Posted 22/05/11
Hi gents,
This is to remind you of the oncoming XX/DL1YMK 2011 DXpedition. We hope to be QRV on 23cm at first on 28th of May.
As in the past years this is meant to be a truly random event. In order not to diminish the fun for others, please do not reveal the actual callsign in clusters, chats etc. in case you’ve already worked us.
However, if your station is small and you feel more
comfortable with arranging a sked with us, then feel free to drop us a
line by email to make a proposal in accordance with the preliminary band
schedule published on this reflector earlier.
The email inbox will be last checked on Tuesday night, 24th of May. Thereafter, email communication might be disrupted or sporadic at best, as we expect to have no (continuous??) internet access on the site.
This year, the DXpedition site is again more prone to weather imponderabilities, so expect unforeseen incidents – we do at least ;-))
73/88 de M & M - team
Posted 01/05/11
Hello fellow-EME´s,
As announced earlier this year, we will set out for our next EME Dxpedition end of May. We need 3 days for transfer and for installing the station set-up, so we intend to start operation, provided all goes smooth, on Saturday, 28th May with 23 cm, weather permitting.
As the country, which we want to activate, has very limited power limits for amateur radio, the telecommunication authority proposed to apply for a temporary commercial radio licence in order to be allowed for enough power for EME (which we needed to pay for, of course). So we will be active with our “normal” signal strength, hopefully providing a new country for you over the moon!
As in the previous years we don´t announce the assigned callsign in beforehand to increase the fun for all interested hams in the first days of operation.
We hope to have excellent moon windows from Australia and Japan (this time we have also equipment for the Japanese frequency on 13 cm with us!!) to the States and Canada, so all, who want to work us should be able to do so.
Due to problems with our available days for holiday this year, the operation is limited to 9 days ending with the participation in the 23 cm DUBUS contest on 4th and 5th June.
Here is the detailed schedule for the 3 bands (the entity unfortunately refused to issue a license for amateur radio on 9 cm): all times given in UTC!
| Sat | 28th May | starting 0030, ending 1300 on 23 cm |
| Sun | 29th May | starting 0100, ending 1400 on 13 cm |
| Mon | 30th May | starting 0130, ending 1600 on 70 cm |
| Tue & Wed | free for sightseeing, if the activation of the 3 bands was successful, otherwise we would be active also these 2 days | |
| Thu | 2nd June | starting 0300, ending 2000 on 13 cm (it is a bank holiday in Europe, so Europeans get up from your cosy beds...!) |
| Fri | 3rd june | starting 0400, ending 2000 on 70 cm |
| Sat | 4th June | starting 0500, ending 2020 on 23 cm (DUBUS) |
| Sun | 5th June | starting 0630, ending 2100 on 23 cm (DUBUS) |
Frequencies we intend to use: 432.045 MHz, 1296.045 MHz, 2320.100 MHz RX/TX
(only RX 2301.975, 2304.100 and 2424.100 MHz).
Like in R2 we will have SDR on all bands, so please spread out a little,
especially the big guns, which are easy to ‘see’ on the waterfall display.