{"id":2613,"date":"2017-04-28T15:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dj5ar.de\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2017-09-10T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T12:32:08","slug":"moon-bounce-on-13-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Moon Bounce on 13 cm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>April 28th, 2017<\/h4>\n<p>Sometimes you hear words that hurt. E<span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">specially if they are true<\/span><\/span>: Some years ago I tried 13 cm EME with Dan, HB9Q, and couldn\u00b4t copy anything of him. His comment after the test: &#8220;There is no way, not to hear me!&#8221; <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">This is frustrating<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>So I forgot Moon Bounce on this band and had fun with other activities, mainly on 23 cm. But the over 30 year old equipment caused more and more problems. So I started collecting parts and modules for a new transverter system covering 23 and 13 cm. It had been finished for the last VHF\/UHF\/SHF contest in March and was tested with good results. In the end of March I tried EME again after 2 years of absence. On 23 cm it worked fairly, but on 13 cm the drift was a serious problem. In a test with Alex, ZS6EME, I could decode his strong Signal, but not vice versa. So I added 10 MHz Double Oven Controlled Oscillators as references to stabilize the transverters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-28-16_28_25-PY2BS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2614\" src=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-28-16_28_25-PY2BS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-28-16_28_25-PY2BS.png 737w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-28-16_28_25-PY2BS-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-28-16_28_25-PY2BS-624x251.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><strong>PY2BS in WSJT-X Wide Graph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I tried with Bruce, PY2BS, and heard him strong in the speaker during his prior test with Toshio, JA6AHB:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>1131\u00a0 -6\u00a0 2.5 2305 #* JA6AHB PY2BS GG66<\/em><br \/>\nAt this time his elevation was -1.7\u00b0 and the moon still under the horizon. After the moon set in Japan, we started:<\/p>\n<pre>1155\u00a0 -8\u00a0 2.9 1184 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1157 -13\u00a0 3.6 1157 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1159 -10\u00a0 2.7 1137 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1200\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1500 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1201 -10\u00a0 3.1 1114 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1202\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1500 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1203\u00a0 -9\u00a0 3.3 1089 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1204\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1500 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1205 -10\u00a0 2.9 1066 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1206\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1500 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1207\u00a0 -9\u00a0 3.1 1043 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1208\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1500 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1209\u00a0 -9\u00a0 2.7 1019 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1210\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1400 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1211 -10\u00a0 3.0\u00a0 994 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1212\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1400 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1213 -11\u00a0 2.2\u00a0 969 #* DJ5AR PY2BS GG66\r\n1214\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1400 #\u00a0 PY2BS DJ5AR JN49 OOO\r\n1215 -22 -2.5\u00a0 946 #\u00a0 RO\r\n1216\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1400 #\u00a0 RRR\r\n1217 -10\u00a0 3.1\u00a0 919 #* RR -20 DB\r\n1218\u00a0 Tx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1400 #\u00a0 73 BEST -8<\/pre>\n<p>As he switched his RX from 2304.070 MHz to my TX frequency 2320.070 MHz at about 12:14, we completed very fast. I am very pleased now with my first initial on 13 cm, a new grid square, a new ODX, a new DXCC and a new continent! After setting up a new Initials List for 2320 MHz and writing this blog entry, I enjoy my &#8220;Radio Operators High&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 28th, 2017 Sometimes you hear words that hurt. Especially if they are true: Some years ago I tried 13 cm EME with Dan, HB9Q, and couldn\u00b4t copy anything of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,175,181],"tags":[29,31,10,56,159,55],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moonbounce","category-propagation","category-wsjt","tag-13-cm","tag-2320-mhz","tag-eme","tag-jt65c","tag-moon-bounce","tag-wsjt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj5ar.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}