South Coast PMR net report

John123 wrote:

Hello Ray,

Another great report.

A very belated happy birthday to you.

73s John.

Hi John

Thank you for the birthday wishes

73

Ray 2290

M'Lords ,Ladies and Gentle folk.

Welcome to another episode of "Ray Reviews" the South Coast, Channel 14, Monday Night PMR net

or

"What if Guy Fawkes had succeeded?"

While your pondering that question, on with the review.

The net is held almost every Monday night and is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock (20:00 UTC) and goes on to, and sometimes past 23:00 UTC (11 o'clock).

My location was, a foggy Radio Corner, Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex and the set up was the CRT Space U (powered by an old car battery) and the trusty "Sputnik" 1/4 wave antenna.

The net can be found on analogue channel 14 and doesn't use any kind of access tones.
This makes it open to all regardless of radio experience or knowledge and if you hear a callsign and think "Do I need 1 to join in?" the answer is NO.

With the forecast hinting at some "Tropo", I started the net late at 20:30 due to hearing 2 Yorkshire men having a Qso on channel 3, shame they couldn't hear me calling and there were some northern voices on channel 8.

Here is cast list of who called in and who heard and or worked who.

CT 5159--Neil--Coxheath--Kent--1st location of the night
CT 3466--'Radar Ray'--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex
OM 001--Graham--Burgess Hill--West Sussex
CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent
Joker aka DDB 285--Steve--Reigate Hill--Surrey
FB 228--Martin--Hellingly--East Sussex
C V M--Nigel--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex
Barclay--Tonbridge--Kent
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex
Matt--Strood--Kent
TM 231--Phil--Diss--Norfolk
CT 940--Richard--Reigate Hill--Surrey
DS 01--Pru--Reigate Hill--Surrey--Shotgun with Richard
Dave--Bury St Edmunds--Suffolk--Voice pattern only to Radio Corner
Pyro--Jay--Merstham--Surrey
CT 4515--John--Firle Beacon--East Sussex--Working HF QRP and PMR
CT 5159--Neil--Maidstone--Kent--2nd location on the night
Tango 187--Toby--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--Celebrating his first VK contact on HF
and me
CT 2290--Ray--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--In the chair

Thank you all who called in, and to those operators who showed patience when I changed the order to work as many people to Phil as possible, well you never know how long the tropo will be around.

The distance from Diss to Radio Corner is about 100 miles or 162 km.



That almost brings this episode to a close, thank you for reading this far down and have you spotted any mistakes? If so let me know so I can correct them.

And one last thing, a short snippet video of the night.



Best 73

Ray 2290 with the pen, paper & camera

That is incredible distances for UHF. Thanks for sharing.

Spider281 wrote:

That is incredible distances for UHF. Thanks for sharing.

You are welcome

When the "tropo" kicks in, you don't know where your signal ends up.

Take a look at this video from last year.

Hello and welcome

Here is another episode of "Ray Reviews" the South Coast Channel 14 Monday Night Net, held on Monday 11th of November 2024.

or

"What's it going to be, a fer or fer kind of night?"

The weather on the night was like a November night, clear skies, gentle cold breeze that cut to the bone and a temperature at the start of the net of 5 degrees C or 41 degrees F.

So with the clear sky and half moon shining down, I set up the 1/4 wave "Sputnik" antenna up on a fibre glass pole and connected it with a bit of RG 58 Mini coax to a CRT Space U powered by a car battery .

This all took place in Radio Corner, Ashdown Forest in the county of East Sussex.

Once set up, I tuned to PMR analogue channel 14 at 8 PM or 20:00 Hrs and put a call out. This caused a Tsunami of "hello's" from all those waiting.

Here is the list of call ins, check ins and who heard and or worked who.

CT 5159--Neil--Mereworth--Kent--1st location of the night
OM 001--Graham--Burgess hill--West Sussex
CT 3466--"Radar" Ray--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex
Delta 31--Adam--Hastings--East Sussex
CT 940--Richard--Reigate Hill North--Surrey
DS 01--Pru--Reigate Hill North--Surrey-- Shotgun or keeping watch on Richard?
CT 1647--Phil--Hadlow--Kent--Working a handy
Richard--Pembury--Kent
CT 4627--Steve--Reigate Hill North--Surrey
Pyro--Jay--Reigate Hill North--Surrey--Working a handy and shotgun with Steve
CT 1033--Chris--Tonbridge--Kent
CT 9484--Mark--Haslemere--Surrey
Ryan--Uckfield--East Sussex--Mobile A26
CT 4362--Chris--Reigate Town--Surrey
C V M--Nigel--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex
Speed Bird--Reigate Hill South--Surrey
CT 5159--Neil--Ide Hill--Kent--2nd location of the night and getting closer to Radio Corner
CT 4013--Tony--Brighton--East Sussex
CT 5147--Paul--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--Checking his new mobile installation
CT 5140--Jack--East Grinstead--West Sussex--Mobile
CT 4515--John--Firle Beacon--East Sussex
Harry--Haywards Heath--West Sussex--Working a handy
CT 5159--Neil--Maidstone--Kent--3rd location of the night
and me
CT 2290--Ray--Ashdown Forest--East Sussex--In the chair

The net finished sometime after 11 PM and the temperature had fallen to just above 3 degrees C or just above 38 degrees F, and yes I was wearing shorts.

Special shout out to Neil CT 5159 for, yet again, working 3 different locations, Ryan for spending a couple of hours chatting to me and being a "listening station", and Phil CT 1647 for persevering with different antennas on his handy.

Thank you all who called in and sorry if you tried and wasn't heard.

If you have spotted any mistakes or worse think I have left you off the list, let me know.
That about wraps up this episode of "Ray Reviews"

Best 73

Ray 2290 with the pen and paper