A little late getting started, but here is the initial activity list for
this Sunday's Cumulatives.
A further update will be published later this week and a final edition on
Saturday, please let me know your operating plans.

G6KIE/P and G1MPW/P
Bands: 10GHz
Locator: JO03??
Power: 1W
Talkback: 144MHz and ON4KST - advise your preference in advance for skeds
No email contact after lunchtime Saturday

G3PHO/P:
WX permitting I will be /P at IO93PW East Yorkshire
5.7 and 10GHz only.
No 24GHz unless there is a definite QSO available within range.
5.7GHz 12W > 1.2m prime focus dish
10GHz 5W > 1.2m prime focus dish
24GHz 2W > 60cm offset
Talkback: Primarily "real radio" ie 144MHz SSB
KST only if I can get a reliable sig but even then
I PREFER 2M AS IT WORKS FASTER :-)

G3XDY

Locator: JO02OB Ipswich, Suffolk
Bands: 5.7 and 10GHz
Rig: 15W/60cm on 5.7GHz, 10W/60cm on 10GHz
Talkback: ON4KST and 144.175MHz

73

John G3XDY


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--- In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, "Willis, MJ (Michael)"
<m.j.willis@...> wrote:

If you are going to send a reminder - try doing it the day before. Many
of us now only take the digest and the reminders arrive too late.
Mike

Sorry you missed it Mike.
It was sent Monday but missed Monday's digest posting time and I've no
idea when that is normally due to occur.
The event itself went off very well indeed despite conditions being
very poor indeed. They were as miserable as the weather which up here
was that horrible very light but consistent rain with very poor
visibility.
Alan GM0USI arrived at 7pm as arranged, to do his own thing on 13cm.
My evening meal was running late so it was a case of a quick greeting
and then out with my dog as Max was due a comfort break.
By 7.30pm I was into the garage and grabbing the mast base I use with
my caravan, a pole and rotator. These were then passed up to Alan in
the loft and the skylight window was then removed. Cables, poles, 35el
13cm Tonna and rotator were quickly put together and put through the
window. A thin plastic decorating sheet was used to stop rain getting
into the loft by jamming it under tiles. Alan set up his gear and I
organised his PC side for KST. All done and tested as the clock ticked
8pm.....phew!
I hadn't had time to do a beacon check but I realised things were
going to be challenging once the first contact attempt took place.
Where the heck was Chris GW4DGU's troposcatter signal?
This turned out to be the story for a lot of contacts and it was just
a case of patience and waiting for a convenient aircraft to enable
communication to take place by aircraft reflection.
John, GM4LBV was much weaker than usual and Jim GM3UAG in IO87 who is
normally just above the noise in a very bad direction for me was
totally inaudible. There ain't that much air traffic between Glasgow
and Aberdeen unless it's low flying military training exercises trying
to get late season tourists to jump out of their skin.
With the poor conditions I'm sure I missed out on a few "regulars" in
the north of England unless they were absent but overall I ended up
with my best "points per qso" ratio of the year at 422 as most
contacts exceeded 500Km thanks to AS. Success with aircraft reflection contacts is never guaranteed but do
rate very high indeed. John G3XDY took me back to my 2m SSB meteor
scatter days during our contact. We were operating 30 second periods
on CW and reflections few and far between. I was sending a "roger"
report within my exchange to let him know I had everything except
"rogers". After almost 10 minutes I eventually started receiving a
weak set of rogers and then half way through his 30 second period he
sent "break" (BK)....phew, I shot in with rrrrr BK and he replied with
73 and I did the same. The moral of this is that if you are trying a
contact using AS and you start to hear your partner during there
transmit period then when it comes to your turn then don't assume the
reflection is going to last all of your 30 seconds and be prepared to
"break" to enable some rapid contact information exchange. Contacts this month on 23cm were;
GW4DGU IO71 450KM KST AS
GM4LBV IO86 141KM KST T
G4BRK IO91 517KM KST T
GW8ASD IO83 332KM T
G4DDK JO02 572KM KST AS
M0GHZ IO81 521KM KST T/AS
G4PBP IO82 399KM KST T
G8OHM IO92 425KM T
G8DKK IO91 518KM KST T/AS
G4EAT JO01 572KM KST AS
G3XDY JO02 565KM KST AS
GM0UHC IO85 52KM T
Nobody was heard randomly at all.
All my CQ'ing generated 2 contacts and one qso (G8OHM) was a tail
ender. Alan GM0USI/P advised me he'd had one contact with Ian GM0UHC on 13cm,
had heard John GM4LBV but heard nothing from Neil G4BRK and David
M0GHZ. Hopefully he can try again and be blessed with good conditions.
Fingers crossed for good activity and improved conditions for next month.
73 Ray GM4CXM
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I used a metal book support to do the same some years ago in JO55KR.
It must be down to some flaw in the GPRS protocol.

My personal suspicion is that it happens when the operators use too
large "location areas", whereby the mobiles can drift to bases too
distant for the max GSM timing advance without doing (and failing) a
location update.

The trick in JO55KR was to get the phone to camp on the local base
station (which was behind a hill), and to shield it from the distant
island base, with which we had line-of-sight.

73 Uffe PA5DD

--- In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Newstead" <g3cwi@> wrote:

I have made a prototype KST access system. Experience shows that
mobile phones often perform poorly on hilltops. This can be for one
of two reasons: weak signals or too many strong signals. Thus I have
made a corner reflector inside which I have suspended my mobile
phone. The reflector is made of cardboard covered in baking foil
(real Blue Peter stuff!). This should help with both potential
problems. Photo at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardnewstead/2856036602/

Cost <£1, time to make <10 minutes.

I may head up to Axe Edge with 10GHz later to test it.

73

Richard
G3CWI

I have made a prototype KST access system. Experience shows that
mobile phones often perform poorly on hilltops. This can be for one
of two reasons: weak signals or too many strong signals. Thus I have
made a corner reflector inside which I have suspended my mobile
phone. The reflector is made of cardboard covered in baking foil
(real Blue Peter stuff!). This should help with both potential
problems. Photo at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardnewstead/2856036602/

Cost <£1, time to make <10 minutes.

I may head up to Axe Edge with 10GHz later to test it.

73

Richard
G3CWI

--- In ukmicrowaves@yahoogroups.com, "Uffe Lindhardt" <pa5dd@>
wrote:

There is an easy trick, that will kill most excess traffic, and that
is to set the DNS to your local loopback IP adress.

Uffe

You may like to add a further tip to your page. As far as I can see,
windows seems to use separate settings for each USB port, thus you
need to plug your phone into each port and do the set up. I failed to
do this and 1mb of data was downloaded before I noticed the leak.

73

Richard
G3CWI