http://www.g6pz.com G6PZ ICOM UK Contest Group Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:35:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I needed a  "winkey"  to work with " Starlog" the program that we use as part of the GB7HQ team for IARU, as  existing serial keying that I use with our normal Wintest is not supported in Starlog . I ordered two units from America some time ago now and ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/08/06/winkeyer-usb-kit/ BAND SSB/IOTA CW/IOTA POINTS AVG ---------------------------------------- 80 86 36 91 46 1767 9.98 40 404 50 419 76 ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/08/04/iota-2008-result/ 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 ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/07/29/iota-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 http://www.g6pz.com/2008/07/20/rsgb-iota-contest-2627-july-08/ 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 http://www.g6pz.com/2008/07/10/gb7hq-2008-iaru-contest-1213-july/ 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 ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/07/10/rotatable-monstir-again/ 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 ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/07/04/pst-61-and-71-rotators/ Call: G6PZ Operator(s): M0DXR Station: G6PZ Class: SOAB HP QTH: somerset Operating Time (hrs): 24 Summary: Band  QSOs  Mults ------------------- 80:  363    60 40:  387    49 20:  349    48 15:    1     1 10:    1     1 ------------------- Total: 1101   159  Total Score = 633,774 Please see the final results table below, well done to Mark on a fine result. http://www.uba.be/hf_contests/results/2008/uba_2008_ssb_dx_chp.pdf 73 Paul G6PZ http://www.g6pz.com/2008/06/12/result-uba-ssb-08/ After the shack refit the existing "tower" computers with all their associated wiring made the set up look messy so I decided to replace them with laptops. This not only saves space and tidies things up but also the on board battery acts as a mini UPS. Three Compaq C300 wireless laptops were acquired and ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/06/11/a-wireless-shack/ Although we have two 7700s, for this outing we wanted to compare our IC-7800 and the new IC-7700 alongside each other in contest conditions. It's all well and good reading up on stats and what radio has the best performance numbers but at the end of the day this means ... http://www.g6pz.com/2008/05/27/how-did-the-icom-7700-perform/