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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The final 144MHz UKAC results for 2010 have just been published, placing the Camb-Hams 20th out of 62 in the affiliated societies table - so a big thanks to all who have either worked us over the course of the year, or who have operated themselves. This is a particularly ...
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
We were active in the SSB field day and 144MHz Trophy contest over the weekend of September 4th and 5th 2010. in the 144MHz Trophy G3PYE/P came 7th out of 12 entries in the "Open" section, and 10th of 75 entries overall. We were also the best placed single antenna ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
The team returned to the Isle of Harris (IOTA: EU-010) from 1st to 14th May 2010. There is a dedicated website at http://dx.camb-hams.com
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
All of the team are now home and most are back at work. Some of the Cambridge lads drove all the way back on Saturday and some had a stop-off on the way and came back on Sunday. Our QSL manager Neil G4HUN returned to a pile of QSL cards ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Seamus and Aldo have produced slideshows that help capture some of the flavour of our trip – you can view them here:
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Thursday evening was Jim the chef’s night off so we had booked in at a local restaurant in Leverburgh. We all left the cottage around 18:45 for the 15 mile trip we managed to get all 12 people in 3 cars and set off, strange now I think of ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The numbers have all gone a bit silly, really. Over 2700 QSOs in the log as I write this; 5300 lookups on QRZ.com (If you're checking and you see 7800, remember to knock off 2500 from last year); and literally thousands of individual hits on the camb-hams website. Despite ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Radio highlights for today: Total contacts from the shack - 2200; Worked a few more locals including M1XZG for the first time; Worked VK (That's Australia for those who don't have a Prefix List to hand) on 20m; Voi activated WAB NA91; Allan MM1BJP made 29 contacts to activate GM/SI-165 ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Another day - another Camb-Hams first! Aldo, 2M0TXY has just had our first SSTV contact on 80m with DJ1IJ. More SSTV to follow.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
We nearly had a Raynet exercise up here this evening. It was gone 8.00pm and Voi hadn't shown up. We'd all had dinner and his mobile phone wasn't responding (No real surprise, to be frank!). But in the end he finally pitched up around 9.00pm. Voi has had a busy ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
As you may know - I lead a fairly stressful life running my own IT company. Every now and then you get given a day as a present; to make up for the hard work. Today has been one of those days! It started in a quite unpromising way. I ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
We have had a good run of contacts today, both on HF and VHF. As I write this we have broken the 750 contacts mark with 753 QSOs on all bands, all modes, see our logbook here for a breakdown. We moved over to Rob M0VFCs own logbook ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Today a team of us: Allan MM1BJP; Seamus 2M0OVV; Neil GM4HUN; Jim the chef and "Other Neill" started the week's SOTA activities. In true "Allan" - style we started with the biggest hill on Harris, Beinn Dhubh- at 1661ft (Or half a Monro as Allan pointed out). The climb started ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Well, Neil G4HUN is still hammering away on 80m after Rob M0VFC did a good stint from around 18.05 till 20.55 UTC. As I write this we have managed QSOs totalling 173 on 80m, 1 on 6m and 5 on 2m. We have a realtime live logbook on ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Well this has to be a Camb-Hams first - what a brilliantly successful first day!! Albeit after a very short night with negligible sleep (As usual!). Bob, Geoff and I set off from Gavin's mum's at 0308am for the long drive to the port of Uig on the Isle of ...
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