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World Moon Bounce Day 17th April 2010

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Do It Yourself (DIY) EME.

Many amateurs have asked what it takes to build an EME system. On this page we will have information and links to a lot of sites that have the details that you might need to start or to equip an existing site with a transmitter / receiver. We will also link to some video feeds of EME contacts and a site that lets you play with the output of an EME receiver.

Listen to EME

One of our favorite sites for EME reception is located at Dwingeloo The Netherlands. The site lets you tune into the various channels on L-Band on the receiver base band and listen to the contacts. These are usually live when the moon is in view or a recent recording. Java is needed.

http://www.camras.nl:8901/

More WebSDR receivers can be found here: http://www.websdr.org/.

There are links to almost everything EME here: http://www.vhfdx.net/eme.html

Building a Site

To start our list of links, we will look at a site being built by KL7UW. This site is useful for guidance to what is required for a Modest/Large home EME station. It also has the information for those looking to see what is required for the RF stages of an EME station. The site has many good station drawings.

http://www.kl7uw.com/eme1296.htm

Resource Paper by Pat Barthelow AA6EG

Thanks Pat (EOA Founder) for this great resource: http://www.echoesofapollo.com/resources/EME_Resource_Paper.pdf

Tracking and calculation Software by Doug McArthur VK3UM

You can download software for tracking the moon. further down the page there are some modelling programs for yagis and RF

http://sm2cew.com/download.htm

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Videos of EME / Moon Bounce

2-way SSB EME from Jamesburg:

Jamesburg to OK1DFC SSB, via Moon Bounce with Goran AD6IW

High Power HF EME:

HAARP Moon Bounce on HF

Japan Big Dish EME:

Japan Big Dish Moon Bounce Experiment

EME Digital Comms

Moon Bounce Digital QSO XE2NS to Spain, EA6VQ

EME Kids:

Jodrell Bank EME: School Kids 50th Anniversary Lovell Radio telescope; EME Poems:

EME from Switzerland

HB9GR

Silicon Valley Portable EME

Yuri’s Night, Moffett Field, Portable EME:

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