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Monthly Archives: February 2018

UK HQ stations

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News

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Hi Bob,

Here’s the latest list of UK HQ stations for BERU this year:
G6XX G4FNL
GM6XX GM0GAV
GW6XX GW0ETF, GW0GEI
GI6XX GI4DOH
GD6XX G4XUM, G3NKC
GJ6XX MJ0ASP
GU6XX GU4YOX, GU4CHY, GU4EON, RL5D
GB5CC GM3WOJ
Cheers,
Iain M0PCB

Newbury (NADARS) club call G5XV

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News

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Info for BERU

I’m running my local club Newbury (NADARS) club call G5XV as a multi op supervising the clubs novice contesters during Commonwealth contest.

Cheers

Ken.. G0ORH

 

 

Quake Contesters Team

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News, Teams

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Hi Bob,

Just a quick note to say that the Quake Contesters will again be operating from the South Island of New Zealand.

 

We welcome Geoff ZL3AL to the team.  Other regulars are Mark Zl3AB, Geoff ZL3GA, Paul ZL4TT and myself as captain Phil ZL3PAH.

 

Looking forward to the contest as always and hopeful that Old Sol might provide some reasonable propagation.

 

73 Phil zl3pah

BERU Call History for N1MM+

26 Monday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in DXpeditions, News

≈ 2 Comments

Hi Bob.
I have uploaded a BERU Call History for N1MM+ users.
The file will be updated till contest march 10.
http://n1mmplus.hamdocs.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=27
73, Claude VE2FK

GI6XX as the GI HQ station

20 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in HQ Stations, News

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Hi Bob

I have the date in my diary OK. I will be operating as GI6XX as the GI HQ station and look forward to all the QSOs.

73 Richard GI4DOH

UK HQ stations active

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News

≈ 2 Comments

Hi Bob

Just to let other folks know via your informative website – that I will be the operator at G6XX as ONE of the potential SEVEN HQ stations in the UK for this year’s 80th Commonwealth Contest (so, other calls such as GM6XX, GU6XX etc will also be active – and we’re all different HQ stations)

Looking forward to the QSOs…

73 Graham G4FNL

9H to 9M

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in DXpeditions, News

≈ 2 Comments

Well done Mike! Looking through the old logs, good times for 9H – 9M6 were:

10m 09 – 10Z
15m 08 – 14Z
20m 17Z
40m 19Z
80m 21Z – heard but not worked (yet!)

73, Peter G3LET

There were only 2 QSOs with 9M from the UK in 2017, Mike.

20m at 1700-1800 and 40m at 2000-2100

73 Bob G3PJT

 

9M6/G3VYI licence received

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by g3vyi in DXpeditions, News

≈ 4 Comments

I am pleased today to receive my Sabah licence thanks to Godfrey Yin my host at 9M6GY. He has a good QRO station in KotaKinabalu that  I will be using, I may take my own vertical for 80m to add to his HF beams and 40m dipole. UK and VE may be more of a challenge than in the last years for me though!
mike G3VYI

Team Latitude Factor 2018

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News, Teams

≈ 2 Comments

Hi Bob

The Latitude Factor for 2018 is 1.92, higher than in the previous year (1.78). This appeared counter-intuitive as Team VK1 were just able to beat the top VE’s in 2017 and I spent some time checking for calculation errors. However, because the factor depends upon real as opposed to corrected team scores, it became clearer, because conditions in the southern hemisphere have continued poor and team VK1 only won as a result of three successive years with increasing factors.

I have yet to get on the air from my new QTH and so have little first hand idea how conditions are playing of late but reports on both LF and HF seem to suggest little change from 2017.

The upcoming Gozo trip is proving something of a challenge, however on inspection it appears that EJ are now able to accommodate vault poles up to 4.6m in length in the hold and that there is no published weight limit on cabin baggage . . .

73, Peter G3LET

VA2RAC

13 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by bobg3pjt in News

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Hi Bob

I am confirming that VA2RAC HQ will be on the air for BERU Contest 2018.
Just hoping to have good propagation for the next RSGB BERU, anyway we
will do our best.

73, Claude VE2FK

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