70cm FMAC March 2020
Got set up with enough time to have a bit of a play in the FM section, using 10W to the 23-ele DK7ZB. 11 QSOs with ODX being GW8ASD.
Read More2m FMAC February 2020
My first FMAC entry for a while - it was busy but I did suffer with intereference from an M7 who was only 100 yards down the road! I also didn't realise that the 10W section rules had changed, so I needn't have put the x200 colinear up and could have used the beam instead. Oh well, you live and learn...
Read More
2m UKAC October 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from a new location - Sudeley Hill (IO91AW), using 10W from the FT-857d to the borrowed 8 element yagi on a hand-held mast.
FMAC
Section: 50R (still using 10W but was put in this category for using the yagi)
Total QSOs: 1
Total Points: 11
Normalised Points: 53
ODX: M0RKX/P (IO91BA - 11km)
Position: 19 (of 19) in 50R section
UKAC
Section: AL
Total QSOs: 37
Total Points: 8,653 (3,653 + 5,000...
Read More
2m FMAC August 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from a new location - Sudeley Hill (IO91AW), using 10W from the FT-857d to the Diamond X200 for the FMAC section and a borrowed 8 element yagi for UKAC. Generally a good evening however it seemed to be harder work than it should have been, given that I was using a much better antenna than normal.
Sudeley Hill is a good location, possibly not quite as good as Cutsdean Hill RF-wise but there is more space to set up antennas and to actually get the car off the road....
Read More
2m FMAC June 2018
Active as 2E1HNK/P from Cutsdean Hill (IO91BX) again, using 10W from the FT-857d and the Diamond X200 vertical for the last half hour of the FMAC section then the same setup for the UKAC section.
FMAC
Section: 10W
Total QSOs: 2
Total Points: 141
Normalised Points: 111
ODX: M1EYP/P (IO83WE - 136km)
Final Position: 17 (of 19)
UKAC
Section: AL
Total QSOs: 39
Total Points: 7,609 (3,609 + 4,000...
Read More2m FMAC May 2018
I was active as 2E1HNK/P from Cutsdean Hill (IO91BX) using 10W from my FT-857d and a Diamond X200 vertical for the last half hour of the FMAC section then the same setup for the UKAC section.
FMAC
Section: 10W
Total QSOs: 7
Total Points: 398
Normalised Points: 667
ODX: G3ZNU (IO91PQ - 87km)
Final Position: 7 (of 18)
UKAC
Section: AL
Total QSOs: 29
Total Points: 4,920 (1,920 + 3,000 bonus)
Normalised...
Read More
2m FMAC April 2018
Participated in both the 2m FMAC and UKAC events with a family meal in the middle.
FMAC was just a single contact with the ever-present M0RKX/P. I was hoping to get M0RSD too as I’d heard him a few minutes earlier doing a demo for some foundation students but he either had other commitments or Alcester-Dudley was a no-go. Operated from the car park of the Moat House, Alcester (IO92BF, 21m asl) using a Baofeng UV5R and the 2m/70cm mini magnetic whip that I picked up in the Maplin...
Read More