R2 / DL1YMK - Kaliningrad

May 2010

M&M EME DX pedition team QRV

 

Updated 11.02.2012 12:16

 

  

 

 

Time table

 

432 MHz operation position

M&M team with their host in Kaliningrad

Dish - 432 MHz feed and Sunset

Wandering dunes on the Curonian Spit

Logs in Excel format
R2/DL1YMK Log 70cm
Date Time UTC Call TX rprt RX rprt QSO # initial #
16.5.2010 0603 VK3UM 559 559 1 1
0612 SM4IVE 559 539 2 2
0628 SP6JLW 539 O 3 3
0635 OZ4MM 559 549 4 4
0645 PA3CSG 539 529 5 5
0652 VK3UM 539 539 6 nw hor!
0659 I1NDP 549 559 7 6
0716 SM6FHZ O RO 8 7
0726 SM2CEW 539 539 9 8
0733 DL7APV 549 539 10 9
0742 F2TU 539 529 11 10
0754 JA6AHB O RO 12 11
0805 DL9KR 559 559 13 12
0841 DK3WG O RO 14 13
0919 OZ4MM 559 559 15 dupe
0954 G3LTF 539 449 16 14
1103 HB9Q 559 539 17 15
1232 OK1KIR O RO 18 16
1258 UA3PTW 559 559 19 17
1325 G4RGK O RO 20 18
1343 OZ6OL O RO 21 19
1616 K2UYH RO O 22 20
1720 G4YTL O RO 24 22
19.5.2010 1555 LX1DB O RO 25 23
1557 K1RQG O RO 26 24
1609 OK2POI O RO 27 25 JT
1632 I1NDP O RO 28 / JT
1802 DL5FN O RO 29 26 JT
1840 ES5PC RO M 30 27
1955 WA6PY RO M 31 28
2012 WA4NJP O RO 32 29
2024 K5GW 559 559 33 30
21.5.2010 1855 OK1DFC RO/559 O/559 34 31
R2/DL1YMK Log 23cm
Date Time UTC Call TX rprt RX rprt QSO # initial #
13.5.2010 0324 OK1DFC 569 559 1 1
0329 OK1CA 569 559 2 2
0337 VK3UM 559 559 3 3
0345 UA3PTW O RO 4 4
0349 DL4MEA 559 559 5 5
0356 SP6JLW 569 559 6 6
0400 HB9BBD 579 579 7 7
0406 OZ4MM 569 559 8 8
0410 PA3CSG 559 559 9 9
0425 JA4BLC 549 549 10 10
0430 DF3RU 559 559 11 11
0438 OZ6OL 539 549 12 12
0457 DF3RU 44 44 13 SSB
0502 ES6RQ 559 559 14 13
0507 G3LTF 559 559 15 14
0524 JA6AHB 539 449 16 15
0531 VK3UM 579 569 17 dupe
0600 G4CCH 559 559 18 16
0625 SM2CEW 559 559 19 17
0651 F2TU 569 559 20 18
0657 F2TU 54 53 21 SSB
0734 SP7DCS O 449 22 19
0744 PA0BAT 549 549 23 20
0757 SM4DHN 559 559 24 21
0809 IK3COJ 549 529 25 22
0821 SV3AAF 559 549 26 23
0830 OE5JFL 549 559 27 24
0847 OK3RM O RO 28 25
0910 UT5JCW O RO 29 26
0935 DJ9YW 549 559 30 27
0942 DL0SHF 569 559 31 28
0957 G4RGK O RO 32 29
1056 LX1DB 579 569 33 30
1101 LX1DB 55 55 34 SSB
1115 N2UO 559 559 35 31
1150 DL6LAU 579 559 36 DL0SHF?
1201 K8EB 549 449 37 32
1218 K0YW 559 559 38 33
1222 K5JL 569 579 39 34
1240 K2UYH 559 559 40 35
1400 CT1DMK O RO 41 36
1425 WA6PY 559 539 42 37
1446 OK2DL 539 539 43 38
1521 W7JM 549 549 44 39
15.5.2010 1317 OZ4MM 579 569 45
1329 OK1KIR 559 559 46 40
1343 SM4IVE 449 549 47 41
1358 F5VHX 539 449 48 42
1412 K2DH 559 549 49 43
1421 F5KUG 549 549 50 44
1428 W9EQ 569 559 51 45
1435 HB9Q 579 539 52 46
1440 VE6TA 559 559 53 47
1447 PA3FYB 549 529 54 48
1508 HB9IZ 579 569 55 49
1515 IZ1BPN 569 559 56 50
1607 OZ6OL 559 559 57 dupe
1640 DF3RU 559 559 58 dupe
1705 F5HRY RM M 59 51
1717 K5GW 569 579 60 52
1722 OE9ERC 579 579 61 53
1740 SP4MPB 529 529 62 tropo
1751 N2UO 559 559 63 dupe
1815 AL7RT 529 429 64 54
18.5.2010 1500 G3LTF 559 559 65 dupe
1740 G3LQR 529 539 66 55
1745 W5LUA 559 559 67 56
1830 PA3DZL RO O 68 57
1912 ON4BCB 559 559 69 58
1940 ES5PC O-10 RO-12 70 / JT
1944 ES5PC 559 559 71 59
2007 ES6RQ O -13 RO -11 72 / JT
2015 YO8BCF O-12 RO -17 73 60 JT
20.5.2010 1945 RD3DA O -16 RO -15 74 61 JT
2015 IK5QLO O -22 RO -24 75 62 JT
1853 PA0PLY O -18 RO 76 63 JT
1906 G4DZU O -14 RO 77 64 JT
1927 G4DDK O -18 RO 78 65 JT
1942 UA3PTW O -14 RO 79 /
2002 SD3F 559 559 80 66
2040 PA3FXB O -13 RO -14 81 / JT
2106 WW2R O -20 RO 82 67 JT
2120 N2NQI O -14 RO 83 / JT
21.5.2010 1956 G4CCH 559 569 84 dupe
2010 SM4IVE 579 549 85 dupe
2055 RD3YA O RO 86 68
22.5.2010 1430 VK3UM 559 559 87 dupe DUBUS-Contest
  1445 F2TU 569 559 88 dupe
  1458 SD3F 559 559 89 dupe
  1505 JA6AHB 549 549 90 dupe
  1510 OK1CA 569 559 91 dupe
  1520 OE5JFL 559 559 92 dupe
  1530 LZ2US 559 559 93 69
  1535 SP7DCS 549 449 94 dupe
  1540 DL4MEA 559 549 95 dupe
  1553 F5HRY O 529 96 dupe
  1559 IZ1BPN 559 539 97 dupe
  1610 DL0SHF 569 549 98 dupe
  1616 OK2DL 559 559 99 dupe
  1625 UT5JCW O RO 100 dupe
  1634 SV1BTR 559 559 101 70
  1639 G3LTF 559 559 102 dupe
  1656 CT1DMK O RO 103 dupe
  1702 PI9CAM 569 579 104 71
  1709 UA3PTW 549 559 105 dupe
  1720 IK3COJ 559 339 106 dupe
  1740 OK1DFC 569 569 107 dupe
  1753 DF3RU 559 559 108 dupe
  1803 G4CCH 559 559 109 dupe
  1808 RD3YA O 559 110 dupe
  1820 SM4IVE 569 559 111 dupe
  1830 PY2BS 559 559 112 72
  1835 SP6JLW 559 559 113 dupe
  1838 PA2DW 559 559 114 73
  1845 DF1SR 559 559 115 74
  1850 F5KUG O RO/549 116 dupe
  1922 ON4BCB 569 559 117 dupe
  1926 SM6FHZ 559 549 118 75
  1948 UT2EG O RO 119 76
  2000 OZ6OL 549 549 120 dupe
  2010 K2DH 559 559 121 dupe
  2100 K1RQG 579 579 122 77
  2120 ES5PC 559 559 123 dupe
  2153 IW2FZR 559 559 124 78
  2232 OZ4MM 559 559 125 dupe
23.5.2010 1600 OK3RM O RO 126 dupe
  1830 SV3AAF 549 549 127 dupe
  1840 OH2DG 549 549 128 79
  1858 UT2EG O RO 129 dupe
  2002 LX1DB 569 579 130 dupe DUBUS-QRT

R2/DL1YMK Log 13cm

Date Time UTC Call TX rprt RX rprt QSO # initial #
14.5.2010 0450 OK1CA 569 559 1 1
0525 SP6OPN 569 559 2 2
0530 G3LTF 559 559 3 3
0537 F2TU 559 549 4 4
0556 DL4MEA 559 559 5 5
0604 OZ4MM 559 559 6 6
0628 DF3RU 549 559 7 7
0645 SV3AAF 549 559 8 8
0724 PA0BAT 539 549 9 9
0738 F2TU 559 559 10 dupe
0742 F2TU 54 53 11 SSB
0816 SM2CEW 549 559 12 10
0833 LX1DB 579 569 13 11
0841 LX1DB 55 54 14 SSB
0847 G3LTF 54 54 15 SSB
1216 SM2CEW 549 549 16 dupe
1220 HB9Q 579 559 17 12
1334 VE6TA 559 559 18 13
1453 G3LQR O RO 19 14
1541 WA6PY 559 559 20 15
1549 W7JM 559 559 21 16
1558 WD5AGO 559 559 22 17
1623 WW2R 539 RO 23 18
15.5.2010 0853 G3LTF 569 559 24 dupe
0920 DF9QX 559 559 25 19
1039 OZ4MM 569 569 26 dupe
1045 SV3AAF 559 559 27 dupe
1051 G4CCH 559 569 28 20
1059 OK1KIR 569 559 29 21
1110 IW2FZR 559 559 30 22
1118 ES5PC 549 559 31 23
1130 LA8LF 539 549 32 24
17.5.2010 1520 PA3DZL O RO 33 25
1618 K2UYH 559 449 34 26
1632 OE9ERC 579 569 35 27
1642 OE9ERC 56 54 36 SSB
1810 W5LUA 559 559 37 28
70 cm: 34 QSO's at 31 #
23 cm: 130 QSO's at 79 #
13 cm: 37 QSO's at 28 #

25th. of May 2010

R2/DL1YMK is QRT since 23rd May 2200 UT.

At that time we lost the moon in the high trees on the Western fringe of the farm, where we stayed for the past 12 days. Our time in Kaliningrad is over, the dish was knocked down in the morning of May 24th, all rig was packed into the car again. Tomorrow morning we will be heading home, making our way via the Curonian Spit to the check point near Nidda on the Russian - Lithuanian border. We will get aboard the car ferry in the port of Klaipeda and travel across the Baltic Sea to the German port of Kiel overnight.In total we made incredible 200 QSOs on 3 bands within 11 days of operation. In detail we made 36 QSOs ( 4 in SSB) with 28 initials to 20 DXCC on 13 cm . On 23 cm we made 130 QSOs ( 3 in SSB, 12 in JT) with 79 initials in 35 DXCC. On 70 cm we improved our score compared to OH0 to 34 QSOs with 31 initials in 19 DXCC. The improvements of the 70 cm set-up were obviously a significant progress, as we heard our own echoes for the first time on this band, which was already normal on the other MW bands. The moon tracking was also essentially improved by implementing absolute encoders in the Spid rotator, combined with OE5JFL’s superb stand-alone tracking processor moon tracking was very easy without the need of visual correction of antenna heading. A thank you goes out to all QSO-partners. We hope you enjoyed the DXpedition as much as we did. CU AGN SN off the rock from another interesting QTH.

Last Update R2/DL1YMK. 

Since the last update we worked again a few new initials on 23 cm , mostly during the DUBUS contest: RD3YA, LZ2US, SV1BTR, PI9CAM, PY2BS, PA2DW, DF1SR, SM6FHZ, UT2EG, K1RQG, IW2FZR. The DUBUS contest brought a fantastic activity from European stations, so we were able to work 49 stations during the contest, despite a very limited moon window due to a concrete fence (with a lot of reinforcing steel), a chicken shack and high trees to the West, which developed into a problem because of the low declination of the moon. On Sunday we had problems with suddenly arising heavy winds during a thunderstorm in the evening, so for the first time during the Kaliningrad activation we had to stop operation for 2 hours and tied the dish down. After the thunderstorm had passed we reseized operation.  

Vy 73, M&M team

 


21st. of May 2010

Hello lunatics, yesterday, 20th May, we worked on 1296.045 in JT 65C skeds as well as random. The computer was very slow, but it was able to decode several stations – not all, sorry for this. .. We can confirm the following JT-QSO´s: RD3DA (Yuri, thanks for the photos of Kaliningrad !), IK5QLO, G4DDK, PA0PLY, G4DZU, UA3PTW, PA3FXB, WW2R, N2NQI. Thanks for the nice comments in the free text!! From Dave we learnt that only 13 characters are allowed…hmmm. In between we called CQ in CW and worked SD3F – fine Carl, we already missed you dearly! Today we worked as a “quicky” OK1DFC on 70 cm in CW after he returned back home from his business trip.
So, all skeds are history now, we made a sightseeing trip today to the sunny beaches of “Kuhrische Nehrung” (Curonian Spit), a narrow (400-1000m), but very long ( 100 km peninsula, divided half and half between Lithuania and Kaliningrad/Russia). We visited migrating dunes, deep forests and little villages. It is a fairly untouched nature, a nature reserve since many years and very much worth to visit.
Now looking forward to the Dubus contest!
Vy 73, M&M team

 

16th. of May 2010

Hallo lunatics,

we brought the third band on the air! 70 cm, as usual, is hard work, but our receive performance is obviously better than in OH0. We have a new preamp, made by DB6NT, which is working very well and a new, very simple feed without the opportunity to switch between the polarizations, which didn´t work satisfactory in OH0. For the first time on DXpedition we are hearing our own echoes  even on 70 cm - from time to time, hi. During the first 2 hours we worked: VK3UM, SM4IVE, SP6JLW, OZ4MM; PA3CSG, I1NDP, SM6FHZ, SM2CEW, DL7APV, F2TU, JA6AHB, DL9KR, DK3WG. We got reports from O to 559. Our Output is limited due to authorization in the license and we hear strange radar(??) signals, hence working conditions are limited.  So please be patient, repeat your call signs several times, if your hear YYY?? (not our’s, which we know by now….)

When we have worked a station, the sked on 19th May will be automatically cancelled to get free slots for those, who did´t work us today. So please mail, if you would like to have a sked on 19th May, when we will be back on 70 cm. 

Tomorrow is another chance to work us on 13 cm, but only with skeds, because the activity would be too low to be qrv the whole day (normal working day).

We try to send some new photos to OK1DFC. Many, many thanks to him for his support of this DXpedition!!

Vy 73, M&M team (one from internet café, the other still calling…, (who’s got the better part…?)

 

Dish and 432 MHz feed 432 MHz feed
M & M team in the action UA2 landscape


15th. of May 2010

Hello lunatics,
tnx for many, many mails from around the world. Very much appreciated! We are happy, that we were able to work so many stations on 23 and 13 cm . Both, the 23 cm and the 13 cm session today were fine, so the additional 13 cm time today was used from stations we missed so far.
On 23 cm we worked on 15th May: OZ4MM; OK1KIR, SM4IVE, F5VHX, K2DH, F5KUG, W9EQ, HB9Q, VE6TA, PA3FXB, HB9IZ, IZ1BPN, OZ6OL, DF3RU, F5HRY, K5GW, OE9ERC, SP4MP (tropo, hi), N2UO,, AL7RT.
 
On 13 cm we worked yesterday additionally: HB9Q, VE6TA, G3LQR, WA6PY (the first US station on 13 cm ), W7JM, WD5AGO, WW2R and today: G3LTF, OZ4MM; SV3AAF, G4CCH, OK1KIR, IW2FZR, ES5PC, LA8LF.
 
On Sunday we will activate our “weakest” band   70 cm , with a new feed and a new preamp. Let's see, how it works out. As we know by  experience from MI and OH0, the antenna gain on 70 cm is pretty marginal on that band, so please give us your helping hand by repeating your call sings several times!
When these lines are written the 70cm is already installed and tested....
 
 Vy 73, M&M team

14th. of May 2010

Afternoon update:

Hello lunatics,

As the activity today on 13 cm was very low, probably because of a normal working Friday, we put an additional time period on 13 cm on Saturday, this means tomorrow, in the timetable. This minimize the time on 23 cm , but we will be qrv on 23 cm during the DUBUS contest next weekend and in the week for skeds, so this should not be problematic!

 

Timetable with sked list, update 14th May

 

Saturday, 15th May

0530-1400 13 cm   (with window to the states)

1500-1900 23 cm   (with window to the states, as the window is very short during Contest!!)

 

Sunday, 16th May

0510-1930 70 cm as announced with ATP

 

Monday, 17th May

Theoretical from 0700 to 2000 on 13 cm for skeds, one sked so far:

1600-1630 K2UYH

 

Tuesday 18th May

Theoretical from 0800 to 2100 on 23 cm for skeds, also in JT 65C , sked list so far in JT:

1700-1730 IK5QLO

1730-1800 RD3DA

1800-1830 PA0PLY

1830-1900 G4DZU

 

Wednesday 19th May

Theoretical from 1000 to 2200 on 70 cm for skeds, sked list so far:

1630-1700 EA3XU (JT 65B)

1730-1800 F2TU

1800-1830 DL4MEA

1900-1930 W5LUA

1930-2000 WA6PY

2000-2030 G3LTF

2030-2100 N4GJW

2100-2130 K5GW

 

Thursday 20th May and Friday 21st May:

Sightseeing – so far, except for very “urgent” sked requests! Timeslots available: please look at OK1DFC´s homepage with the moonwindows we described previously. So we cancel the proposed 13 cm session on 21st May as today the interest on 13 cm seems to be weak, supposedly would not be better on next Friday, because it is also a normal working day.

 

Saturday and Sunday: 23 cm DUBUS Contest with very short windows to US! We will be available according the moonwindows described on homepage.

Vy 73, M&M team

 

Morning update:
Hello Lunatics,
many tnx for he nice greetings from all over the world. Very much appreciated! The 23 cm session yesterday was fine, we had good echoes.13 cm today is more difficult; we are not satisfied with the echoes and tried to optimize the feed position several times for finding an optimum. Propagation seem to be below normal, we have a lot of librations fading also. Worked so far: OK1CA (Franta, tnx for rising so early, we were happy, when we heard the first solid signal), SP6OPN, G3LTF (in CW and later in SSB), F2TU (in CW and later in SSB), DL4MEA, OZ4MM; DF3RU, SV3AAF, PA0BAT, SM2CEW, LX1DB (in CW and SSB).
Yesterday evening we had heavy rainfall with thunderstorms, today it is misty and wet. The ground around the dish is muddy, our shoes are sticky and it is very cold. Our nice hosts are trying to make us warmer with cushions and an electrical heater.
A hint for the next days: please repeat your call signs, , if you copy YYY??  many, many times…. you now know ours, but we don't know yours, when you are calling ;-). Our working conditions are not optimal, all coax cables are longer than we would need (because we don't know the distance to the dish in beforehand), we built up a complete EME station within one day, yours has been optimized in month and years. So please be patient and insistent, help us to get your call signs correctly out of the mud (in the real sense of the word….)!!!!!
We have no internet on site, but Monika drives with the hosts or by train to an internet café in the next town once a day (a café without coffee, this is a real problem, hi…). We don't want to move our car due to the big holes in the streets, hi. And she manages the sked requests from the café, so please be patient, if we don't answer immediately.
 
Vy 73, M&M team

 

M&M team take a rest and lunch 13cm set up

13th. of May 2010

 

Afternoon update:

Hello lunatics,

yeeeessss, we are in Kaliningrad, not directly in town, but in the „Kaliningradskaya oblast“, in the surroundings of the town on a farmhouse ground. Kaliningrad is part of the Russian Federation, but without direct access to Russia, surrounded by Lithuania and Poland, this is the reason for the separate DXCC status. And yes, it was very, very difficult to get all the permissions we needed to get qrv from here – it is not only one permission, hi.

When we applied for a license, we expected the prefix UA2F/. But after an expert finding by the General Radio Frequency Center in Moscow, we were assigned the special event callsign R2/DL1YMK – much better for CW! Thereafter, we needed a second permission from the ROSKOMNADZOR in Kaliningrad (sorry, without translation!) to be able to import and to use the radio devices in Kaliningrad territory. The last hurdle was the allowance for the import of the equipment by the local customs. So it took us months and the kind help of a lot of nice people to find our way. We want to say thank you to RW3BP and to RA3AQ, who provided us with the first forms for the GRFC, further to the German embassy in Moscow and Kaliningrad, who helped us several times by providing us a kind and experienced contact person for granting the next permission and for explaining them in Russian language what we actually needed. A special thanks to Larissa for her extremely professional and quick work and to our customs agent Alexander - and of course to OK1DFC for the latest updates on the web site, which he again arranged for us on his home page. There you find photos and the timetable!

We have very tolerant hosts (they must be….), who additionally let us a little hut as shack and didn´t plant anything around the cabin in the garden place, as they knew that we needed some generous space for the dish. So the strawberry fields are far enough away, hi.

 

After the last update we worked additionally on 23 cm: SP7DCS, PA0BAT, SM4DHN, IK3COJ, SV3AAF, OE5JFL, OK3RM, UT5JCW, DJ9YW, DL0SHF, G4RGK, LX1DB in CW and SSB, N2UO, DL6LAU, K8EB, K0YW, K5JL, K2UYH, CT1DMK, WA6PY, OK2DL, W7JM,  in total 39 initials so far.

 

So we hope our station will work also on 13 cm tomorrow and 70 cm on Sunday (Saturday again 23 cm) to give many stations a new and obviously rare DXCC – weather permitting, as we are close to the sea (we never will find a cozy place deep in a valley…).

 

We already have sked lists for 18th May for 23 cm in JT 65C from 1700 to 1900UT (IK5QLO, RD3DA, PA0PLY, WW2R , each 30 min) and for 19th May for 70 cm from 1630 to 2130, first EA3XU in JT65B and the others in CW – as “plan B”, if random fails on Sunday. We have internet access from an internet café (without real coffee, Peter!!) and from time to time on site. So please mail sked requests to DL1YMK at aol dot com.

 

 

Vy73, M&M team

 

Morning update:

Hello lunatics,

despite our doubts (and all problems in beforehand), whether we again will be able to set up an EME station anywhere in a new country we managed it and are now activating a DXCC, which has never been activated before on 23 cm EME. Our first station was OK1DFC – thanks a lot Zdenek for rising so early in the morning!! From 0325 to 0700 UT we worked: OK1DFC, OK1CA, VK3UM, UA3PTW, DL4MEA, SP6JLW, HB9BBD, OZ4MM, PA3CSG, JA4BLC, DF3RU, OZ6OL, DF3RU in SSB!!, ES6RQ, G3LTF, JA6AHB, VK3UM for a quick report exchange again, G4CCH, SM2CEW, F2TU in CW and later in SSB. The call doesn't seem to be problem, every station came back with the correct callsign. If you do not know, where we are: we expected another prefix with 3 digits, when we applied for a license, but we learnt, that our call is a special callsign mainly for special event stations. …..and as SM2CEW wrote these minutes: “Fantastic surprise... you sure picked a place for your holidays that is no advertised in all travel magazines.. hi! Glad they let you in with all "suspicious" radio equipment. Can understand that it took a bit of negotiating to get the license and the all permits”. 

Our windows are limited – as always, hi. To the East there is the chicken shack (sorry Doug, this was the reason why we were late!), to the West there is the farm house – so we will see how long we will be able to see the moon.

The weather was very windy yesterday, when we set up the dish between the strawberry field and our shack in a hut– and very sunny, so we both got a sunburn, but today it is calm, so far, and overcast.

 

Vy 73 M (in an internet cafe) &M

23cm ready and pointing to the Moon R2/DL1YMK CQ 1296 MHz

12th. of May 2010

Hi lunatics,
just in an internet cafe, dish is set up, feed will be inserted tonight. Very doubtful so far, if i-net access will be possible from site. First operation on 23 cm on schedule as planned 2nite from 0230UT supposedly. We have been allowed to enter the country with the full equipment. Keep your fingers crossed for fortunate WX, wind was AGAIN very high... 
73 / 88 de M &M


1st. of May 2010

Hello lunatics,

 

today we got a final Roger for the customs procedure for importing our equipment (with the helping hand of the German embassy), so we hope to be able to pass all border controls with the car and the equipment. As we announced earlier, we hope to get qrv under XX/DL1YMK from Thursday, 13.05 for 10 days on 70, 23 and 13 cm. It is a pity, but we didn’t obtain an allowance for 9 cm.

 

As with our trip to OH0, the Aland isles, we will not disclose the destination in order to give all interested hams the challenge to decode the special call for themselves on a truly random basis. However, we made a timetable for the bands showing the times of our moon-windows to give all the possibility to check their mutual windows. Now make an educated guess, hi…..

 

The table shows our estimated moon-windows (all times in UT) with the following meanings:

First: day

Second: our moonrise with windows to Asia/Pacific/VK

Third: our window to US East

Fourth: our window to US West

Fifth: our moonset

Sixth: planned operating band  

11.02.2012 12:16 - updated

 

Date:

Moonrise &

VK - Asia

US East

US west

Moonset

QRG

Remarks:

13.05.

02:30 10:20 13:00 17:30 1296,045 random

14.05.

03:00 11:30 14:00 19:00 2320,100* see remarks bellow random
15.05. 05:30 - 14:00 2320,100* see remarks bellow random
15.05. 15:00 - 19:00 1296,045 random
16.05. 04:40 13:00 15:40 21:00 432,045 random ATP
17.05. 06:00 14:40 16:40 21:40 2320,100* see remarks bellow 16:00-16:30 K2UYH
18.05. 07:00 15:40 17:40 22:00 1296,045

17:00-17:30 IK5QLO

17:30-18:00 RD3DA

18:00-18:30 PA0PLY

18:30-19:00 G4DZU

19.05. 08:40 17:00 19:00 22:40 432,045

16:30 - EA3XU - JT65B

17:30-18:00 - F2TU

1800-1830 - DL4MEA

1830-1900 -

1900-1930 - W5LUA

1930-2000 - WA6PY

2000-2030 - G3LTF

2030-2100 - N4GJV

2100-2130 - K5GW

20.05. 10:00 18:00 20:00 22:40 not specified now
21.05. 11:20 19:00 21:00 23:00 2320,100* see remarks bellow
22.05. 12:40 20:00 23:00 23:20 1296,045 DUBUS EME contest
23.05. 14:20 21:00 23:15 23:30
preferred QRGs

432.045

1296.045

*2301.975 (RX) / 2304.100 (RX) / 2320.100 (RX/TX)  

On 18th to 20th we have no preferred band so far, but we are open for skeds on all bands. Please mail to DL1YMKataol.com for any sked requests, even in JT mode for smaller stations, which missed us during the random activity. Proposal: on 18.05 on 23 cm skeds in JT mode?

Please note: during the Dubus contest we will have only a very poor windows to the US in our western window. But perhaps it might be possible to work us during our moonrise…(to US west it could work via the ‘long path!)


 

Moon windows

 

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