Sept 16th and 17th activity weekend.

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G4EWJ
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Re: Sept 16th and 17th activity weekend.

Post by G4EWJ » Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:43 pm

It was a fairly quiet outing, but at least the weather was good.

G4CBW in Staffordshire was worked both ways on 2m at very high strengths.

I received G3ZGZ in Cleveleys, north of Blackpool, on 2m over the 74km path, but he was unable to receive me. Further investigation by Dave has found that there is noise coming from a crane on a local building site.

I tried with M0DTS/P on 2m and it looked like it was going to lock several times, but the only thing that was received was one audio beep from my RpiDATV. I don't think we've ever worked on any band from that site.

G4FVP/P was a very strong signal on a 2m quarter wave wave on FM some 200km away to the north-east, so that would be a path well worth trying on ATV.

After the lack of reception by G3ZGZ, I contacted G4CBW again and tried with and without the PA to check that it was working. It appeared to be OK and Tony was even able to receive my barefoot DigiThin running 0.5mW over the 64km path.

Thanks to all who took part.

Brian
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