To EME or Not To EME...That is the question. Earth Moon Earth Gets The Chicks.

On the rarest of occasions, I was given the opportunity to travel down to the Deep Space Exploration Societies Plishner Radio Telescope to do a little Earth Moon Earth operating during the November 11th-12th ARRL Moonbounce Contest. While on the 23cm band we will run into and issue. Can we make this work or not? Will I be able to get my first EME contact? Lets see what happens.

[@justinparsons1079]

**No chicks were acquired in the making of this video**

[@Ham-Solo]

They will fall from the sky. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@cowlesandrus8845]

Nice working you on 70 cm, 432.077 MHz, with WSJT-X, Q65-60B mode, on 11/13/22 at 10:51 to 10:56 UTC! You had a great signal off the moon, -10 here in Staunton, Virginia! I am running 8 x FO-33 Yagis with about 800 watts input giving me about 500,000 watts EiRP also. Very nice video! Hope to catch you again soon! Best Regards & 73 to all of you! Cowles, K4EME

[@Ham-Solo]

That’s awesome. Yeah we had a couple of set backs but our April event went much better using SSB on 1296. Your contact was one of my first ever doing EME so thank you. 73 and will catch you down the log. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@terryadams8012]

Thanks for the video. That was intriguing. You have now sent a signal to the moon.

[@Ham-Solo]

Bucket List. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@janiceemery2008]

Interesting, thank you for sharing.

[@Ham-Solo]

Thanks, had a good time but definitely long drives to get out there in the middle of no where. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@DK5ONV]

YFUG will never EME... happy Hump Day, Mike 💯🙋‍♂

[@Ham-Solo]

Aww why not? Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@DK5ONV]

@@Ham-Solo Too much of Equipment to buy and Action to take to just get this Project going. My hearing is super allergic to noisy FM-Mode.

[@Ham-Solo]

@@DK5ONV I see. Well we ended up just doing Digital anyway on 432MHz with the sound down and made the contacts we could. I did get a couple of folks in Germany. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@Dan-qp1el]

"It gets the chicks" that's awesome. That's how I got my wife.

[@Ham-Solo]

Nice. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@radiohobbyist13]

Fun Fact: A sticker on the back of one of our microwave ovens at the place where I once worked said that it operated on 2.45 gigahertz.

[@Ham-Solo]

Yeah one of the DSES guys at the site said that one of their members uses 2.4 GHz all the time from his QTH. I always thought it was just for WiFi. Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@ernietech-101]

Listen for W2ZQ on 1296

[@Ham-Solo]

We should have another big EME event coming up in April. It is the European DUBUS contest. Here is our video from last year. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWmbpKScidWJmZYsi=878PUiv3FYMEI_ko Ham-Solo K0FYR

[@hamradioqrp-k0klb]

Well,... I suppose using your ic705 and 5w on internal battery is out of the question?..LOL.. Either way, it is obvious QRO EME does get you the chicks (said no one ever, [except you] and now you know why no one ever said it,) LOLOLOL. Very interesting.. thx for sharing.. k0klb