I have assembled the 3 m mesh dish (f/d=0.45) I obtained from RF HAMDESIGN within one day. After another hard days work the new dish and a Spid BIG-RAS/HR rotor are mounted and ready for use now.
Thanks to Niklas, Armin and Charlotte.
First tests on 23 cm will be performed soon.
After being qrt by family and business reasons for nearly twenty years, I started in July 2011 in activating my irish call sign EI8HH on 50 MHz. Since January 2012 I am qrv again as DJ5AR from my QTH in Mainz.
The way working on the microwave bands has changed. No more CQs for hours and hours, but a fine chat at ON4KSTs server to make skeds on the bands wich provides much more efficiency than the way, we tried to make QSOs twenty years ago. A SDR makes it possible to display a spectrum of the band on the screen in a waterfall diagram. What a huge comfort compared to the old times. So it is no problem anymore to find somebody for a sked on 23 or 13 cm. Soon after setting up the old equipment for 1296 MHz I managed to work a couple of new squares and had my first QSO ever over the alps to Italy. It was amazing to hear the strong signal of IK3GHY with my 1.2 m dish.
After a couple of days with strong activity on the sun it finally happened:
On October 30th 2003 I saw northern lights for the first time in my live!