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Archive for July, 2008

The Men In Black IOTA 2008

G6PZ on 40m recorded by M0BJL

This was a fantastic event, the station worked well, we all had a great time and the WX was fantastic. On top of that Ian from Icom spent the weekend with us and made it even better.
Ian took alot away with him about our IOTA efforts and contesting in general [...]

RSGB IOTA Contest 26/27 July 08

Icom UK are visiting us for IOTA to officially hand over the IC7700 tranceivers and to take some film of us during the contest. We look forward to meeting them and having a great contest weekend.
73 Paul G6PZ

GB7HQ, 2008 IARU Contest 12/13 July

This weekend G6PZ morphs into GB7HQ. We are part of the RSGB HQ Team and will be QRV on 15m CW. We will also be providing 40m ssb support. Please go to this web site for further details
http://www.gb7hq.com/
W look forward to meeting you !
73 Paul G6PZ

Rotatable MonstIR (again)

In my last post I was talking about the broken PST-61 rotator. The 61 is a strong rotator but not strong enough for the MonstIR. The SteppIR’s are quite rotator hungry, by this I mean that you need a rotator that is rated above that of what you would expect compared to a conventional yagi of [...]

PST 61 and 71 Rotators

For some time now the MonstIR has been without a rotator, the PST-61 that was fitted stripped its gears during a big storm in January allowing the aerial to windmill causing the MonstIR control and coaxial lines to be severed. These were repaired but the rotatator was Fubar and was removed.
The MonstIR has been fixed on EU [...]