With the QSL's from last month's surprisingly good EME conditions just starting to arrive, May's moonbounce operation continued to produce good results.
Whether this is because of better than normal lunar path conditions or just a result of my neighbour's tree-pruning, remains to be seen.
The few days of operating in early May were, as usual, planned to take advantage of the Moon's closest approach as well as the Moon's most northerly declinations. The latter condition puts moonrises directly out in front of the house and looking across Georgia Strait's many miles of saltwater. The extra theoretical 'sea-gain' appears to be a reality under these conditions and allows my 9el Yagi to garner another 6db on both transmit and receive paths, making it perform more like a '4-Yagi' array.
Eight stations were worked this time around, with six of them being new 'initials', bringing my EME total from 95 to 101. Several of these stations were speaker-audible, at CW levels.
NTØV #96
IK7EZN #97
EA2AGZ #98
G4SWX
F6HVK #99
G4CDN #100
DK5LA #101
DK3BU
IK7EZN's cross polarized 4 x 13 array |
EA2AGZ's 4 x 16 array |
DK5LA's cross polarized 8 x 16 array ...very loud! |
For now, any earlier thoughts of building a 4CX250 300 watt amplifier have been put on hold, while I continue to slowly work my way through what seems a never-ending list of workable stations.
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