July 2000 Competition

This page will hopefully show impartial comparisons between various images taken from around the world, normally these competitions have been restricted to the UK only, but because of keen interest we have decided to open this competition and hopefully future competitions to the world, obviously we need to be as fair as possible allowing for differing time zones etc, The pass we will taking is NOAA 12 at 17:01UTC 18:01 Local, this is UK, for those outside the UK take a similar NOAA 12 using your local time.

Please allow for local conditions i.e. expected minimum elevations due to natural and man-made obstructions, also consider whether the aerials where directed, or more than one aerial was used via switching, also consider before making any decisions that most people would prefer to leave their systems to run on auto, and if a tracking system is deemed necessary for APT, then if so you may find HRPT within your reach.

All images are resized and compressed equally, no image will be bigger than 150 k after I have processed them!

The images are in random order

Thanks again to Alan Jarvis for MIDI

Click on image for larger view

Paul Hayes Salford England

PHQFH, Timestep Pro Preamp, 20 metre CT100, Proscan RX, i interface, 

 

 

 

 

George Newport Canterbury England

PHQFH (Marine) Timestep Pro Preamp, 15 metre RG58 PROscan RX, WXsat

 

 

 

 

Dave Cawley Cambridge England

Professional marine QFH
Professional 0.5dB preamplifier
20M CT100
PROscan RX
PROsat software


 

 

DavidTaylor Edinburgh Scotland

PHQFH, ~20m RG 213, RX2, Image false-colour processed, histogram and gamma corrected by SatSignal

 

 

 

 

Ken Jones Derbyshire England

PHQFH 25 foot AGL, URM-43, RX2, WXsat/Satsignal

 

Lawrence Harris Plymouth England

Timestep Turnstile, Proscan, Low Loss 50 ohm

 

 

John Taylor          Teignmouth, Devon  England

 

Turnstile, Proscan

 

Andy Eskelson Barking England

the ICOM R9000 scanner. set to FM, WIDE (30Khz)
     and also letting it track the doppler with its AFC, JIM M75 pre-amp

Les Hamilton         Aberdeen Scotland

Home-brew van Lint QFH antenna lashed to clothes pole (3 m above ground)
Timestep Proscan receiver
no pre-amp
Laptop PC
5 metres RG 58 co-ax

 

 

 

Bill Stevenson         Swinton England

Home made PHQFH loft mounted, Rig preamp, RX2, LC interface, RG58, Prosat for windows

 

 

Patrick Prokop,Savannah, GA, USA

 

Hamtronics R139 Weather Fax radio , Vangaurd turnstile antenna with a
GaAsfet Preamp, 150 feet of Belden 9913 50 ohm coaxial cable, Wxsat, WxTrack

Donald John Morrison.GM0LZE.
Stornoway,Isle -of-Lewis,Scotland

Rig turnstile,(at 20ft),20m RG58,RX2,WXsat.

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Le PageSt. Peter Port Guernsey

 

QFH , Dartcom receiver, 40mtr coax

 

 

 

Paul Telco Hatfield, Herts, England

 

RX2
SoundBlaster PCI64V Soundcard
20 metres of professional grade 75 ohm video coax
ARR Preamp
Home-made CVL coax QFH aerial

Bob Green

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas McCoy,,
County Cork,
Rep. of Ireland.

Crossed Dipole Polar antenna,
Timestep Polar pre-amp,
Timestep Proscan Receiver and internal card,
Prosat for Windows,
RG58 cable.

 

 

 

Alan Milton, Folkestone in Kent, England


Proscan 4. Turnstile at 5 metres  approx. 20 metres of c100 co-ax Prosat II board  in a 386sx 20Mhz machine using the DOS program processed using Paint Shop pro 6.02 on an Athlon 600Mhz

 

 

 

 

Chuck Vaughn, USA

Quorum WEFAX Explorer with a single KLM
22 element 2M yagi at 35 feet with 60 feet of Belden 9913 and
no preamp. Tracking was manual. The image was processed in
Photoshop.

 

 

Pauli Nunez,Barcelona
Spain

 

PHQFH, SAT RX-FM 137 by EB3NC, RG2133 (+/- 25 meters), Satmon,
WXTrack,
SatSignal,




 

Nigel Evans
Burnham on Sea, England 

Chris van Lint Portable QFA
Recorded using RX2 & WXSat
Decoded with SatSignal

 

 

 

 

Chandlers Ford, Hants,England 


Loft mounted Chris van Lint QFH, no preamp, 5m URM76 coax,
Dartcom rx, .wav saved on Wxsat, decoded on Satsignal.

 

 

Alan Jarvis
Cardiff, Wales


Home-brew copper qhf in loft space
RIG pre-amp
19 metres of CT100
Proscan receiver.

 

 

Kevin Chown, England

Dartcom rx, and RIG turnstile mounted 15ft above the roof.
Downlead is Radioshack low-loss cable. Image processed using wxsat.

 

Richard Hardy, Ringwood, Hampshire, England

Turnstile at 15 feet 15m of CT100 (no pre-amp)
 ProScan, LC interface, Prosat32

 

 

 

 

 

Barry Brandenburg, South East Florida, USA

 

Turnstile Antenna 30 feet above ground, 80 feet RG8 cable, Hamtronics R-139
receiver , Wxsat 2.59 , Real 16 bit Sound Blaster card

John Hendry, Felton
Northumberland
 

 

 

 

 

Keith Atherton,Norfolk, England
 

PHQFH, Proscan, WXsat 2.57

 

 

Clive Finnis, Dorset, England

Home made QFH (sort of hybrid between Chris van Lint mechanicals and Ruud
Jansens dimensions!) on 30ft high pole in back garden next to main road.
RIG preamp
20 metres CT100 cable
RX2
Timestep LC interface

Peter Tanner, Campaglione Nr La Spetzia Italy


 

Dartcom Receiver, QFH, Pre-amp, 10M Rg58, Sharp Minidisc recorder

Kevin Bates, Derby, England

PHQFH, Loft mounted AR5000, Receiver,10 Metres UR67 cable and Prosat32

   

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