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    Posted: 24 April 2012 at 7:57am
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Did anyone work aurora contacts last night? AuroraWatch showed a big spike after midnight.
 
Saw some cracking meteors from the Lyrids too a couple of days back. Anybody have any joy working it?
 
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Guess no one did at the Club Dave Cry Not sure who has the equipment to hear much via Aurora or MS anyway they're mostly on HF.
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I know this might be slightly controversial to say but I always found working HF quite pointless and a total bore! With the new licence allowing access to HF so easily is this having a detrimental effect on technical ability and experimentation with VHF and UHF? I originally started as a G1 and so I really got into meteor scatter, aurora, tropo, sporadic E, and EME and found swapping numbers on HF a real waste of time! So I contacted some Jonny (with more money than sense) on a Pacific island on 20m with 4w whilst driving home - surely the only technical challenge is getting heard over all the noise! And then I get 2 numbers for my efforts! Is that what it has all come down to?Wink
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I'm with you on that Dave. The new licence has done nothing for activity on VHF I rarely hear an M6/M3 on two SSB I know they are on FM but they only talk about G5RVs and FT817s !! Well we all have to start somewhere I supposeErmm
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