If all goes according to plan (and see from the picture that the transverter needs some work still), we will be taking a state-of-the art 10GHz system to Mull. It will consist of a DB6NT transverter driven at 144MHz feeding a Micom 10 Watt SSPA and has a GPS locked G4HUP DFS Local oscillator. The [...]
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Microwaves on Mull!
January 31, 2012 at 10:41
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What equipment are we using?
September 28, 2011 at 16:01
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A few people have asked us what equipment we’re using here in FP, so here’s a quick run-down… We’ve got up to four stations on the air at a time, so starting at the radio end of things: Elecraft K3 Icom IC-7000 Icom IC-706 Yaesu FT-450 The K3 and FT-450 are connected to linear amplifiers [...]
How things sound from our side…
September 28, 2011 at 12:53
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A quick clip of some of the (smalller) pile-ups as heard from our side!
CUWS in FP Update
September 27, 2011 at 20:36
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It’s now nearly four days into the DX’pedition, and so far it’s been fantastic. Here’s a quick run-down of the story so far… For G3ZAY, G4EAG, M0VFC and M1BXF, the trip started at London Heathrow Airport on Thursday morning. We nervously left the SpiderBeam fibreglass poles at check-in, hoping that they’d survive the trip intact, [...]
Arran 2011 Log Analysis Part1
May 29, 2011 at 17:57
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So I’ve done some basic log analysis for the Arran DX’Pedition, more will follow but for now I’m looking mainly at the QSO rates vs time. You can see the full analysis here in PDF form. To keep things easier to display [in the graphs] the report is based on 30 minute snapshots i.e. 09:00 [...]
