Greetings fellow Elecrafters. After seeing the photo and short article (pg 76) in the recent issue of QST where W5RZ and WB5JJJ made several DX EME QSOs during a NPOA excursion, I'm a little curious about it. Many moons ago I used a Yaesu FT-736R and operated 144/432 MHz satellite modes. I used a pair of home brew quagis and a commercial amp, about 100 watts out, as I vaguely recall. Fun stuff. But my '736 is long gone, dang it.
There are very, very few rigs on the market that do VHF and UHF. Icom has the new IC-9100 for a bazillion dollars, or one could go hunting in the used market for an older IC-910H or a '736 like I had. Still not inexpensive by any means. I've already got the K-Line here and was wondering about the Elecraft XV432 as a first step. Twenty five watts probably isn't gonna get a lot of RF to the moon and back, but maybe coupled with an amp...? Anyone on this list using their K3/K3S with the XV432 to do EME? If so, what are your likes and dislikes about it? How much power do you run, and what sort of antenna are you driving? Just wondering...... :-) Jim Bennett / W6JHB Folsom, CA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
