Update 3/25/23 – Internet good enough to post! Things are going well, making 6M MSK, 2M EME, 70cm EME and some SAT contacts so far this week! I am very happy with the progress so far. Have had some equipment troubles but working them out. I am currently running two stations simultaneously, 2M/432 on one radio and 6M(dedicated) on a 2nd radio. If you want to work CY0S on 6M, 2M, 432 then I highly recommend that you join the…
First 144mhz EME Activation from FJ Latest Updates! 03/21/202 – 1718z All FJ/WW2DX logs have been uploaded to LOTW. QSL cards will be next over the coming weeks. 1755z 2M EME QRT 02/21/20 1900z – 98 total QS’s made, would have been nice to hit 100 but 98 is better than 97 🙂 Considering that being in FJ during the peak of poor condx I will take it. I had a T/R relay fail in the amp, did a field…
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…
Learn from my mistakes 🙂 I blew up two SSB electronics MHP-200 preamps while building and testing my current portable EME station.  I hope this article helps someone else not go down that path. When I first started out with the K3 and EME I was using the TimeWave Navigator external sound card. This worked fine and I was successful in making the appropriate cables to go from the K3, Navigator and the SSB Electronics DCW2004B sequencer. WSJT would…