Hawaii 70CM EME

Date/Time: September 25 to October 3, 2024
Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence
QTH: BK29mn, Keaau, Big Island, Hawaii
Mode: Q65-60B CFOM 1500Hz DF
Frequency: 432.095 MHz
Gear: IC-9700, AGO Preamp, 500 watt SSPA, 1x 9wl Yagi
Internet: Will come up on the HB9Q Logger

Donors: KH6LC, PA3DZL, NC1I

It has been almost 8 years since I last activated Hawaii on 70cm. Time for another go during some pretty decent mutual moon windows to Europe. Shipping the gear over/back is spendy these days so any help is appreciated. 

From the archive - 2016 70CM ops in BK29.This house was destroyed by the 2018 lava flow.

Wyoming (DN43) 70cm EME Operation

Date/Time: September 5, 2024 @ 1600z and September 7, 2024 @ 1735z
Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence
QTH: DN43rs Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area, Wyoming
Mode: Q65-60B CFOM 1500Hz DF
Frequency: 432.095 MHz
Gear: IC-9700, AGO Preamp, 500 watt SSPA, 1x 9wl Yagi
Honda 2.2KW generator.
Internet: Will come up on HB9Q Logger if possible

September 7
That was a bust! Conditions seemed to be just awful, as was the forest fire smoke. I did work NC1I again, but he was "only" -22. After an hour I called it off and went camping.

September 5
We found the wide open spot, "Moran Vista" aka "gravel pit" that Google Earth suggested, and I was ready to go just before 1600z. Today Faraday rotation favored Stateside stations, I worked only a single European. Even trying vertical polarity didn't produce. N9HF beat his computer issues into submission and worked me just before his afternoon thunderstorms started in earnest to bag his State #31. W6TCP now has 41 States on 70cm. Logged today: PA3DZL (-22), N1AV (-23), AG7CM (-24), W5ZN (-23), K5DOG (-27), NC1I (-14), N9HF (-25), and W6TCP (-22).

The Teton Mountains are just to the west of the operating position.