[VHFcontesting] 222 MHz EME Weekend

[David Olean]

Friday was pretty exciting, and conditions seemed quite good.  I was 
active from about 2200 UT to 0200 UT.   There was a very good amount of 
activity.   For Saturday, I hope to be QRV at about 23:30 UT or so. I am 
planning on fishing during the day and will try to get home in time to 
partake of the good conditions.   If you have an "itch" to see if your 
222 receive system is up to snuff, listening on your Moon rise is a good 
way to see.  Most of us have noise issues on the horizon.  With digital 
TV and their broadband noise-like signals, front end overload can be a 
problem that you do not even recognize. The TV signals sound like cosmic 
noise.  Listening for weak EME signals on your horizon is a good test.

At 23:30 this evening, my Moon position will be at 10 degrees 
elevation.  The Moon will be up already in the midwest and southeast, 
but I can't really get home any earlier.  My Moonrise in Maine is the 
same time as Moonrise in Ohio today. The reason is that the Moon 
declination is now -14 degrees below the celestial equator. Maine is 
farther North!

73

Dave K1WHS