There have been whispers and a few emails exchanged regarding a VHF Fun Day for the 2nd January 2011. I think 12:00 is a good time. I understand that this is fairly short notice but if anyone would like to play out I’m up for giving it a go. Wx permitting of course.
I will post an alert in due course so activators can grab their local pimple if they choose to do so. I will initially alert for 145.500 FM and 144.300 SSB and I’m aware that alerting/spotting these frequencies is far from ideal but if there is a fair amount of activity the bands may be busy. If free I prefer to use 145.325 FM and 144.325 SSB for my activations.
On that day I will be staying at the hut by the hostel in the Coppermines Valley with G/LD-013 on the doorstep, therefore if weather and snow conditions permit I will activate the Old Man of Coniston…I hope he doesn’t mind…
Rather unlikely this New Year Chris. Paul and I will be out on 30th December and neither of us have sufficient Brownie points to run another activation so soon afterwards. Hoping to get out a little later in January.
I was going to do some of the bigger hills in the WB area! However I will leave that for a while, Will try and get out on WB-012 High Vinnals! I started my 2010 campaign there so I can think of nowhere better to start my 2011 campaign!
Look forward to it, I will also be on 4 metres and 23cms!
Strange. Would you like me to delete any alerts you have and then you can re-enter them? That will get you moving forward why we figure out why you can’t edit them.
Chris, can you do me a favour. Can you send a screen grab of what is being displayed by your browser. (You may know how to do this but in case you don’t here are some instructions.)
Get your browser to display the alerts page http://www.sotawatch.org/alerts.php
and then press Shift + Print Screen. This will take a snapshot of the screen you are seeing. Goto Windows Paint (Start>Programs>Accessories>Paint) and press Ctrl + V. This will paste the screen shot into the document. Save this picture and then email it to me at mm0fmf_sota AT intermoose.com (replace the AT with @). I’ll have a look at what you are seeing and see if that explains your problem with edits.
Weather seems ok for tomorrow. First summit of New Year so really looking forward to it. My friend M3UNG Neil is taking his 817 so we will have two radios set up for 2M. One on FM and the other on SSB. Both with SOTA beams so hopefully work some S2S and plenty of Chasers too.
In reply to 2E0FSR:
I too look forward to some s2s as well as many chasers tommorow from cleeve hill. Aswell as VHF I’ll have a handy for some UHF contacts, and a vertical with atu for some HF too, weather depending I’ll hopefully be up there most o the day, or till the batteries have given up.
Also this is my 1st G activation so I’ll try to give the correct callsign as much as possible and apologies if you do hear the Scotland locator, old habits die hard as they say.
I was not out myself today so was only chasing, which at times was quite challenging with several activations going on at the same time on 2 metres.
The spots were coming in thick & fast for a few hours around early afternoon with many opportunities for VHF summit to Summit contacts. I hope all activators who were out on the hills today had fun & that chasers got to work all those they could hear.
The level of activity certainly shows that the weather has improved from that we had in the UK leading up to Christmas!
In reply to G0VOF:
Yes indeed it was a great fun day on the hills - though it was -1.5°C and dropping. I heard you on one channel but never managed the chance to have a QSO.
As you said Mark it was a bit busy and where to go next was a bit daunting a times but I did get 10 S2S so was happy with that.
Thanks to everyone I talked to today and all the best for the New Year and hope you all got home safe.
In reply to 2E0FSR:
As an amateur that never really goes below 50MHz may I just say how nice it was to hear so much activity on VHF and UHF Today!! Today the three of us operated on WB-012 High Vinnals, with 4 different bands! We had 2m SSB (2E0BTR) and FM, 4m FM QRO courtesy of Dave M0MYA, 6m FM and finally 23cm FM!
Why can’t the VHF/UHF bands be like this all the time! I have no qualms with HF and do occasionally operate from home on the bands, but why when you have metres of rock underneath you do people not take full advantage of VHF/UHF!!
This should be a 4 times per year event in the SOTA Calendar!
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