EME DX pedition T7/HB9EHJ

Hello EME friends, I was planning it for a couple month and today the license finally arrived. I will put T7 (San Marino) on 23cm via the moon on air. I am looking forward to work you all. Please let me know if you are able to be QRV on that day. (pay attention to my new call sign) My call: T7/HB9EHJ My grid: JN 63 FW Date: Thursday, May 1st Time: 10:00... 13:00UTC Frequency: 1296.090 MHz Mode: JT65C, I will always TX first In case it will rain or something else happens, I will be QRV on Friday the 2nd May from 10:30... 13:30UTC. I have the same equipment like in Monaco. Everybody of you should be able to work me.

Vy 73 de Bodo, DL3OCH, HB9EHJ

01.05.2008

Hello EME friends...
Not everything worked how it should today. We arrived at 8am here in San Marino and had beautiful weather. It was sunny with blue sky. I have started to set up equipment at 9:15z and was QRV at 09:45z. I worked OK1TEH tropo in CW. The signal was strong but with very heave QSB. It became cloudy and I moved the antenna to the moon as soon as the QSO with OK1TEH was done. I called cq and saw DJ9YW, HB9Q, OK1DFC and ES6RQ calling. I started to call DJ9YW but he disappeared after two periods. Big black rain clouds moved over and I didn't see any signals any more. I then saw HB9Q calling and called but he then disappeared. The next hour was mostly like that, just an up and down between copying a signal with -24dB or no trace at all. With these difficult conditions I was finally able to work OK1DFC (-23dB), HB9Q (-24dB) and DJ9YW (-25dB). The clouds became bigger and it started to rain. I decided to take everything down to protect the equipment for damages. I wont be QRV today because its raining and the moon will go down soon. I therefore will be on the moon tomorrow again. Please look at the 1296.090 for me in JT65C (I do TX first). I will be on between 10:00z and 12:00z. The weather is supposed to be really nice tomorrow. ES6RQ, you were up to -24dB today, please call tomorrow again. Ok, I will look for all. Please make sure you TX on the sked frequency (not my own echo frequency). You TX on the 090, second.
Vy 73 de Bodo, T7/HB9EHJ

Hello EME friends... Today was really good for EME. The weather was perfect. Blue sky, temperature 20°C and no wind. Moon was visibly which made it easier to point the antenna to the moon. I now worked the following stations fro San Marino:  

May 1st. 

OK1TEH, tropo, CW, very QSB

OK1DFC, -23dB

HB9Q, -24dB

DJ9YW, -25dB (needed a few tries)

May 2nd.

OK1KIR, -26dB

PA3CSG, -22dB

DJ9YW, -23dB (best signal from him ever)

K2UYH, -20dB (speaker)

W5LUA, -24dB

Heinrich told me that there was also RD3DA and SV1OE calling. Sorry I missed ES6RQ as well. I was QRV earlier this morning but not early enough. I will be QRV again on Sunday between 07:00UTC and 08:00UTC, just before leaving. I still would like to work G4CCH, OH2DG and ES6RQ. ...if possible other stations as well. Vy 73 de Bodo, T7/HB9EHJ

06.05.2008
Hi Zdenek, here a short update about the T7 activity. Conditions were pretty good last Sunday. I was QRV for another hour and was able to give G4CCH and ES6RQ a new DXCC on 23cm. That way I made a total of 11 QSOs and worked 10 stations (9 via EME and 1 tropo). I could have worked some more stations but they are either not QRV on JT65 or to weak. On May 2 the conditions were good and a CW QSO with K2UYH would have worked but we didn't find each other for some odd reasons. I copied him with -20 and he heard me with -18 (he gave me -23 during our QSO but I didn't know that his antennas was still covered from trees). Later I was not listening on the US Doppler anymore. I will try to be better prepared to maybe work some stations in CW. HB9Q copied me with -17 which is enough to do CW (but he would need 3dB more TX power). So, it is possible. Unfortunately I could not copy SV1OE and  RD3DA. It would have been nice to work them as well. With all that said, I see a real potential in doing some more QSOs on 23cm even with just a single yagi. Two or three years ago I usually only worked three stations or so. Now, there are coming more and more stations out to try to QSO me. There are some big ones out there that could work me in CW. I wonder why they do not try or ask me for a sked. Is it because I am a JT user as well (who has more than 100.000 CW QSOs in the log as well). I activated so many rare DXCCs and many of them for the very first time on 23cm. I will activate many more but cannot promise to have more than just a yagi. Vy 73 de Bodo, DL3OCH

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