Sunday's 10 metre WSPR de MW0BYS

13th November 2011 10m

Yesterday's results on the 10 metre band:

Timestamp	Call	MHz	SNR	Drift	Grid	Pwr	Reporter	RGrid	km	az
2011-11-13 10:40	MW0BYS	28.126166	-22	0	IO71mr	5	ZL2FT	RF70mb	18704	360
2011-11-13 10:14	MW0BYS	28.126121	-13	0	IO71mr	5	VK1HW	QF44mm	17276	59
2011-11-13 10:10	VK1HW	28.126073	-3	0	QF44mm	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17276	319
2011-11-13 10:40	MW0BYS	28.126087	-24	0	IO71mr	5	VK2HLG	QF56of	17251	53
2011-11-13 09:56	MW0BYS	28.126074	-20	0	IO71mr	5	VK3XPT	QF22nd	17225	68
2011-11-13 10:32	MW0BYS	28.126080	-19	0	IO71mr	5	VK2WD	QF56	17215	53
2011-11-13 10:36	VK2WD	28.126112	-19	0	QF56	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17215	324
2011-11-13 12:34	VK6ZMS	28.126041	-20	0	OF77xv	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	14831	313
2011-11-13 12:38	MW0BYS	28.126085	-18	-1	IO71mr	5	VK6ZMS	OF77xv	14831	89
2011-11-13 09:58	VK8AW	28.126110	-4	1	PH58hf	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	14054	327
2011-11-13 09:56	MW0BYS	28.126085	-12	0	IO71mr	5	VK8AW	PH58hf	14054	58
2011-11-13 13:32	MW0BYS	28.126096	-12	-1	IO71mr	5	FR5DN	LG78qs	9998	126
2011-11-13 16:38	PU2MWD	28.126142	-12	0	GG56tv	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	9333	25
2011-11-13 15:52	MW0BYS	28.126089	-9	-2	IO71mr	5	PU2MWD	GG56tv	9333	219
2011-11-13 10:50	MW0BYS	28.126079	-15	0	IO71mr	5	PU2BFG	GH64ci	8557	222
2011-11-13 14:46	MW0BYS	28.126090	-17	1	IO71mr	5	KC6KGE	DM05gd	8451	310
2011-11-13 14:36	KC6KGE	28.126173	-15	-1	DM05gd	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8451	36
2011-11-13 14:46	MW0BYS	28.126063	-8	0	IO71mr	5	KO6SY	DM14ka	8427	308
2011-11-13 17:16	WB6MLC	28.126085	-24	0	CM87us	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8358	35
2011-11-13 16:22	MW0BYS	28.126025	-21	0	IO71mr	5	K6HX	CM87ux	8339	314
2011-11-13 15:00	AA6I	28.126069	-12	0	DM06fm	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8331	36
2011-11-13 16:22	MW0BYS	14.097082	-24	0	IO71mr	5	K6PZB	CM88nk	8326	314
2011-11-13 16:08	N6GN	28.126118	-15	0	CM88ok	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8322	35
2011-11-13 17:00	W6MSU	28.126141	-14	0	CM98hb	0.5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8285	35
2011-11-13 16:00	MW0BYS	28.126104	-14	-1	IO71mr	5	WA7HL	DM51ck	8238	301
2011-11-13 14:54	MW0BYS	28.126112	-24	0	IO71mr	5	AC7SM	DM26ie	8134	308
2011-11-13 14:40	AC7SM	28.126030	-17	1	DM26ie	0.5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	8134	37
2011-11-13 15:46	W7BDB	28.126128	-6	0	CN84mx	1	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7735	36
2011-11-13 16:16	N7GLS	28.126107	-9	1	CN85qo	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7663	36
2011-11-13 15:16	MW0BYS	28.126088	-20	0	IO71mr	5	N7GLS	CN85qo	7663	318
2011-11-13 15:02	W7QL	28.126134	-8	-1	DN40bo	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7565	40
2011-11-13 15:24	MW0BYS	28.126069	-17	-1	IO71mr	5	W7QL	DN40bo	7565	308
2011-11-13 16:42	MW0BYS	28.126085	-26	0	IO71mr	5	N7VVX	DN40bw	7536	309
2011-11-13 16:14	AD7UI	28.126106	-12	-1	DN32tv	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7396	40
2011-11-13 15:52	MW0BYS	28.126080	-13	1	IO71mr	5	AD7UI	DN32tv	7396	310
2011-11-13 14:34	MW0BYS	28.126099	-2	0	IO71mr	5	W5CGC	EM13ka	7329	293
2011-11-13 13:10	W5CGC	28.126148	-9	1	EM13ka	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7329	43
2011-11-13 13:54	YV4GJN	28.126018	-17	-1	FK50xf	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7279	37
2011-11-13 13:52	MW0BYS	28.126093	-19	0	IO71mr	5	YV4GJN	FK50xf	7279	255
2011-11-13 15:16	MW0BYS	28.126142	-15	0	IO71mr	5	KD0PLN	DM79nr	7248	303
2011-11-13 16:02	W7CNK	28.126177	-3	-1	EM15fi	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7165	43
2011-11-13 16:30	MW0BYS	28.126082	-17	0	IO71mr	5	W7CNK	EM15fi	7165	295
2011-11-13 15:16	MW0BYS	28.126088	-8	0	IO71mr	5	WA5ETV	EM15	7124	295
2011-11-13 15:16	MW0BYS	28.126139	-17	0	IO71mr	5	K5MQ	EM31wq	7116	289
2011-11-13 15:12	K5MQ	28.126071	-12	1	EM31wq	2	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7116	43
2011-11-13 10:20	5Z4/VK1UN	28.126074	-22	0	KI88js	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	7068	333
2011-11-13 14:34	MW0BYS	28.126128	-19	0	IO71mr	5	KE5QEO	EM26wc	6891	294
2011-11-13 11:56	MW0BYS	28.126066	-11	-1	IO71mr	5	W1MNK	EL87uv	6764	279
2011-11-13 17:08	KE0QM	28.126099	-9	0	EM28	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	6761	45
2011-11-13 16:42	MW0BYS	28.126093	-6	0	IO71mr	5	KE0QM	EM28	6761	296

73 fer now 

Bill.... MW0BYS

This mornings WSPR on 10 metres de MW0BYS

10m report de MW0BYS 4th November 2011

By just using 5 watts to a Sirio 5/8th wave vertical, I was able to get the following in this mornings log book:

Timestamp	Call	MHz	SNR	Drift	Grid	Pwr	Reporter	RGrid	km	az
2011-11-04 07:46	ZL1JA	28.126019	-26	0	RE66ir	2	MW0BYS	IO71mr	19059	350
2011-11-04 07:50	MW0BYS	28.126106	-20	0	IO71mr	5	ZL1JA	RE66ir	19059	11
2011-11-04 07:40	MW0BYS	28.126106	-21	0	IO71mr	5	VK2FLR	QF56od	17259	53
2011-11-04 07:36	VK2FLR	28.126093	-12	0	QF56od	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17259	323
2011-11-04 08:06	VK3XPT	28.126145	-24	0	QF22nd	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17225	313
2011-11-04 08:00	MW0BYS	28.126071	-27	0	IO71mr	5	VK3XPT	QF22nd	17225	68
2011-11-04 07:54	VK2WD	28.126110	-11	0	QF56	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17215	324
2011-11-04 08:00	MW0BYS	28.126088	-21	0	IO71mr	5	VK2WD	QF56	17215	53
2011-11-04 08:12	VK1UN	28.126127	-28	0	QF22lf	2	MW0BYS	IO71mr	17208	313
2011-11-04 07:40	MW0BYS	28.126088	-18	0	IO71mr	5	VK2FIL	QF46jk	17097	56
2011-11-04 08:10	MW0BYS	28.126095	-21	0	IO71mr	5	VK4ZBV/1	QG62ml	16757	43
2011-11-04 08:10	MW0BYS	28.126079	-26	0	IO71mr	5	VK5LA	QF05gq	16656	68
2011-11-04 08:28	MW0BYS	28.126094	-26	-2	IO71mr	5	VK5WR	PF95hi	16558	71
2011-11-04 08:10	MW0BYS	28.126084	-22	0	IO71mr	5	VK4ABW	PH58hf	14054	58
2011-11-04 07:40	MW0BYS	28.126096	-19	1	IO71mr	5	FR1GZ	LG79rc	9972	126
2011-11-04 07:52	FR1GZ	28.126081	-26	0	LG79rc	2	MW0BYS	IO71mr	9972	327
2011-11-04 07:18	MW0BYS	28.126079	-12	0	IO71mr	5	A45SWL	LL93	6201	95
2011-11-04 07:36	RA9CUA	28.126173	-26	0	MO07qc	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	4160	291
2011-11-04 07:40	MW0BYS	28.126088	-23	0	IO71mr	5	RA9CUA	MO07qc	4160	55
2011-11-04 08:10	MW0BYS	28.126100	-3	0	IO71mr	5	R9SA	LO71ns	4015	66
2011-11-04 08:26	4Z4TJ	28.126079	-11	-2	KM71jf	0.2	MW0BYS	IO71mr	3946	317
2011-11-04 08:18	MW0BYS	28.126093	-2	1	IO71mr	5	4Z4TJ	KM71jf	3946	110
2011-11-04 07:22	UA4WPF	28.126104	-6	0	LO66pu	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	3706	287
2011-11-04 07:18	MW0BYS	28.126104	-21	0	IO71mr	5	UA360102	LO01fl	3085	72
2011-11-04 08:00	MW0BYS	28.126052	-28	1	IO71mr	5	OH5MD	KP20ng	2073	51
2011-11-04 07:46	OH5MD	28.126099	-26	1	KP20ng	10	MW0BYS	IO71mr	2073	256
2011-11-04 08:00	MW0BYS	28.126093	-23	0	IO71mr	5	LB9YE	JP54pu	1730	26
2011-11-04 07:18	MW0BYS	28.126127	-26	0	IO71mr	5	I1-12387	JN44ln	1301	122
2011-11-04 07:40	MW0BYS	28.126091	-20	0	IO71mr	5	OY1OF	IP62oa	1150	355
2011-11-04 08:32	HB9JBP	28.126097	-27	-1	JN47hj	5	MW0BYS	IO71mr	1089	301

73 fer now
Bill MW0BYS

Birds in Space....de MW0MJB

I've long  found the ham satellite part of our hobby fascinating, but never really looked into it properly, ....that was until last November.

This time last year I decided to make the effort and work some of  those "birds".



I already had an FT736r but no real satellite antenna system.


I did have a 5 element Jaybeam dismantled in the attic, and the best part of a 70cm beam, kindly given to me by local fellow ham Tom MW0CXW. 

The 70cm antenna was also a Jaybeam, I think it started life  as a 12 element, but I was only able to salvage 9 elements.

Still I was hopeful of the results it would give.


I had a cheap old laptop which was good enough to run the excellent satellite software  Orbitron...this software is perfect for tracking the ham sats..it never let me down once...

After buying a small rotator from another local ham I was ready to connect everything together.

First contact was via AO51, an FM contact to ES5QA ....the satellite was only about 5 degrees above the horizon, but we were able to easily obtain  59 signals both ways.
As AO51 has it's downlink on 70cm,  at least I knew that my salvaged 9 element beam wasn't deaf.....

I have to admit I was putting 15 watts into the 2m beam for this contact, but it didn't take me long to realise that half that amount was more than enough to work the FM sats.

In total between the 6th of November 2010 and the 21st of February 2011 I worked 24 stations through AO51 . Sometimes I could hear what sounded like East European taxi's coming through the satellite,  I thought it best not to try contacting them ...HI..!!



Out of the FM ham satellites available my favourite has to be AO27, that bird has some wonderful ears and my meagre signal (10 watts) was easily heard over the pond into Vermont and Rhode Island.

I made a contact with N1RCN Fletch into Rhode Island. Fletch commented on the QSL  that my signals sounded as if they were next door!.. not bad I thought for 10 watts to a 5 element 2m Jaybeam and a distance of 3101.92 miles.

The contacts on A027 to the East coast of America  were very close the edge of my satellite footprint.
A027 was only some 3 or 4 degrees above the horizon when I had that contact with Fletch N1RCN.

I remember reading the following on one of the AMSAT pages:
Love Those Oceans!

If you're fortunate enough to be operating from a place within, say, a few hundred miles of the coastline, you'll probably find it easier to get into AO-27 and SO-50 with low power when the satellites are out over the ocean than when they're overhead or passing over central North America or Europe. That's because there will be fewer stations within the footprint to compete with you, and most of your competitors will be farther from the satellite than you are so the inverse-square law of signal strengths will work to your advantage.

Where I'm situated in West Wales the coastline is only about 3 miles away, which helped dramatically in working into the USA on the birds. If I timed it right the footprint of AO27 would have my QTH at one end, and the East coast of America at the other. 

Often at my edge of the pass the footprint would only just touch West Wales and the tip of Southern Ireland...

AO7

The best distance pass I had to the states was on the old bird AO7. 

This wonderful old timer, as most of us know has been circling our planet for nearly 37 years. The anniversary of it's launch will be on the 15th of this month. 

And still A07 is able to do it's magic, albeit with reduced capabilities...

Even though it struggles I was able to have a CW contact with Kerry WC7V all the way over in Livingston Montana, Loc: DN45RP a distance of 4,389.10 miles

In total between the 6th of November 2010 and the 21st of February 2011 I worked 15 stations on AO7, all of them on CW, for some reason; or maybe it was the FT736r ( me probably..HI) I wasn't successful on SSB through AO7,  I found it much easier to just use the key. Which I preferred anyway....

VO52 was sometimes difficult to work on SSB, again the CW contacts were much easier..  

It was fun to work VO52, but for me AO7 still holds the edge.

HO68 was a bit disappointing, I expected more contacts on this sat, maybe it didn't like my antenna configuration, both my antennas were on the horizontal, maybe it was my operating practice, but HO68 was very much hit or miss from my QTH..

SO50 and SO67 definitely didn't like my antenna set up. I managed to work through them a couple of times but I knew the problem was down to my polarization. 

I would've had much better luck I guess using an arrow antenna or similar.

FO29 I found really frustrating.... Due to the Doppler Shift on the SSB 70cm downlink I could never get my receive right, or transmit for that matter..HI !!  

Here's the entire list of ham sat contacts for my test between the 6th of November 2010 and the 21st of February 2011:

AO7      15

AO51    24

HO68     7

AO27     8

VO52   10

SO50     2

SO67     1

FO29     1

It would have been nice to have had a few more contacts on AO27 but the satellite often timed out, either half way through a QSO or just as the pass was heading my way...

Never mind... it was all fun anyway....  :0)

I always wanted to try out the ham sats, but I never realised just how addictive they can be. 

Your sitting in the shack listening on 2metres or 70cm and there's no sign of  anybody local on the band , and no Tropo... what do you do?

Simply turn on the computer, run the ham sat prediction software, and guaranteed within 10 minutes one of those ham sat birds will be heading your way... 

Some say it's just repeaters in space..and they're right. But for me every time I hear that faint crackle of voice or Morse coming over the distant horizon, via those said repeaters it brings a smile to my face. 

Long may there be repeaters in space!!!   :0)

I don't have a ham satellite set up at present, other things and work are getting in the way....

But guaranteed the call of the ham sats will be grabbing me one day soon.... 

In the not so distant future I hope...

73 fer now

Mark  MW0MJB