ATV Activity Weekend 8/9 July 2017

[G3KKD]

I hope to be active on 70 Tx and RX and 2 Rx only from home QTH, Quy Cambridge, on Saturday AM&PM and Sunday PM. Listening 144.750. G3KKD.

[g0mjw]

I will be around on Sunday with my newly completed Portsdown if there is activity on 2m and 70cm.

Mike

[G8DKC]

IO92GQ listening & watching on 1249Mhz Analog and Digital, 2M/S 1/2 Fec.

G8DKC on site listening on 144.750 and 144.550, Tx - Rx 437 2M/S and 333K/S.

Rotator Control working, link on IO92GQ Stream.

Peter

[G8ADM]

I will be active from home near Harrow, N W London, 450ft asl.
Tx / Rx 70cm digital, 50MHz Digital.
Rx 10GHz Analogue, 3.4GHz Digital.

Listening 144.750 MHz...

Dave
G8ADM

[G7JTT]

Hi all some videos from yesterday at Win Green near Shaftbury,

https://youtu.be/5Oo5EG1EQ6o

https://youtu.be/JlxyNDq2-t8

https://youtu.be/QVwfYtHY4Ys

https://youtu.be/tlw7h0TS-r8

enjoyable day, but somehow the full duplex cross band portsdown to portsdown between G4KLB and me did not record

all best John

[g7vnpkevin]

G7VNP Listening on 1249mhz and gb3pv on 1316mhz will be portable after 6.00pm to day

[M0DTS]

Well it was a fairly quiet outing compared to the ATV Contest weekend but still some interesting qso's!

2 stations worked:
Ken G8VDP on 23cm 2-way Analogue (106km) after failing on 13cm, we will make that work sometime soon hopefully.

I then worked Brian GW3NWR/P over the hills far away in North Wales on 2m (206km), this is the first time we managed a 2-way QSO on 2m!
Went back to Ken and received him on 70cm analogue for a bit of fun, worked well with TVSharp Rx.

Finally I worked Brian 2-way on 23cm, i was sending 333Ks DATV which was received well by Brian, i swithed to 4Ms which did not lock at all, 1Ms was intermittent.

Nice weather this time helped

till next time....73

Rob

[g8gtz]

A good day out on Saturday at a new site IO90LX. Worked:

G8GKQ on 5.6GHz at 85KMs using the £18 FPV kit as described in CQ-TV and 2 wifi dishes although I was using a 2 watt PA I found in the shed . Excellent P5 pictures both ways with at least 10 dB in hand - finding a longer path down South is going to be hard!

G7JTT at 75kms on 70cms and 3cms DATV - one way due to the mandatory equipment failure when portable happened in the 10GHz transmit key line!

G4KLB at 60 Kms on 70cms DATV - good pictures from Colin and I made it in to GB3SQ but it couldn't a decode on my DATVexpress

G7JTT and I tried to work Rolf F9ZQ but didn't make it - we thought it must be condx until we discovered he was in IN96 in middle France rather his home QTH near Cherbourg!

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Once again great fun and looking forward to August 12th.

73 Noel - G8GTZ

[G4EWJ]

The weather at Esclusham Mountain near Wrexham on Sunday was excellent, apart perhaps from the occasionally gusty breeze. I had been using parts of the 5 section telescopic fibre-glass mast for tests at home and out portable during the week and somehow managed to leave the middle section at home. The releasable cable ties I had just acquired came in handy.

QSB on 2m talkback over the 206km path to M0DTS/P was fierce - going from S9+ to nothing at all. Even so, we had 2-ways on 2m and 23cm. We've had several 1-ways on both bands over the years, but finally made it. The 23cm reception at SR333 was very consistent, SR1000 was very intermittent and SR4000 didn't work at all. 2m reception was fairly good with several long periods of reception.

We also had a 2-way on 2m with G1LWX over a 38km path - the first QSO on his Portsdown.

Brian

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[M0DTS]

Looks like Terry and Me will have to activate our Dx path for the 6cm uk Record then Noel

Rob