For the story, we had five periods of time with S9+ QRM (that we tried to locate in the surroundings at night without success), up to 30 minutes long, otherwise the major issue here is Ac power line variations and failure.
As we are two operators running the whole EME traffic, the nights are short and the days don't let us to rest very often, so be cool and patient, we have still enough time to make it with you.
Don't worry if you do not receive our 73, very often we are 'optimising' by calling another station which we've heard during the QSO with you, our RRR (and your final) are completing the QSO.
Please keep spreading around, we had easy QSOs with germans who were -900Hz from us.
We are really delighted to contact you all, and we are sure that we share the same 'oh yes' at each QSO.
Come on, we have 'luck permitting' still three full pass to run together.
Kindly yours,
5R8EM (5R8 Sainte Marie Island Team)
PS, don't tell that to our HF chaps, but we guess that we are making more miles on EME than them on HF
20/09/2008 | 21:15 | OZ1LPR | 1 | O | RO | -18 | |
21:21 | PA2CHR | 2 | O | RO | -22 | ||
21:31 | RU1AA | 3 | O | RO | -20 | ||
21:45 | RX1AS | 4 | O | RO | -21 | ||
21:55 | DL9MS | 5 | O | RO | -22 | ||
22:03 | F1DUZ | 6 | O | RO | -21 | ||
22:21 | DL8YHR | 7 | O | RO | -20 | ||
22:27 | IK1UWL | 8 | O | RO | -22 | ||
23:07 | DF2ZC | 9 | O | RO | -24 | ||
23:17 | RK3FG | HRD | -21 | ||||
23:25 | PA0ZH | 10 | O | RO | -24 | ||
23:33 | I2RV | 11 | O | RO | -21 | ||
23:39 | JR3REX | 12 | O | RO | -22 | ||
23:55 | PA0JMV | HRD | -21 | ||||
21/09/2008 | 00:01 | S52LM | HRD | -23 | |||
00:13 | PA0JMV | HRD | -23 | ||||
00:21 | JH5FOQ | 13 | O | RO | -21 | ||
04:21 | KB8RQ | 14 | O | RO | -22 | ||
04:39 | K9MRI | HRD | -24 | local power off | |||
21:21 | ES6RQ | 15 | O | RO | -19 | ||
21:59 | PE1L | 16 | O | RO | -22 | ||
22:17 | RK3FG | 17 | O | RO | -24 | ||
22:45 | JM1WBB | 18 | O | RO | -22 | ||
22:53 | DF7KF | 19 | O | RO | -19 | ||
23:01 | DK3BU | 20 | O | RO | -23 | ||
23:07 | DL2NUD | 21 | O | RO | -24 | ||
23:19 | YO9FRJ | 22 | O | RO | -21 | ||
23:29 | RW6AG | HRD | -23 | ||||
23:37 | G4YTL | 23 | O | RO | -22 | ||
22/09/2008 | 00:10 | DK3WG | 23 | O | RO | -24 | |
00:19 | IK1FJI | HRD | -24 | ||||
00:27 | YU7AA | HRD | |||||
00:29 | PA1GYS | 25 | O | RO | -19 | ||
00:35 | YU7AA | 26 | O | RO | -22 | ||
00:39 | F6BKI | 27 | O | RO | -22 | ||
00:43 | DJ7OF | 28 | O | RO | -22 | ||
00:49 | I1ANP | 29 | O | RO | -22 | ||
00:53 | S52LM | 30 | O | RO | -21 | ||
00:57 | IK1FJI | 31 | O | RO | -20 | ||
01:03 | RW6AG | HRD | -21 | ||||
01:07 | SM5CUI | 32 | O | RO | -20 | ||
01:15 | DL8GP | 33 | O | RO | -16 | ||
01:21 | DK5WL | 34 | O | RO | -23 | ||
01:27 | JH0MHE | 35 | O | RO | -23 | ||
03:21 | F9HS | HRD | -28 | ||||
03:23 | PA0JMV | 36 | O | RO | -22 | ||
04:01 | PA3FPQ | 37 | O | RO | -21 | ||
04:11 | K9MRI | 38 | O | RO | -22 | ||
04:17 | PA3CMC | 39 | O | RO | -24 | ||
04:51 | K0KP | 40 | O | RO | -21 | ||
04:59 | F9HS | 41 | O | RO | -24 | MCI | |
05:11 | W5UN | 42 | O | RO | -22 | ||
05:21 | AA9MY | HRD | -23 | ||||
05:27 | W0HP | HRD | -22 | ||||
05:33 | RA6AX | 43 | O | RO(-8) | -11 | ||
05:39 | RN6BN | 44 | O | RO | -9 | ||
05:59 | W5UWB | 45 | O | RO | -20 | ||
06:35 | F6HVK | 46 | O | RO | -23 | ||
06:43 | SM7GVF | 47 | O | RO | -25 | ||
07:03 | F8DO | 48 | O | RO | -23 | ||
07:07 | AA7A | 49 | O | RO | -21 | ||
07:19 | HA0HO | HRD | -24 | ||||
07:29 | DK4TG | 50 | O | RO | -23 | ||
07:35 | TK5JJ | HRD | -19 | ||||
07:39 | DK5LA | HRD | -22 | ||||
23:13 | UA9FAD | 51 | O | RO | -23 | ||
23:37 | RW6AG | HRD | -28 | ||||
23/09/2008 | 01:07 | OK1CU | 52 | O | RO | -24 | |
01:29 | SP2OFW | 53 | O | RO | -21 | ||
01:33 | HB9Q | 54 | O | RO | -23 | ||
01:49 | JH2COZ | 55 | O | RO | -24 | ||
01:59 | OM3BC | 56 | O | RO | -22 | ||
02:03 | DK5SO | 57 | O | RO | -22 | ||
02:07 | PE1BTX | HRD | -21 | ||||
02:19 | PE1BTX | HRD | -21 | ||||
02:25 | UA9SL | 58 | O | RO | -22 | ||
02:37 | RZ3BA/1 | 59 | O | RO | -22 | ||
02:53 | DM1CG | 60 | O | RO | -20 | ||
02:57 | RU1AC | 61 | O | RO | -23 | ||
03:01 | SV8CS | 62 | O | RO | -22 | ||
03:05 | JM1GSH | 63 | O | RO | -22 | ||
03:29 | ZS6WB | 64 | O | RO | -26 | ||
03:35 | DM2BHG | 65 | O | RO | -26 | ||
03:41 | JS3CTQ | 66 | O | RO | -21 | ||
03:49 | DC2MW | HRD | -23 | ||||
03:53 | PA3CSG | HRD | -23 | ||||
03:57 | DJ8MS | 67 | O | RO | -17 | ||
04:01 | DC2MW | 68 | O | RO | -20 | ||
04:07 | DL8EBW | 69 | O | RO | -17 | ||
04:11 | PA3CSG | HRD | -24 | ||||
04:27 | RA6DA | 70 | O | RO | -13 | ||
04:37 | RV9UV | 71 | O | RO | -25 | ||
04:47 | HA0HO | 72 | O | RO | -21 | ||
05:05 | G4CBW | 73 | O | RO | -21 | ||
05:11 | PA3CSG | HRD | -20 | ||||
05:37 | HA5CW | 74 | O | RO | -15 | ||
05:55 | HA0DU | 75 | O | RO | -15 | ||
06:13 | ZS2GK | 76 | O | RO | -23 | ||
06:33 | PA3CWN | HRD | -25 | Ac line power off | |||
06:51 | UA4AQL | 77 | O | RO | -25 | ||
07:03 | OK1TEH | 78 | O | RO | -24 | ||
07:09 | UT6UG | 79 | O | RO | -20 | ||
07:19 | RW3WR | 80 | O | RO | -21 | ||
07:27 | I3MEK | 81 | O | RO | -22 | ||
07:33 | K1JT | 82 | O | RO (-17) | -18 | ||
07:39 | PE1BTX | 83 | O | RO | -25 | ||
07:53 | W0HP | 84 | O | RO | -22 | ||
07:59 | EA2AGZ | 85 | O | RO | -20 | ||
08:07 | DL9GS | 86 | O | RO | -17 | ||
08:15 | TK5JJ | 87 | O | RO | -20 | ||
08:21 | DJ9CZ | 88 | O | RO | -23 | ||
08:25 | YO9HP | HRD | -22 | ||||
08:31 | I3LDP | HRD | -26 | strong rain |