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Just this week I've got an 80m extension set up for the 40m EFHW. It's a bit precarious at the moment until final 'engineering works' take place, but look who I bumped into on Friday night...
Evening Steve 
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Who's this handsome chap? A wonderful picture of Bob N4XAT, courtesy of Dick G0LFF. Dick first worked Bob on the net in February 1993, 29 years ago!
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Sunday the 20th of February 2022 was the day that Ken G3WYN and Sean EI7CV had their 2000th QSO.
I set off just after seven in the morning to go over to see Ken to get the photographs and do a video of the actual QSO taking place.
After this was done I then went up to Whitemans Green about a mile from Ken's house set up the HF mobile so as to join in the special event.
Phil G4UDU
On 4th January 1977 Sean (EI7CV) met Ken (G3WYN) on the 80-metre band.
During a call lasting about 30 minutes, they discovered they had many interests in common. This led to their first face-to-face meeting at Ken’s home a week later. At Ken’s suggestion, a scheduled contact was arranged.
Thus began a regular series of Sunday morning contacts on 80 metres at 08:00 hrs local time. Gradually, members of the Mid Sussex Amateur Radio Society were attracted to listen in and later to participate in the regular contacts.
Besides radio contacts, Ken’s wife Stella, and Sean’s wife Nancy, with their children, took part in family meetings in Sussex and Ireland.
By May 1987, contact numbers had reached 500. Another celebration took place in November 1998 when contact number 1000 was made. Ken and Stella travelled to Dunshaughlin to celebrate the event with Sean and Nancy.
Sad to say that although Ken an Sean are still in regular contact every Sunday, Nancy and Stella are no longer with us.
On February 20th 2022, Ken and Sean celebrated contact number 2000. This has been a wonderful achievement in maintaining regular radio contacts on a weekly basis since 1977.
Despite their advancing years, they hope to continue for some time.
A video recording of the 2000th contact can be found on our Videos page.
Thanks also to Mervyn M0WVE for providing an audio recording of the entire net, which can be downloaded below (approx. 12MB)
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We made it! The final day went without any problems, and I managed to make an improvement to the sound levels from the radio interface, so thanks to Chris for letting me know about that. I have to have the input level set to around 15 for WSJT-X and any other digital software and 100 for Zoom. Just another setting I have to remember to change when swapping backwards and forwards between different applications. Bob and Chris on Zoom today. Dick unable to log in on his mobile from Jack & Jill car park. You just can't get a decent signal up there :p
Chatting briefly to Dick (great 5 & 9 + 10 signal today) I have to agree that having an antenna available on the top of the downs would be incredible. If we had a source of power and somewhere to stick a little Ubiquiti Air Max NanoBeam AC Gen2 WiFi dish to link back to the club shack with its existing 70Mbps backhaul capability (being directly opposite the Burgess Hill BT exchange), it would be the dream ticket. We could stream 10MHz of I/Q data directly into the big network, no problem. I wonder if we have Line-of-Sight?
In between all my other projects, I'm going to try an old Pi3b and my RSPdx on a new fast (100Mbps down, 20Mbps up) fibre connection which I'll hopefully have available from next Tuesday. I can remote the RSPdx, and we can have a play with that.
Until then, enjoy the improving band and weather conditions.
M0XYF
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VOACAP shows that props on 15m SSB with a ¼ wave vertical/high dipole to Bob N4XAT should be possible again today on the lunchtime HF net.
Bob and I exchanged QSL cards for our noise-floor SSB QSO on Wednesday with 32/33 reports.
GL Dick-G0LFF
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