ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/08/28 13:57ARRL September VHf QSO party
Du 8 au 10 septembre, 50 Mhz et plus. Avec les conditions de propagation actuelle, nous souhaitons que cela soit au rendez-vous dans deux semaines.
Jean Pierre, je vais faire l'essaie pour la première fois du logiciel N1MM à ce concourt. Je potase dedans souvent afin de le maitrisé.....pas si mal une fois dedans.....HI!
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/08/28 20:49Comme je te disais, au pire, tu entre SSB dans la fenetre et 432000 ca devrait fonctionner.
En septembre, s il fait beau, je passe les weekends au chalet, kayak etc... Bonne chance d avance!Jean-Pierre VA2SG - VE2SSS
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/07 09:59Bonjour,
I'm planing to climb on a mountain nearby and to work on 50/144 from portable conditions on Sunday Sept 9. I try to get on the the top of Rougemont. I have 7 meter portable mast, 3 el on 50 and probably 3 el on 144. I will be using IC-746 and my car battery as a power supply. So it could run out up to 100w. The grid will be FN35.
I'll be preparing 3 el. yagi or 2 el.Moxon on Saturday but if someone has any 144 beam to borrow it would be nice.
Actually I have purchased 9 el. 144 MHz Mosley beam (2 wL) but it's still in Ontario and will be delivered only on next week.
73!
Victor VA2WDQ
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 12:13Voici le compte rendu de la fin de semaine du ARRL VHF Sep QSO party
Malgré les conditions faible à moyen, ce fut quand même plaisant. Sans oublier les stations entendu mais que les conditions de propagations ne permettais pas de communiqué, temps insufisant de la propag.
W3SO / FN00 entre autre.
Victor, I hope you get some good QSO up stair on 144 Mhz.....Let me know your result soon.
Bonne semaine à tous.
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 15:26A différentes occasions durant le weekend j'ai monitoré sur 50Mhz et aussi sur 2m CW/SSB mais rien entendu avec ma verticale. Faut dire que la distance et l'antenne est pour quelque chose.
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 15:37Bonjour Daniel!
I was operating from a field about 80 kms S-E from Montreal. (near Grandby). The exact grid square is FN35pi. It's a hill about 250-270 mtrs high.
Rig: Icom IC-746 and 13.8V battery as a power supply with output power 100w or less.
Antennas: 6m Cushcraft 3 el. yagi, 2m - 6 el. yagi, 2.2 mtrs boom length, home made (thanks to VE7BQH software) 9.4dBd gain, F/B 30 dB. I did it last Saturday from shank of a shovel.
All antennas had being mounted on 7 mtrs mast with a handle for manual rotation.
I used my car as a shack cause it was a bit rainy that day. Everything was perfect except local farmer's cows attack ) But I survived! I was really impressed by tropo propagation to south :W2 (NY, NJ, PA). I did some conacts more then 500 kms far from me. Totally operational time is 7 hours. I lost few hours by climbing on the top of Rougemont before. But it was unsuccessful cause before the top I found the road wasn't good for my car.
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 15:50VE2FK wrote: A différentes occasions durant le weekend j'ai monitoré sur 50Mhz et aussi sur 2m CW/SSB mais rien entendu avec ma verticale. Faut dire que la distance et l'antenne est pour quelque chose.
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Claude,
You need directional antenna to hear weak VHF-UHF DX signals. So you get "peace of mind" just only when starting from 4 el. or more yagi. Since 4 el. the most important for gain parameter is a boom length. An elements number parameter can improve antenna directional characteristics (F/B, wide/narrow bandwidth etc.) . So to compare different antennas it's much correct to use boom length in wave numbers. For example for 144 mHz - yagi with a 2 meters boom is 1wL 6 meters - 3 wL etc.
Actually in EU-Russia we were using 4-5 wL antennas stacked to 2, 4 , 6 and more antennas array. So the EU tropo DX record is 4048 kms!! (D4-DL).
BTW I was calling to Quebec sity side a lot on 50/144. Nobody answered.
73!
Victor
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 16:14VE2DSB wrote: Malgré les conditions faible à moyen, ce fut quand même plaisant. Sans oublier les stations entendu mais que les conditions de propagations ne permettais pas de communiqué, temps insufisant de la propag.
W3SO / FN00 entre autre.
I also heard W3SO/FN00 up to s5-s7!!! I called but.. Looks like they didn't have a receiver at all )))
73!
Victor
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/10 18:57I dont think I have the QTH to work lot of VHF. But I would like to experiment /P from mountain tops around here. A nice site is Mt-Rédemption not far from Mt-Joli. It's a communication site of course. Roads are okay and for sure could reach Quebec city from there, maybe more on SSB/CW with 100w.
Will try to find or make a portable antenna. Will advise for test when QRV.
73 de Claude VE2FK
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/11 03:19Bonjour tout le monde
Victor, most of the time, this kind of ham got 1Kw ouput , like I said, "big mouth, no ear". Anyway, condition this week end was not so good at all.
Claude, je sait que certaines régions ne sont pas propice au Dx en VHf/UHf justement à cause des montagnes. Si tu a le privilège de pouvoir monté sur une de ceux la, tes chances de réussite sont bonne, surtout en ve2fk/rover fn58.
Avec une antenne à gain sur le haut d'une montagne, le monde VHF s'ouvre.
Ciao!
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/11 08:24Dans mon cas ce sera surtout expérimental. J'aime les concours où il y a bcp de participants avec la posibilité de nombreux QSO, surtout CW.
De toute façon, ici je suis entouré de montagnes, en HF pas de problème mais monter sur une montagne pour faire des QSO est un inconvénient. J'ai remarqué le setup de Victor avec ses deux beams, 2 et 6m. Me ferai quelque chose du genre.
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Re:ARRL September VHF qso party - 2007/09/11 09:13Tnx Victor for pictures. Very nice portable setup. And congrats to all results.
6m have been dead in FN48 for at least 5 weeks now.
So you met KC0W?
PS Daniel would like to upload pictures but getting some diffculties. Can you help our OM?
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