Showing posts with label ms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ms. Show all posts
12 Aug 2011
Perseid meteor shower
Overnight tonight the Perseid meteor shower will peak with some dazzling displays in the early hours of Saturday morning if the sky is clear. With luck, MS conditions will be good on 10m, 6m, 4m and 2m with some long bursts. Not sure what band(s) to monitor but may see what can be heard/seen on JT6m on 6m.
27 Jun 2010
Supporting MS research by skydiving
A young friend of ours, Josie, has multiple sclerosis (MS) very badly and it has devastated her life in many ways. Undaunted, yesterday Josie did a skydive to raise money for the MS Society charity. So far she has raised over £1500. She is so plucky. If you care to give something please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Jo-Hardiman. Two others in our family have had MS, one of whom died a few years ago. It really is a most awful condition that robs, mainly young people, of their hope and future. Josie's uncle was Len G4IRZ.
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11 Aug 2009
JT6m Perseids MS
10/6m WSPR
During the next 24 hours I intend to try WSPR mode beaconing on both 10m and 6m to see if I get any success during the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. I've no idea how this mode will work with MS and a basic QRP system with small antennas. Should you get a chance, do set your WSPR system to listen on 10m and 6m and log any reports to the WSPRnet logging site. Set your RX to 28.1246 MHz USB or 50.2930 MHz USB to receive WSPR signals.
Although probably not by MS propagation, my 10m WSPR signal was copied by S51CN tonight at 5w, 1W and then 50mW. At my lowest power setting the SNR was -22dB, suggesting that even 10mW would have been copied, but I've now run out of attenuators so can't get any lower tonight!
Bojan, S51CN kindly sent me a screenshot of my signals in Slovenia (see left).
Although probably not by MS propagation, my 10m WSPR signal was copied by S51CN tonight at 5w, 1W and then 50mW. At my lowest power setting the SNR was -22dB, suggesting that even 10mW would have been copied, but I've now run out of attenuators so can't get any lower tonight!
Bojan, S51CN kindly sent me a screenshot of my signals in Slovenia (see left).
10 Aug 2009
6m JT6M reception
A year or two back, during the winter months, I listened to European 6m DX via random meteor showers using the digital mode JT6M, listening on 50.230MHz. Even though I only have a V2000 triband vertical, I heard several countries then with the best DX being EA, I and HA listening for about 30 minutes in the evening. This week there is a meteor shower due around Aug 12th (Perseids?) so I will give it another go to see what can be heard with my basic setup and antenna.
At the moment I don't think it is worth trying to TX as the most I can run is 10W.
At the moment I don't think it is worth trying to TX as the most I can run is 10W.
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