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Some Events in Ham Radio this weekend:
ARRL EME Contest... Yes you can use the moon as a reflector dish. This is the one area of ham radio I've never gone. I think now days people use digital modes, back when I was starting out you'd send CW at the moon for minute and listen for a minute, but you still need a pretty impressive VHF/6m set up to track the moon with. Anyone who can see it at the same time as you is a potential contact. I did once work with HAARP up in Alaska as listning station for a moon bounce and that was pretty neat.
Hawaii, US-Islands, Kansas, Ohio QSO parties are this weekend.
World Wide Digi-DX contest... I bet we'll hear a lot more RTTY and other signals on the air this weekend.
K1USN has the SST this evening 1600-1700 EDT (20-2100z) supposed to be a slow code contest, exchange is RST and 1st name it's a no pressure event though some operators can't back down from the contesting high and so some weeks are better than others. Still an easy get on the air event and short FB QSO's
In other news got my Silver Certificate from POTA as a Hunter today. It's been a pretty good Radio-Active week. I do wonder if we'll see 10m bounce back up again. Last weekend it was awesome and a return to something like the good old days (for me at least) of 1990's like conditions. I didn't make any contacts on 10m but the excitment was there all the same. Got me to make up a quick 10m dipole which is now in the attic incase the band jumps too life and I'm feeling it! Field tested an AnyTone 779UV this week in the truck as well. That is a dual band VHF/UHF mobile with a tiny form factor and it worked just as expected and that's always a good thing. With a return to a hour long commute days I'll have to trade up band my radio time and it seems like it'll work out.
Have a super-freaking-awsome-day out there and hope to CU AGN on the air.
DE N2QFD AR SK ..
Aug 23 · 8 days ago