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21st May 2022, 8:37 pm | #1 |
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GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
Just wondering if any of you have heard/worked the various stations using GB100BBC - it's a 'distributed' special-event station celebrating 100 years since the British Broadcasting Company[*] was founded.
Worked them this afternoon from their current 'home' in Dumfries-and-Galloway on 3.742MHz LSB - 5x9 here in Wiltshire. [*] remember that the BBC was originally a business set up by a group of six UK radio-manufacturers to broadcast program-content that would encourage the public to buy radio-receivers from these six manifacturers.... it was only later that it got Reithianised...
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22nd May 2022, 8:38 am | #2 |
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Re: Gb100bbc
And they didn't use SSB either!
Aub
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22nd May 2022, 10:05 am | #3 |
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Re: Gb100bbc
Hi.
Yes I've worked one or two with 3 watts on SSB 40 meters using a (tr)uSDX transceiver one was in Cambridge can't remember where the other one was without looking up my logbook.
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22nd May 2022, 6:27 pm | #4 |
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Re: GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
Great contact about 3/4hr ago. My ARS mentor, Martin(GM8AGM) made a great contact 5/8 using my recently acquired FT101Z which we had been matching to my Jackson Matchbox on all HF Bands, using my 80m Doublet. 40m was loud & clear 5/9, and a good natter with Dave down in Galloway ensued. Must now attempt to rise in the ranks, like Trevor, up to "Intermediate" from MM6ACI.
I'm over the moon with my acquisition of this lovely old Yaesu, having swopped it direct for the "Allscott 111" 1928 TRF which I restored before Covid. Regards, David |
24th May 2022, 9:00 pm | #5 |
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Re: GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
I’ve worked them from a number of sites on 40M, good operators all.
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26th May 2022, 6:03 pm | #6 |
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Re: GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
Just now, had a QSO with GB100BBC, operating from SW Scotland on 40m. That's a good one for my log, very happy with that
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13th Aug 2022, 2:17 pm | #7 |
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Re: GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
Just had another QSO with
GB100BBC, this time on 2M FM!! They are currently operating from near Attleborough in Norfolk as part of their round-the-country thing. I was amazed that my 25W of vertical polarised FM (a yaesu handheld into a 1980s Mirage solid state linear amp) would go that far. Though this morning did seem a bit lifty...
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8th Oct 2022, 6:00 pm | #8 |
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Re: GB100BBC Special Event Stations.
Another QSO with GB100BBC just now, on 5400.5KHz USB, working out of Cambridge.
He said he had been working loads of stations on 28MHz today.
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