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Hello and thanks for asking.. Yes its a combination if I remember correctly, the solar noise bouncing off it when it can, or the "dark noise" all natural objects emit at these higher frequencies.. Skip

You caught that!! OK then ha ha.. Thanks, Skip

Heh good to hear from you!! Glad you liked it.. ha ha.. Thanks again. SKIP

Hello and thanks.. With the EME dish I still feed 3.4 Ghz down the helix but again I have two preamp stages and then the poweramp at the feed.. That over comes the losses.. The recieve side the high gain preamp overcomes the losses in the long feed.. BUT with 6cm or 5.7 Ghz it's to lossy.. Everything is at the feed and the lower IF signal of 144 Mhz gets all the way back to the shack easily.. Skip

Well I try ha ha.. It isn't always that good!! Thanks again.. Skip

Hello Jac. Thanks for the comments.. Yea your right I should have phased them together, oh well later.. For sure was great to meet you guys!! I hear you caught covid also?? We did on the way back home, miserable thing!! Thanks Jac..

Glad you enjoyed it.. I haven't done any videos for a while so I guess about time.. Thanks, Skip

WOW! fancy meeting you here. I have a GPS stabilized oscillator with your name on it 🙂

No Mr. Murphy.. The cable used to run a small rotor down on the side of the tower.. I was just extending it to reach farther up.. No heat shrink, enough taking the soldering iron up there.. Good tape is good enough.. Murphy hit me when my climbing belt fell down past my arse and I couldn't get it back up again!! Ha ha, that was crazy..

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Wow I don't know what to say.. Thanks for the very great comments on my crazy videos I do.. I am just having a lot of fun and really enjoy sharing.. Thanks, Skip

Yes it is real sad news about Al.. I will have to look back on this video, I dont recall Al being on there but the way my memory is he probably was.. I worked him many times and had hoped to meet him at this years conference, not to be... Thanks, Skip

Hello.. Yes I realize my old router switch is the problem.. I need it though and have a new one coming.. Thanks for commenting though.. Skip

Well what can I say?? My CW was all messed up.. It was at that point that I was trying to remember if it was a zero or the letter "O" !!! Thats why I stopped and went over to the computer table and looked at my notes to see which was correct.. The number zero of course. I can send CW a lot better than I can copy it.. Especially when its weaker like his signal was.. Thats why I like EME, its nice and short and a lot of repeating because we know its going to be weak and distorted.. So mostly just the calls are exchanged, Signal reports and then 73 to each other.. The second contact from Peter, OZ1LPR was a lot easier but even then at one point I just could get what he was telling me. I got that he sent the number 500 but I couldnt relate to it.. Later on in the recording I got that he was telling me he was putting out 500 watts!! No wonder he was strong ha ha... Thanks for commenting and watching my " NERD" channel.. Skip

Well it is a big improvement alright.. Nothing like fiber but what are you going to do?? I just need to get my old switch router thing changed out to something newer.. Thanks on the comments on the house, its just old poplar and spruce trees, nothing special.. Its home.. Skip

They have different models including a mobile one.. Look it up, Starlink..

We need to talk more Cam... Skip

Hello again John, yea silly old Murphy was barking at me again. Stupid things.. If I hadnt spent so much time greasing things I would have had more time to get around it all. Oh well its all fun.. Yes looking forward to meeting a lot of people at the conference ! Skip

Yes it was hard to understand his audio in the recording.. The headphones are a lot lot better as they are going through some DSP filtering which helps a lot especially for the weaker ones and my poor ears.. Thats why I like EME, the QSO is short and sweet, some duplication to help out also.. I wouldnt be able to carry on a conversation at the best of times.. Thanks, Skip

Yea I used my K2RIW for ATV back when also.. I never got the proper modulation going, I just drove the amp with the ATV transmitter. Could get it to around 200 watts before it lost sync etc.. It works good for EME once it drifts into tune ha ha.. I abuse the poor thing.. Thanks for the comment.. I like your channel name ha ha.. Skip

I am glad its not a biggie as you say, I am not changing it !!! Ha ha.. I am only human ha ha... Thanks, Skip

Hello and thanks for the great comments.. I use PIC microcontrollers for everything around here.. I use Basic as the programming language for the code also.. PIC Basic is so easy I cant ever see going to anything else.. Like all things it has limits of course.. The touch displays are called Nextion and are a great replacement for using ordinary 2 or 4 line LCDs.. The Nextion has its own editor and all the icons and graphics are from their editor.. Its mostly just text and the PICs send the data to them.. No libraries, its all home made done here.. Look at my earlier videos on the channel for more detailed work with these great displays.. Skip

Oh Please Mike, I just stumble along and get lucky most of the time ha ha... Thanks.. Skip

You bet, I still like Nova for its graphics.. Way ahead of its time.. I really like it for its DDE data internal transfer into my projects !! Thanks, Skip

Hello again Will.. Yes it was a great and fun project.. Works very well.. I see your going through the list of videos on my Nerd Channel.. Haha. Enjoy.. Thanks, Skip

Thanks for commenting Will.. Microwave is a lot fun and to me its easier than the lower frequency stuff !! Skip

Hello Helmut.. I had to watch the video to see what " blue box " you are referring to.. I think you were looking at the top covers of the two water tanks that hold the distilled water for the two amplifier systems.. They are sitting inside that separate gray small cabinet that all the water tubing goes to.. They are just water reservoirs that have the small fish tank pumps in them also.. The water after going through the amifiers then returns through two small radiators with fans and then returns back into these water tanks.. There are earlier videos on my channel showing in more detail this part of the system.. The 23cm amplifier project shows more if I recall.. Thanks, Skip

Thanks again, I enjoy making the videos as much as doing the moonbounce work !! Skip

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Hello and thanks for the comments.. I would say that 23CM is becoming the most common band, 1296 Mhz.. Not so much interference like the lower frequencies and yet easy to get set up on.. But thats my opinion, depends on what you are trying to do.. Skip

Thanks, appreciate that.. Skip