Those were the days.... Got all the notes directly from Eimac. That was a really good service. Lucky to have them all. It helped me a lot to get active on 2 meters (mid 70's) and EME, working K1WHS as the first one of coarse, in 1981. 73 Henk PA0C (PA0CIS in those days) ----- Original Message ----- From: Conrad PA5Y To: moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] Yes the effort was huge. Make sure to show respect to the guys that are still around of course G3LTF and PA0JMV spring to mind. I did not know that Joop was active on 2m EME back in 1974! He is my neighbour now and I'll make sure that I salute whenever I hear him! Respect to all of these pioneers. David thanks for posting the link. 73 Conrad On 19/10/2015 13:48, james1787(a)aol.com wrote: David, Neat! I have some of these, they are good to read. For some of us newcomers you really get a good appreciation for all the effort that was required (and still required!) to bounce a radio signal off the moon. Someone handed me a packet of the Eimac Moonbounce notes at a club meeting earlier this year.. I enjoy reading them. Thanks for sharing the link. 73, James KB2FCV -----Original Message----- From: David Anderson <david(a)gm4jjj.co.uk> To: moon-net <moon-net(a)nlsa.com> Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 3:56 am Subject: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] I thought some of you might like to see this note from this week's AMSAT news: + Eimac Moonbounce Notes collection Way back in 1980 when I first got interested in amateur satellites and AMSAT, I wrote off to Eimac Corporation for their "Moonbounce Notes" collection. While on a household paper eradication campaign I came across them and scanned them. I thought others might enjoy a look back at some bleeding-edge ham activities from the mid-late 1970s. It's particularly amusing to see how much effort was spent just tracking the moon with the technology then available. http://www.ka9q.net/moonbounce-notes This is a raw collection of pdf files, but the file names are pretty descriptive. Collect the entire set! If anybody has any notes missing from my collection, please let me know. [ANS thanks Phil KA9Q for the above information] I somehow got hold of a number of those Eimac notes in the late 70's, and it was the computer listings for moon position calculation by Lance WA1JXN (W7GJ) that got me started in computing myself, typing it into some automatic test equipment at work and getting output on line print paper, years before I had a Moonbounce station myself. It became a dream and an obsession to make a Moonbounce contact after that. 73 David GM4JJJ _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html

Reminding me that Gerald had that big array also reminds me that his was the very first eme signal I ever received on my own equipment: I used the first stage of an old IC215 by taping into the 10.7 MHz IF with an old FRG-something HF receiver. I think I had a xtal in the 2m radio for 145.800 so had to tune down to 10.2-10.3 MHz to receive CW-eme in the 144.000-144.100 band. I used a 10-element cushcraft satellite antenna with a ARR Gasfet (mgf-1302) preamp. This was during the 1997 ARRL EME Contest. I used an early waterfall spectrum program from Mike Cook to find the signals. Don't recall if I had narrow filters so probably copied Gerald in SSB mode. It was all done on a lark, last minute lash-up. But that encouraged me to seriously consider eme. In 1998 I fortunately landed a large (for me) private contract to build two portable VHF repeaters and base station for an oil spill coop in SE Alaska which netted me $15K over two years. That funded my 4x M2-2mXP20 array and purchasing a FT-847. In 1998 my first 2m CW-eme contact was with W5UN (of course) with me running two of the XP20 and a 120w MOT repeater amp (probably only half the power at the antennas). About that time I found a ham in FL who offered all the metal work for making a W6PO 8877 for $135 and later found three "pulls" for $10/ea. at a local hamfest (still running one of them). Its all documented (sort of) on my website. Lance is correct about the difficulty obtaining info back in the past. I bought my first PC in 1995 at SEARS (still have it: P100-40K memory-win95). When you think about it the eme community is a small group. Really super friends who offer help without a second thought! I have the link and plan to download the notes for my self. I have the Crawford Hill Notes as well. 73, Ed - KL7UW At 07:38 AM 10/19/2015, serge wrote: 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: dubususa(a)gmail.com

There is an email exchange on Moon-Net on Wed Sep 19 23:44:12 CEST 2012 Between Stephen L Hanselman and Simon ZL4PLM Excerpt: “Simon,All of it was copyright by Eimac. I can check with them, I think, and find out/ get permission to scan and post. It will be quite a job though the full set takes up a 1.5 inch binder.I am not sure but the set I have might have been Bob's (PO's) reference set. It came from a buddy at Eimac(Stan W6VW). I also have a few of the old Eimac newsletters courtesy of another Eimac Old Timer 73 de Joseph From: Ron Barlow Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 4:50 PM To: moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] Hi David, Many thanks for posting the Eimac EME notes! I have misplaced my original copies, so they are of great nostalgic value. I found the originals to be extremely useful, in my efforts to achieve EME capability, on a very low $ budget, back in 1977/78. I was a VHF neophyte, using all homebrewed stuff (complete with multiple bug infestations!). The ideas for my antenna array, LNA, moon tracking scheme (without access to a computer), and more, all came from these informative notes. It seemed fitting that the first EME sigs that I copied, using my lash-up, were from W6PO's station. Vy 73 de Ron n4gjv -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: moon-net-bounces(a)mailman.pe1itr.com <moon-net-bounces(a)mailman.pe1itr.com> on behalf of David Anderson <david(a)gm4jjj.co.uk> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 3:55 AM To: moon-net Subject: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] I thought some of you might like to see this note from this week's AMSAT news: + Eimac Moonbounce Notes collection Way back in 1980 when I first got interested in amateur satellites and AMSAT, I wrote off to Eimac Corporation for their "Moonbounce Notes" collection. While on a household paper eradication campaign I came across them and scanned them. I thought others might enjoy a look back at some bleeding-edge ham activities from the mid-late 1970s. It's particularly amusing to see how much effort was spent just tracking the moon with the technology then available. http://www.ka9q.net/moonbounce-notes This is a raw collection of pdf files, but the file names are pretty descriptive. Collect the entire set! If anybody has any notes missing from my collection, please let me know. [ANS thanks Phil KA9Q for the above information] I somehow got hold of a number of those Eimac notes in the late 70's, and it was the computer listings for moon position calculation by Lance WA1JXN (W7GJ) that got me started in computing myself, typing it into some automatic test equipment at work and getting output on line print paper, years before I had a Moonbounce station myself. It became a dream and an obsession to make a Moonbounce contact after that. 73 David GM4JJJ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Thank you. I wish I have of read these before I started with what I am going with. Think I would have not gone with a dish at 23cm. Still want to do it on 6m, but got to have more room for antenna array. 73 de Baja (just waiting for FCC to post call sign) From: Stephen Hanselman Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 10:44 PM To: cameron joseph Cc: EME Moon Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] I'll start working on scanning them 73's Stephen Hanselman, KC4SW Datagate Systems, LLC 3107 North Deer Run Road #24 Carson City, Nevada, 89701 (775) 882-5117 office (775) 720-6020 mobile s.hanselman(a)datagatesystems.com www.datagatesystems.com a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and all copies and printouts of this e-mail and any attachments. Sent from my iPad On Nov 29, 2015, at 17:04, cameron joseph <cameron.joseph(a)suddenlink.net> wrote: There is an email exchange on Moon-Net on Wed Sep 19 23:44:12 CEST 2012 Between Stephen L Hanselman and Simon ZL4PLM Excerpt: “Simon,All of it was copyright by Eimac. I can check with them, I think, and find out/ get permission to scan and post. It will be quite a job though the full set takes up a 1.5 inch binder.I am not sure but the set I have might have been Bob's (PO's) reference set. It came from a buddy at Eimac(Stan W6VW). I also have a few of the old Eimac newsletters courtesy of another Eimac Old Timer From the small amount I have read on the ones just posted, I would sure like to have a copy of the missing ones. 73 de Joseph From: Ron Barlow Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 4:50 PM To: moon-net(a)mailman.pe1itr.com Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] Hi David, Many thanks for posting the Eimac EME notes! I have misplaced my original copies, so they are of great nostalgic value. I found the originals to be extremely useful, in my efforts to achieve EME capability, on a very low $ budget, back in 1977/78. I was a VHF neophyte, using all homebrewed stuff (complete with multiple bug infestations!). The ideas for my antenna array, LNA, moon tracking scheme (without access to a computer), and more, all came from these informative notes. It seemed fitting that the first EME sigs that I copied, using my lash-up, were from W6PO's station. Vy 73 de Ron n4gjv ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: moon-net-bounces(a)mailman.pe1itr.com <moon-net-bounces(a)mailman.pe1itr.com> on behalf of David Anderson <david(a)gm4jjj.co.uk> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 3:55 AM To: moon-net Subject: [Moon-Net] Old Eimac Moonbounce notes [KA9Q] I thought some of you might like to see this note from this week's AMSAT news: + Eimac Moonbounce Notes collection Way back in 1980 when I first got interested in amateur satellites and AMSAT, I wrote off to Eimac Corporation for their "Moonbounce Notes" collection. While on a household paper eradication campaign I came across them and scanned them. I thought others might enjoy a look back at some bleeding-edge ham activities from the mid-late 1970s. It's particularly amusing to see how much effort was spent just tracking the moon with the technology then available. http://www.ka9q.net/moonbounce-notes This is a raw collection of pdf files, but the file names are pretty descriptive. Collect the entire set! If anybody has any notes missing from my collection, please let me know. [ANS thanks Phil KA9Q for the above information] I somehow got hold of a number of those Eimac notes in the late 70's, and it was the computer listings for moon position calculation by Lance WA1JXN (W7GJ) that got me started in computing myself, typing it into some automatic test equipment at work and getting output on line print paper, years before I had a Moonbounce station myself. It became a dream and an obsession to make a Moonbounce contact after that. 73 David GM4JJJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Moon-Net posting and subscription instructions are at http://www.nlsa.com/nets/moon-net-help.html --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus