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<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana><EM>Scarborough
Evening News, UK,</EM> has announced that <STRONG>Angus Young(M0IKB)</STRONG>,
42, a postal worker for Royal Mail from East Ayton believes he has set a new
record after communicating with a radio ham in the USA via the moon, or EME as
it is known. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>He used a homemade
antenna and the lowest amount of power ever recorded to achieve this
communication – just 25 watts! (<STRONG>More info
below</STRONG>)</P></FONT></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>Overall, Angus
estimated his signal covered more than 500,000 miles bouncing off the moon to
reach his correspondent in Ohio. He said the received signal on CW was
brilliant. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>The previous UK record
was 50 times what he used – 1250 watts! Angus said: “I am thrilled to have made
the new record. Twenty-five watts is a very small amount of power, the same
amount which is needed to light up a car tail-lamp.” </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>Regretfully, the
newspaper did not mention the call signs of the amateurs involved and the date
of the achievement.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>Checks are currently
being made to see whether Angus’ contact broke any international
records</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Fonte: Radio Bulgaria DX Programme, </FONT><SPAN
style="DISPLAY: inline-block"><FONT face=Verdana>Scarborough Evening
News</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>Why Angus is over the Moon - Scarborough Today:</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>The call book entry for Angus Young M0IKB can be seen at
</FONT><A href="http://www.eham.net/callbook/M0IKB" target=_blank><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.eham.net/callbook/M0IKB</FONT></A></P>
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<DIV align=left>32 Meadow Drive</DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV align=left>Scarborough, YO13 9EZ </DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV align=left>England - U.K.</DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=2> My name is Angus and my
main interest's are VHF and UP. At the present moment </FONT><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>I am a QRP<BR>station with a single homebrew 9 element
yagi for 2mtrs and 2 x 14 element<BR>homebrew yagis for the 70cm band
which are indside the house roof. My radio is<BR>a humble Yaesu FT817
running very low power levels, into homebrew yagis . I<BR>have also built
a satellite array which is as follows: 1 x 5 element crossed<BR>yagi for
2mtrs 2 x 12 element crossed yagis for 70cm, complete with
remote<BR>polarisation control. The array has full azimuth and elevation
control and was<BR>built completely from junk and cost less than 100GBP to
build.I also want to<BR>add 4 x 26 elements for the 23cm band and a small
80cm dish for 13cm band. I am<BR>still working on trying to get the 23cm
radio to work as it was broken radio<BR>that I was given. I have just
passed my Advance exam and old callsigns are as<BR>follows: 2E0BAT, M3IKB.
Hope to work you soon. regards Angus (friends call me<BR>Gus)
<BR><BR>UPDATED 10th Jan 2008 I have swapped the 2 x 14 element 70cm yagis
with some<BR>much longer spacing 15 element yagis that I am trying out
again in the loft. I<BR>have also swapped the 9 element for a homebrew 7
element yagi which has the<BR>same boom length, again in the loft. I am
pleased to say that my indoor<BR>homebrew 3 element 50mhz yagi and 5watts
from my FT817 resulted in the 1st UK<BR>to ZA contact using JT6M, please
see<BR>http://www.g0che.co.uk/g-jt6m-firsts.php?uk=g&sort=2 for
details. <BR><BR><STRONG>UPDATED 14th January 2008</STRONG> With my indoor
144mhz long boom homebrew 7 element<BR>yagi and 25watts of transmit power
I worked Gary KB8RQ on 13th January 2008 @<BR>21.11hrs with EME (moon
bounce) although Gary was 6 000km away in Ohio, USA. The<BR>total distance
travelled by my signals is over 500,000miles! Very pleased with<BR>the
contact and shows that the simple homebrew antenna (£10 in cost $20
USD)<BR>works Great ! Not bad DX on the 2 metre band hi hi
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