First fully homebrew EME contact.

I'm having a happy 2020😀hope you are too. My first EME contact with fully homebrewed station📡 Antenna, amplifier and hybrid SDR.

 I've spend ages working on this. There was never any rush but at last I had the contact that has made it worthwhile. Since I took the photos I've worked another, EA6VQ.

WSJTX screen shot

Hybrid SDR and small 144MHz amp which drives the 400 Watt homebrew amp.

Screen shot of the EME chat after the contact.

Tropo lift gives chance to air homebrewed setup

FT8 144MHz. Another what I worked ,sorry. Antenna, amplifier, rig all homebrew.

Worked

Hybrid SDR amd driver amp used.

100 EME contacts

100th EME QSO this morning, single 9 ele & just 400W.

100TH CONTACT (NOT UNIQUE only 60 or so of them)

I've found a use for that old dustbin lid - @qo100_sat

The dustbin lid and LNB on a plastic pipe support

@qo100_sat

In the shed

Signals from QO100

A video of the setup.

LNB:- I bought some time ago to listen on 10GHz but never did so used it for this instead.
SDR dongle:-£10 from ebay.
Bias feed:- homemade
Laptop:-sent to me by a very generous ISP.