Op 5 november had ON5TA, Eric, een EME QSO met Charlie, VK3NX.
Op dit QSO was Murphy ook van de partij, want bij beide stations was er een probleem met de automatische tracking van de antennes op de maan.
Zij hebben het QSO kunnen tot een goed einde brengen door de antennes manueel om de 20sec op de maan te richten via de zonneruis...

Een uittresek van de mail die Eric ontving van 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