At 10:05 AM 12/18/2007, Nate Duehr wrote:
To keep the post on-topic, 100W and a single Yagi for moon-bounce!
I remember reading about the Amateurs lucky enough to be able to work moon-bounce prior to the advent of the PC-as-analyzer type technology... Folks used enormous ERP and huge antenna arrays to work moon-bounce via CW, before these recent advancements. Now anyone with a tri-pod in a backyard and a "brick" amplifier on 2m can work the moon, from what I've been reading online. It's probably time I give it a try, but I haven't yet.
Amazing stuff. Lots of neat work going on in the digital modes these days.
Hmm, you give me hope I might be able to work moonbounce on 2m. :) I have the power and the all mode radio, just have to dust off the antenna and setup the PC. :)
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