SSB Field day 2015

Last weekend, I joined other members of Tipperary Amateur Radio Group on the farm of Paul, EI3ENB for the SSB Field day.

EI5HBB operating
EI5HBB in Search and Pounce mode.
Dipoles
40m and 80m Dipoles, with the Tribander at the left of the picture.

Unfortunately we weren’t able to get any decent runs going on 20m or 15m which would have helped our score quite a bit, however Eoghan, EI5HBB was at the microphone when we got a decent run on 80m for about 90 minutes in the early hours of Sunday morning.

 

EI7IG's suite
My comfortable accommodation for the night.

Looking forward to next year already!

Irish Summers getting brighter?

I’ve been recording the “Monthly Average” output from my PV system for a while (Since 2011). Looking at the figures for this summer.  The “Sunniest” month was June (91 Watts), followed by August (83 Watts) and then July (81 Watts).

Ok, so July sucked, I think we all knew that.  However what surprised me was when I looked at the results from previous years. It appears that the system has produced more power on average this year than any previous year.

To be continued…