That's more like it.  A few comments on the above:  Includes the biggest signal reports I have ever given or received on EME (NC1I), and I have a wav file excerpt of the QSO below.  I have been trying to work OZ6OL, DL8OBU, K4EME, and UA9FAD since mid-1999!  The problem was frequently one-way propagation due to Faraday, no longer a problem with my polarity rotation capability.  W1ZX has a huge signal here, with his big dish, but when we worked this time, I was wandering all over the place trying to find the moon with my lousy positioning system, so we were lucky to complete with O/O.  We will do much better next time!

Here is the old drive shaft that gives me the headaches:

The sprocket is on loosely, therefore the crooked look.   The shaft consists of, from left to right:

• 10 Tooth 1/2" bore #40 chain sprocket
• 1/2" bolt with threads cut off
• 3/4" black pipe
• 3/4" to 1 1/2" pipe reducer
• 1 1/2 inch pipe

Never meant to be permanent.

Here is a picture of the dish viewed from the house, through my old 12 X 16 432 array, and a bunch of trees.

The trees are not a problem during normal operation, since they are at about 180 degrees, where the moon is at the peak elevation.  You can see here that my coax length increased over 100 feet from old antenna to new antenna.

I just threw this in.  This is a 100 ft. (30M) antenna located about 100 miles north of me.  I am seriously considering trying to get permission to put this thing on 144MHz EME for a future contest.  30 dBi gain! 

WAV Files:

The first one is a couple of my own echoes:  Echo5.wav

This one is an excerpt of a QSO with NC1I:  NC1I.wav

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