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Request QSL via Buro

Gavin, M1BXF — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:36:27 +0000

If you are reading this then I hope we managed to work you while on Mull. It was our best year yet for QSO numbers and we had lots of fun doing the DX’Pedition, speaking to so many people all around the world and we managed to work stations in over 100 countries without trying, DXCC it is then.

If you did work us and wish to receive a QSL card from your QSO via the buro then we can save you the time and effort of you sending us one. Making use of Michael G7VJR’s brilliant Clublog you can check your QSO history with us and then request a QSL card online, saving you sending us one. This is not a replacement to direct QSL cards, which should still be sent via M0VFC, but it saves you and us time organising buro QSL cards.

Use the search box to start.

CQ BBC Radio Cambridge

Gavin, M1BXF — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:22:01 +0000

So this morning Dominic M0BLF had a different type of sked to keep, this one was with Jeremy Sallis on the BBC Radio Cambridge breakfast show. Dominic was live on the show just before 07:00 GMT.

You can hear Dominic’s QSO with Jeremy on BBC iPlayer which starts at 1h55m32s into the program (the link should take you there).

GS3PYE/P (M1ACB) as heard at M0MVB QTH in Cambridgeshire

Gavin, M1BXF — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:29:34 +0000

VHF Squares Worked (6m, 4m & 2m)

Gavin, M1BXF — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:18:40 +0000

As of 13:00z on May 1st 2012 here are the squares we have worked;

6m

Squares on 6m: IM57, IM58, IM59, IM87, IN50, IN52, IN53, IN70, IN72, IN73, IN78, IN83, IN89, IO62, IO63, IO70, IO74, IO75, IO82, IO83, IO85, IO86, IO90, IO91, IO93, JN37, JN58, JN76, JN78, JN99, JO01, JO02, JO20, JO21, JO22, JO31, JO32, JO33, JO41, JO43, JO48, JO55, JO59, JO62, JO63, JO65, JO66, JO72, JO77, JO79, JO80, JO81, JO82, JO83, JO90, JO91, JO92, KN09, KO02.

4m

Squares on 4m: IN89, IO62, IO75, IO82, IO83, IO85, IO90, IO91, IO94, JN79, JO01, JO10, JO20, JO21, JO22, JO30, JO32, JO33, JO45, JO46, JO48, JO50, JO54, JO55, JO65, JO70

2m

Squares on 2m: IN97, IO75, IO81, IO82, IO86, IO87, IO92, IO93, IO94, JN25, JN37, JN49, JN58, JN65, JN78, JO11, JO20, JO21, JO32, JO33, JO40, JO41, JO47, JO50, JO51, JO53, JO55, JO61, JO63, JO64, JO72, JO77, JO89, JO94, KO93, PM95

2m EME (Earth Moon Earth)

Gavin, M1BXF — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:18:03 +0000

John G4BAO has been having a great time working 2m Meteor Scatter on our MS working frequency of 144.375MHz but, as moonrise in IO66vh is late morning John, thought we would have a go at some EME (Earth-Moon-Earth). Well, the results were fantastic with 3 stations, JE1TNL, UA3PTW and PA2CHR, being worked using WSJT JT65b in quick succession. The signals were actually audible at times which, considering the GS3PYE/P 2m setup is a single 17 (beaten up) element Tonna, an SSB masthead preamp and 400w on TX (with no elevation), John and the team are very happy!

Here is what the WSJT trace looked like at times when we worked JE1TNL in Higashikoiso near Tokyo, Japan. The direct terrestrial distance from Mull to Japan is 9342Km. Via the moon it’s 737,782Km.

And here are the traces from our contact with UA3PTW, in Bogoroditsk south of Moscow, Russia. The direct distance between us is 2799Km; via the moon 737,782Km