G4CQM 2M Two Meters 144MHz VHF DX Live TransAtlantic News
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Welcome to my 2M TransAtlantic website, I hope you find it useful.

22/06/09 Breaking news...We had another meeting today on-site with South West Water and May Gurney who have been appointed to start work soon to remove the equipment from the pump house and cap off the water mains. When this work is completed it will be time to start organising the new shack. The NEW RADIO QTH is right on top of the hill with a 360 panorama, views are spectacular and the sea is visible to the West. The site was previously a water pumping station and reservoir, my new shack is to be the pump house! There is already a mast on the side of the building which I will be reusing, this is an ideal solution because the feeder run will be very short. So 2009 onwards looks set to be very interesting!

G4CQM's NEW RADIO SHACK FORMERLY A WATER PUMPING STATION AND RESERVOIR!

My interest in 144MHz (2M Two Meters) TransAtlantic Propagation started on the 13th March 1989 during the massive aurora that occured on that day. A contact with Don VO1QF in Newfounland on 28MHz by Auroral E's inspired me to believe in the possibility of making such a QSO on 144MHz! That night Dave G4GLT worked Florida on 6M AE's! This project still remains one of the greatest and most difficult VHF DX challanges of all time! However, on the 6th July 2006 Tim G4LOH and myself worked CU8AO 59+ in HM49KL QRB 2420.64KM, half way across! This contact has conclusively proven that intense E's develops out over the Atlantic Ocean.

I am located in hearing distance of the sea, locator IO70ST and running 400W PEP output to a 2.5 Wavelength Yagi. During the nineties I tried several attempts with VE9AA, VE1KG and VE1HD. I have also copied the TransAtlantic beacon VE1SMU/H on 144.300Mhz as a very weak Tropo signal, this occured on Monday 6th July 1998 at 13.15 UTC for around 20 minutes when the beacon was at its peak level. Some time ago Mike Lee G3VYF suggested to me that a major E's event to Russia may be followed by a later opening to the USA. Thanks to Nick Gilly an FM Band 2 Dxer for his encouraging words and link to a DX Radio article describing the opening that occured on . Very exciting! Meanwhile Chris GW4DGU has written a paper considering the propagation mechanisms that may give rise to a TransAtlantic QSO - Christopher Bartram GW4DGU and X-ATL!

Many thanks to ALL providers of information used on this page including Dave G7RAU LIVE MUF and Wally Mayo N4BHM ROANOKE WEATHER PAGE

73's and successful DX'ing Derek Hilleard G4CQM

Email: derek.hilleard(at)tiscali.co.uk