LU2MMR

LU2MMR will be on the air again from the 13th until the 21st of March 2019 and
the 18th & 19th of April 2019 from the European Space Agency (ESA) - Malargüe Deep Space Satellite Ground Station in Argentina operated by Javier Roldán (EA1HEO).
(Grid locator: FF54hf)

The contacts are valid for the ESA Amateur Radio Award (2 points per first QSO per mode and band)

Working conditions:
- Antennas:
Homemade inverted V dipoles for 10, 15, 20, 40 & 80m bands with balun hanging from the station 28m metallic Weather station mast.

- Equipment:
Power supply 30A
Transceiver: Icom IC-7300 (100W)
Power and SWR meter Maas KSWR-202
RM-503 Amplifier + external filters
Laptop Dell Latitude E7470 for logging and digital modes. No internet available.


Planned schedule:
I will try to be on the air daily (Monday to Saturday) after work (19:30 - 01:00 UTC aprox) in SSB and Digital modes.

QSL policy (For ESA activation only):
- Electronic QSL:
All the QSOs will be uploaded more or less daily to eQSL, Clublog, HRDLog and QRZ.com. LoTW at the end of activation.
We prefer electronic QSLs as they are faster, cheaper, easier to archive and they are more friendly to the environment.

- Paper QSL:
We will also support paper QSL both via Bureau and Direct (in both cases and only for the ESA Ground Station via DL0ESA).
If direct, please include SASE (1 USD Europe, 2 USD outside Europe)).
Please note that we will only use paper QSL to reply to the paper QSLs we receive in Germany.

Below you can check if you are in the log.

QSLs:

All the QSOs have been uploaded to LoTW, eQSL, Clublog, HRDLog and QRZ.com.
We have some delay in paper reply (for both Direct and Bureau). Sorry for the inconveniences.

LOG analisys & statistics:

- Detailed SH5 overall 2019 activity statistics.

Activation 23rd November - 8th December 2017:

Working conditions:
- Antennas:
Homemade vertical monopole with 4 elevated radials for 20m band mounted hanging from a transversal cord from a 28m metallic mast.
Homemade inverted V dipole for 15m band mounted hanging from a building (at around 7.5m high).
Homemade inverted V dipole for 40m band mounted hanging from from a 25m metallic mast.
 

- Equipment:
Transceiver: Icom IC-7300 (100W)
Power supply 30A
Laptop Dell Latitude E7470 for logging. No internet.

QSLs:

All the QSOs have been uploaded to LoTW, eQSL, Clublog, HRDLog and QRZ.com.
We have some delay in paper reply (for both Direct and Bureau). Sorry for the inconveniences.

LOG analisys & statistics:

- Detailed SH5 overall 2017 activity statistics.

Basic HRDlog overall LU2MMR ESA activations statistics

The cluster spots statistics for LU2MMR can be found here.
Thanks to all the ham radio colleagues who spotted me!

I would like to thank:
- the Malargüe Radioclub colleagues (in particular to Alexis Lucero and Andrés Travaini)
- the Malargüe Ground Station Maintenance and Operations Team and the Security Guards for their support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X9Jnp_kNbg