[SGVHAK] Sidewalk EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) talk on July 28

[Stan Slonkosky]

Doug is a good speaker. I have been to his house several times when he and
several others were doing EME at his house. He had a dish that had to be
re-positioned manually in his driveway and sometimes had to wait until the
moon cleared a palm tree. This was on 1296 MHz. He never got on other bands
when I was there, but I know he has a yagi array for 432 MHz. The contacts
were via CW (Morse code) or JT-65. I didn't get in on it, but in the past
he and others were able to do EME from a 40 meter dish at the Owens Valley
Radio Observatory south of Bishop. Using that big of a dish enabled them to
make SSB (voice) contacts.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:30 PM, yoshio <ak209 at lafn.org> wrote:

> Pasadena Radio club will have a talk on communicating via bouncing
> radio waves off the moon.
>
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication
>
>
> http://www.pasadenaradioclub.org/
> Tuesday, July 28 2015
> Sidewalk EME (Earth-Moon-Earth)
>
> This talk is about developing 144 and 1,296 MHz EME stations
> at home that have the antennas on the driveway and the
> electronics in the garage. This is a very practical talk with an
> eye to giving the audience a realistic view of what it takes and
> what needs to be done to get on EME and work a variety of
> stations. It is simpler than it seems and more challenging than
> was thought. Therein lies the tale.
>
> Doug Millar K6JEY has been a ham since 1957 and has been
> doing EME since 1990. He is the ARRL Technical Advisor in
> Metrology, having written the 26th chapter in the ARRL
> Handbook on that subject. He particularly enjoys HF CW, AM
> and boat anchors, and microwaves. Doug has radios on bands
> up to 122GHz. He holds an EdD in Educational Technology
> and is a semi-retired professor.
>
>


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Stan Slonkosky
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