{"id":1,"date":"2001-04-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:57:20","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/eme\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why EME?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color\">To paraphrase JFK, &#8216;We choose to bounce radio off the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard&#8230;&#8217; It is as much for the challenge as it is for making the contacts. To make any EME contacts is non-trivial. To make many is a real challenge. To make many EME contacts, move the whole station, and do it again is a seemingly insurmountable set of challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This entry is backdated to the date that the seeds of my EME yearning sprouted. I credit the <a href=\"http:\/\/svhfs.org\/wp\/\">Southeastern VHF Society<\/a> 2001 Conference as that moment. I did not attend. I was driving to Chicago from Atlanta with my wonderful wife (N9KHC) and first child (KK4JJT). We stopped on the drive for a few minutes to say hello to friends at the conference. We couldn&#8217;t stay! I sorely wanted too, but we had many people traveling into the Chicago area to meet up with us for the baptism of Claire, our oldest daughter. I did manage to buy a copy of the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh what wonders were in those proceedings! Some of the  presentations that piqued my interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>EME Basics, by Bob McGraw, K4TAX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>23cm EME, by Bruce Clark, K0YW &amp; Jay Liebermann, K5JL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50 MHz Eleceraft K2 with Internal DEMI (transverter), and VP2M DXpedition, by Dick Hansen, K5AND (When Dick decided to sell that K2 it became mine. Thank you Dick!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>222 EME, by Ray Rector, WA4NJP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"374\" height=\"481\" class=\"wp-image-12\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/2001SVHFSProceedingsCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/2001SVHFSProceedingsCover.jpg 374w, http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/2001SVHFSProceedingsCover-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 85vw, 374px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh my! 222 EME. That last one really clicked. But as time went on, I wanted to do it the hard way. I wanted to do 222 EME roving. I never did do it. Two more children, lots of work travel and the rest of a busy life got in the way. I did start collecting parts and equipment. I justified it by using much of the 222 gear to improve the station used for W4NH contest efforts. That was my start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase JFK, &#8216;We choose to bounce radio off the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard&#8230;&#8217; It is as much for the challenge as it is for making the contacts. To make any EME contacts is non-trivial. To make many is a real challenge. To make many EME contacts, move &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/eme\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why EME?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rfacres.com\/EME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}