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Essex 2m Activity Day 28 Nov 15 Report

Posted on 28 November 201526 October 2016 By Pete M0PSX 12 Comments on Essex 2m Activity Day 28 Nov 15 Report

Saturday the 28th of November 2015 was the second Essex 2 metre Activity Afternoon.

This was a county-wide initiative organised by the Thurrock Acorns, with the intention of getting as many people active on 2m as possible. The last activity day was in March (See our March 2015 2m Activity Day report)

What Happened:

The event from 1pm onwards on the afternoon on the 28th of November 2015.

  • Thurrock Acorns ran a station from Grays on 145.450MHz – Well done to Stella G0EKP for hosting and operating GX4HKO
  • Essex Ham ran a simplex net on 145.550 from 1pm to 2pm
  • Essex Ham ran a net on GB3DA from 2pm to 3pm (17 attendees)
  • Essex Ham ran SSTV on 144.500 from 3:10pm to 3:40pm, and again from 4:40pm to 5pm
  • Essex Ham member Steve 2E0UEH was active on CW and SSB as well as on FM voice
  • GB0SNB was on-air from the Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon

Other activities were planned for CW and SSB, but no update on these yet.

Know a local group who were active for the event? Let us know! Also, any photos from today? Please send them over!

Snapshot of 2m band - Saturday 28th November 2015
Snapshot of 2m band – Saturday 28th November 2015

Voice Activity

The official event station GX4HKO was operated from Stella’s QTH near Grays on behalf of Thurrock Acorns. The station was working a pile-up for most of the afternoon. TAARC report making 47 contacts on 2m simplex during the afternoon.

Commenting on the afternoon’s activity, TAARC Chairman Nicholas Wilkinson G4HCK said; “The afternoon surpassed my expectation. The hope was that we would speak to 40 different amateurs. However we passed this target contacting 50 stations. This is the second time we have run this activity afternoon and the club is already receiving requests from amateurs in the South/East of England to repeat the activity early next year”

Stella G0EKP, Racheal G6AMY, Peter G4FQF and Chris G0EKN from TAARC
Stella G0EKP, Racheal G6AMY, Peter G4FQF and Chris G0EKN from TAARC

In addition to the station in Grays,, Essex Ham was active on the group’s club callsign on simplex, working several stations before switching to an impromptu net on GB3DA, which attracted 16 people in an hour.

Several members of Essex Ham got behind the event. Special kudos to members:

  • Dorothy M0LMR and Charlie M0PZT – For working multiple frequencies throughout the event
  • Ed M0MNG – For calling in on GB3DA from a high point near Eastbourne, East Sussex. Ed’s a keen supporter of Essex Ham, and made a special trip to his local high point to make contact
  • Trevor M5AKA – For PR on Twitter
Pete M0PSX, working MX0SXA for the 2m Essex Activity Day - Nov 2015
Pete M0PSX, working MX0SXA for the 2m Essex Activity Day – Nov 2015
Steve 2E0UEH (and cat) working 2m for the Essex Activity Day
Steve 2E0UEH (and cat) working 2m for the Essex Activity Day

Video of the 2m Activity Afternoon, from Ed M0MNG in East Sussex

Note that Ed’s the video is dedicated to the memory of Clive G1EUC SK – Former Chairman of the Essex Repeater Group

SSTV

As an experiment, some Essex Ham members sent a series of SSTV images, some of which follow. Kudos to the following members:

  • Charlie M0PZT and Laura M6LHT for the successful two-way QSOs (and Laura’s first)
  • George M1GEO, Richard G7OED and Chris M6EDF for SSTV reception reports on-air or via Twitter

Also to David G7UVW for sending an image from Romford, and Keith G7FFI in Rochford for the reception report

SSTV Activity for the 2m Activity Event, November 2015
SSTV Activity for the 2m Activity Event, November 2015

Stations Worked

The following list is of stations worked during the afternoon of 28 November 2015 by Pete M0PSX, or on Essex Ham’s club callsign of MX0SXA:

Name Callsign EH Member Frequency Notes
Stella GX4HKO No 145.450 Thurrock Acorns, Grays
Nick G4HCK No 145.550
Neil G0RNU YES 145.550 Tilbury
Dorothy M0LMR YES 145.550 & DA Basildon
Charlie M0PZT YES 145.550 , DA , 144.500 Voice and SSTV
John M1DUC No 145.550 & DA
Dean M6NSX YES GB3DA Witham
Tony G6EEE YES GB3DA
Bill G7LAX YES GB3DA
Steve 2E0UEH YES GB3DA
Laura M6LHT YES GB3DA and SSTV
Brian M6UHN YES GB3DA
Ed M0MNG/P YES GB3DA Eastbourne, E.Sussex
Gordon 2E0IRX YES GB3DA
Ray M6GVE YES GB3DA
John G3ZJZ YES GB3DA
Kristian 2E0SSX YES GB3DA
Peter G1FOA No GB3DA
David M1ECC YES GB3DA
Jon M6WRO YES GB3DA Visiting W&S
Kevin G0PEK YES 145.575 Hoo, Kent
David G7UVW No 144.500 SSTV
Paul M6NFW YES 144.500
Keith G7FFI No 144.500 Recd SSTV Rochford
Bill G4OAX YES 144.500 Recd SSTV Frinton
Richard G7OED YES 144.500 Recd SSTV Basildon
Paul 2E0DNQ YES 144.500 Recd SSTV Southend

 

Well done to Thurrock Acorns for a very successful 2m Activity Afternoon. It was great that so many amateurs took to the air in support of the event, and to support local use of 2m. Perhaps a shame a few more clubs in the area didn’t get behind this and rally their own members – It was promoted well in advance, and local clubs (including us) were informed weeks ago – At Essex Ham, we were proud to take part and show support for this initiative by TAARC, but we didn’t see much PR or support from many of the other local groups. If the club you’re a member of didn’t take part… why not? Perhaps drop them a mail to suggest that next time, they support county-wide activities like this.

Great that so many amateurs took to the air in support of the event, and of 2m. Perhaps a shame a few more clubs in the area didn’t get behind this and rally their members – It was promoted well in advance, and local clubs were informed weeks ago. If the club you’re a member of didn’t take part… perhaps drop them a mail to suggest that next time, they take part in this county-wide activity?

To those who got involved – great result, and excellent to see so much activity. And a big well done to Stella and the rest of the team operating GX4HKO for the Thurrock Acorns.

Acknowledgement

Essex Repeater Group LogoEssex Ham would like to thank the Essex Repeater Group for the loan of the GB3DA repeater for our impromptu net on the 28th of November. This repeater is a great resource and allowed us to connect with people that we couldn’t work simplex. GB3DA and other ERG repeaters, are managed by volunteers. ERG would appreciate your support which can be by membership or donation, online at http://www.essexrepeatergroup.org.uk.

 

Related Links

  • Thurrock Acorns Amateur Radio Club
  • Essex 2m Activity Day March 2015 Report
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Comments (12) on “Essex 2m Activity Day 28 Nov 15 Report”

  1. Edmund M0MNG says:
    27 November 2015 at 22:27

    Hello everyone

    I plan to be on the air for most of this great event once again from Firle Beacon, East Sussex. This is semi-local to my home QTH, it’s 200 meters high (approx), WAB Square is TQ40 and locator is JO00BU.

    I’ll be calling on 145.500MHz or working people a channel or two either side of that frequency. I’ll also have SSB and (slow and not very good) CW capability so could do some of that around 144.300MHz but vertically polarised. My antenna will be a 7/8 wavelength whip on my car.

    I had planned to take a small yagi up there but given the bad and windy WX forecast I will be sticking with the whip! I managed to work 16 stations back in March so I’ll be interested to see how many contacts I can get this time.

    Bring it on (again)!

    Best 73 from Sussex
    Edmund M0MNG/P

    Reply
  2. Jim 2E0RMI says:
    28 November 2015 at 19:08

    Well done all ! This is a brilliant idea & I was pleased to take part in the last one. Unfortunately my 2m rig won’t reach Essex from Nth Wales today ! Looking forward to the next 2m activity day – congratulations to Thurrock Acorns & all who took part.

    Reply
  3. M0LMR says:
    28 November 2015 at 23:15

    Was great to be part of a very successful 2m activity afternoon , and great so many amateurs fromEssex and beyond participated too!, hopefully the rest of the country were as keen as us lot !! WELL DONE SOUTH EAST ENGLAND , xx and what a great event from the TAARC team xx

    Reply
  4. Edmund M0MNG says:
    28 November 2015 at 23:30

    I’ve done a little video of how things sounded at my end:
    https://youtu.be/DyV9lhVx4OM

    Best 73
    Edmund M0MNG

    Reply
    1. Pete M0PSX says:
      29 November 2015 at 10:19

      Excellent video – great job! Looked a bit chilly out there though

      Reply
  5. Stella says:
    29 November 2015 at 08:20

    I would like to say a very big thank you to everyone that called into GX4HKO and made it such a successful event. THANK YOU.

    73’s/88’s

    Stella G0EKP

    Reply
    1. Pete M0PSX says:
      29 November 2015 at 10:19

      Great event. Well done for hosting it Stella, and well done to the Acorns for the proactive idea

      Reply
  6. tony.street says:
    2 December 2015 at 05:20

    Great activity day,managed quite a few contacts on SSB,quite a pile up on the Danbury repeater so just had a listen.Colchester radio amateurs up and about,we all need to use the 2m band so bring on the next activity day,don’t forget your listeners and budding foundation future licence holders,let’s all do it again real soon

    Let’s all do this again soon,good to keep the band’s working,I worked on SSB for some of the afternoon.Great fun,And let’s not forget our budding foundation licence listeners after all its where most of us started out.bring on the next activity day

    Reply
    1. Edmund M0MNG says:
      2 December 2015 at 17:54

      Hello Tony, I wonder if you were the very faint SSB signal that I heard? I think I was listening around 144.320MHz. Were you transmitting with horizontal polarisation? I was just using a vertical whip on top of my car.

      Here’s a slightly unconventional suggestion. Next time, could people equipped to transmit SSB try putting out a few calls with vertical polarisation as well.. rather than sticking to horizontal throughout.

      I would hazard a guess that more people have the ability to transmit SSB on 2 meters (for example thanks to the ubiquitous Yaesu FT-817 for example!) than will actually have a horizontal beam for the band. Yet very few people QRV on 2 meters will not have a (vertically-polarised) collinear.

      Just a thought? :-)

      On a similar note, could somebody tell me please whether the SSTV was transmitted horizontally or vertically? I managed to miss it altogether because I was in FM QSOs with other stations at the time… sorry!

      Best 73

      Edmund M0MNG

      Reply
      1. tont street 2E0FTQ says:
        2 December 2015 at 21:47

        It was vertical polarisation and looking at my log it could well have been me!73s Tony

        Reply
  7. M6WRO says:
    2 December 2015 at 23:31

    great 2m activity afternoon, good to hear people on air, well done to stella from our club thurrock acorns, and to pete mopsx for all the promoting he does with essexham. got my new radio pete yaesu ft8800 having good play with it. 73 jon.

    Reply
  8. Edmund M0MNG says:
    7 December 2015 at 18:18

    I’ve just ordered a 5 element crossed yagi for 2 meters, so I might be able to take it up to Firle Beacon next time… WX and wind speed permitting, of course!

    Reply

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