------------ Původní zpráva ------------ Od: Komu: , Kopie: Předmět: [Moon-net] EME at Arecibo Datum: 16.4.2010 22:16:46 ---------------------------------------- Hi all, Greetings from Arecibo! Many problems today, but also many QSOs.  Our amplifier died about an hour before the start of our moon window.  We therefore ran with a barefoot TS-2000 -- about 30 W in the lab, maybe 25 W at the feed.  Nevertheless, we made 86 QSOs today.  Received signals were many, and some were very strong.  Thanks to all who copied our peanut whistle signal.  We are busy now trouble-shooting the amplifier.  With some luck we will be 10-13 dB stronger tomorrow. In general the pile-up was well behaved, and split-frequency operation worked well.  We were on 432.045 and answering calls between 432.050 and 432.060. Operations tomorrow will be similar to those of today.  Perhaps some SSB QSOs at the start, if we have the amplifier.  Then CW for as long as people are calling.  We'll switch to JT65B if the QSO rate falls to a very low rate.  We certainly will run JT65B for at least half of our moon window on Sunday. Apparently my email handler stripped the URL out of my previous message about live video streaming.  Here it is again, this time I hope with the URL intact: You can see the live streaming of the Arecibo moon bounce event and tests here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kp4ao-eme [1] 73, Joe, K1JT