Callbook.org.uk
I requested the UK Callbook data from Ofcom about 2 weeks ago to this day, via there request form but yet to hear anything back even chasing them up via a number of emails but yet to get a proper response its pretty poor communication from a government body who represents just that.
Either way I will not give up, and have registered http://www.callbook.org.uk in anticipation of getting the data hopefully within the next couple of weeks.
If your interested in knowing when the site is like just use the form on the site and I’ll drop you a note once its live.
Six Metres
Just after having lunch today I noticed that DXAnywhere statistics where showing that there was a lot of activity on 6m, so decided that it might be worth while switching the radio on and seeing if it was possible to work anything.
I wasn’t disappointed the band seemed alive. and ended up working 12 stations most of them where new for me on 6m.
EA3J, F5MMF, F4EZJ, C37NL, EA1CJ, EA2DR, I0SNY, EA3MS, EA3GBV, IW0BSQ, EA6/M0DLL, EA6CC
Culumus Web Page Theme
I’ve been running the Sandaysoft Culumus software since October last year and have nothing but praise for the software, it allows you to do everything from downloading data from weather station base units, to Tweeting the information. One thing I’ve always thought was the themes for web pages weren’t up to much so the I spent some time this month developing my own but in a way it could be useful to others.
The idea was to use a local city/town scape background then display all the different areas of data within boxes, its also easily customisable if you want to add more menu tabs and extra content you can see a live copy of the theme at http://wx.prettygoodprojects.com/
The theme and all its files including PSD files are hosted on Github http://github.com/magicbug/Culumus-Weather-Theme/ your free to download, use, tinker.
International Marconi Day In Review
The weekend has passed and I’m pleased to report it was really enjoyable, I made my way down to the G6PZ contest station Friday afternoon, getting to the station is super easy and I was in luck with the trains which seemed to be running like clock work! and arrived early so used the time to take some shots of the beach at Weston-super-mare.
MW0CRI operating RTTY
On arrival at the station we started setting up the three operating positions, this year we were going to operate some RTTY too so we setup Win-Test with MMTTY, this was the first time I’d used the MMTTY engine so it was a little bit hit and miss setting up but there seemed to be no issues.
Marconi Day lasted for the whole 24hrs of the 25th of April, and we run it contest style allowing us to work as many as possible and in theory helping those wanting to work as many stations as possible for the awards. Conditions early Saturday morning seemed very poor but at day break 40m soon picked up, and we started to work into Europe at times the pile up never seemed to end either people really wanted to work the station or spotted the pile up and had to get it in the logbook!
Simon (M0CLW)
We also got some reasonably decent runs on 20m Saturday afternoon into North America to my surprise K2DBK took a short recording of me operating you can listen by going to http://k2dbk.com/gb6md.mp3 conditions did seem to go very poor again around 4pm.
Peter (G4MJS)
Saturday evening seemed good we were able to work into JA on 40m CW without too much problem, but 80m SSB was hard work with poor conditions it seemed and lots of noise. Later on though during the last hour 11-midnight was able to get a really good run on 40m into the US and parts of SA, the run just kept going and gave me a serious adrenaline rush and stations were giving 59+ reports.
At the end of the day we made over 3000 QSOs, there was always lots of banter going on in the background and plenty of beer lets hope next year is just as good.
