Hi again Jeff,
Moonbounce contacts can be made over very long distances, providing the
other station has the moon in view at the same time as you. I worked a
couple of the "big Gun" USA stations from here in Northern Ireland.
QSO's are almost exclusively made in CW, or nowdays digital modes, and due
to the very weak signals involved normally consist of just the exchange of
signal reports.
Cheers,
Tim. GI4OPH.
Tim, Bangor, N. Ireland
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: moon bounce
> Hi Tim and the group. How far were you able to talk using moon bounce,
> and
> what have others done?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Crawford" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: moon bounce
>
>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I did some EME back in the late eighties on 2 meters. The equipment I
>> used
>> was 400 watts to 4 x 17 element long yagi's, with a low noise masthead
>> pre-amp.
>>
>> I had some success, but the main problem I experienced was accurately
>> positioning the antenna at the moon.
>>
>> As far as I know these days moon bounce opperators are increasingly using
>> specialised digital modes rather than conventional cw. Apparently with
>> digital modes employing much narrower bandwidths, it's possible to work
>> successfully with lower power and smaller antenna arrays. However I
>> can't
>> say how the software would work with speech.
>>
>> The software was written by joe turner w1jt, perhaps a search in google
>> will
>> turn up his website.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim. GI4OPH.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim, Bangor, N. Ireland
>>
>> Msn: [log in to unmask]
>> Skype: white_freightliner
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:04 AM
>> Subject: moon bounce
>>
>>
>>> Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone on this list is involved
>>> with
>>> moon bounce at all? I know that it is expensive, and of course a high
>>> gain antenna is needed, but is anyone involved with this, and how are
>>> you
>>> doing it and what equipment are you using?
>>>
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