On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:40:22 EDT
[email protected] wrote:
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> In a message dated 16/07/2007 08:01:00 GMT Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
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> Band full of beacons this morning: GW4HXO 589; GW3UEP 579; GI4DPE
> 559.
> Tom G3OLB
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> Not a sausage here in the Far East Tom although I thought I heard
> somebody sending three dots in between static crashes!
>
Hearing Finbar really well on 503.350 this morning. He's raised the
height of his antenna - he tells me:-
"I got cracking on the antenna raising effort after lunch and now have
a Spiderbeam whip at the top of my 60 ft tilt over tower, the speaker
wire does pull over the whip a bit , but the overall height must be
about 80 feet, with the outer end of the inverted L almost coming
down to ground level."
It's a nice strong signal up here in Shetland, in daylight.
My grabber is running continuously at the moment - pic at :
http://www.sighthound.demon.co.uk/pshed/gm4slv_speclab.jpg
I'll leave it going (5 minute updates) all day today.
Lots of static crashes though!
Nothing seen/heard of the other beacons.
Finbar is only 673km away - so that's almos a local for me!
Cheers,
John GM4SLV
Shetland
IP90gg
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