{"id":13433,"date":"2016-10-30T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13433"},"modified":"2016-10-30T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:38:08","slug":"amateur-radio-enthusiast-bounces-signals-off-the-moon-with-balcony-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13433","title":{"rendered":"Amateur radio enthusiast bounces signals off the Moon with balcony antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ARRL<\/a> ( American Radio Relay League) recently sponsored the “Moon bounce” EME Contest<\/a>\u00a0in which contestants demonstrate “Two-way communications via the earth-moon-earth [EME] path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz”. One entrant did his Moon bouncing from his balcony:\u00a0Austrian Moonbounce Enthusiast Demonstrates Success with Small-Scale Setup | ARRL<\/a><\/p>\n

Hannes Fasching, OE5JFL, of Braunau am Inn, Austria, has demonstrated that you don\u2019t need a huge antenna system to operate EME (moonbounce) successfully. Fasching fired up for the October 22-23 weekend of the ARRL EME Contest<\/a>, using a small horn antenna on 1.2 GHz.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 1.2 GHz mesh antenna for EME – Hannes Fasching (OE5JFL)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBecause of other commitments I had only a few hours to be QRV in the first part of the ARRL EME Contest,\u201d he said in a Moon-Net post on October 26. \u201cAs tests with my recently built 23-centimeter horn antenna were promising, I decided to give it a try to work some stations.\u201d Fasching placed the horn on his balcony with an 80 W solid-state amplifier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Operating WSJT, he logged contacts with Switzerland, Russia, Germany, and the Czech Republic. He also heard stations in the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and Italy on digital modes and in the UK, Czech Republic, Denmark, and Italy on CW.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fasching, who also has a 7.3-meter homemade dish, has uploaded<\/a> recordings of some EME signals to his website, along with the results of tests with his small system.<\/em><\/p>\n

Find more about Fasching’s setup at\u00a0EME using small antennas –\u00a0Hannes Fasching (OE5JFL)<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to this sci-fi sounding recording by Fasching of the EME signals:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.qsl.net\/oe5jfl\/on0eme_jfl_horn80cm.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n

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The ARRL ( American Radio Relay League) recently sponsored the “Moon bounce” EME Contest\u00a0in which contestants demonstrate “Two-way communications via the earth-moon-earth [EME] path on any authorized amateur frequency above 50 MHz”. One entrant did his Moon bouncing from his balcony:\u00a0Austrian Moonbounce Enthusiast Demonstrates Success with Small-Scale Setup | ARRL Hannes Fasching, OE5JFL, of Braunau … Continue reading Amateur radio enthusiast bounces signals off the Moon with balcony antenna<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-participation","category-space-radio","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3uF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7145,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7145","url_meta":{"origin":13433,"position":0},"title":"OPTICKS: Bouncing space art off the Moon","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leonard David reports on the OPTICKS\u00a0project, which plans to\u00a0beam artworks from the\u00a0Humans in Space Art Contest\u00a0to the Moon and back:\u00a0To the Moon with an Artistic Bounce! - Coalition for Space Exploration. 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