History and Background

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B><U>Location</U></B><B>:</B></div> <div> <B>Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt.</B></div> <div> <B>Lat: 27.53'N  Long: 34.19'E </B></div> <div> <B><U>Climate</U></B><B>:</B></div> <div> <B>Weather is generally dry and hot (up to 48C) in the Summer, dry and warm in the Winter. Rain is infrequent but has shaped the landscape over thousands of years. It rained in October 2002, the first rain since 1996!</B></div> <div> <B><U>Facts about Egypt</U></B></div> <div> <B>Population 70.72 million (July 2002)</B></div> <div> <B>Cairo: 17 million</B></div> <div> <B>Land Area: 1,001,450 sq km</B></div> <div> <B>Lowest point: </B></div> <div> <B>Qattara Depression  - 133m</B></div> <div> <B>Highest point:</B></div> <div> <B>Mount Sinai  2629 m</B></div> <div> <B><U>Egyptian Experiences!</U></B></div> <div> <B>1.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0746e960.gif" border=0 width="110" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Visiting a hairdresser or barber in Egypt can be quite an experience! Not only do they do a great job at cutting your hair to the style and length you require but they also remove extraneous hairs from your ears by an ingenius method.</B></div> <div> <B>Holding a length of twisted twine between his fingers and the centre between his teeth the barber skilfully removes hair from your ears by quickly pulling back and forth causing the twine to twist and snatch. Very effective but also painful!</B></div> <div> <B>I have the smoothest and shiniest ears in the Sinai!</B></div> <div> <B>2.          <IMG SRC="0d396650.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>You are walking on the Giza Plateau in the shadow of the awe inspiring Pyramids when you are offered a free camel ride and accept. After your ride and being seven feet off the ground on the camels back you find you have to pay the camel driver 40 Egyptian pounds to get off!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07896700.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The warm waters of the Red Sea touch the beaches of Naama Bay and Sharm El Sheikh. Beautiful fish, great diving! </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07a96700.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B> </B><B>   </B><B>Sphinx and Pyramids </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>SU9BN</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SU9BN"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>History and Background</B>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Photos"><U>More Photos</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact and about Alan SU9BN"><U>Contact and about Alan SU9BN</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>History and Background</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="06d44320.gif" border=0 width="68" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                      <IMG SRC="0b0c8850.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <div> Licensed in 1960 at the age of 16 years in Lincoln, England as G3OSB. Picture below, Lincolnshire Echo 1961 or thereabouts. Demonstration station.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0802cc50.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06b44320.gif" border=0 width="68" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                      <IMG SRC="0ccc8870.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>                                       </div> <div> In 1980 I went to Kiribati (Central Pacific) and operated as T3AT, T30AT, T31AT, T32AU. Was QRV  from several remote Islands, Tarawa, Abemama, Onotoa and Nikunau in the Gilberts (T30), Canton Island in the Phoenix group (T31) and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Northern Line Islands (T32).</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06e44320.gif" border=0 width="68" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                        <IMG SRC="0acc8780.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                 </div> <div>                                                        </div> <div> I settled in Perth, Western Australia in 1987 and hold the call VK6BN. My house is in the Perth Hills, 25km from the City Centre. I have a 1/2 acre block with vacant land behind, lots of room for antennas!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="05044320.gif" border=0 width="68" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                         <IMG SRC="0b4c8a80.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="168" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> I arrived in Egypt in May 2001. I work for the MFO, </div> <div> Multinational Force and Observers (see related links), initially working at El Gorah in the Northern Sinai before moving to Sharm El Sheikh in the South. I live and work within a few hundred metres of the Red Sea and have a view out over the Straits of Tiran to Tiran Island.</div> <bR> <div> Sharm El Sheikh and Naama Bay its partner resort town about 12km away are located on a sandy coastal strip set against the impressive backdrop of the Southern Sinai Mountains. The best known mountain being Gebel Musa or Mount Sinai with St Catherines Monastery at its base. Regular flights from all over Europe bring scuba divers and sun lovers to Naama Bay.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0732ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> I received my Egyptian Amateur Radio Licence SU9BN on the 1st June 2002. I operate two stations, one at my home QTH, mainly 20m and 40m CW and PSK31. The other station is at my work QTH a few hundred metres away where I operate mainly SSB on 20m, 15m, and 12m.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0762ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>My work QTH station:</B> </div> <div> Left to Right - Laptop using 'Logger'</div> <div> ITT Mackay MSR - 8000, MICOM 2</div> <div> Antennas: A variety and changing all the time.</div> <div> Currently using a long (250') Windom.</div> <bR> <div> My QSL Manager is Francisco Lianez EA7FTR. ea7ftr@teleline.es</div> <bR> <div> <B>Other Interests:</B></div> <div> Receiving weather pictures from Polar Orbiting Weather Satellites. NOAA12, NOAA15 and NOAA17.</div> <div> <B>Antenna:</B>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Turnstile</FONT></div> <div> <B>Receiver:</B> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Yupiteru MVT9000</FONT></div> <div> <B>Software: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >WXsat V2.5 and Timestep Tracker 2</FONT></div> <div> <B>                                                                   <IMG SRC="0a25e520.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> I captured the above image from NOAA15 as it passed over my location at the Southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.You can see the island of Cyprus in the North, the Sinai Peninsula, The Nile Delta and the flow of the Nile through Egypt from Lake Nasser at Aswan.</div> <div> Further South is Wadi Halfa in Sudan. Near the base of the loop in the Nile is Luxor. Just to the South of the Nile Delta and to the West of the Nile you can see El Fayoum Oasis and the Bitter Lakes. </div> <div> In the top RH corner the Euphrates river flowing into Iraq is visible. Technical Notes: The black band is QRM from a nearby transmitter, the darkness in some cloud images is caused by insufficient bandwidth in the receiver. The deviation of the APT satellites is about 17khz, NFM is too narrow and WFM too wide! </div> <div> A receiver IF bandwidth of 40khz would be ideal.</div> <div> I am working on that! </div> <div> Polar Orbiting Satellites are at an altitude of 800 - 1000km above the earth.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>