[UK-CONTEST] RSGB 144mhz contest & C class

[Dave H]

Thanks for that Andy

Last Tuesday night UKAC was my first night of having a pre-amp inline, most
useful. Indeed my FT817 (amp at 50w+pre-amp) was showing GIs and GMs at about
s7 to 9 for the first time ever (from 0 ot S2) meter reading previously.
Albeit previously workable, but quicker needing less repeats to get their
details. I need to sort 70cm now.

I don't know your location Andy, but with your improvements and mine, maybe
we'll work on the next one! I worked every GM station I heard. Do you have a
path down to North Shropshire? I've worked plenty GMs on 70cm .. I'll look
for you next week.

There's a lot of folk 'down here' unable to use beams or behind hills, yet
create a busy contest working what they can, some have noise levels locally
and don't hear you.

Anyone tried switching off their computer monitor to see what happens to the
noise level?- I use paper logs for now on 2 and 6m. till I sort it outl :(

Dave


On 5 August 2010 12:14, Andy Swiffin <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> >>> On 02/08/2010 at 16:01, in message
> <4C56DDB3.12317.20A8C56 at dave.davesergeant.com>, "Dave Sergeant"
> <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:
> > On 2 Aug 2010 at 15:24, Dave H wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone think the C class flare will hit Earth in time to make the 144MHz
> >> UKAC interesting tommorrow night? I got home too late to catch the DX on
> >> last weeks 50MHz contest so would like to have this for the contest -
> >> even if it means losing HF for a while after.
> >>
> >
> > A C3.2 flare is a relatively minor one, just like Earthquake
> > maginitudes it is a logarithmic scale - not until you get to the higher
> > M class or X class do you need to start worrying. There is a slight
> > possibility of minor geomagnetic disturbance within the next 48 hours
> > but nothing exceptional. For anything to happen on 2m you would be
> > talking about a BIG aurora, and I suspect that is MOST unlikely.
>
> Although OT, just in case it's of use for further "planning of
> expectations" of what to expect following a flare, this did provide some
> useful traffic on 144mhz, although sadly too late in the evening for the
> contest.   Although not a huge opening it did burble along quite nicely for
> a while giving quite weak reflection but at reasonable distance,  best dx
> was ly2wr in KO24 and sp2cwn in jo93 with a few other dls in the jo60odds
> plus a goodly handful of SMs LAs etc.
>
> I did hunt and peck around at the contest but it seemed quiet here, I am
> wondering if my coax is completely knackered and I'm loosing dozens of dbs
> in it - I'm going to replace it anyway (it's only 30 years old..... )  BUT,
>   how about the RSGB buying a job lot of preamps for you lot down there?   I
> spent quite a while calling a few people who weren't even hearing a whisper
> of me (m0bra, m1lat/p - if you're on this list you're loosing easy qsos!),
>  I was running 100w and imho my ts2000 is completely deaf (preamp sorted out
> yesterday (and amplifier when I want it) :-)  and both stations were an easy
> 55 here even in my pre preamp days!
>
> 73
> Andy
> gm8oeg
>
>
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