South Coast PMR net report

TheReverend wrote:

Nice one Ray!!  I'm in the process of changing my job. which will hopefully give me a bit more airtime, so I'll definitely trying from here in West Berks on my beam one night!!

Enjoy!

Simon.

Hi Simon

It would be great to make a contact.

I had a look on the map, and if the Swindon & Reading PMR groups are still running, you should be able to work Swindon and maybe Reading from high ground.

You never know, somebody local to you could read this and join you.
How does the West Berkshire PMR Net sound?

We will be listening for your call

Best 73

Ray 2290

Razz229 wrote:

26CT1074 wrote:

It was a belter! I must bring a small notepad with me in future, I keep forgetting names and callsigns lol

looking forward to the next one!

To be fair, you did have a pen, so you are half way prepared

Quote of the night

"Mike your audio is in the back of the box" 

A comment from a station who will remain unnamed

"it's because he's in the back of a (Suzuki) Jimny"

But, I was 

I had the Quansheng with me as well, forgot to try it   I'll bring it Monday, and forget to try it again and leave it in my bag 

Hello and welcome 1 and all.

Here is another Ray reviews the South coast PMR net aka the Monday night PMR net

or

"NEWFLASH. Ray C5 drops the C5 from his name in image revamp"

The net was held on Monday 12-06-2023 and can be found on analogue channel 14, where we don't use CTCSS tones but do use NFM settings on the radio.

I aim to start the net at 20:00 hrs UK time, but if you call out early you could be part of the pre-net warm up chat.

My location, like previous Monday night nets, was Radio Corner Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex and the set was the QYT KT-9800 D, powered by a car battery , and pushing all it's 10 watts through a 8 element beam.

The weather in Radio Corner was hot 🥵 and sunny with thunder rumbling to the north, at the start of the net I had an outside temperature of 21 degrees C and when I did pack up it was down to 13 degrees C

Before the net started, I called out on channel 12 and had a chat with Adam (Delta 31) in Hastings. (I hope what you dropped to answer my call didn't break!)

Now on with the list of stations that called in and where and or worked by the net.

CT 4514--John--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex
CT 1074--Mike--Devils Dyke--West Sussex
CT 4610--Andy 'Bartman'--Jack n Jill--West Sussex
Reece--Jack n Jill--West Sussex--Shot gun with Andy
TM 3006--Mike--Devils Dyke--West Sussex--working a handy
OM 001--Graham--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
CT 3466--Ray--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex
CT 2207--Neil--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex--Welcome back
TK 08--George--Tonbridge--Kent
CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent
Speed Bird--Russell--Reigate Hill--Surrey
Monty--Seaford--East Sussex--Welcome to the net
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex
TC 156--Steve--Crawley--West Sussex
Delta 31--Adam--Hastings--East Sussex
KP 441--Steve--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex
AMC 1966--Boris--Bexhill--East Sussex--Pedestrian mobile using a home made man pack in the field
MD 26--Dave--Bexhill--East Sussex
C V M--Nigel--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex
CT 1829--Dean--Edenbridge--Kent
and me CT 2290--Ray--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex--In the chair

That brings the list to an end. Thank you all who called and sorry if you tried and wasn't heard, please try again another time.

A topic of conversation during the night was what to call Ray C5 now he wants to drop the C5.

So as another Ray reviews comes to a close, thank you for reading and to quote Russell (Speed Bird)
'Please stay safe'

Best 73

Ray 2290 with the pen ️ and paper

That's some annoying QRM there Ray!

Well done for carrying on with your net regardless.  

I had some annoying QRM a while back now affecting the upper end of 70cm and the PMR band that turned out to be the 'wireless' link of a neighbours weather station. "Boop-brrr, boop-brrr" all day long and when I told them about it they didn't give a toss. Luckily the cheap Chinese bag of eBay junk packed up after it's first winter and I've been unaffected since.

Some other wireless kit blurts out on these frequencies too and of course.....all 'CE' marked!


Keep up the good work there Ray.

All the best,
Victor

Hi Everyone 

Mr Ray the PMR chair man  I would like  help you with a typo. I was up on Wolstenbury Hill on the
 19-06-2023 walking and not Westmeston Hill.      . I had a couple of interested fellow walkers
so hopefully promoting the Hobby . Now on to a couple of pictures of set up for the night.
The Jack & Jill can be seen to the right of the antenna on opposite hill. 







Thank you Everyone 
Hope to catch you on air sometime soon

Regards John CT4515. 73's

Victor wrote:

That's some annoying QRM there Ray!

Well done for carrying on with your net regardless.  

I had some annoying QRM a while back now affecting the upper end of 70cm and the PMR band that turned out to be the 'wireless' link of a neighbours weather station. "Boop-brrr, boop-brrr" all day long and when I told them about it they didn't give a toss. Luckily the cheap Chinese bag of eBay junk packed up after it's first winter and I've been unaffected since.

Some other wireless kit blurts out on these frequencies too and of course.....all 'CE' marked!


Keep up the good work there Ray.

All the best,
Victor

I'm hoping it's there next time as I have been gifted on of these



Maybe I will get lucky and spot the frequency or it will prove my theory that the QYT radio has pee poor filters.

John Patrick wrote:

Hi Everyone 

Mr Ray the PMR chair man  I would like  help you with a typo. I was up on Wolstenbury Hill on the
 19-06-2023 walking and not Westmeston Hill.      . I had a couple of interested fellow walkers
so hopefully promoting the Hobby . Now on to a couple of pictures of set up for the night.
The Jack & Jill can be seen to the right of the antenna on opposite hill. 







Thank you Everyone 
Hope to catch you on air sometime soon

Regards John CT4515. 73's

The log has been updated and corrected

They are some cracking photo's of the view and of the station, was you on the bike or Shanks's pony?

Always love reading your net reports there Ray.  

Not just a simple list of stations but filled with your own flair and special sense of humour. 
(I'll bet the net is just as enjoyable.)

Great stuff & keep up the good work.

I'll call in so open your ears

Chris CT wrote:

I'll call in so open your ears

Ears will be fully open and listening.

Victor wrote:

Always love reading your net reports there Ray.  

Not just a simple list of stations but filled with your own flair and special sense of humour. 
(I'll bet the net is just as enjoyable.)

Great stuff & keep up the good work.

.
Cheers Victor

I will have to do a boring list one day, just for those who don't like my 'round the house', 'jibba jabba' style, you know get to the 'meat and veg' of the report without the 'waffle' and 'emoji's'.

Ooh don't be doing that Ray....I'll probably stop reading.

Salutation radio users

Here is another Ray reviews the South Coast (Monday Night) PMR net, held on the last day of July (31-07-2023) and 1 evening before the first of 2 full moons in August. Not that we could see much due to the clouds.

or

"Quiz question for 2 points and no checking the interweb. 
Which country does not have international flights going across it?"

My location was a jam packed Radio Corner, Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex. Maidenhead Locator JO-bb-01. 

The set up was the 'on' load CRT Space U from John CT 4515, antenna, coax and pole from Dean CT 1829 and battery by me.

The weather was bright, windy and cloudy which come over later hiding the rising of the moon.

As to be expected with so many in Radio Corner, the pre-net chat was well under way when I arrived, which meant the net 'proper' start at 20:00 hrs or 8 o'clock.

Now on with the list of stations that called in and were heard and or worked by the net.

The Radio Corner Rabble

Neil--CT 2207
Dean--CT 1829
Radar Ray--CT 3466
Nigel--C V M
Russell--Speed Bird
Louis
and not forgetting me Ray--CT 2290 in the chair🪑 

Now for the rest

George--TK 08--Tonbridge--Kent
Chris--CT 1033--Tonbridge--Kent
Chris--CT 4362--Reigate Town--Surrey
Steve--TC 156--Crawley--West Sussex
Adam--D 31--Hastings--East Sussex
Andy--TE 500--Whitstable--Kent
Graham--OM 001--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
Tony--Star Gazer--Crawley--West Sussex
Boris--AMC 1966--Bexhill--East Sussex
Dick aka The Hadlow Hustler--CT 4281--Hadlow--Kent--Nice to hear you back on air
Steve--KP 441--Mobile A24--West Sussex
Steve Joker--CT 4627--Reigate Hill--Surrey
Chris--Ratty 248--Reigate Hill--Surrey
Tony--CT 4013--Brighton--East Sussex

That rounds up the list of call in's
Thank you to all the listening stations (you know who you are) and to all who joined the net.
Sorry if you tried and wasn't heard, please give it a go another night.

Here are some of the highlights of the night. Nigel's on going search for new ways to power his van, tonight it was steam power. The keyer making groaning noises, Deans pole snapping causing me to work horizontal for a while.

My on going review of the CRT Space U. It gets hot!!

That's it till next so TTFN and 73

Ray 2290 with the chisel and stone.

Hi Ray, I'm surprised you like the audio from the space U. I find that tiny tinny speaker annoying and have to plug in an external speaker.
Also, did you have it running full power ?
Mine annoyingly reverts to medium power if you change channel, or possibly press anything.

Sharpshooter wrote:

Hi Ray, I'm surprised you like the audio from the space U. I find that tiny tinny speaker annoying and have to plug in an external speaker.
Also, did you have it running full power ?
Mine annoyingly reverts to medium power if you change channel, or possibly press anything.

The audio is fine to my ears, but then audio can be effected by the location of the radio and our own personal taste.

I have it on low most of the time to stop it from getting to hot, but do use high if I have to. I will check the power setting when I switch channel to see if it reverts back to the programmed power setting.

Hello & welcome

Here is another Ray reviews the South Coast PMR Net held on Monday 07-08-2023

or

"Did you know that on this date in 1955, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering sold its first transistor radios in Japan"

My location was Radio Corner (JO-bb-01), Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex where the weather at the start of the net, had blue skies with white fluffy clouds being blown across the sky by wind and at the end of the net a clear sky a large bright tango orange half moon rising up from the horizon.

My set up for the night was the CRT Space U and the 1/4 wave GPA powered by a car battery.

The net is scheduled to start at 20:00 hrs or 8 o'clock but if you have a listen before then, you could find people on air having a pre-net warm up chat.

At just before 8 o'clock, I called out and said "the gavel has now come down and it's time to start the net". 
Here is the list of stations that called in and heard and or worked by the net.

CT 3466--Radar Ray--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex --Sometimes on a handy
OM 001--Graham--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex--Test out the wideband function on his radio
CT 940--Richard--Reigate Hill--Surrey--Working a handy
TC 156--Steve--Crawley--West Sussex
CT 4515--John--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex--1st location of the night and visiting Radio Corner
CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent
Star Gazer--Tony--Hever--Kent--Camping
RC 402--Tom--Shooters Hill--Southeast London--Standing on a park bench using a handy
CT 1829--Dean--Edenbridge--Kent--Working a handy
CT 4362--Chris--Reigate Town--Surrey
GE 12--Tim--Beachy Head--East Sussex
Delta 31--Adam--Beachy Head--East Sussex--Shotgun with Tim
C V M--Nigel--Crowborough--East Sussex
KP 441--Steve--On the South Downs--East Sussex--Mobile
CT 4515--John--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex--2nd location of the night
The listening stations 🦻 (you know who you are)
and me CT 2290--Ray--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex--In the chair

Thank you all who called in and sorry if you tried and wasn't heard. Please try again another time.

Here is a bit more to my review of the CRT Space U.
Nothing to add to the pluses but something that is annoying is that you have to program 48 (3 blocks of 16) channels, so you can change from low, medium and high power.

An interesting train of conversation started with a Sparco car stereo with tape player, to tapes, Mini Discs, CD's, MP4 players, I pods, Nano players, Laser discs, DVD's and the up and coming Perseid Meteor shower.

That's it for this review, if you see any mistakes or see I've left something out, let me know and I will correct the mistake.

73 and TTFN

Ray 2290 with the pen ️ and notebook .

Hello all and welcome

Here is another episode of Ray reviews the Monday Night/South Coast PMR net held on the 14-08-2023

or

"Dang! I choose wrong tonight"

So on the night, I thought I would mix it up a bit and head to a different location in the heart of West Kent.
This turned out to be a BIG BIG Big mistake.
It reduced the amount of stations I could hear and who could hear me. So I had to rely on CT 3466 aka Radar Ray and CT 4515 aka John to pass people round and bring in the QSK/on the side/break break stations.

The weather in my rubbish location was blue sky with a hazy yellow sun set and a odd light shower.

The set up, in my less than ideal spot, was the CRT Space U and a 1/4 wave antenna up on a pole, all powered by a flat battery 🪫 that gave up on me about 60 minutes into the net. This left me sending a short key or 2 for yes and no.

This is my list of stations that called in and were heard and or worked by the net.

CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent
CT 3466--Radar Ray--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex
CT 2072--Steve T & Harry--Wrotham Hill--Kent
D 31--Adam--Hastings--East Sussex
OM 001--Graham--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex
TC 156--Steve--Crawley--West Sussex
Speed Bird--Russell--Ashdown Forest --East Sussex
CT 940--Richard--Ashdown Forest  --East Sussex
CT 4515--John--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex
KP 441--Steve--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex
Ricky on the Ridge--Hastings--East Sussex
Chris--Butts Brow--East Sussex
and me CT 2290--Ray--S##t location--Kent

Thank you all called in and a extra thank you to Radar Ray & John for running the net.
If you tried to call in and had no success, why not give it a go another time.

Just before I round up this episode of Ray reviews, here is the answer to the question posed a couple of episodes ago. The country is Tibet and it has nothing to do with China.

That's it till next time

73

Ray 2290 with pen and paper

.
Dedicated to Martin P (HL 026) & Mike (E500). 2 original's now silent key.

Here is another episode of Ray reviews the South Coast/Monday Night PMR net, held on 21-08-2023

or

"Which is best antenna A or antenna B?"

My location for the night was Radio Corner (yes I'm back), Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex (JO-bb-01) and the set up was he CRT space U with cooling from a computer fan and 2 antennas. 1 being the 1/4 wave GPA up in the air on a pole and the other was a dual bander on a mag mount, on load from Dean CT 1829.

The net is scheduled to start at 20:00 UK time of 19:00 UTC and can be found on channel 14, no tone and NFM.

Here is my list of station that called in and were heard and or worked by the net. All stations are 26 division unless otherwise stated.

CT 1829--Dean--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--
CT 3466--Radar Ray--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex
CT 2072--Steve T--Wrotham Hill--Kent
D 31--Adam--Hastings--East Sussex
CT 4362--Chris--Reigate Town--Surrey
FB 228--Martin H--Hellingly--East Sussex
Mick--Tower Bridge--London-- welcome to the net (I think or have you been on in the distant past?)
CT 4627--Steve (Joker)--Reigate Hill--Surrey
CT 4515--John--Ditchling Beacon--East Sussex
OM 001--Graham--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
CT 4185--Dan--Wrotham--Hill--Kent
KP 441--Steve--Alfriston--East Sussex
TK 08--George--Tonbridge--Kent
Speed Bird--Russell--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex 
CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent

19 WRC--Herric--Zeeland--Netherlands 

AL 1--Allan--Redhill--Surrey-- using a handy in his garden
CT 9484--Mark--Haslemere--Surrey
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex
GT 67--Dan--Crawley--West Sussex
TC 156--Steve--Crawley--West Sussex
Jake--North Chailey--East Sussex-- using a handy
GM 593--Graham--Rochester--Kent

14 FRS 119--Mr Jacky--Normandy--France   

and me CT 2290--Ray--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--In the chair

Thank you to the listeners and all who called in on a busy night. Sorry if you tried and wasn't heard, please do try again another time.

Here are some of the topics of conversation on the night. DMR & Fusion radio's, the plane bounce between George TK 08 and Chris CT 4362, my antenna experiments and the orange crescent moon setting in the West.

The results of my antenna experiments did not have a clear winner, with both good in different circumstances. So there will be another week of tests. Watch this space for some very unscientific results.

73

Ray 2290 with the pen and pad

PS cheers if you are checking my spelling, proof reading or making sure I list all the stations.

Great report there again Ray, always good to see the net activity.

As ever condolences go out to SK's and their families, nice for you to mention/dedicate in respect and remembrance.


Sheesh, who's wasting their time pointing out spelling mistakes?
(Surely hard to spot amongst all the emojis! )

Keep up the good work Ray and look forward to further reports from you....spelling mistakes, emojis and all!!
(You do a rather wonderful job of it all.)