12/14/2008 | 8J1AXA We took part in 144MHz single band, mixed mode, unassisted, with the 18m diameter commercial parabolic dish, owned by JAXA (Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency) gathering 9 operators during the first moon path of the second leg, Saturday, Nov.15 only.

34-QSOs out of 35-QSOs with a dupe (QSOs both of CW and JT65B), and 17 multipliers (14 DXCC entities and only 3 US states/stations) were made.
From time to time we have switched between CW and JT65B mode.



- 6 QSOs were made by CW.

- We have made QSOs with about 20 stations continiously between 1830-2100z.

- European window was more enjoyable for contesting.



- The CW activities seemed to be low.

- Poor condx and low activities from NA did not help for a fruitful result.

Even if we use the 18m dish, a vertically-fixed polarization and roughly 300W output seemed to be marginal power for totally 'unassisted' entry.
We heard and called more stations without answer. This result was a bit disappointing.

Thank you for the patience trying to pick up our strange callsign. Hope that our antenna worked normally....

432MHz will be QRV shortly and we have plan to expand our system up to 1.2/2.4/5.6GHz in the near future. 8J1AXA will operate until March
2010 (hopefully). Further information of 8J1AXA are on the website at

http://www.8j1axa.jp/index.html

And QSL informations for EME QSOs:

Seiji Fukushima JH6RTO,
1182 Hase, APT 2-506,
Atsugi City, Kanagawa 243-0036
JAPAN

CU next contest.

Project KDES 2008
8J1AXA Special Contest Team
JA1FY,JA1DYB,JH1KRC,JE1OYE,JF1AKD,JO1LVZ,7N1KAE,JA9COB and JF6DEA(soap-boiler) -- JF6DEA