Terry: I sent Dave a design for an 8-array on 160 meters. He will love it on 160.
Congratulations to both of you! Bob N4HY Terry - W0VB wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm happy to report that Dave, W5UN, and I completed what we believe is the > first EME contact using an SDR1000 on each end of the contact on August 19, > 2006. > > I was able to visit Dave, W5UN on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 with the > purpose of getting his SDR1000 (original owner W3EME) upgraded and > operational. Dave upgraded his sound card to a Delta 44 card, and loaded up > the virtual serial driver from N8VB. He had all this installed, and running, > prior to my arrival at 10 PM at night. > > We "tuned" the installation, and listened to signals off the moon until 3 > AM. Things seemed to be working as desired. > > His old setup was using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (if memory serves me). Upon > installing the Delta 44, his observation was "This radio went from something > with potential (read that as poor) to a real high performance radio!". > > Fant, AA5F, and I left his QTH around 11 AM in the morning with Dave on a > mission to incorporate the SDR1000 into the primary operating position of > his station. I continued my trip from east Texas to an unplanned week long > work assignment in Raleigh, NC arriving back at my home QTH a week later. > > After finally arrived home at 1900Z on Saturday, August 19th W5UN calls and > says he's ready to run at 2200Z. We start our EME QSO using a digital mode > called JT65B from the application - WSJT. Twenty five (25) minutes later I > finally heard and saw Dave's signal on the radio. I was a little worried > because they was a ripping aurora going on with some signals reaching 20 > over S9 on my receiver whenever I aimed north. We completed this historic > QSO by 2230Z. > > Great day in my shack! > > Both SDR1000 configurations used one (1) CPU (everything running on one PC) > - WSJT application running JT65B mode > - VAC, Virtual Audio Cable > - N8VB's Virtual Serial Cables > - each person using an External Two Meter transverter > > W5UN Station > - 32-17 el yagi antennas > - 1,200 watts out > > W0VB Station > - one (1) 21 el yagi (no elevation) > - 300 watts out > - preamp in the shack > > > Terry, W0VB > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > -- AMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP/AMQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR Wrk Grp Chairman "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Einstein _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
