August 16, 2018

EME Conference 2018

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The 18th edition of the International EME Conference will be hosted by the Netherlands. It will take place on August 15-19 in Egmond aan Zee. Every two years the International EME Conference is the place to be to meet fellow "moonbounce" enthusiasts from all over the world.

It has always been my dream to one day make an EME contact, and a couple of years back my dream came true; with a low-budget moonbounce set-up (a single 10 el. yagi and 100 Watts) from my small backyard I managed to make two 2m EME contacts, one with I2FAK and one with KB8RQ. To me, EME is the ultimate DX, the ultimate in a ham's carreer.

So, I believe I'm entitled to say that I belong to the EME "incrowd". I will be attending the EME Conference on Saturday. I'm looking forward to meeting some of the EME experts and to learning more and being inspired during the various and numerous lectures.

The first International EME conference was held in New York City in 1966. Below a history of past editions in chronological order:

  • 1.    1966  New York City, USA
  • 2.    1968  Paramus, NJ, USA
  • 3.    1988  Thorn, Netherlands
  • 4.    1990  Trenton, NJ, USA
  • 5.    1992  Thorn, Netherlands
  • 6.    1994  Göteborg, Sweden
  • 7.    1996  Bowie, MD, USA
  • 8.    1998  Parigi, France
  • 9.    2000  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 10.  2002  Prague, Czech Republic
  • 11.  2004  Trenton, NJ, USA
  • 12.  2006  Würzburg, Germany
  • 13.  2008  Firenze, Italy
  • 14.  2010  Dallas, TX, USA
  • 15.  2012  Cambridge, UK
  • 16.  2014  Lannion, France
  • 17.  2016  Venice, Italy

For the local ham club I wrote a short article (sorry, only in Dutch) describing all the steps that led to the final result of my low-budget EME setup, and to the succesfull EME contacts I managed to make with it, hoping to inspire others to also try setting up a similar EME station. The article can be found here.

Below the QSL cards received for my EME contact with I2FAK and KB8RQ. Looking at them still fills me with pride!







See also:

http://www.ok2kkw.com/eme1960/eme1960eng.htm - The first Amateur Lunar tests and contacts (I love this site, check it out!)

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