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Tiree QSL Cards Have Arrived
Great news for all of those eagerly awaiting a QSL card from our recent Tiree expedition. The cards arrived today so the first batch (those with SAE’s) will be in the post in the morning (29/11). All other direct cards should be out this week although it may nearer the weekend as I need to
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15m Phased Verticals used on Tiree
Couldn’t resist posting this great picture taken by Mark, you can’t see a great deal of the antenna detail but the view is just fantastic. This shows the 4 element phased vertical array for 15m in front of the house and just a few feet away from the beach. The array is end fed with
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Tiree QSL Update
Big thank you to all who have already sent cards direct to myself. In fact cards had started to arrive just a couple of days following our arrival on Tiree. By the time I got home about 50 cards were already waiting. Paul’s done a bit of housekeeping on the logs which were finalised at
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Tiree Operators Gallery
Just in case any of you are wondering what the faces behind the voices or dah’s and dit’s look like here are some of them. If I get hold of pictures of Ian, the Martin’s and Hughie (or is that Hugo) I’ll add them here later. 73 Paul M1PAF Steve, GoMTD Brendan EI6IZ Andrew G0LWU
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Logs updated to include all QSO’s from Tiree
Hello everyone. Well we are back at home now and hopefully Brendan EI6IZ has made it back safely. The logs have now been updated to include all the QSO’s made on Saturday and except for a few potential call sign corrections that should be the complete list. Our final numbers were 12491 QSO’s with 11787
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Logs uploaded again – 11500 QSO’s!
Hello everyone the logs have just been uploaded for QSO’s up to 0915 UTC 7th October 2011 (today). We have smashed our target of 10000 QSO’s with 11500 QSO’s and contacts with over 10600 individual stations as of the time that the logs were uploaded. We will work a few more today before we break
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Photos of our antenna farm
Hello everyone. I took the opportunity of a break in the rain to snap these for anyone interested in our antennas. The first photo shows the 40m phased array, the 30m vertical and the 17m vertical. The second photo shows the 15m 4 element array and the third photo shows our takeoff looking east. It’s
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MS0WRC – Tiree DXpedition
The Tiree DXpedition is now the 8th dxpedition in what is rapidly becoming a tradition for the Workington and District Amateur Radio Club with our partner in crime from the Sands Contest Group. Now that all the preparation work is complete and the teams are ready for the off I’m sure that we wish the
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