Exercise Blue Ham Day 1
Great day on Exercise Blue Ham, we have set up the club station with a 60m flat NVIS dipole which Chaz, Mike and Matt rigged on Wednesday. We caught the problem of noise from the power lines and were set for the exercise.
A good start in the morning, and the weather was marvellous for March
Today we worked
Contacts for MX0IOA = 40 MRE35(5.335), MRE33(5.32), MRE22(5.2785), MRE10(5.4035), MRE53(5.304), MRE33(5.354), MRE35(5.32), MRE24(5.379), MRE24(5.3985), MRE24(5.2785), MRE22(5.4035), MRE53(5.395), MRE43C(5.2785), MRE53(5.363), MRE83(5.4035), MRE51(5.304), MRE33(5.335), MRE51(5.32), MRE24(5.2985), MRE24(5.363), MRE53(5.301), MRE24(5.32), MRE43C(5.395), MRE51(5.395), MRE33(5.395), MRE30(5.2785), MRE33(5.4035), MRE10(5.2785), MRE53(5.32), MRE30(5.2985), MRE53(5.2785), MRE06(5.304), MRE06(5.2985), MRE35(5.379), MRE33(5.2985), MRE35(5.395), MRE06(5.335), MRE43C(5.4035), MRE35(5.304), MRE06(5.379)
A short clip of us working MRE46, recorded at the Weston SDR
A learning exercise is that this cheap and anonymous Chinese clone of a Behringer HA400 four-port headphone amplifer performs poorly in the presence of RF
whereas the real thing from Behringer is fine, and worth the extra 1/3 in price as a result. Buy cheap, buy twice… Behringer make their HA400 in China too, but theirs doesn’t give some distorted demodulated SSB on transmit.