Le 5 novembre notre ami Eric ON5TA a eu un QSO avec Charlie VK3NX sur 10GHz en EME.
 
Murphy était bien présent et de nombreux problèmes techniques ont surgi des 2 côtés tout au long du QSO, principalement avec nos sytèmes de poursuite automatique de la lune qui sont tombés en panne en même temps. Finalement, on a quand même pu terminer le QSO en poursuivant la lune manuellement (mesure du bruit lunaire) et en corrigeant l'orientation toutes les 20 secondes env..

Un extrait du mail reçu de 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