Channel 31 EU Net

Well i managed to pick up an Audioline 345 for 50 quid so i'll have some videos of it soon. A few Uniden/Audioline homebases appeared on fleabay so hopefully you'll pick one up soon.

On uk31 around 6pm tonight. Hopefully conditions will stay as strong as yesterday.

Last night was manic the UK40 was open almost all the night long. was working newcastle this morning 5am, and if you look you tube you can see they were 60 over 9.

Now, am rx Bermuda and Jamaica and hear the pile up there calling, oh man.........

I'm doing pretty well today - contacts into:

France, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany (Dortmund) and Holland.

What channels are you monitoring Simon? - EU 31 and 38 just 30+ noise here.

I'll be flicking around the UK block at around 6pm UK time.

Cheers.
Gary
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Not a whisper on 31 for me tonight - better luck next time.

Can't complain as I've had some tidy DX this weekend.

Looking forward to seeing the Audioline in action!

Cheers.
Gary
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Ye i saw the video Simon, conditions were as good your way then. Worked quite a few on UKFM last night. A few stations in Cornwall were on. The Tango Mike's down there called us but a totally different club to the one Simon set up from Bridlington. Manic stuff on 10m on saturday night also.

Audioline PT 345 has arrived..not bad for 50 quid. Few scuffs here and there but in general quite tidy. Also got 80 channels which wasn't advertised TX and RX spot on also.

Nice one - the 80ch makes it a right bargain

You just need one of these Washingtons now



Cheers
Gary

They seem pretty rare. Look nice though. Got my eye on another homebase atm....

Just trying my new Harrier CBHQ - seems Ok so far

eBay.com is the place for cheap AM/SSB homebases - cheap too (mostly just 40ch though, so would need some expansion to get to the Triple 5).

Cheers.

Skip is dead today... You got a photo of your homebases?

I don't know who switched the skip off

I'll be taking a couple of photos tonight of the new homebases - old ones below:




Cheers
Gary

Certainly go well with a pint haha! I quite like the York homebase. Theres one on ebay at the moment. Do they work well?

Mine works very well indeed with sensitive RX and the TX is great with my Astatic Minuteman mic - it's a Cybernet boarded rig, so does suffer with a bit of a pop when the squelch goes in and out.

The Delta Tune is quite good as it does drop SSB interference on a channel by moving away from it a bit, but not really making much difference to the received FM signal.

Mine was £28 on eBay - the one on eBay does have a Sadelta base mic with it though.

I'm hoping to send it away to have the mid block added soon.

I wish I had more houses to run all these homebases in though - until I win the lottery, I'll just rotate them from time to time.

Cheers.
Gary

28 quid seems a good price. Looks to be in pretty nice condition. I'm running out of room also. Might have to have a new desk built at some point.

I had to give it a good clean inside and out plus resprayed the case in matt black - the wooden end caps were missing, but the rig looks more modern without them.

There was one loose control that needed fixing and a squirt of contact cleaner had the other controls working like new.

The Harrier CBHQ was £49, but has the mid block installed - just put it on the frequency counter and it's pretty much spot-on. I thought it was a joey when I tried a quick test to the rig in the car, as the mod was really quiet, but it turned out to be the stock mic supplied with it. It sounded superb when I plugged a Cobra M-75 into it.

Looks like it's only the Uniden based rigs that have a punchy TX audio with a standard mic.

How's the Audioline performing?

The Audioline seems great. Volume control is abit crackly but it receives great and audio tx is excellent. Looking forward to getting some dx on it.

I'm not so familar with the Harrier CB's and never owned one. Seen a few on ebay though.

Nice one - a squirt of switch cleaner will soon have the volume control sorted.

The Harrier CBHQ and York 869 share the same Cybernet guts as the Harrier CBX, Binatone 5 Star, York 863, Cybernet Beta series and Radiomobile rigs (and a few more). All thought to be some of the better 27/81 rigs of the 80's.

Simon 007 has a nicely modified 869 - it must be the kiddie if he's got one!

Cheers.

New pictures posted under the "Old Hombases" thread

Cheers
Gary

anybody on 31 mid band tonight???

I always swing past EU31 when doing the rounds - along with UK25 and 31 too.

Cheers
Gary