5Z4EME Kenya.

The 5Z4EME team will test there expedition setup 7 march The Callsign will be PI4EME, locator JO33ab. Station will be 2 x 10 Xpol, gasfet preamp and some power.
Freq will be 144.124 MHz and PI4EME always first. For JA we will be on
144.084 MHz.
PI4EME is a new init, please hold your QSL and send it together with 5Z4EME Give us a call!

March 30th the team will start travelling to Kenya.

If all will go well we can be QRV april 1st.
TX frequency is 144.124 MHz and 5Z4EME always tx 1st.
RX frequency is 144.124 MHz AND 144.084 during JA window (with a second receiver).
On 144.084 we will give priority to Japanese stations.
Usually we won't transmit 73 to reply RRR's, we will call another station or we call CQ.
We will give priority to callers who have a record of dxpeditions or another contribution to moonbounce or to this expedition.

Some tips to makes it more easy for us to work you:

Please call us when you CAN copy us.
DON'T stop calling us when we are in QSO with someone else (after a QSO we can only call another station if he was transmitting that sequence before).
From time to time we have to turn antenna's (by hand); than we have to stop 1 or 2 periods txing, please continue calling.
Condx will be vy good april 3-5, so don't wait till the end of the expedition to call us! After april 6th it's possible we are sometimes away for safari.

Hope to see you !

The 5Z4EME arrived in KI79mo with all the gear.
After lot of police inspection, a 300 km ride in a to small car with 6 normal bags and 2 ski-bags for the antenne we arrived in good health.
We will start building the EME antennes 1 april at sunrise.
On this moment the heavy tropical rain storms stopped.
So hopefuly qrv a little after moonrise, we will announce it on n0uk logger and our own website www.emelogger.com we have there also a realtime log.

The expedition has been very successful so far. Up till now 217 QSO's had been made in only 5 days with our two yagis and we were able to work quite a lot of small stations.
Some highlights are: LA8YB on 144 CW, HB9Q and PI9CAM on 432 and small stations like OK1TEH (Yes we did QSY .0003 Hz down hi) and PA3ECU to name a few.
Today we plan to do a bit on 432 after 17 UTC 432.084 and we will be QRV on 144 moonrise (14-15.30 hr) and our moonset, last 30 degrees from 23 UTC and maybe in between.
Just trying to get some sleep too because we're going on safari this week and we want to be a bit awake in order to be able to run away from hungry lions.