15-06-2018, 06:49 PM
Looks like another great weekend of moonbounce on 23cm coming up. The declination is high, which means at moonset we have a good window into europe, and moonrise is great into the US and Canada.
The moon is trailing the sun at the moment so you wont have to get up at odd hours of the morning to work some dx, just wander out to the shack after dinner and you can see the moon after sunset
Tonight I have just worked France and Norway near moonset, both stations at -13 and clearly audible, one has a 3 metre dish, the other a 2.4metre.
Even after the moon had set on the horizon I was still faintly decoding the french guy.
You can get by with a single long yagi and a G4ddk lna, (preferably 2 yagis) to work the big stations, or better still an old C band 2.4 metre ex tv mesh dish.
Aiming accurately is very important, though you don't need any fancy expensive tracking device if you can sight along the antenna.
email me if you need advice vk2jds@hotmail.com
73 Dave vk2jds
The moon is trailing the sun at the moment so you wont have to get up at odd hours of the morning to work some dx, just wander out to the shack after dinner and you can see the moon after sunset
Tonight I have just worked France and Norway near moonset, both stations at -13 and clearly audible, one has a 3 metre dish, the other a 2.4metre.
Even after the moon had set on the horizon I was still faintly decoding the french guy.
You can get by with a single long yagi and a G4ddk lna, (preferably 2 yagis) to work the big stations, or better still an old C band 2.4 metre ex tv mesh dish.
Aiming accurately is very important, though you don't need any fancy expensive tracking device if you can sight along the antenna.
email me if you need advice vk2jds@hotmail.com
73 Dave vk2jds
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