First VK-ON on 3cm..
On November 5th Eric ON5TA managed to have a QSO with Charlie VK3NX.
They had both problems with the automatic moon tracking system, but the could finish the QSO.
A few senteces from the mail received from Charlie:
Firstly TU TU !!
What a wonderful signal you have. For me it was “speaker” copy (no need for tin cans)
I find it very hard to believe you only have 2.3m dish and 30 W. It is a credit to your “attention to detail”. Your signal was “huge”!
I have only worked 14 initials on 10 GHz but your’s was easier to copy than some “bigger stations”
I could only just hear my echoes today but I heard you every period. A few times I stopped hearing you in the middle of a sequence, I guess wind at your end?... or perhaps you do what I do and need to re-align on moon noise in the middle of a sked?
Thank you for trying again and I am very happy that we have had such good success (now that I was looking on the right freq...Hi..Hi..)
Unfortunately halfway through the sked for the 1st time ever I “blew up” the regulator on my Azimuth control!...I had to operate the Az movement in “Slow mode” so it took a lot of effort to keep on the moon......and also Murphy tried hard to stop me because TWTA Helix current kept “tripping” the alarm circuit because of moisture in the air.......
....but none of this matters, because of the wonderful success. It is a “ majic” achievement for me each time I work a new station.
Many tnx and hpe to cuagn on 10 GHz and perhaps another band?
73 and GL
Charlie