3Z4EME QSL cards update

The 3Z4EME QSL card design has been approved for print and paid - and as of today eveything is at the printhouse.

Delivery of printed QSLs is still expected for December, however it might happen that they arrive actually a bit earlier ( late November ) - let's wait and see. In any case return mailing of your envelopes will commence no later than first week of January.

In the meantime the first direct mail from OH4LA has already arrived and is waiting for 3Z4EME cards to come from printer.

Next 3Z4EME Activity

The next 3Z4EME 144MHz activity is planned for 2nd Leg of ARRL EME Contest 
16/17 November 2013

See you all off the Moon !

3Z4EME in First Leg of ARRL EME

ARRL EME weekend has been a great fun, despite not being able to run the station full available Moon time due to QRL commitments on weekend. Missed total of 10 hours of Moon time including most of NA window on Sunday morning ( UTC time ). On the bright side - plenty of NA stations left to work in the second leg of ARRL EME. The Moon conditions on Saturday just so-so, noticeably better on Sunday. Moderate pileups of approx a dozen of callers experienced from time to time.

3Z4EME activity results so far - after 1st ARRL EME weekend

Number of Contest QSOs: 140

List of calls:

4X1DG 7K3LGC AA7A AD4TJ BA7JA DC9YC DG0OPK DK0KK DK3WG DK5LA DK5SO DK9ZY DL1DWI DL1SUN DL2LAH DL7FF DL7UDA DL9MS DM2BHG EA2AGZ EA4CYQ EA5CV EB5EEO EB5GP ES3RF F1AFJ F1DUZ F5AQX F6APE F6BEG F6HEO F9HS G4FUF G4ZFJ G4ZTR G6PHH GM6VXB HA8CE HB9Q HL5QO I2FAK I2RV I3LDP I3MEK IW4ARD IZ0FWE IZ1GZA JE1TNL JH0BBE JM1GSH JR3REX K1JT K3RWR K7MAC K9MRI KB5WIA KB8RQ KG7HF KL7UW LU1C LZ1DP LZ1VPV LZ2FO N3RG N4WY N9XG NJ2R NT0V OE3FVU OH4LA OH7PI OK1CU OK1DIX OK1KIR OK1UGA OM3BC ON4KHG OT7K OZ1LPR PA0C PA0JMV PA1GYS PA3DOL PA3FPQ PA3HDG PA5MS PE1L PI9CM R3BM R9SL RK3FG RN3A RN6DJ RU1AA RV3IG RV9UV RW3AC RX1AS S52LM SK5AA SK6EI SM0DY SM2A SM4GGC SM5CUI SP2OFW SV6KRW SV9ANJ UA3PTW UA4AQL UA4LCF UA6BAC UA9YLU UN9L UR3EE UR7D US8ZAL UT5DL UT5UAS UT6UG UX0FF UY2QQ UY9VY VA7SW VK2KU VK3AXH VK4AMG VK5APN VK5FA W2DBL W3SZ W4YTB W6YX WA2FGK WB8TFV YL2AJ YL3CT YU7XL ZS6OB ZL2ADU

Full 3Z4EME log up to last QSO on October 27th has been already uploaded into LoTW and eQSL and first QSO confirmations have been received.

3Z4EME QSL card design

The QSL card design has been just finished. Hope you like it - the cards will be printed within next    4 to 6 weeks and are scheduled to be dispatched on reply basis within first two weeks of January 2014.

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3Z4EME on air for the first time

The very first activity of 3Z4EME will take place from 00 UTC Saturday, October 26th - within the ARRL EME Contest timeframe, on 144 MHz band.

Log initials list will be published here promptly after this weekend

LoTW certificate has been obtained and tested today, as was eQSL account and AG certificate. Everything is looking good.

Looking forward to see/hear you all over the Moon in a few hours !

Copernicus Special Event EME Station

Moonbouncing from Olsztyn - the city of Nicolaus Copernicus

3Z4EME is a Special Event EME Station callsign utilized for EME events, activity periods and technical experiments. The station is capable of both JT65 and CW on 144 MHz. Grid locator is KO03hs - the greater Olsztyn area.

Olsztyn, the capital of so-called Country of One Thousand Lakes in North-Eastern Poland, is the city where one of the most famous world astronomers - Nicolaus Copernicus - spent part of his life and performed some astronomical observations.

During 1516–1521 Copernicus resided at Olsztyn Castle as economic administrator of Warmia province ( Kingdom of Poland ). While there, he wrote a manuscript, Locationes mansorum desertorum ( Locations of Deserted Fiefs ) and during the Polish–Teutonic War ( 1519–21 ), Copernicus directed successful defense of Olsztyn and Warmia by Royal Polish forces.

In the cloister of the Olsztyn Castle we can still see the authentic proof of Copernicus work - an astronomical board of dimensions 140x705 cm, an immovable astronomical instrument, the fourth he possessed. It is a kind of an empirical table - it has all the qualities that allowed to lead Copernicus investigations of the inequality of the motion of the Earth.

More on Copernicus life in Olsztyn:
http://copernicus.torun.pl/en/biography/1503-1543/5/?view=film&file=1

More on Copernicus astronomical observations in Olsztyn:
http://copernicus.torun.pl/en/science/astronomy/5/?view=film&file=4