JH0WJF

144MHz 4QSO

DATE time Call Send Recive Pts Multi

20080607 0843 SP7DCS 549 539 10 1

20080607 0857 F1FLA "O" "O" 10 1

20080607 0904 LA8YB "O" "O" 10 1

20080607 0912 IK2DDR "O" "O" 10 1

40p x 4mul 160pints

JH0WJE which was my friend photographed this picture in a helicopter.

Noriyuki Yaguchi JH0WJF

2862 Ikeda Kita-Azumi

Nagano JAPAN

VA3TO

June Dubus 2m CW event;

I'm still suffering an RX degradation problem. I have checked just about
everything in the system except the antennas (they're 45 feet up). I'm
hoping to get this resolved sometime soon.
I only managed to work W5UN.

20080607  18:56   W5UN    'O'  'O'

10p x 1 = 10p

2 x 2.5 WL, 750w, Phemt LNA

73 de Hugh VA3TO

IK2DDR

I send you my final Dubus 2m cw activity event log, right after the end

of the 1st window, because i could not be active on 2nd, due soccer

commitments (new team presentation).

This morning i found really beautifull and rare conditions from my QTH.

I heard my echoes quite stable and strong as heard just a couple of

times, since i have installed my 4X19LLY array .

This good conditions was confirmed by the common high level of the

signal of the worked/heard stations.

I'm sorry to have not the possibility to be active on 2nd window,

because if conditions are like in the 1st.........

Here my log:

IK2DDR CAT.C

time station reports points Multip. (RST REPORT)

08.34 SP7DCS RO/O 10 SP7 539/539

08.40 F1FLA RO/O 10 F1 549

08.52 LA8YB RO/O 10 LA8 539/539

09.13 JH0WJF O/RO 10 JH0 539/539

09.46 SM2CEW 539/539 10 SM2

10:13 YO2AMU O/RO 10 YO2 529

10:49 LZ1DP O/RO 10 LZ1 529

11.04 IT9CJC O/RO 10 IT9 529

11.26 DK3EE O/RO 10 DK3 549

HEARD NOT WORKED: SM7WSJ (LOUD) and SV3AAF (LOUD)

FINAL SCORE: 90X9=810 POINTS

Thanks to all and good luck on 2nd Window. See you all again.

Francesco,IK2DDR

PA3CWN

I was qrv in both passes of the Dubus events on Saturday

and found condx not very good. It was not the fact that

signals were no good, but I had Faraday lockout in both

passes for a long time.

In the first pass 2 stations were worked; LA8YB and DK3EE

both with loud signals. Tom amazingly loud with almost no tropo!

I called Chris SP7DCS and hrd him returning, but because of

technical problems at Chris' side, I lost his signals.

At start of the 2nd pass I heard F3VS amazingly loud working

Christian F0CXO, but I could not get the attention on his

CQ thereafter, neither that of Jurgen PE1LWT who was also

calling. It is the 2nd time I experience this with F3VS and do

not have the slightest clou what this can be?

After that I worked immediately Jorgen OZ1HNE with very fine

signals, but after our qso have heard long time nothing except

for the big guns W5UN, LA8YB and my own echo.

Just 20 minutes before end time Sigs came in all together and

I was able to work Chris SP7DCS for compensating the earlier

lost contact.

I worked 5 stations in total and have heard several others, but

not as much as I have heard before. I guess I had an off day

and also my own cq's gave no result, but it was a real pleasure

again and will be qrv next month.

7-06-08 09:38 LA8YB RO O LA8

7-06-08 10:47 DK3EE RO O DK3

7-06-08 17:34 OZ1HNE RO O OZ1

7-06-08 18:52 W5UN RO O W5

7-06-08 19:48 SP7DCS RO O SP7

Total points 50 x 5 = 250

Heard and called were: F1FLA, JH0WJF, W3TWX. Only hrd:

LZ1DP, SV3AAF, F0CXO, IK1FJI, IT9CJC

No signals this time of Francesco, Doru of Stan, so DDR, AMU

and MS are missing in my log.

Till next time w/o Fraday lockout I hope

73 Oene

PA3CWN

JO33ah

4x9 ele DK7ZB h LNA ATF54143 GS35b

OK1MS

EME Dubus event

7. Jun , second part

worked :

OZ1HNE

LZ1DP

LA8YB

W5UN

W3TWX # 901-CW

SP7DCS

Score - 60x6 = 360 points

Strong QRN.

73, Stan

SV3AAF

My Call: SV3AAF [June Log - Category B - 144Mhz CW EME]

Date Time Call Reprt_S Rprt_R QSO_Pts Multiplier

20080607 10:55 DK3EE RO O 10 1

20080607 11:25 SP7DCS RO O 10 1

20080607 19:36 LA8YB RO O 10 1

20080607 19:55 OZ1HNE RO O 10 1

Total = 40p x 4 mult = 160

YO2AMU

A lot of parasitics moving the S-meter over the S-7 line. Also QRN and heavy rain in this part of EU. Troubles with my PA, only half of power than usually.No echoes quite all the time.Plus a lot of station calling me directly because of a high activity before of simultane terrestrial contests (also YO contest). Working only half of the contest time due the job obligations,no chance to be free! Hi! The strongest stations heard(in order) were: SM2CEW,DK3EE,F1FLA. Heard SV3AAF and PA3CWN.

My log:

Time CALL S/R Pts. Mult.

0921 SM2CEW RO/O 10 1-SM2

0928 SP7DCS RO/O 10 2-SP7

0942 F1FLA RO/O 10 3-F1

1012 IK2DDR RO/O 10 4-IK2

1100 DK3EE RO/O 10 5-DK3

1109 LA8YB RO/O 10 6-LA8

Total points= 6 x 10 = 60 x 6 (mult)= 360

Score: 360 Points

73 de Doru, YO2AMU

4 x 15 el. BVO

1 kW

ATF54143-pre

FT920+transverter.

IK1FJI

Hello EME friends

During the first slot of dubus event i had

problem with HV transformer, so i was not qrv

in the afternoom i fix the problem.

Second part statics due bad weather, and was able

to be qrv from 19:00 utc only.

I worked four stations

19:11 LZ1DP O RO LZ

1926 LA8YB RO O LA

19:36 W5UN O RO W

19:42 SP7DCS O RO SP

Total score 4x4 = 16

Some qso before K9MRI, IK2DDR sunday 8

WA9KRT AND PA3CWN with good signals

73 Valter IK1FJI

4x12 2.8wl abt19dbd GU78b

LZ1DP

After repairing my 2 m.Ant Sistem-4 x 5 WL DJ9BV H/V Pol.I`m agane QRV for EME.It seems that all is OK.I was not to much time for operating due the job,but was find good aktivity.Hear is my Log:

1. 0706 2008 10,17 LA8YB RO/O LA

2. 0706 2008 10,35 SM2CEW RO/O SM

3. 0706 2008 10,45 SP7DCS RO/O SP

4. 0706 2008 10,57 IK2DDR RO/O I

5. 0706 2008 17,41 OK1MS RO/O OK

6. 0706 2008 18,04 OZ1HNE RO/O OZ

7. 0706 2008 18,49 W5WN RO/O W5

8. 0706 2008 19,17 IK1FJI RO/O

=====================================

BEST 73 AND SEE YOU IN NEXT EVENT !!!

Christo/LZ1DP/

W3TWX

Score 60 x 6 = 360P

73 de Wolf W3TWX/IN3TWX

SP7DCS

I was qrv most of time in Dubus event. I found good activity and great

conditions most of time. Thanks for DF9CY for calling me - I knew you

wanted to look for me, but I could not copy the call - please try next time.

Before second leg I had technical problem with LNA switching so I was

late a bit. Nice surprise was cw initial 308 with W3TWX from Vermont.

Log 2m SP7DCS Class:D

Date Time Call Rprt S Rprt R QSO Pts Multiplier

07.06.08 08:32 IK2DDR O/539 RO/539 10 IK2

" :42 JH0WJF 539 R/549 10 JH0

" 09:28 YO2AMU O RO 10 YO2

" :38 SM2CEW O/549 RO/549 10 SM2

" :43 SM7WSJ 539 R/529 10 SM7

" :50 PE1LWT O RO 10 PE1

" :56 YU1IO O RO 10 YU1

" 10:00 F0CXO O RO 10 F0

" :23 OK1VVP O/539 RO 10 OK1

" :40 LZ1DP O RO 10 LZ1

" 11:21 SV3AAF O RO 10 SV3

" 18:40 LA8YB O RO/559 10 LA8

" :55 W3TWX# RO O 10 W3

" 19:10 W5UN 559 R/559 10 W5

" :20 OK1MS O RO 10 ---

" :28 OZ1HNE R/539 O/539 10 OZ1

" :42 IK1FJI RO O 10 IK1

" :47 PA3CWN O RO 10 PA3

TOTAL SCORE: 180 x 17 = 3060points

See you,

VY 73 ! de Chris SP7DCS

--

Chris SP7DCS

OZ1HNE

Hi EME'ers

I was only QRV in the second window of June DUBUS CW EME activity event on 144MHz because of sea fishing activity in the beautifull and warm weather we had here in OZ. I found good condition and very nice to hear so good activity on the band. Thanks to all for the QSO's and two new initials with OK2POI (thanks for your patience) and YU7XL. It was all great fun as always and I look forward to July DUBUS CW EME event.

I worked the following stations on CW random:

2. Window

----------------

OK1MS

OK1VVP

F0CXO

PA3CWN

LA8YB

PE1LWT

LZ1DP

W5UN

RN6MT

OK2POI # 548

YU7XL # 549

SP7DCS

SV3AAF

I was called by IT9CJC with good signal in last minut of the event, but Marcello had QRM problems.

130p x 12 mult = 1560p

Best 73, OZ1HNE Jorgen.

8 x 8 elm. crossyagi's and 8877.

IT9CJC

EME DUBUS EVENT MAY 2008-05-03

LOG IT9CJC IT9EQO IT9CHU

Call in Contest IT9CJC

DATE TIME CALL RprtS RprtR QSO Pts MULTIPLIER

03-05-2008 05:07 OK1MS RO OOO 1O 1

03-05-2008 06:01 IK1DDR RO OOO 10 1

2 QSO X 10 PTS X 2 MULTI = 40 POINTS

SETUP: 4X10 EL. DK7ZB AND PA 1X8877

POOR CONDITIONS IN THE AFTERNOON

We hope better the next one...we had troubles with LNA and also PA

73 de Vince IT9CHU

SV2KBS

Greetings gentlemen !

I unfortunately missed almost the half 1st leg of the event because I was travelling - however since I got home I switched everything on at once and stayed QRV full time.
This time I found things much more difficult compared to the European EME Contest - It was hard for me to find the signals and I managed to establish only two QSOs

03/05  0622  OZ1HNE   RO/O  
03/05  1203  LA8YB     RO/O  
Ed. note Score = 20 x 2 = 40p

Throughout the Activity Event I was using Jurgen's OZ1HNE signals as a beacon - FB Jurgen for your booming signal !
I also easily copied Finn at the 2nd leg. Beautiful signal, fast QSO - Mange takk skal du ha for en hyggelig QSO !
Apart from this I had the chance to partially copy a couple of french stations as well as IK2DDR -I believe- however they faded away before I had the chance to fully acknowledge them and call them back.
Now I am looking forward for more activity and get the most of what I can from my EME setup !

My compliments to all of the participants !!
See you off the Moon !

ALL BS 73 ES 88
de Victoria SV2KBS

IC-7000 - 4x17el 3.3wl - GU74B by LZ2US
QRA KN20WU

LA8YB

IK2DDR

Here my final result of May 3, 2008 of Dubus 2 m cw eme activity event.

I was active on both windows and despite the less participation, respect

this morning, i found very good conditions,in the afternoon, with strong

own echoes on most of the time.

IK2DDR CAT.C

time station reports points Multip.

04.10 LA8YB RO/O 10 LA8

04.28 OZ1HNE RO/O 10 OZ1

04.48 OK1MS O/RO 10 OK1

05.26 YO2AMU RO/O 10 YO2

05.49 SM2CEW O/RO 10 SM2

06.02 IT9CJC O/RO 10 IT9

11.32 CT1HZE O/RO 10 CT1

12.00 PA3CWN O/RO 10 PA3

12.20 K9MRI O/RO 10 K9

HEARD NO WORKED: 7K3LGC (i called him many times)

FINAL SCORE: 90X9=810 POINTS

Let me send a particular "THANKS" to K9MRI, that after our 1st

2m eme contact on early '90, is always present, during our

DUBUS ACTIVITY EVENTS, with a very strong signal. Thank you.

See you all again on 2m cw eme.

Francesco,IK2DDR

JH0WJF

144MHz 3QSO

DATE time Call Send Recive Pts Multi

20080503 0417 OZ1HNE "O" "O" 10 1

20080503 0433 OK1MS "O" "O" 10 1

20080503 0448 LA8YB "O" "O" 10 1

30p x 3mul 90pints

As for one hour, condition was good after a start

came to hear nothing afterwards.

The temperature rose to 30C degrees for abnormal weather.

I used the air-conditioner for the first time this year in a transmitting

room.

The red flower in the picture is "peach blossom".

Many thankyou to all station.

Noriyuki Yaguchi JH0WJF

2862 Ikeda Kita-Azumi

Nagano JAPAN

OK1MS

MAY-3 , worked during Dubus
activity event , first part.

OZ1HNE
JH0WJF
LA8YB
IK2DDR
IT9CJC #899 - CW
PA3CWN
YO2AMU
RU1AA

Score 80x8=640 points
Thanks to all.
73, Stan

SV3AAF

My Call: SV3AAF [March Log - Category B - 144Mhz CW EME]

Date Time Call Reprt_S Rprt_R QSO_Pts Multiplier

20080503 6:40 OZ1HNE RO O 10 1

20080503 11:57 LA8YB RO O 10 1

Total = 20p x 2 mult = 40

OZ1HNE

May 2008

My call: OZ1HNE

Date: Time UTC. Call: Rpt: QSO Pts. Multiplier:

03/05 08 0407 OK1MS RO/RO 10p OK1

03/05 08 0417 JH0WJF RO/RO 10p JH0

03/05 08 0429 IK2DDR RO/RO 10p IK2

03/05 08 0516 PA3CWM RO/RO 10p PA3

03/05 08 0621 SV2KBS RO/RO 10p SV2

03/05 08 0631 YO2AMU RO/RO 10p YO2

03/05 08 0639 SV3AAF RO/RO 10p SV3

03/05 08 0646 PA0JMV RO/RO 10p PA0

03/05 08 0654 FOCXO RO/RO 10p F0

03/05 08 1133 LA8YB RO/RO 10p LA8

03/05 08 1140 K9MRI RO/RO 10p K9

03/05 08 1256 CT1HZE RO/RO 10p CT1

Total: 12 QSO's,

Total points: 12 QSO's x 10p = 120p x 12 multipliers = 1440 points.

Vi høres ved,

73, OZ1HNE Jørgen.

YO2AMU

Bad condition for me with a preamplifier giving S-7 noise on a pure 5o Ohm load! Hi!

0452 LA8YB RO/O 1-LA8

0527 IK2DDR O/RO 2-IK2

0540 SM2CEW RO/O 3-SM2

0630 OZ1HNE RO/O 4-OZ1

0644 OK1MS O/RO 5-OK1

Total 50pts x 5 mmult. = 250 pts.

73 de Doru,YO2AMU

PA3CWN

Hello All,

I was qrv in both legs for almost the full time and found

condx to be good at 1st leg but much qsb on the strong

signals.

The second leg was not that good at my side. Less activity

and much qrm from the neighbourhood gave only 1 qso

more.

I have been calling CQ several times for periods of almost

an hour and Peter returned at my CQ (again :-) ), so calling

CQ helped this day !

The signal from Jorgen was the most constant in both legs

and guess Jorgen switched pol on a regular base.

I had lots of troubles with the signal of Alex which was very

close to a birdie, but was able to copy all the info and very

glad to work Alex from KO40.

I worked these fine 6 stations with UFB operating practice:

3/5/08 0418 LA8YB RO OOO LA8

3/5/08 0515 OZ1HNE RO OOO OZ1

3/5/08 0540 OK1MS RO/OOO RO/OOO OK1

3/5/08 0606 SM2CEW RO OOO SM2

3/5/08 0640 RU1AA RO OOO RU1

3/5/08 1159 IK2DDR RO OOO IK2

Total points: 60X6=360 points

Heard was Doru YO2AMU . I called, but the signal was gone

and not heard it thereafter. I also saw traces of IT9CJC when

IK2DDR and SM2CEW were both calling Marcello.

I hope to meet you all and more in next event and GL to all !

Vy 73 Oene

PA3CWN

FT100 GS35b LNA ATF54143 4x9 ele DK7ZB h 18.5dBd

SM2CEW

Plenty of CW EME Activity this weekend, so I was only QRV on 144 for the first pass.

Excellent activity, and good signals. However, all QSO’s were made with cross pol, I was

transmitting vertical and receiving horizontal all morning.

080503 0533 LA8YB RO/RO LA8

080503 0540 YO2AMU RO/RO YO2

080503 0548 IK2DDR RO/RO IK2

080503 0608 PA3CWN RO/RO PA3

080503 0628 F0CXO 529/RO F0

080503 0639 F5JNX RO/RO F5

080503 0647 F9HS RO/RO F9

Total score: 70 x 7 = 490 points

After the contest I was very busy preparing my 2320 MHz EME station for a sked with

DL1YMK/CX, so not QRV in the afternoon for the 144 MHz 2^nd pass.

73

Peter SM2CEW

EME DUBUS 2m. CW EME EVENT MARCH 2008-03-08

LOG IT9CJC IT9EQO IT9CHU

Call in Contest IT9CJC

DATE TIME CALL RprtS RprtR QSO Pts MULTIPLIER

08-03-2008 06:58 SV1BTR RO RO 1O 1

08-03-2008 08:00 DK3EE RO RO 10 1

08-03-2008 08:24 SP7DCS RO RO 10 1

08-03-2008 08:37 IK2DDR RO RO 10 1

08-03-2008 08:53 LA8YB RO RO 10 1

5 QSO X 10 PTS X 5 MULTI = 250 POINTS

SECTION : C

SETUP: 4X10 EL. DK7ZB AND PA 1X8877

In the morning good signals but POOR CONDITIONS IN THE AFTERNOON.

In photo from left to right IT9EQO Tony, IT9CJC Mark, IT9CHU Vince, we hope to be active in others events. This setup will be active in the most important EME contests and we are ready for skeds in every propagation mode i.e. MS and Tropo.

For skeds and info please mail to it9chu@tin.it.

PA3CWN

Hello All,

I was qrv in the March Dubus event for one and a half hour in the 1st half and complete second half.

Condx were not the best, but managed to work 7 stations in total.

8/3/2008 08:44 SV1BTR 529 529 SV1

8/3/2008 08:58 SP7DCS RO O SP7

8/3/2008 09:08 DK3EE RO O DK3

8/3/2008 09:36 LA8YB RO O LA8

8/3/2008 14:36 F3VS RO O F3

8/3/2008 14:58 OK1MS RO O OK1

8/3/2008 15:16 F0CXO O RO F0

Total 7 qso's x 10 points x 7 multipliers = 490 points

Heard were IK2DDR, OZ1LPR, SV3AAF

No USA or JA hrd this month

Hope to meet a lot of activity in April Dubus contest !

Vy 73 Oene

PA3CWN

JO33ah

4 x 9 ele DK7ZB 18.5 dBd GS35b LNA ATF 54143 in schack

IK2DDR

During this event, i was active full time on 1st slot and just about 1 hour

on 2nd, due some commitment. Anyway i have enjoyed the cw activity and the good new

is that i have worked on random and for the 1st time on eme, the Sicily is.

I worked IT9CJC. It was really a good surprise to hear his call. Never worked him before on tropo or whatever. Marcello has now a team composed, by himself and a

couple of other operators. I wish that some other, following IT9CJC, example, will give us the pleasure to be present to our CW eme events. About the conditions, i found moments with good signals and strong own echo and others with some Faraday rotation.

Here my result in 4 hours of activity:

IK2DDR

CAT. C

Score:360 points

Date Time Call Rprt S Rprt R QSO Pts Multiplier

08/03/08 06:11 SV1BTR RO O 10 SV1

08/03/08 07:18 SP7DCS RO O 10 SP7

08/03/08 07:24 DK3EE RO 0 10 DK3

08/03/08 08:00 LA8YB O RO 10 LA8

08/03/08 08:37 IT9CJC O RO 10 IT9

08/03/08 14:02 DK3EE O RO 0 -- (dupe)

08/03/08 14.52 F3VS RO O 10 F3

HEARD:JH0WJF,PE1BTX,PA3CWN

Due my short partecipation on 2nd slot, i lost lot of usual friends.

I wish to work them on Dubus cw eme Contest.

THANKS TO ALL

Francesco,IK2DDR

SP7DCS

Hi,

As I wrote yesteday, I was qrv with 15 yagis (one yagi is broken) and

lower power due to bigger SWR.

Yesterday Murphy visit (5h to repair my PA) was not the last one...

After first pass gs35b tube went dead and I had to replace it.

Morover during second pass I had small damage in power supply and lost

some time repair also this issue;)

Anyway I worked following stations on 2m CW random. Condx were difficult

for H pol station.

SV1BTR

JH0WJF

OK2POI

IK2DDR

DK3EE

PA3CWN

LA8YB

IT9CJC#305

OK1MS

SV3AAF

F0CXO

F3VS

Thanks everyone for nice qsos and see you soon.

VY 73 ! de Chris SP7DCS

SV3AAF

Hello All,

I was only able to join March 144Mhz Dubus event for a total of two hours. At least during the initial half hour of first window propagation was really poor. There was a propagation improvement during second slot but generally conditions here deteriorated as a whispering FM mode conversation showed up on 050:

- I am now crawling behind the bushes next to the olive tree, watch out don’t shoot me.

- Just checked the droppings of the bird, they are still warm, it should be close by….

and on and on…. for a long time; I don’t think they ever got the bird….

In between this mess I worked the following excellent EMEers that can break through any interference:

SV1BTR, LA8YB, SP7DCS, OK1MS

My Call: SV3AAF [March Log - Category B - 144Mhz CW EME]                       

Date    Time    Call    Reprt_S    Rprt_R    QSO_Pts    Multiplier
20080308    15:25    SV1BTR   O    529   10    1
20080308    16:01    LA8YB    RO    O    10    1
20080308    16:18    SP7DCS   RO    O    10    1
20080308    16:52    OK1MS    RO    O    10    1
                       
Total =    40p x 4 mult =    160      

73 de Petros sv3aaf

SV1BTR

SV1BTR was qrv for a total of 4.5 hrs in the DUBUS 2m cw eme activity event of March.

Conditions were not good. 4db more noise due to Sun proximity 10 degrees away, especially in 1st pass. All signals and echoes suffering from deep qsb.

Hunters shooting non-stop but i shoot at the moon also, so that makes us colleagues i guess:-)

With my 21.5dbd 2m array despite bad propagation, smallest station worked once more was ON7EH with 12el. and 250w. Michel was coming in 529 on peaks! New initials with IT9CJC and PI9CM, no idea what they are running.

I would like to thank all European & Japanese stations who honored the event and gave me the pleasure to work them!

Result: 18 QSOs, the following fine stations / operators were worked on cw random heavyweight mode:

SP7DCS IK2DDR JH0WJF IT9CJC DK3EE ON7EH OK2POI PA3CWN LA8YB F9HS OK1MS DL2FCN F3VS F0CXO SV3AAF OZ1LPR PE1LWT PI9CM.

Back on EME weekend of 15/16 for the European EME Contest (DUBUS & REF) 70cm cw section.

Wednsday going to Italy on qrl, but hopefully coming back Friday night.

My current 8 yagis xpol 70cm array retires after the Contest. In early summer 2008 will be back with 24 yagis xpol.

73

Jimmy SV1BTR

PE1LWT

Hi All,

Due to commitments I couldn't join Gerard PE1BTX during the DUBUS event. So i fired up my own station this weekend. Only qrv during for 1 hour during second part on saturday.

wrk LA8YB, SV1BTR

hrd SP7DCS , OK1MS, F3VS

couldn't resist to work Jimmy , SV1BTR with our clubcall PI9CM

recieved most stations V and H during 1 period.

station :

good old 2x 10el dj9bvopt xpol

tx circulair

rx H and V .2db nf

power 700W into circulair pol

see all of you next time with new array

73

Jurgen PE1LWT

OK1MS,

8. March worked during Dubus

activity event , second part.

SV1BTR

OK2POI # 898 -CW

PA3CWN

F0CXO

SP7DCS

LA8YB

SV3AAF

Score : 70 x7 = 490 points

Condx no good.

Thanks to all, 73 Stan OK1MS

PE1BTX

Hello All,

Despite very strange condx at my QTH I managed to work 2 new CW initials.

Also lost some time due to moonrise and QRL meeting.

Did not have echos the whole day, due to these strange condx had some difficulties copying the stations that responded to my CQ, sorry, hope for next time

worked:

LA8YB new CW initial #11 EME initial #233

W5UN new CW initial #12

heard:

SV1BTR

F3VS

SP7DCS

DK3EE

IK2DDR

PA3CWN

PA3CEE

OK2POI

Will try to be on during next Dubus event, tnx for all the fun.

Best 73's Gerard PE1BTX

2 mtr 4 x 12DK7ZB / QRO

6 mtr 4 x 6M7JHV / QRO

follow the building of the crane project on: www.pe1btx.nl

8 x 6M11JKV on a 22 mtr / 20 tons mobile crane

PA3CWN

A few hours before the Dubus Events I became ill and

only worked Graziano. I called Chris and Marko, but

was not able to make a qso, so after an hour I went

QRT and laid down to recover.

I was glad to hear Graziano again after some time and

his signal was loud again as usual !!

16/02/2008 14:23 IK3MAC RO O IK3

points 10 x 1 multiplier = 10 points

Heard and called were SP7DCS, LZ2US. Only heard

were G3ZIG and PE1BTX. Gerard was just calling Roy

and from both I had tropo and eme. Hrd was also

OK1KKD, but this signal was very skewed and guess

it was planescatter instead of eme.

I hope to be qrv for the full time again in next Dubus

and wish all GL !!

Vy 73 Oene

PA3CWN

JO33ah

4x9 ele DK7ZB, LNA ATF54143 in shack, GS35b

OK1MS

16.2.2008 worked during Dubus -CW
activity event , second part.

IK3MAC
PE1BTX
SP7DCS
K5QE
OZ1HNE
K9MRI
LZ2US
SV3AAF
IK2DDR
SM2CEW
SM7GVF
LA8YB
F3VS

Score : 130 x 11 =1430 points.
Condx was no good. Strong
noise from local Power line.

GL Stan  OK1MS

G3ZIG

I was on 2m for the first  session.As you say ,very noisey.I
only worked 6 stations.OZ1HNE,IK3MAC,IK2DDR,LA8YB,F3VS and not least but
last SM2CEW. Good to be on again.This past few months have either been
very windy or I have been away.
Score 60 x 6 = 360p   

73 Roy.

SM2CEW

Nice weather provided a chance for me to be QRV both passes this time. The array was free from ice, so normal operation was possible. Conditions were not excellent, probably because of the high background noise.

Worked

20080216 1305 JH0WJF RO RO 10 1

20080216 1315 SP7DCS RO RO 10 1

20080216 1402 IK2DDR RO RO 10 1

20080216 1408 LA8YB  RO RO 10 1

20080216 1417 G3ZIG  RO RO 10 1

20080216 1423 F3VS   RO RO 10 1

20080216 1455 IK3MAC RO RO 10 1

20080216 2125 OZ1HNE RO RO 10 1

20080216 2145 K5QE   RO RO 10 1

20080216 2156 OK1MS  RO RO 10 1

Score 10 QSO x 10p =100 x 10 mult = 1000 points.

After this I QSY’ed to 432 for the Dubus CW EME Activity for some more fun. On 144 I also heard F9HS, LZ2US, PA3CWN, RU1AA, DK3EE, SV3AAF, WA4NJP and SM7GVF. So activity was good. New initial was K5QE (#810 on CW EME), tks Marshall, excellent signal. Loudest as usual IK3MAC.. super sigs! F3VS not far behind, but lots of QSB on all signals.

73 de Peter SM2CEW

K1JT

I found the level of activity rather poor during the 1.5 hours I was on.

My log as follows:

Date UTC Call Sent Rcvd Points Mult

--------------------------------------------------

2008-01-18 2117 SV1BTR RO O 10 SV1 - 1

2008-01-18 2143 IK2DDR RO O 10 IK2 - 2

2008-01-18 2155 SM2CEW RO O 10 SM2 - 3

2008-01-18 2212 F0CXO RO O 10 F0 - 4

2008-01-18 2341 KB8RQ RO O 10 KB8 - 5

Score: (5 QSOs) x (10 pts/QSO) x (5 WPX prefixes) = 250

I may not understand the intended scoring formula. At

http://www.sm2cew.com/aw_rules.html I read these conflicting

words:

1. "Your total score for the night is the number of QSOs (with a bonus

score for QSOs with the three ‘rare’ continents) multiplied by the total

number of callsign prefixes worked."

(Note, tks for pointing this out Joe, corrected now)

2. "Each QSO completed scores 10 points"

Aside from the bonuses, is it 1 point per QSO, or 10 points per QSO ?

Is this intended to be a European contest, or a world-wide contest? The

moon was below my horizon for half of the specified contest time in

January. I seem to recall that there was some "adjustment factor" to

take account of this imbalance, last year. I see nothing about it in

the currently posted rules. Have I missed something?

- Joe, K1JT

Note. Yes, world wide participation is encouraged, but moon times during these relatively short events (compromises) may not always reflect this. The rules are indeed revised this year to make scoring easier, this means that adjustment factors have been taken out.

VA3TO

I rushed home from work on Friday afternoon to participate in the

January 2m CW Dubus event but was disappointed to find exceptionally

poor conditions. I finally completed with SV1BTR after 3 different

attempts and heard no other signals over 2 hours of operating time.

IK3MAC was notably absent.

1 QSO with SV1BTR = 10pts.

Category 1,

15dBd, 750w.

IK2DDR

Hello Peter,

thank you very much for our 1st eme qso on 2008, during last activity

event.

Here the list of worked stations on CLASS C 144.

JANUARY 18 2008

STN TIME REPORTS MULTIP. POINTS

SV1BTR 21.08 RO/O SV1 10

SM2CEW 21.24 O/RO SM2 10

K1JT 21.43 O/RO K1 10

RU1AA 21.57 RO/O RU1 10

F0CXO 23.34 O/RO F0 10

JANUARY 18 2008

I3EVK 14.35 O/RO I3 10

OK1MS 14.48 O/RO OK 10

SV3AAF 15.01 RO/O SV3 10

SCORE: 80 X 8= 800 POINTS

Thank you to all and i wish to hear some other on next event. I know

that someone of our usual partecipants have had some antenna damage.

I hope that they could be on during next event.

73' Francesco, IK2DDR

PA3CWN

First I want to thank the organizers of this monthly Dubus Event and I am very happy with achieving the 1st place in class B for 2007 Dubus Activity Nights.

So with a happy smile I was qrv in both windows but found condx not good.

Friday Night the wind was stronger as expected and the array was swinging in winds up to 7 Bft, which is really the limit for elevating the system. I worked 3 stations and in the second window I still found condx very poor so added only 2 , making a total of 5. I have been calling CQ for a long time above 046 but all I

saw were some traces and copied a F. Later it seemed that Petros was also calling CQ and it might have been callers for SV3AAF I saw. I also heard a station on 042 , later I saw him on 053 who had an unstable signal and low speed CW. I 1st thought

it was OK1MS. But later found Stan with stable sigs on 048, so it must have been another OK1 ?? Also around 045 I identified a signal, but very hard copy

and maybe that was Alex RU1AA.

Condx were that poor that it reminded me at the times of the single GI7 because I had to call the stations for a long time. I only have seen/heard my echoes in the last half hour of the 2nd window Hope condx in Feb. Event will be much better.

Here is my log for the January Event;

18/01/2008 21:30 SV1BTR RO O SV1

18/01/2008 22:55 SM2CEW RO O SM2

18/01/2008 23:29 KB8RQ RO O KB8

19/01/2008 15:06 F0CXO O RO F0

19/01/2008 15:49 OK1MS RO O OK1

Points: 5 x 10 Multipl.: 5

Total points 50 x 5 = 250 points

Hrd and called: IK2DDR. Sri Francesco but condx too bad ! Hrd: K1JT Joe in qso with Gary, I3EVK in qso with Stan, partially SV3AAF and hopefully catch Petros soon! Heard only with big tropo but eme trace; was Gerard PE1BTX who was calling Jimmy. Hopefully Gerard is also there in next Events when eme sigs are better , so I can try calling when doppler is high enough, so Spectran can filter the tropo out. But I had a lovely time again and will be on next month again and hope Doru YO2AMU has repaired the damage by then !

Vy 73

Oene

PA3CWN

ft100 + GS35b + LNA ATF 54143

4 x 9 ele DK7ZB h 18.5 dBd

SV3AAF

My Call: SV3AAF [January Log - Category B - 144Mhz CW EME]

Date Time Call Reprt_S Rprt_R QSO_Pts Multiplier

20080118 21:52 SV1BTR RO O 10 1

20080118 22:38 SM2CEW RO O 10 1

20080118 23:47 KB8RQ RO O 10 1

20080119 15:02 IK2DDR O RO 10 1

20080119 15:42 OK1MS RO O 10 1

Total = 50p x 5 mult = 250

SM7WSJ

Hello MoonBouncers,

Running this years first event with a single yagi on 15dBd did not get me so many QSO in this 3dB degradation.

I managed to work SV1BTR and also found IK2DDR SV3AAF F0CXO OK1MS just by tuning the band with the help of the waterfall on the screen.

I feel anyway quite happy with the result to find some of the stations with no help besides my own station. Some are so strong so i guess they are heard by much smaller stations, but some are not that easy to find on random with a small antenna and this degradation.

It looks like the new preamplifier and all other parts in my station works as they should, so now its only to get those 4 yagis in the air as my goal is to have all up and running until April 12/13.

This is the date when the European EME contest 2008 will be held and i think we all should try to realley be as active as possible in this years contest.

73 de Hakan SM7WSJ 15dBD 1KW

YO2AMU

Due the failure of my PA , it is not possible for me to take part at this event. Murphy was visiting my shack and the damage was proportionally with the power!

No time to fix the problem! It happens 15 min before contest. I am very sad!

Hope to work again in february!

Sorry!

GL to all contesters!

73 de Doru, YO2AMU

PA3CWN

Hello All,

This is my log for the last Dubus Event of 2007 in Cat. B

Date Time utc Call S R points multi

21-12-2007 23:15 YO2AMU RO O 1 YO2

21-12-2007 23:28 F0CXO RO O 1 F0

21-12-2007 23:55 SP7DCS RO O 1 SP7

22-12-2007 00:04 ON4DPX O RO 1 ON4

22-12-2007 00:13 OZ1HNE RO O 1 OZ1

22-12-2007 00:35 K9MRI RO O 1.5 K9

22-12-2007 00:50 IK2DDR O RO 1 IK2

22-12-2007 16:04 SV1BTR RO O 1 SV1

22-12-2007 16:23 F1FLA RO O 1 F1

22-12-2007 16:40 SM2CEW O RO 1 SM2

Totals 10.5 10

Score 10 x 10.5 = 105 points

It has been a real fun again last year although I have had my

troubles with both equipment and antenna, but finally I am in

a good shape !

Condx have been excellent in the first window and ON4DPX

Kenny made my night in working him for a new initial and new

CW DXCC and nice working Jorgen OZ1HNE for the 1st time random.

Hrd and called were DK3EE and hrd fractions of Noriyuki JH0WJF,

DG5CST and CKR ? (sm2ckr??) were heard in qso with Jimmy.

2nd window was very poor and even Jimmy was weak and Tom DK3EE

had strongest sigs on the band here.

Congrats also to Peter SM2CEW who got me really quickly after I

started CQ and you must have super ears Peter , because I am not

the loudest station with ' only ' 4 x 2.4 wl in these poor condx !!

I want to thank all for this wonderful event and hope to meet you all

in 2008 again. I hope I can participate in all of the events !

Merry Xmas and HNY 2008 for everybody !!!

GL es vy 73 Oene

PA3CWN

JO33ah

4x9 ele DK7ZB 2.4wl each 18.5dBd

ft100 + GS35b 1 kW + Spectran

YO2AMU

Date Call Rprts QSO Pts Multiplier

2007.12.21 OZ1HNE RO/O 1 OZ1

2007.12.21 IK2DDR O/RO 1 IK2

2007.12.21 K9MRI RO/O 1 K9

2007.12.21 F0CXO O/RO 1 F0

2007.12.21 PA3CWN O/RO 1 PA3

2007.12.21 F1FLA O/RO 1 F1

2007.12.21 SP7DCS O/RO 1 SP7

2007.12.21 ON4DPX RO/O 1 ON4

2007.12.22 SV1BTR 549/539 1 SV1

2007.12.22 JH0WJF O/RO 1 JH0

2007.12.22 SM2CEW O/RO 1 SM2

2007.12.22 LZ2US RO/O 1 LZ2

Total = 12 p x 12 mult = 144 points

Heard with very good signals JH0WJF, SM2CEW and all...! Low activity in my oppinion ! Maybe the Christmas is close...!Very low,as usually,USA stations except K9MRI who take part in all EU contests! Also no stns from Russia. Heard / called for a short sequence RU1AA but I am not sure!

In the second window I was not able to hear my echoes for long time! Maybe too much fog at low elevation.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2008 !

73 de Doru, YO2AMU

4 x 15 BVO

ATF54143

DEMI 144/28 +FT920

2 x GU78,HM,LZ2US design.

IK2DDR

Hello Peter,

first, let me send you my Merry Christmas and HAPPY 2008.

Thank you also for our qso, yesterday on Dubus activity

event.

Here my final result for the CLASS C:

14 QSO X 14 MULTIP. SCORE= 196

I worked the following stations:

1st window :

21-12-2007

22:13 YO2AMU RO/O

22:22 F1FLA RO/O

22:33 SM2CEW O/RO

22:43 OZ1HNE RO/O

22:50 K9MRI RO/O

23:07 SP7DCS O/RO

23:19 F0CXO RO/O

23:40 OK1KKD RO/O

22-12-2007

00:36 ON4DPX RO/O

00:55 PA3CWN RO/O

2ND WINDOW:

22-12-2007

14:28 JH0WJF RO/O

14:36 SV1BTR 539/529

15:49 JN1CSO O/RO

16:09 I3EVK O/RO

I wish you all the best and i hope to work you on 2m cw eme for many

more years. Is fantastic to work you each time, with the same fun, after

so many years, since the "COMMODORE 64" era.

Ciao Francesco,IK2DDR

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