Sunday 19 July 2015

144MHz E's DX

Seemed to me that the E's season this year got off to a pretty slow start but fortunately improved from mid June.  Plenty of contacts on six and four and I was particularly pleased with this two metre one ;-

Distance between IO81WM & IM63NX is 1987.75 km (1235.189 miles)


At the time there was little local activity and after the contact CN8LI went back to calling CQ.

My equipment; homebrew amplifier 200Watts, homebrew hybrid SDR, 9ele Tonna.

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Two Metre Interference

Two Metre Interference: has anyone been experiencing QRM on two during the day recently. This horrible hash has been appearing on the band here. At first I thought it must be local to me but then I notced aircraft flutter indicating its was coming from someway off. So turned on rig in the van and could hear in all the way to Chippenham. Anyone else hear it?



"Large spike on right is packet, left spike is GB3VHF"