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I'm living in a very bad place for E.M.E. activity, Turin city center (more then 1.000.000 inhabitants), where noise is very high due commercial and broadcast spurious emissions, cars, electric motors and other noisy surces.
I use in front my receiver, an high dynamic preamplifier with MGF1801, cavity filter (400KHz = -6dB), attenuators. In Kenwood TS850 I have a 250Hz filter at 8.8 MHz and a secondary 250 Hz filter at 455 KHz, I use also a 40 Hz Audio Frequency DSP filter (iw5bhy's project), but all is NOT enough, especially if I want to work on EME at moonset or moonrise; so I can't exployt the well-known ground gain. Anyway, You can find below a list of stations worked from here.
My first EME station worked was W5UN in April 1992 (I had 250 Watt into a sigle 18el. 4218 CushCraft), then KB8RQ, SM5FRH, I2FAK, SM7BAE, LA8YB, N1BUG, DL8DAT, K5GW, IK3MAC, I5JUX, ZS6ALE, and HB9CRQ, all worked with a Yaesu FT225 (no CW filter), only 250 Watt and 2x18 el. The others, with my present equipment.
Stations worked on 144MHz EME
CALL COUNTRY LOC. DATE ANT. PWR
9A1CCY CROAZIA JN85 25-05-96 4x16 1 kW AA4FQ KENTUCKY EM67 07-03-93 8x19CC 2 kW AF9Y INDIANA EN71 06-11-93 6x17 2 kW DJ9CZ GERMANIA JO31 30-04-93 4x16 700 W DK1KO GERMANIA JO53 06-03-93 4x17 2 kW DL3BWW GERMANIA JO72 06-11-93 8x15 1 kW DL5MAE GERMANIA JN58 06-03-93 8x14 800 W DL8DAT GERMANIA JO31 13-12-92 16x17 3 kW DL8YHR GERMANIA JO41 25-07-96 4x 1.5 k EA2LU SPAGNA 10-10-93 16x17 1 kW EA3ADW SPAGNA JN11 25-05-96 6x20 1 kW EA3DXU SPAGNA JN11 25-05-96 2x17 F3VS FRANCIA JN38 12-03-95 24x10 kW F5JTA FRANCIA 07-11-93 4x17 1,5 kW F6HYE FRANCIA JN36 07-03-93 4x17 1 kW HB9CRQ SVIZZERA JN47 06-02-93 8x17 2 kW HB9DGX SVIZZERA 13-03-95 4X13 2 kW HB9JAW SVIZZERA JN47 03-04-93 8x17 1,5 kW HB9SUL SVIZZERA JN45 24-12-94 4x13 2 kW I1KTC ITALIA JN45 03-01-94 4X17 2 kW I2FAK ITALIA JN45 18-10-92 16x17 1,5 kW I3DLI ITALIA 12-09-98 I5JUX ITALIA JN53 08-01-93 8x20 2,2 kW IK1FJI ITALIA JN44 01-05-93 4x18 2 kW IK1MTZ ITALIA JN35 02-03-93 4x17 1 kW IK2DDR ITALIA JN55 08-12-93 4X18CC 700 W IK2EAD ITALIA JN55 03-04-93 8x20 1 kW IK3MAC ITALIA JN55 06-01-93 8x20 2,7 kW IW5AVM ITALIA JN52 10-03-93 4x20 2 kW IZ1AEM ITALIA 13-04-97 JA4BLC GIAPPONE PM65 01-05-93 4x17 2 kW JL1ZCG GIAPPONE PM95 02-01-94 8x13 1,2 kW K2GAL NEW JERSEY FM29 09-10-93 8x21 2 kW K2TXB NEW JERSEY FM29 07-01-95 4x16 1,5 kW K5GW TEXAS EM13 04-01-93 42x14 2 kW K7CA NEVADA DM26 04-04-98 8x16 1.5kW KB8RQ OHIO EN80 05-10-92 24x17 2 kW LA8YB NORVEGIA JO59 15-11-92 8x18 1,5 kW LA9NEA NORVEGIA JO59 01-04-93 4x14 800 W N1BUG MAIN FM55 13-12-92 16x4 1 kW OE5JFL AUSTRIA JN68 06-11-93 11m D. 2 kW OH7PI FINLANDIA KP32 02-04-93 8x16 1 kW OK1MS CECOSLOVAC JO70 05-03-93 8x15 1,5 kW ON7RB BELGIO JO11 30-04-93 4x10 1 kW OZ9AAR DANIMARCA JO45 25-02-94 4X13 2 kW PA0JMV OLANDA JO21 05-12-93 2X16 1,2 kW RA3YCR RUSSIA KO73 27-01-94 8x10 2 kW S51WV SLONENIA JN76 22-01-94 22x5 1,2 kW S57TW SLOVENIA JN75 24-12-94 8x17 1 kW SM2CEW SVEZIA KP15 07-11-93 6x16 3 kW SM4RNA SVEZIA JP70 04-04-93 4x17 2,5 kW SM5BSZ SVEZIA JO89 09-10-93 4x17 3 kW SM5DCX SVEZIA JO89 07-10-95 SM5FRH SVEZIA JO88 17-10-92 24x18 1,5 kW SM5MIX SVEZIA JO78 07-03-93 4x18 3 kW SM7BAE SVEZIA JO65 18-10-92 16x15 1,5 kW UT5ER UKRAINA KN78 17-12-94 4x16 1 kW UZ2FWA KALININGR KO04 01-05-93 8x17 1 kW VE1BVL CANADA FN96 06-12-93 6x17 1,5 kW VE3KDH CANADA FN03 11-10-98 6XM2 1,5 kW VE3ONT CANADA FN05 10-10-93 46m D. 1,5 kW VE7BQH CANADA CN89 06-03-93 336 C. 1,5 kW W4ZD FLORIDA EL97 08-03-93 16x17 2 kW W5UN TEXAS EL29 12-04-92 48x17 2 kW W7HAH MONTANA DN26 10-10-93 4x18 2 kW WA2GSX NEW YORK FN13 05-12-93 4X19CC 1,2 kW WA6MGZ CALIFORNIA CM87 10-10-93 8x16 2 kW WA9KRT INDIANA 10-10-98 WB5LBT LOUISIANA EM40 07-11-93 16x7 L 1 kW ZS6ALE S. AFRICA KG46 06-02-93 8x17 1 kW
Audio Wave Files:
As I receive my moon-bounce echo: myecho.wav
W5UN in SSB (RX feb.1993 with my 2x18el.): w5un.wav
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