Fernando Diaz wrote:
I believe that the Arecibo Observatory antenna was used for a moonbouce
QSO...!
KP4DX - Luis

Several times. The old 400MHz feed would work at 432, so on days when
the moon was at the right elevation in the sky, they had maybe 20
minutes operating time as it passed directly over the dish.

The last time this happened was about 20 years ago, and I was lucky
enough to make a QSO. Lucky, because I almost tuned right past him,
thinking "That's too strong to be a moonbounce signal."

I was running a kW and 8 yagis. The QSL card said he was running 10W...
and Arecibo.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek