1.5M Solar Cooker Conversion for EME - Part I

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  August 22, 2025 Bob, KA1GT discovered a Chinese solar cooker for under $100 USD delivered, that shows promise as a 1.5M dish for moonbounc...

In The Early Morning Rain

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 June 22, 2025   Civilization encroaches! That's a new road for a subdivision of 30 McMansons.    39 degrees Fahrenheit (3.8C) before su...

Chasing Three DXPeditions on 23cm EME

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 May 30, 2025 The last few days have been very exciting. While I missed the MD/EA8DBM Isle of Man activity through my inattention, I did reb...

23CM EME - Squeezing the Juice

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May 25, 2025 The slew drive is a huge improvement, it just works to keep me fully struck by moonbeams. :-)  After reading how LMR-400/LMR-60...

There Will Be Days Like This (Momma Said)

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April 24, 2025 All the station improvements paid off this morning. I've been chasing the Galapagos Islands DXpediion of HD8G on 23cm EME...

Testing the AG6EE 23cm Pre-Amp

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 April 23, 2025 Now that I have my 23cm EME station back stable and tracking the moon tightly, it is time to see how the AG6EE pre-amp plays...

Slew Drive Part II

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 April 21, 2025 While the slew drive itself functions perfectly, my tripod wasn't up to the task. Things were just too top heavy and uns...

Big Boy Tracking - Slew Drive Time

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 April 7, 2025 All this tariff nonsense made me realize that if I wanted a slew-drive now was the time to act before Chinese products prices...

First RF - OK1DFC Lighweight Septum Feed

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February 8, 2025 I was able to obtain a prototype of the new lightweight OK1DFC 23cm septum feed for the 2.4 meter W2HRO folding dish. Initi...

Sweet Winter Sunshine

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January 7, 2025 Shoveled a path from several snow storms and had a great EME session on 23cm. Winter storms are a great time for amplifier b...

ZD9GJ via 6 Meter EME

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 September 18, 2024 It's not everyday you get a chance to work Tristan Da Cunha (ZD9) on any band, much less 6M EME. Lance, W7GJ is on t...

Hawaii 70CM EME

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Date/Time: September 25 to October 3, 2024 Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence QTH: BK29mn, Keeau, Big Island, Hawaii Mode: Q65-60B CFOM 1500Hz D...

Wyoming (DN43) 70cm EME Operation

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Date/Time: September 5, 2024 @ 1600z and September 7, 2024 @ 1735z Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence QTH: DN43rs Spread Creek Dispersed Campin...

70 CM EME from Montana

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July 27, 2024 I'm the only 70cm EME station in Montana and I haven't been on in over a year. So I put up my meager station of a sing...

Idaho & Utah 23cm/33cm EME Trip

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Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence Mode: Q65-60C Frequency: 1296.095 MHz CFOM, 902.105 MHz CFOM Gear: IC-9700, AGO Preamp, 500 watt SSPA, 2.4M f...

Wyoming (Yellowstone National Park) 23cm EME

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Date/Time : June 9, 2024 1630z Start time (moon needs to clear ridge) QTH: Wyoming - Yellowstone Park DN44lw Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence...

Idaho 902 MHz EME

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Date/Time : May 11, 2024 @ 1800z QTH: DN44GQ, just south of Raynolds Pass Call: KB7Q always 1st sequence Mode: Q65-60C Frequency: 902.107 MH...

Wyoming on 902 MHz EME

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 April 19, 2024 As promised, I rolled down to Yellowstone Park this afternoon. I was surprised to find the dirt road into the Big Horn Trail...

Easy 902 MHz EME

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April 13, 2024     Of course it's easy if you spend a week re-doing every cable in the station with heavy duty connectors, and pondering...

902 MHz EME Challenge Parts III & IV

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 March 30, 2024 The new amp rocks with in excess of 500watts, so I threw the station into the truck and drove northwest to Canyon Ferry Lake...

902 MHz EME Challenge Part II

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March 10, 2024 After two sessions trying to get the NXP LDMOS pallet to play nice, I replaced it with a W6PQL pallet. It took some fiddling ...

The 902 MHz EME Challenge Part I

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 February 10, 2024 There seems to be a sudden surge of interest in achieving Worked All States on 902 MHz. W5LUA has just nailed down WAS #1...