| Hi Everyone, Just a quick update on progress with
GB3SIX Isle of Anglesey (EU124) 6m beacon. Tony GW4VEQ
and myself took the beacon down to Cambridge yesterday in
order that John G3UUT (VHF beacon co-ordinator) can try
and find out why it stopped working at its old site. A
quick look inside by a local professional radio engineer
revealed damaged contacts and possible damage from MICE
(!) due to its previously exposed and damp location. I
will let you know when I get a full verdict back from
John. We have three superb possible re location sites for
the beacon if it can be repaired, all better than
previous location and including heated ventilated siting
buildings. I am still open to suggestions as to antenna
selection if/when we get the beacon running again. Latest
consensus is a ruggedised horiz dipole running sw/ne to
give good sigs to states es europe. Will post any further
news hear as it devlops. 73 Steve IO77TG IOTA EU124 Steve GW0GEI <steve@rjtrain.demon.co.uk> - Friday, January 31, 1997 at 22:10:19 (GMT) 6m is dead over here in Seattle, however, Internet
access is super! Back on Friday! 73 What a week. Rebuilt the beacon sequencer for
VK3SIX. I am really confused by all those packet beacon
lists. They had VK3SIX on 50.029.3!!! For South Africa
(Typo or what?) 50.293.0 thanks, but it is now back on
the FTAC assigned frequency of 50.053 and is being set up
for the coming TEP seasons. To wit: Callsign Callsign
Grid Square and then the letter O(mni) or Y(agi) to
signify which antenna you have been l hearing. The Omni
is a long 1/4 plus 1/2 phased vertical which according to
Peter VK1RX on 27/01/97 was stronger than the Yagi which
is now aimed at Northern Japan with a spread from Hong
Kong to Washington State. The 10M beacon carries the same
ID and if I can find a suitable colinear Ill stand it off
the tower the other side and run the same sequence there.
I am told the difference between the colinear and yagi is
very pronounced. If like me you have trouble knowing
where to point your beam try North (or South) it covers
most, but then East and West is good too. My M2 yagi
snapped at Director 5 (Element Seven) in a wild storm,
but I was lucky as I had put a second cantilever rope on
about a year ago after VK2ZXC and VK5NY suffered the same
fate. If your yagi is creaking a lot, go up and have a
look. Remedy cut off the offending section (6 inches) and
resleeve it. I also put a sleeve inside the main mast
attach section. There is no noticeable difference in SWR
or performance and k6MYC said 3 to 6 inches off the
lenght is not critical. Well I am back into TEP
observation mode and realise that if we dont hear
anyhting from now until March 29/30 then we arent going
to hear anything. Daily I have long haul Es from
VK4JH/VK4BRG/VK8VF. The cairns beacon is not on 52.445
and the Townsville 50.087 never got off the ground, so
the only beacons are 50.057 VK8VF and 50.0775 VK4BRG on
50 and VK4ABP on 52.345 Mhz up North. There is little
activity out of Alice Springs as VK8TM is abroad and
VK8GF is busy, but the beacon is on 50.047 and should be
audible at least in JA. The JA2IGY beacon on 15/01 was
real good strength, and that is a comfort as the JA's are
in hibernation and you have to make a phone call to get
them on the air. 73 de Steve HI ALL 6M FANS, FOR YOUR INFORMATION, SINCE THE 6TH
OF JAUNARY, 1997, MY CALLSIGN IS F5OIH WITH HF
PRIVILEGES. I HOPE TO MEET YOU ON HF AND 6M. IF YOU HAVE
INFOS LIKE GJ4ICD AND VK3OT, PLEASE SEND ME BY E-MAIL, I
WILL USE FOR 6M COLUMNS. THANKS AND HAVE GOOD TIME ON 6.
BEST 73 FROM VINCENT F5OIH I have just heard that Richard, G4CVI, is now
Silent Key. Richard and I go back many years, in fact in
1981 I built his first QRO amp for 432MHz as a Christmas
present, this is a very sad day! Richard or Dick as he
was known completed the 1st UK EME 50MHz QSO with the USA
with WA4NJP a few years ago.....we are very sad abt
Richards departure.......... de Geoff GJ4ICD.....UKSMG
and many others. I have taken the personal greeting off the home
page as it caused too much hassle for little return! I
had to detect every single browser type and because the
UKSMG site is used for testing in several Network
Computer trials and WebTV expeiments which do not not yet
support JavaScript. Please make sure that you are using
versions 3.01 of Navigator and IE and you should be OK!
73 Chris I would like to apologize to Steve, GW0GEI and
everyone else who read my comments regarding non-receipt
of his qsl card. Steve explained to me (and you) that
there were extenuating circumstances and I accept that .
I should have keept my comments to myself. I accept that
too! Again, sorry for bringing controversy to the UKSMG
and the Web Page. Sincerely, Steve IC-756 Spectrum Scope - The scope works suprising
well, although it severely lacks sensitivity. Has anyone
worked out how to improve the sensitivity of the scope?
I've had a look at the schem, and I think the scope info
comes from the RF UNIT (J1 pin 12) with a label of SCPL.
Perhaps increasing the gain of AMP stage IC961a might do
it? (Bottom middle of RF UNIT schematic). Service Manuals
aren't available over here yet, so I'm holding off a bit.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? In reply to the announcement by Steve N4JQQ. Thanks
for the public flame ! If you had looked in six news you
would have seen my email ad and a polite email would have
got you a card. The phone call from Chris on Sunday led
me to check back in my GM paper logs. Yes you are in the
log. Having since read your comments on these pages I am
tempted to send you back your envelope and ONE (1) dollar
bill without a qsl. I dont know where all your money went
but I have only received one qsl one envelope and 1
dollar. A relationship breakdown, a job change, and two
address changes has sort of made a mess of my previously
good qsl record. If you want to flame me please do so by
email and I will be pleased to discuss the matter. I'm
sorry the qsl has not been sent but sometimes there are
more important things in life! I have counted up my
outstanding direct qsl's this evening, having sorted them
over xmas. There are 10 to reply to, including 5
international ones, of which one is yours. I will try to
sort out all 10 this weekend. Yours will be sent via
Chris WOS and will include your dollar bill. If there is
anyone else out there desperate for a qsl from me please
email me and I will send you one a.s.a.p. (no dollars
required HI!!!) 73 Steve GW0GEI (formerly G0GEI and
GM0GEI) 20th Jan: Hot! 42 degrees. Had 48 TV and 49 TV from
North West from first observation at 0800z when the shack
cooled down. Tried calling on 28.885 for JA liason, no
takers. Will call on 50.110 and then QSY down to 50.107
CW or below, as many domestic cq calls on 50.110. I am in
my TEP window which goes until end of feb but no one
seems to share my enthusiasm to try to QSO. I think
everyone is still suffering from Cycle 22 burnout. It was
open to JA on 15/01/97 See you on the magic band. SSB and CW .. on 50.11 Sunday evening Jan 19th
Xray flux spikey Dear Oms, Do you know adress of EI2EFB ? He is the
only one which I have worked from EI and want qsl direct.
Thanks for help Steve, I spoke with Steve, GW0GEI, this morning on
the LL. He has some cards from his GM days. He will look
in his log and make one out. I suggested he send it to me
and I will forward it on to you. The UKSMG miracle
workers strike again! 73 Chris I realize this might be early too but I am trying
to put a trip together this summer for FL14 & FL15,
Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. I don't think they have been
activated. I don't have dates yet but I am working with a
Bahamian friend of mine who is a ham and lives on this
island. Also, John, WZ8D, has offered to help get a
beacon going at MY qth in FL-16. Hopefully this will
happen. I know there are a lot of members in the UK who
are trying to get C6. If we don't do it on e-skip, we
will get you on F2. HI. ALSO: Does ANYONE know of a way
to get a card from GM0GEI? I worked him on 30 Jan 91. He
is my only GM on six so I am anxious to confirm him. I
went through this exercise a couple of years ago and
heard he was now GW0GEI and got his address, etc. I have
sent this guy a lot of money. Hopefully he has a good
excuse for not sending me and a lot of other ops cards
and keeping our money! What is the story on this op. I
would love to hear it. 73, Steve in Memphis, TN, home of
ELVIS 50 MHZ BEACON-CS1ACP The society "Associacao
de Radioamadores da Costa de Prata" has set a new
beacon on 50.030 MHZ in order to try to keep up the good
tradition of CT0WW. beacon specifications are follows:
Frequency- 50.030 mhz Callsign- CS1ACP Power out- 10 W
Antenna-Dipole (East/West) Latitude-39 32 13 Longitude-08
38 03 Qth Loctor-IM59QM Altitude- 679 meters asl RX
reports wil be very appreciated.Please,sen them to:
ASSOCIACAO DE RADIOAMADORES DA COSTA DE PRATA P.O.BOX
2250 3080 FIGUEIRA DA FOZ PORTUGAL or via Packet Radio to
CT1OQ CS1CRE.CTSR.PRT.EU Taken from the UK Packet
Network. TEP in the form of 48 and 49 MHz TVDX was copied in
here all afternoon 0400z to 0730z 18/01/97. Despite
calling on 50.110 50.107 and 28.885 I was not able to
alert or raise a single amateur station outside of
Australia. The calling frequency was clagged up by the
remnants of the summer social season with countless calls
from VK4 CQ South making it impossible to liase or listen
for any weak responses to CQ calls. In VK the call
channel is used like a shared toilet. Everyone and I mean
everyone is parked there. There is no use of any other
calling channel for domestic calling and although most
people QSY off when establsihing a contact, the
disruption to weak signal observing by 59 plus interstate
signals can only be imagined. Overseas DX stations have a
serious, and I mean serious problem in being heard down
hear if they are not strong enough to overcome any local
signals and local QRM, by some stations who will only QSY
up to 50.120, splattering all over 50.110. I will as a
matter of course now instatntly QSY DOWN to 50.107, to
stay in touch with 50.110 with the hope that DX will have
the sense to tune either side of 50.110, and I hope
eventually to encourage any CW DX to use 50.105 and
50.100 hoping this doesnt put us all under TVDX birdies.
I am QSX every day on 28.885, hoping someone will at
least attempt a link up from the Northern hemisphere
during these TVDX periods I am reporting. Does anyone out
there share my attempts? Announcing another 6m beacon. Currently operating
in test and verification mode, KD4HLG/B is operating at
50.076 from EM73 (Conyers, Georgia - home of the 1996
Paralympic Equestrian Venue). It is running 10W into an
AR6. Plans in the works are to have stepped power; 10, 5,
1 in a rotation to check on relative strength. After
testing is completed, the QTH will be in Marietta, on the
NW side of the Atlanta area. (Away from residential
areas!) Comments and reception reports are welcome and
desired. PSE QSL to KD4HLG or eMail to 73 de KF4DZV Cliff
Segar http://www.summitech.com/csegar/ C H R I S !.///g3wos....Have just sent you a fairly
important email re: cy9aa....D'ya get it? TNX!-Mike We have now put the www.uksmg.org web site on its
own server so you should see a significant improvement in
performance! I have had to do a lot of work to detect
browser types thanks to all the JavaScript I am using.
But I hope that NetScape 2.0 users and Communicator 4.0
ar now happy and can access the site. By the way PLEASE
use the home buttons (at least once) rather than the
'back' button - try and spot why! Thanks guys! 73 Chris Has anybody succesfully modified an IC-706 for use
on the 4M Band (70 Mhz)?? And, does anybody know if the
article about this modification is already published in
Ham Radio Today? If Yes, can anybdody send my an copy of
the article?? The IC-706 has an folluw-up: the IC-708:
more power on 2M (45W)and including 70cm (35W) Its teh
same Rig as the 706 but a few inches deeper but using the
same detouchable front panel. Expected: Late spring '97. R3VHF qsl rx for qso 17/05/94 took 18 months via
buro. Route on card: BOX 73, Nizhny Novgorod, 603000
Russia. GL with ur QSL 73 Jim R3VHF qsl rx via buro 18 months. On card qsl:
BOX73, Yesterday's announcement contained the wrong *new*
email address, sri! It's........ ve9aa@brunnet.net
........7 3 Mike/ve9aa/ex-cy0aa/soon cy9aa! CY9AA LICENSE APPROVED TODAY! JUNE 10-20 +/-
DETAILS WENT TO VHF REFLECTOR. EMAIL ME FOR A COPY IF YOU
AREN'T SUBSCRIBED. SRI FOR ALL THE CAPS. JUST EXCITED I
GEUSS. MIKE VE9AA (EX-CY0AA) SOON CY9AA 2M>160M 6M #1 HELP-need info on two items that I foun breif
references in some reading. First is a "Broom Stick
or Broom Handle Special" a portable 6M 2 ele beam
and the second is the mod(S) for a Knight TR-106 to add
CW ( "Real Radios Glow in the Dark!") any help
would be appeciated. Thanks & 73 Rob (and probably elsewhere) is a slow over-congested
disaster. It took 7 days for a bulletin from Steve VK3OT
to travel via only 4 BBSs and 400km. What's wrong with
this picture? My New Years resolution is a simple one:
not to use or support packet anymore for the disemenation
of six news and to encourage as many Six ops as possible
to use the Internet instead. I posted a bulletin to
six@ww annoucing the problems we are experiencing in
Melbourne but funnily enough it was wiped off the face of
this earth (probably by the VK3KSD sysop). ZS opening on 1/1/97 to JA and LU. full report on
the ZS or 50MHz News pages at:
http://user.itl.net/~equinox HNY to all It is difficult to get qsl from r3vhf. I have tried
several times. I have sent 3 direct. He has got and said
to send qsl to me via oh9nlo annd direct. I have not get
those qsl. He has also said to sent qsl via buroo. Nil
qsl. I think he is not worthy of my qsl anymore. Also if
I make any peditoin on two or six meter they is some
problems to get sked. Anyway my qsl shall to to everyone
via buroo whenever he/she lives(this means also qsl of
cp6af/cp6ad and oh9mty and other in which qslmanager I
am) If some needs my qsl please let me know)happy new
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