144MHz UKAC

Tuesday 5h May RSGB 144MHz UK Activity Contest and Club Championship from 1900 to 2130 GMT (2000-2230 local)

A busy one last month with IO83 very well represented.
Nice to see more foundation licence stations having a go.

We just need some IO94 and IO95 activity. :)

Cheers

Tony

Ille be on from IO94.....and proved over the weekend that i can get into devon if conditions are right with my 50watts and log periodic.

Tony, the duration of the contest do you usually operate from one frequency or scan the band picking up points?

Things up here in IO95 are VERY bleak just now Tony
Even I have chucked it in and sold my SSB equipment due to the amount of idiots on the band.

There are a couple of die hards still going ,lets hope you make contact with them
cheers Keith M1VHT

I tend to be around 144.265 but, because it can be very busy, you usually find that when you turn the beam what you thought was your frequency is actually occupied.
So someone has to move. :)
144.210 to 144.360 tends to have various levels of occupancy.
People tend to prefer to be close to the calling channel which can lead to problems.
I assume that is because they worry that some are not tuning enough of the band so would miss them if they were on, say. 144.205.

It can also be a problem being in an area of high activity as the more distant signals can be masked.
Particularly if a number are using omnidirectional antennas as, obviously, their signals are always there, even when working stations in the opposite direction.

All part of the fun of it. :)

Cheers

Tony

What areyou running on 2 Gerry. im sure the will all be pointing at you when the find out you are on. your square would be rare enuff.hope the wind dies down so i can wind the tower up.

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Yes I will be on as G3SDC/a from home. Thinking if wx is good I on Wed, may strip my aerials and do some work on them just in time for the ES season. I need to change a few feeders and have a sort out! About time I got 23cms going again had a duff feedewr now for over a year!

Reg G8VHI

Exchange?

Is it just grid locator or is a serial number also given?

edit; no need to reply, had a word with Reg just after 8.00pm and he filled me in;)

was it canceled or what band is dead here

can hear about 4 stations guess the dont point there beams west

Hi

Good contest I think big signals from MM0GPZ/P AND G4RRA with qsb.

I only heard a few Ei answering cq contest calls but zero calling cq test. I heard one EI in IO65ga (missed the call) very well 5/5 here.



Cheers

Paul


:)

I know that guy, handsome devil he is and all.;)

worked 10 stations heard you talking to 4dez tony

when the stations turned this way the were all 5/9 but most didnt bother. well thats points lost for them.

hope for the next one the get there rotators working better

tonight

was good tonight excepts for 1 guy out /p. Mr SPLATTER he was 30 khz either side here. Told him during and in the contest he was wide! He was giving me real stick!
Reg G8VHI

Thanks Gerry!

And a very fine signal you were as well with your 9ele tonna at 20 feet.

First time Ive seen IO65 in the log for ages...I might even be trying to prize a card out of you to confirm Donegal

Thanks to everyone else for the points as well,it was a good contest down here lots of activity particularly from EI....with IO65 IO61 IO62 IO63 and IO51 in the log I was well pleased.

Also nice to work lots of familiar callsigns from the Junksale forum

I would no go as far as that but he was a good signal here
De G8VHI AKA G3SDC/A in 144 AC!

4dez was a good signal all night but he is a good signal all the time on all bands.

and yeah you jumped out of the noise i heard another station giving you a report later on but didnt hear you

so condtions were strange there was bad qsb over here guess its the fact i am beaming into the wicklow mountains to nearly all of the uk so that cant help.

will be on for the 2 day contest in a few weekends im sure that the will have more time for us in the west during that one

Several stations reported this to him, one one occasion he said he would do something about it... stopped transmitting for 30 seconds then started CQing again with exactly the same peoblem.. Hmmm!

Peter

G0RSQ

From up here in lonely IO94 square i managed paul g4rra and Bryn g4dez and g3zvw......but that was all, listened out for you tony but never heard you..could also hear an m6axu but didnt get a reply.

I worked G8BNE but not you I was on 144.240 and I DID point north a few times!

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i had a nice chat with Bob (g0kpw) he managed to free out the rust on the west setting on the rotator :D

im trying to have a jt6m qso with tony GW8ASD on 4m Gerry i will turn on 2m in a few minutes and point up your way

calling .280 now Gerry

Cheers Trevor nice one;)

Hi

Gerry do you have ham radio deluxe installed

Cheers

Paul

dx atlas is good as a stand alone program
http://www.dxatlas.com/

Yes, but for some reason the few times I tried getting accustomed to "Mapper" HRD stopped responding.:rolleyes:

Hi

I am having problems with it crashing my system but I am using the beta version.

It will run as a stand alone program Gerry the path is if installed to c: drive.

C:Program FilesAmateur RadioHam Radio Deluxemapper.exe

you can just drop a shortcut on the destop.

It works very well showing the distance in km between your locator and where worked.

Cheers

Paul

:)

Hi

This is how you do it in Ham radio Deluxe


top pull down menus "TOOLS" Select "settings"

Click on the "HOME" tab

enter your square "IO82TS" Is mine

Click on the Up arrow to convert to lat, lon

pick what you want to display in miles Kms/Miles.

click on "OK"

As you move your mouse over the map look in the bottom right hand side of the program window you will see the distance displayed in miles.

Cheers

Paul



:D

Paul

Be aware that Mapper is no longer supported in HRD!

New HRD uses Google earth!

While google earth feature is neat, I think the loss of Mapper is a big dissapointment.

Of Course Mapper can be used as a stand alone program by manualy inputting stations, but it was very nice to select log entries and see them on the map, so you could keep a track of worked squares.

Dont think you can do this with Google earth!

Peter
G0RSQ

Thanks for the card Gerry,last one I got from IO65 was back in 1982,and that was from GI8YDZ,I wonder what happened to him he used to be very active.

Mines on the way back,not quite as scenic but OK if you like looking at photos of antennas!

Once again thanks for confirming Donegal.

Like Tony I use VQlog which works well for me,however its not one of the free ones.

Paul G4RRA

Hi

Peter I really like mapper I did not know it was beening dropped :(

Cheers

Paul

He became GI0OTC and moved to HF well 6m at least!

Thanks Reg

Thats another mystery solved

The runs of ldf4-50 are terminated with male N connectors, where might I find female N connectors to suit W103?

Hi

Gerry I have not seen any yet specially made.

How about ldf-450 to double female then Nplug.

Cheers

Paul

ps

You going to be active for the contest this weekend Gerry

144MHz May Contest 16-17 May. 1400-1400

you can get Female N connectors in westlakes Gerry I have some on order but as usual royal mail is taking it time (10 days now) getting them to me.

the are only a few quid iirc

how much is a new andrews n connector for ldf450 50-100 quid???


w103 cheap as chips