Howard Ling - G4CCH

23cm Earth Moon Earth - EME

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Kirton in Lindsey
Lincolnshire
England

 

Next EME activity date: 10th and 11th May 2008
This is also the European EME Contest - 23cm CW/SSB
DL1YMK's EME Expedition to CX, Uruguay - 1st to 12th May (432, 1296 and 2320 MHz)
DL3OCH expedition to T7, San Marino - 1st May (1296 MHz)
DL2SBY & DF1SR expedition to HB0,
Liechtenstein - 5th to 12th May (1296 & 2320 MHz)
EV5M expedition to
 Byelorussia (KO44) - 10th & 11th May
 

     


My interest in radio and engineering began as a teenager. This developed into my career in the Two Way Radio industry - I was Technical Director for Motek Portable Products for over 21 years. 

I passed the Radio Amateurs Exam (RAE) in the early 1970's and got my first callsign G8GBC. A year or so later, I took the 12wpm morse test and upgraded to G4CCH. 

HF never really did it for me, but after building my first  equipment for 2m I realised there was more fun to be had in the VHF and up part of the spectrum. 

The early EME or Moounbounce experiments of G3LTF and G3CCH were something that I marvelled at, and in the late 1970’s I started building equipment for 23cm initially for tropo. This was also used several times in VHF NFD as part of the Scunthorpe VHF Contest Group’s multiband setup - G4CDC, G4ERG, G0JRB, G8XFY, G8FEK...

     
 

Working on the dish feed

   

5.4m dish with W2IMU feed

 
 


My interest in 23cm EME moved up gear after I heard ssb echoes from PA0SSB during a talk at the Scunthorpe Amateur Radio Club given by G4DZU.

In 1982, I started building my first 2.4m dish for EME, and with a lot of help from G3WDG, G4KGC and G8XFY I made my first EME QSO with K2UYH with 150 Watts CW.

In 2000, my 5.4m dish was completed... what a massive improvement. Seven years later I'm still having fun and giving the "big boys" a run for their money, and now with JT65 I'm making contacts that I would never have imagined were possible.

Want to find out more... take a look around my website
 

 

 


Ling Communications ... possible new business venture watch this space...
G4CCH - ARRL EME Contest 2007, entry details... for the scrutineers 21st April 2008
News of my latest EME activity 4th May 2008
EME  Initial Contacts  & Standings List 4th May 2008
Recordings of EME signals 31st December 2007
Information about my station ... more info being added 4th August 2006
EME Photo Gallery  and EME Contest Awards... NEW 22nd March 2008
See how my new dish project progressed   12th June 2002
Lunar Activity Weekend Calendar    Info from DL7APV (Jan 08 NL)
EME Expeditions and Special Events 20th November 2007
Links to other interesting sites on the WEB  

 


Please E Mail me if you need more information - howard(at)g4cch(dot)com
or call me on Skype
My status

Last updated on 04/05/08