Not the best of days out but part of the fun apparently
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First off i got 15 miles down the road then realised i had for got the laptop...D'oh!
Next one of the roads right near the /p site was closed so i had to do a 20 mile detour!
Anyway, after the wrestle with the 6el 4m yagi i was on...
The PGA-103 preamp was oscillating so had to ditch that, we call PGA-103's fuses up here...
edit: Found the problem with the PGA-103 lna, the input decoupling cap to the 7805 regulator had come adrift, now fixed.
It was as oscillating ~23MHz!.
I was using SDR Angel (now that i've figured out how to get it to work) as the rtlsdr is quite low NF with the gain wound up and an old PYE filter re-tuned to 71MHz. GB3BUX was 57-59 all afternoon.
I managed one 4m qso with Clive G4FVP, this went reasonably well but not that strong.
Dave G4FRE was max 2dB over the noise and Noel 1dB so we were out of luck there.
Conditions for me were below average, Couldn't even work Mike on 144.750!
A few screen grabs attached below.
** Must prepare more for the next 4m activity **
Thanks to all who tried for a QSO.
Rob