After an enjoyable 10 days visiting my gran in Elgin (North East Scotland), I’m now back at home getting back into the usual routines traveling home wasn’t too bad it had a few delays due to the adverse weather conditions (mostly snow difts & flooding) but even with that I managed to arrive in London on-time and was back in Oxford before 10am.
MP1 Antenna in Grans Backgarden
The last few days in Elgin where mostly spent with gran and having short walks in the afternoon normally a couple of miles then stopping and having a warm drink and a cake, due to public transport being unreliable still I didn’t want to chance getting stuck somewhere! which was a shame as I was hoping to have a day trip to Inverness to have a look but there’s always next time.
Radio wise I had a bit more luck with PSK31 after I tweaked my soundcard settings on the laptop and this is when I also noticed it was adding extra boost to all the inputs/outputs and didn’t have any option to turn them off, next time I’ll be taking a USB soundcard which I can have a bit more control of.
I also decided to do some WSPRing in the evenings on the final week on 80m, using 2.5 watts and the MP1 + Coil although nothing really DX I was pleased the signal was getting out an it was also nice to be heard by Dad (M3JFM) and also G3XLW, G6AVK who I speak to on Twitter.
| Timestamp | Call | MHz | SNR | Drift | Grid | Pwr | Reporter | RGrid | km | az |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-08 21:54 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DK8FT | JN58pe | 1430 | 131 |
| 2010-12-08 21:42 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -12 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4TRA | IO81xp | 672 | 173 |
| 2010-12-08 21:02 | 2M0SQL | 3.594083 | -21 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4MQL | IO81vr | 662 | 174 |
| 2010-12-08 21:02 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -27 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4CAO | IO91si | 723 | 164 |
| 2010-12-08 20:30 | 2M0SQL | 3.594076 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | F4EAD | JN18ce | 1114 | 158 |
| 2010-12-08 20:20 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -22 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | IK1JLL | JN33tt | 1715 | 149 |
| 2010-12-08 19:44 | 2M0SQL | 3.594079 | -23 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | LA3JJ | JO59bh | 800 | 71 |
| 2010-12-08 19:44 | 2M0SQL | 3.594085 | -16 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | PB0AJF | JO22jw | 731 | 132 |
| 2010-12-08 19:14 | 2M0SQL | 3.594082 | -26 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DK9LO | JO54ch | 916 | 108 |
| 2010-12-08 18:56 | 2M0SQL | 3.594079 | -23 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DL4MFC | JN58 | 1389 | 131 |
| 2010-12-08 16:34 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -21 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | OH8HTG | KP34di | 1739 | 52 |
| 2010-12-07 21:46 | 2M0SQL | 3.594090 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DG2PX | JO30rk | 1063 | 134 |
| 2010-12-07 21:36 | 2M0SQL | 3.594079 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | EA1FAQ | IN71pn | 1791 | 184 |
| 2010-12-07 21:20 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -30 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G6AVK | JO01ho | 717 | 158 |
| 2010-12-07 21:20 | 2M0SQL | 3.594066 | -26 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G7VKQ | IO91xl | 717 | 162 |
| 2010-12-07 21:10 | 2M0SQL | 3.594067 | -19 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DL1AVH | JO50st | 1223 | 122 |
| 2010-12-07 21:02 | 2M0SQL | 3.594076 | -26 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G8VDQ | IO91um | 708 | 163 |
| 2010-12-07 20:38 | 2M0SQL | 3.594076 | -33 | 1 | IO87ip | 2 | IZ3ATV | JN55vk | 1704 | 136 |
| 2010-12-07 20:38 | 2M0SQL | 3.594096 | -16 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G3XLW | IO80bi | 812 | 183 |
| 2010-12-07 20:26 | 2M0SQL | 3.594079 | -11 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | ON3DCM | JO10os | 873 | 148 |
| 2010-12-07 20:26 | 2M0SQL | 3.594084 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G7AAQ | IO90kt | 773 | 169 |
| 2010-12-07 18:12 | 2M0SQL | 3.594076 | -23 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DL8EDC | JO31le | 975 | 133 |
| 2010-12-07 18:04 | 2M0SQL | 3.594085 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | OH6GKW | KP13nt | 1576 | 53 |
| 2010-12-07 17:44 | 2M0SQL | 3.594081 | -28 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4JVF | IO93if | 507 | 165 |
| 2010-12-07 17:44 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | SP5CQI | KO02he | 1634 | 102 |
| 2010-12-07 17:34 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G7BZD | IO90fq | 782 | 171 |
| 2010-12-07 17:34 | 2M0SQL | 3.594086 | -18 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DG4BCL | JO43qc | 944 | 117 |
| 2010-12-07 17:26 | 2M0SQL | 3.594080 | -10 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | EI6GRB | IO54wp | 448 | 224 |
| 2010-12-07 17:04 | 2M0SQL | 3.594075 | -16 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DK6UG | JN49cm | 1177 | 135 |
| 2010-12-07 16:48 | 2M0SQL | 3.594083 | -22 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | ON7AN | JO20ek | 944 | 145 |
| 2010-12-07 16:18 | 2M0SQL | 3.594078 | -12 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DL2IAN | JN49bc | 1211 | 137 |
| 2010-12-07 16:18 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -22 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | F6AAO | JN33mp | 1714 | 151 |
| 2010-12-07 16:10 | 2M0SQL | 3.594078 | -23 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DC8SE | JN48xi | 1357 | 134 |
| 2010-12-07 16:04 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -26 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4SMX | JO01pc | 785 | 156 |
| 2010-12-07 16:04 | 2M0SQL | 3.594077 | -12 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | PA0HCK | JO33ld | 817 | 123 |
| 2010-12-06 22:12 | 2M0SQL | 3.594079 | -17 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G4ZFQ | IO90ir | 780 | 170 |
| 2010-12-06 21:54 | 2M0SQL | 3.594080 | -27 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | OK1DX | JN69sd | 1456 | 123 |
| 2010-12-06 19:18 | 2M0SQL | 3.594107 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DF6MK | JN68ik | 1474 | 127 |
| 2010-12-06 19:08 | 2M0SQL | 3.594107 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | PC4T | JO22io | 756 | 134 |
| 2010-12-06 18:26 | 2M0SQL | 3.594080 | -25 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DF2LV | JO44rs | 849 | 107 |
| 2010-12-06 18:06 | 2M0SQL | 3.594074 | -29 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | M3JFM | IO91kk | 704 | 168 |
| 2010-12-06 17:56 | 2M0SQL | 3.594192 | -23 | -1 | IO87ip | 2 | G4FLY | IO91mk | 706 | 167 |
| 2010-12-06 17:48 | 2M0SQL | 3.594154 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | OK2EA | JN89xl | 1661 | 114 |
| 2010-12-06 17:08 | 2M0SQL | 3.594159 | -24 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DO3RM | JN59vd | 1370 | 127 |
| 2010-12-06 17:00 | 2M0SQL | 3.594156 | -19 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | G8JNJ | IO80nr | 770 | 178 |
| 2010-12-06 17:00 | 2M0SQL | 3.594151 | -21 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | GW0OAJ | IO81lo | 672 | 179 |
| 2010-12-06 16:52 | 2M0SQL | 3.594159 | -27 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | DL1GRT | JN58aj | 1357 | 134 |
| 2010-12-06 16:52 | 2M0SQL | 3.594158 | -20 | 0 | IO87ip | 2 | PA0O | JO33hg | 791 | 124 |
| 2010-12-06 16:40 | 2M0SQL | 3.594153 | -18 | 0 | IO87 | 2 | G4KLA | IO92ak | 565 | 173 |
Only reporter’s over the time period.
What I have discovered is that the Superantenna MP1 needs a better radial system which I’m going to work on in the coming weeks/months, and hopefully next time I go back to visit gran I’ll find it works a lot better.
Final photos of the trip can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/m3php/sets/72157625390739915/with/5253969696/