EME SSTV event 22 July 2023
On Saturday July 22 2023 we had our annual EME SSTV party on 23 cm at PI9CAM. In 2019 we started doing this to celebrate the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. And because it was so much fun, we now do it every year.
After more than half a year of updates and upgrades to the focus box of the dish it we were ready to finally do some EME again! We had some mysterious problems during the upgrading, But now, we had 70cm, 23 cm and 13 cm up and running.
We transmitted a series of Apollo 11 / Moon landing / Spacecraft images to the moon using SSTV on 23 cm.
It has been a very long time since we were on 13 cm (2009). We are not full power yet on 13 cm but our 25 Watts plus the 55 dB gain of our 25 m dish allowed us to make one QSO.