On
Sunday I decided to get out the big amp. After some reconditioning
work it worked well but I decided to limit power to 400 watts due to the
small phasing lines and BNC connectors.
The
two small pictures are 'thumbnails'. You can click them for a larger
image. They show the amplifier and the way the antennas were set
up on Sunday. Below is a picture of the equipment setup on Sunday.
Even with the 400 watts no contact was made.
Here I had links to the files of KP4AO's recordings, but these files
are no longer available.
Below is a screen shot of one of KP4AO's first receive sequences in
the EME-7 file.

Note the narrow gray line in the black area. Below it you can
see my signal from Saturday when I was running 100 watts. When the
files were available for download you could clearly hear me calling them -
proving that a small antenna and 100 watts was enough to easily work
them (except for the competition!). |