On Wednesday evening (13/08/2008) I went to bed at about 08:30 UTC leaving the rig on and Antennas pointing towards Reunion. I woke up at 00:15 UTC and heard the beacon from my shack. Went over and saw that signals were low even with the Masthead pre-amp on. I was running CWGET to confirm hard copy of the signal but it was not decoding. Switched off the pre-amp and returned to bed.
About an hour later I heard the beacon again but much stronger, went to the shack and saw the signal at almost 1 on the S-meter. Perfect hard copy from CWGet. Contacted Phil on his cellphone, switched the Linear and pre-amp on and we logged a SSB QSO and FM QSO on 144, 200 and 144,400 at 01:39 UTC (14/08/2008) with Signal reports of 5/6 both ways.
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PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE THTV
hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
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1009.0 63 10.8 9.3 90 7.33 295 4 283.2 303.6 284.5
1003.0 113 14.0 8.0 67 6.75 268 5 286.9 306.1 288.1
1000.0 139 14.8 7.8 63 6.68 255 6 287.9 307.0 289.1
996.0 173 15.8 7.8 59 6.71 251 6 289.3 308.5 290.4
960.0 484 14.6 6.6 59 6.40 216 4 291.1 309.7 292.2
925.0 796 12.0 2.0 50 4.80 180 3 291.6 305.7 292.4
915.0 887 11.4 1.4 50 4.64 190 3 291.9 305.6 292.7
896.0 1061 10.2 0.2 50 4.35 221 7 292.4 305.3 293.1
882.0 1192 9.4 -3.6 40 3.34 245 10 292.9 302.9 293.5
867.0 1334 9.2 -5.8 34 2.87 270 14 294.1 302.9 294.6
860.0 1401 11.8 -4.2 32 3.27 283 16 297.5 307.6 298.1
850.0 1499 12.2 -3.8 33 3.41 300 18 298.9 309.5 299.5
846.0 1538 12.4 -4.6 30 3.23 305 19 299.5 309.6 300.1
834.0 1657 11.7 -5.0 31 3.19 290 23 300.1 310.0 300.6
789.0 2118 9.2 -6.3 33 3.04 280 38 302.1 311.6 302.6
773.0 2289 8.2 -6.8 34 2.98 282 40 302.8 312.3 303.4
700.0 3096 0.8 -12.2 37 2.15 290 48 303.3 310.3 303.7
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PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE THTV
hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
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1013.0 14 14.8 5.8 55 5.74 10 3 286.9 303.3 287.9
1012.0 23 14.8 5.8 55 5.74 10 3 287.0 303.4 288.0
1001.0 127 20.8 16.0 74 11.55 278 8 293.9 327.1 295.9
1000.0 137 21.6 15.6 69 11.26 270 8 294.8 327.3 296.8
994.0 190 26.0 13.0 45 9.55 280 8 299.7 328.0 301.4
986.0 261 26.8 -0.2 17 3.84 294 8 301.2 313.1 301.9
950.0 587 24.2 -0.8 19 3.81 356 7 301.7 313.6 302.4
925.0 819 23.2 -1.8 19 3.64 40 6 303.0 314.4 303.7
905.0 1009 22.4 -5.6 15 2.79 27 5 304.1 313.0 304.6
860.0 1448 18.8 -3.2 22 3.53 357 4 304.8 316.0 305.5
850.0 1548 18.0 -3.0 24 3.62 350 4 305.0 316.4 305.7
833.0 1720 16.8 -5.2 22 3.13 338 4 305.5 315.5 306.1
797.0 2093 13.6 -6.4 24 2.99 310 5 306.0 315.5 306.5
747.0 2634 9.6 -9.4 25 2.52 270 6 307.3 315.5 307.8
310 51 305.6 316.4 306.3
South 5R8 21z on 13/08 |
South 5R8 00z |
South 5R8 03z |
South 5R8 06z |
FR5 13/08 21z |
FR5 00z |
FR5 03z |
FR5 06z |
8x21 432Mhz Beaming to ZS |
The 2m beacon and qso antenna |