--- Původní zpráva --- Datum: 6/13/2005 Od: "Doug McArthur" Předmět: [Moon-net] DUBUS Contest 432 VK3UM final report. Further to my previous report On Sunday 12 June 05 at my Moon rise 0140z Libration was still significant and again Faraday seemed still very narrow but nearly aligned. Fading was minimal but alignment was such as to make things difficult. I was transmitting and receiving vertical with one exception K0RZ. (normally I Tx V and Rx H into NA). Conditions had improved significantly at Moon rise into Eu at about 0830z. Libration had disappeared and signals were good. Unfortunately it did not last and from about 1010z polarity again began to swing and Libration with deep short term fading returned with avengence. It was extremely hard going. Sun noise measured at 0330z Sunday was back to normal at about a sfu of 80. Participation was not great from NA but good from Eu. Plenty to keep me very busy though. The "gentle men" operating times for us all were great for a change! It was the hardest weekend I have participated in that I can recall. The Sun activity screwed things up big time and for hours and hours on end. It must have tried every ones patience to the extreme. It proved however to be most rewarding though, as one had to pull every trick in the book to decipher the extremely librated signals. I witnessed time and again the skill and patience from our fellow operators. I could not help thinking how much computer power (without any outside assistance) would be required to do what we humans were employing at the time. I felt I was using more ESP than DSP ! The effect was not always reciprocal as I spent many Y's trying to decipher who was calling at times. It was apparent that the other station was copying fine at the time when I was suffering from severe Libration. One QSO took over half an hour! After it was all over I listened on 20 meters for a while to de "detox" and assure myself what non librated CW still sounded like! How easy is it there! The following is an abbreviated list of stations were worked:- 12 June 2005 ...K5JL,VK4AFL,JA6AHB,KL6M,VE6TA,K0RZ,N9AB,OZ6OL,SM3BYA,SM3AKW,SP6JLW,SV1BTR,RW3RW,DR3RU,OZ4MM,HB9Q,DL9KR,OK1CA, DL0GER,F6KHM,G4YTL,G4RGK,DK3WG,JJ4NNJ 12 June 2005 ...K1FO,JA6DZI,JA9BOH,KL7HFQ,DL7APV,SM2ILF,SM4IVE,RW3PX,F2TU,OK2BDQ,DL7UDA,EA3DXU,G3LQR,DJ6MB,I5CTE, S53RM,S53J,G3LTF,S54T,SM5IOT for a claimed total of 44 stations and 23 multipliers 101200 points (total 6.5 hours operating time .. all totally random .. zilch assistance in any shape or form.. a ticket holding member of the elite Dinosaur Club and proud of it! .. ) regards Doug (VK3UM) _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html