2m FMAC August 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from a new location - Sudeley Hill (IO91AW), using 10W from the FT-857d to the Diamond X200 for the FMAC section and a borrowed 8 element yagi for UKAC. Generally a good evening however it seemed to be harder work than it should have been, given that I was using a much better antenna than normal.
Sudeley Hill is a good location, possibly not quite as good as Cutsdean Hill RF-wise but there is more space to set up antennas and to actually get the car off the road....
2m UKAC August 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from a new location - Sudeley Hill (IO91AW), using 10W from the FT-857d to the Diamond X200 for the FMAC section and a borrowed 8 element yagi for UKAC. Generally a good evening however it seemed to be harder work than it should have been, given that I was using a much better antenna than normal.
Sudeley Hill is a good location, possibly not quite as good as Cutsdean Hill RF-wise but there is more space to set up antennas and to actually get the car off the road....
Finding Good Hill-Top Portable Sites (2)
This is a quick update to the blog post about Finding Good Hilltop Sites.
The Overpass API code given in the original blog post didn't take into account the presence of points in the vacinity with a higher elevation that the point in question. That is to say that it would find 'good' sites which were elevate and had road access but which might also have other land around which is more elevated than the site itself (think of...
2m FMAC June 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from Cutsdean Hill (IO91BX) again, using 10W from the FT-857d and the Diamond X200 vertical for the last half hour of the FMAC section then the same setup for the UKAC section.
FMAC
Section: 10W
Total QSOs: 2
Total Points: 141
Normalised Points: 111
ODX: M1EYP/P (IO83WE - 136km)
Final Position: 17 (of 19)
UKAC
Section: AL
Total QSOs: 39
Total Points: 7,609 (3,609 + 4,000...
2m UKAC June 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from Cutsdean Hill (IO91BX) again, using 10W from the FT-857d and the Diamond X200 vertical for the last half hour of the FMAC section then the same setup for the UKAC section.
FMAC
Section: 10W
Total QSOs: 2
Total Points: 141
Normalised Points: 111
ODX: M1EYP/P (IO83WE - 136km)
Final Position: 17 (of 19)
UKAC
Section: AL
Total QSOs: 39
Total Points: 7,609 (3,609 + 4,000...