KA6U EME Expeditions

23CM Roving Station Works - Nov 6, 2021 I tried the complete 23cm station for the first time this morning with the PA I finished building this week. I am running 300W to the feed of the 1.8M dish.  I can run up to 500W. Only a few stations QRV at my moonrise today.  I completed two QSOs with good reports in both directions so I believe the station is ready to go. In the photo below the PA is in the box in the foreground.  48V and 12V power supplies and autotransformer for 110V operation are in the covered box. The red box on the table contains the rotator controller, remote control computer and power supplies for the feed electronics. Thanks YO2LAM and IQ2DB for being QRV this morning.  

 23cm KA6U Roving Station Built and Ready to Run - November 2, 2021 No the big antenna on the right is not my 23cm roving antenna :-)  We did use the antenna for 23cm SSB/CW EME during the activation.  My small truck is on the left.  This is the QSL card I made from the Project Dianna activation in FN20. I have finished building the 23cm roving station.  Specifications: 1.8M folding dish W2HRO .3db NF LNA Patch feed circular polarization Yaesu G5500 rotator on portable tripod +-2 degree pointing accuracy for a Moon pass (<1db pointing loss) IC9700 Exciter, backup IC705 with Q5 2m-23cm transverter W6PQL pallet PA (K7BQ Gene) design 600W capable (will run at 300W) 12 feet LMR600 feedline from PA to feed SatPC32 controller software Moontracker (SM5CUI) planning software Wireless station remote control from truck to station computer in rotator/feed electronics box Only two cables from truck to 3 station boxes at base of antenna, LMR600 4 watts to drive PA, PTT line Honda 2200EUI genera