| My Radio operating |
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| Most of my serious VHF & UHF radio work is carried
out away from the main station address ('portable'), hence I am
probably more often heard signing as G0LGS/P than just
plain G0LGS. |
| Why do I operate portable ? |
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| Despite having worked a number of EU Countries on VHF
from the main station address in the past, there are several reasons that
I now do most of my serious VHF & UHF operating from 'portable'
locations: |
- The main reason is that except during exceptional VHF & UHF
conditions, the location of Cheltenham with the Cotswolds Hills so close
to the east is generally not a good location for VHF & UHF radio (50MHz
may be a possible exception).
- Much lower levels of local (man-made) noise (no TV's, Computers, Baby
Monitors etc).
- Generally no-one complains about what antennas you put up (even if
they do sometimes stop to ask what you are doing).
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| Whilst packing all the necessary equipment in a
vehicle, driving to a hill-top location, unpacking and setting up, then
taking it all down again takes up to 2.5 hours each time, doing so is the
only option currently available to me (other than finding another
hobby/interest). |
| Is operating /P worthwhile ? |
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| It certainly makes a difference for me, in a
typical 70cm evening contest from the main station I would probably make
contacts with between 5 and 10 stations (perhaps fewer), all of them in
the UK, but operating from one of the hill-top locations I use it can
yield between 30 and 70 (perhaps more) contacts with several of them being
from other EU Countries. See the
50MHz UKAC ,
144MHz UKAC or
432MHz UKAC (2008) results to see how I'm
doing this year. |
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