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Please read the Wikipedia explanation of EME
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VK2SN was active on Earth Moon Earth back in the early 2000's on 2m and then 70cm in 2005 and 2006. Since then the locations where I have lived could not cater for the large EME Antenna set-up.
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As a result, and due to my small location, in 2025/6 I am working on building a 10ghz EME Project.
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In early 2000's VK2SN had one 12 element 144 mhz (2M) M2 Antenna Corp (USA) 2M12 yagi with a Yaesu Azimuth-Elevation combination rotator mounted on a small ground tower.
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Antenna feed connected into tower mounted LNA and the PC controlled RF - RX/TX switching box. Split TX and RX coax cables exit the Switching Box and the RX coax directly feeds into the the RX modification of the Kenwood TS 2000x Ham Radio and the TX coax feeds into a LZ2US Amplifier then directly into the TX modification of the TS 2000X.
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The TS2000X is connected to the PC via a Yaesu SCU-17 PC Interface and using the Software program WSJT - JT65A and JT65B for decoding of the digital signal.
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VK2SN has worked over 100 Earth Moon Earth contacts on both 2m and 70cm.
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My current location is a difficult space for a complete EME setup So 2m and 70cm EME transmissions are on hold until I find a better location. I now am working on a 10Ghz EME Project.
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In 2005 and later in 2006, the Antenna Images on the RIGHT are of my past 70cm EME 4 X M2 designed Yagi's built December 2005 and the Antenna Images on the LEFT built September 2006 is the Shorter version after the neighbours complained. This is the set-up used for all my EME contacts on the 70cm (432Mhz) Band.
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I find EME the most exciting concept for Ham Radio. Its fun to communicate with others around the World by bouncing your signal off the moon ! It is also a technical challenge in design, build and operation, this is what makes Ham Radio a challenging and fun interest.
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VK2SN
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