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WEEKLY NEWS Brought to you by Bill Learmonth .. G4YZE 
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Roar Nets August 8 2010 |
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Propagation slightly
improved. K=2, A=5,
Flux=83
0530z - 0700z
Europe - Anzo Net on 14,293
Long Path.
I did pretty well on this
one. Voices from 05.55,
Got VK3KCD 4/4 at 0610,
VK4ZD 3/4 at 0614.
VK2GWK 5/6 by 0630. Pertti
EA7GSU 5/8 by 0645z. Pertti
was going to meet Helga Racz.
widow of our late president
Laszlo Racz, after the net
to guide her to his
location.
Helga is delivering Laslo's
3-el beam to Pertti and
staying a few days before
going on to Germany.
So - apologies from Pertti
to the International Net
this afternoon.
Many thanks to Peter
VK3KCD for this report from
the Anzo region :-
Good morning Bill
The VK ZL net on 7115 at
0500 was quiet this week
with myself and Bill VK4ZD
joined briefly by Doug
ZL1BFS but propagation was
poor across the Tasman. Bill
and I then went to 14293 and
as they say the rest is
history. Bill was putting an
excellent signal into Europe
and I had the pleasure of
working Klaus first then
yourself and finally Pertti
EA7GSU. It was as if a long
drought had broken at last.
Next weekend is the local
Remembrance Day contest in
memory of the cessation of
hostilities in the Pacific
area so the bands will be
very busy but hopefully will
not interfere with the ROAR
net.
YIR
73 Peter VK3KCD
And many thanks to Klaus for
the following report :-
Greetings Bill,
With
the sunspot
activities reported on
SpaceWeather.com during
the week I had high
hopes when I started
listening on the ANZO
net this morning. I was
not let down. For the
first time in many
months there were 59
signals from VK2 and
VK4.
05:32z VK3KCD,
Peter.
53 - 55. Got the same
from Peter. Peter's
signals were readable
here for almost an hour.
05:33z VK4ZD, Bill
from Lockyer Waters. 59
both ways. Besides the
ROAR participants Bill
worked guests DK2BS,
DJ4UR and OK1GW.
05:37z ZL1RD,
Rob. About 44 - 54 both
ways. Lost Rob rather
quickly.
Abt. 05:40z
I got 59+10 static noise
from raindrops
falling. Stepped out on
the side line for about
10 minutes.
06:09z G4YZE,
Bill. Barely readable
for a start. Never very
strong here. Bill had
06:15z EA/G4HMG,
John. 57 here.
Unfortunately John had
very poor copy or no
copy on the VKs.
06:23z VK4KYL,
Diane. Not surprisingly
the same fine report as
Bill.
06:28z VK2GWK,
Henk. 56 here for a
start with
signals improving and
peaking 59. Beautiful
weather and 17 -
06:47z EA7GSU,
Pertti. Now 59+15. Got
59+20. Good going after
a 00 start.
07:05z Net closed
0800z - 0900z UK
80-metre Net on 3,694
G4WRU Mike in charge from
London in noisy conditions.
Supported by :- G2FUU
Tommy, G3JJR John, G0SQH
Derek,
G4MVO Jim and G4YZE Bill.
1100z - 1200z
International Net on 14,293
I missed this net due to a
Rotary BBQ (and very nice it
was too).
Many thanks to Klaus for the
following report :
INTERNATIONAL NET On request of Bill, G4YZE, I did my best to act as net controller. With the fine VK-signals seen on the ANZO net, I had hoped for a good transatlantic opening, but found the usual miserable conditions.
11:03z W1QUO, Jim. 53
here with some QSB.
Got 54.
11:07z G3TKK, Peter.
Anything between 53 and 58
here. Peter briefly worked
Jim, before Jim closed down.
11:17z G0DOQ, Peter,
as guest. From
11:29z M0BKS, Ken, as
guest. 42-56 here. QTH: 11:40z Net closed. 73 Klaus, HB9CQS
1700z - 1730z UK
evening 80-metre Net on
3,694
G2FUU Tommy in charge in
very noisy conditions.
Supported by :- G0SQH Derek,
M0BDI Ralph, and G4YZE Bill.
Also very welcome call-ins
from two old time members
:-
G4DCI Philip from
Nottingham, Rotary Club of
Trent Bridge
e-mail
p.hopwell1@ntlworld.com
and G3ZZP David from Hull,
Rotary club of Hull Paragon.
e-mail
david.matthews@tesco.net
Hope you can both join us
regularly. We need your
support!
1800z - 1830z
N.Am. Transcontinental Net
on 14,288.
Many thanks to Treasurer
Bob for the following report
:-
Hi Bill, The
propagation was a little
better today for the
transcontinental net.
Jack KF5BD was net
control with the
following checkins;
Reuben W2LGF, Jim W1QUO,
Joe W0TBC,
My self Bob WB7RQG and
one guest from the state
of Washington, Gary
W7WPR.
A new net has started on
14.290 which is too
close to 14.288. They
start before we do so we
have had to move down to
14.287 the last two
weeks. I am the net
control next week and I
shall start earlier with
Jack KF5BD in QSO to
hold the freq.
73, Bob WB7RQG
Messages
Received.
Re noisy reception at Jim
W1QUO's new location.:-
Many thanks to Alan Rogers
(ex ZE6JG - and Radio
Astronomer at MIT ) for all
his help.
He wrote :-
Dear Jim,
I tuned in this morning at 7 a.m. Of course your signal was loud and clear. I did hear Bill as a very weak signal a Beverage antenna pointed at the U.K. - he called just as you began your contact with HB9CQS (on my Beverage HB9CQS and G4YZE were about equal strength this morning. I have to put a lossy filter in front of my AOR AR8200 handheld so I don't get a meaningful S-meter reading but the speech was quite readable from both Bill and Klaus). I think a large problem is that the propagation is still very marginal but perhaps it will improve now that it looks like solar activity is increasing. I will try to come over with a portable spectrum analyzer sometime in the couple of weeks to do a more careful study of the sources of the noise around the Sunrise building and vicinity. best regards Alan
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We wish you all success Alan
!
Do you think it would help
if we set the net time later
? (g4yze)
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That's all for this week,
73 de Bill g4yze
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