I have done a fair share of portable 2M EME activations and recently activated 432 on the moon for the first time in history from CY9C and CY0S. I thought it would be fun to start going a bit higher in frequency and hopefully take a lot less gear on future DXpeditions as weight and size limitations are getting more and more difficult. The second most popular band on the moon is 23cm (1296mhz) and the activity seems to be…
August 25 – Septmember 5 2024 Operations 6m and above: If you’re looking to make VHF/UHF/SAT contacts with CY9C, join the dedicated CY9C Slack group for real-time chat with WW2DX while on the island. Join the VHF-Chat Slack group by clicking HERE. 6M: Elecraft K3 + Preamp + GPS LockedKPA500 = 500W5 Element Optimized DUAL Yagi (No Elevation)Focus on FT8 (Not superfox) 2M: IC-9700 + LNA + GPS Locked700W SSPAPair of 9 Element DUAL optimized Yagi’s (2m9DXA) + Elevation 70cm: IC-9700…
Update 3/25/23 – Internet good enough to post! Things are going well, making 6M MSK, 2M EME, 70cm EME and some SAT contacts so far this week! I am very happy with the progress so far. Have had some equipment troubles but working them out. I am currently running two stations simultaneously, 2M/432 on one radio and 6M(dedicated) on a 2nd radio. If you want to work CY0S on 6M, 2M, 432 then I highly recommend that you join the…
First 144mhz EME Activation from FJ Latest Updates! 03/21/202 – 1718z All FJ/WW2DX logs have been uploaded to LOTW. QSL cards will be next over the coming weeks. 1755z 2M EME QRT 02/21/20 1900z – 98 total QS’s made, would have been nice to hit 100 but 98 is better than 97 🙂 Considering that being in FJ during the peak of poor condx I will take it. I had a T/R relay fail in the amp, did a field…
Coming down to the wire now, just weeks away and the first week of August will be here and I will be back on “The graveyard of the Gulf (Saint Lawrence)”. If you have not seen the CY9C website, check it out now for the latest info on the expedition. Also check out the last CY9C Dxpedition from 2016. I have been spending a lot of time preparing for the trip. Making progress but there is still a lot of…
QSL INFORMATION: SASE+POSTAGE V26PD MyQSL Service PO BOX 375 PAWLING, NY 12564 USA After I lost the last EME array on CY9C, I decided to try another design of antenna for the next round of 2m EME tests. After a number of recommendations from prominent EME enthusiasts I settled on a pair of custom designed 144mhz optimized 9 element EME yagi’s from DUAL https://www.antennas-amplifiers.com/2-meter-best-portable-antenna-9-element I had been testing these at my home QTH for a number of months with very…
Learn from my mistakes 🙂 I blew up two SSB electronics MHP-200 preamps while building and testing my current portable EME station. I hope this article helps someone else not go down that path. When I first started out with the K3 and EME I was using the TimeWave Navigator external sound card. This worked fine and I was successful in making the appropriate cables to go from the K3, Navigator and the SSB Electronics DCW2004B sequencer. WSJT would…
When I first started testing WSJT on the mac it was with the original version of WSJT (v.10) not the “X” version. This was working fairly well in with earlier versions of OSX prior to 10.12. I found this useful doc from ZS6TW on installing it under OSX. Once 10.12 was released something in the audio device probing broke and WSJT could not list the sounds devices. I was able to hack around this by trying device id’s and was…
You can check out the official CY9C DXpedition Website here. [Accommodations] [Travel] [Logistics] Portable 2m EME Station: The 2M EME station is coming together. A lot of time and resources has been spent getting the station “dialed” in for the expedition. Anyone who has ever took a stab at EME knows that building a permanent station is a challenge, building one for portable use has a whole new set of challenges. The 2M station will consist of the following gear:…
Logs have been uploaded to LOTW and Clublog. QSL INFORMATION: SASE+POSTAGE J8/WW2DX MyQSL Service PO BOX 375 PAWLING, NY 12564 USA This was a fairly last minute expedition and had very little time to test the gear before packing and departure. Here is the 2m EME array setup a week prior to packing. All packed and ready to go! Arriving at the island. The airport at Canouan. We then took a charter over to Bequia, this is about a 10…