Donnington Race Park

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Gemini4 wrote:come on guys this thread aint finished yet :o
how are you from the track when you pick up these frequencies,i'm 23 mile north of the circuit and get a really belting signal on my uniden 3500 with roof cone antenna..how about you lot.

Well you can here up at M1 J28 and in Ashfield, J29 it comes in at 5/9. you can hear it in Derby city. it just depends on your staion and the antenna.

There also a Decode list on the net for racing codes.

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what baffles me ryan is,i can pick up donington park on vhf and east midlands on am..but i struggle with east midlands airport on 455.4850..i know its a differ to the subject on the race track..but it seems strange that the others are clear and this struggles to come through..is it the right frequency for east midlands i ask myself :?:
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Gemini I think your freq might be 455.4875, I work at EMA and have a few more UHF freq if you want them, Servisair, refuellers and such like
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excelent gosman..shoot away.. :D
i have put that freq in and its still a bit weak but more clearer thanks ;)
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Here goes:
455.4875
455.5375
455.7750
455.8750
456.020
456.600
456.750
456.900 Servisair
460.325
461.350
462.100
462.400
463.300
Haven't checked to see what they all are but all have been active in past 12 months, mostly refuellers, baggage handlers, loaders and so forth, some more active than others :P
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thanks gosman :D
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Gemini4 wrote:what baffles me ryan is,i can pick up donington park on vhf and east midlands on am..but i struggle with east midlands airport on 455.4850..i know its a differ to the subject on the race track..but it seems strange that the others are clear and this struggles to come through..is it the right frequency for east midlands i ask myself :?:

same here for EMA and the race track. I have moded my antenna by 2 meters and by 1 meter hight, to see what happen's.

I know it hard to beleve, but it the same for waddington. for waddington if i just go about 500 yeard away, I can pick it up much better that from my QTH. but by moving just that little for EMA, and Donington it make a diffrent.

** Think about moble phone, now in some rooms they may not work, but if you just move about 1 meters in the smae room. how you can make the call. it about sight of line.

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it's all to do with 'line of sight'
HF travels well, VHF and UHF and more line of sight, UHF being more so..
best just to get a good dual band amateur aerial on the chimney stack fed with some RG-213 or better.
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line of sight though brings me donington race track bigpimp but not east midlands all the time which seems strange..and they're right next door to each other. now whether the race track has a better system than east midlands i would doubt it.
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also depends on the aerial system they use..
you can buy commercial UHF stacked aerials that radiate a signal a certain way, east mids probably has a downward firing array as to keep the signal on the ground and not in the air, the race track is a larger all terrain area probably uses a different system and just radiates a random signal.

bit like broad marsh and victoria center, they only want the signal in the centers so they use downward firing aerials, as they have the height for the aerial, but a normal aerial would cover miles even at low power..
so low power downwards is better for those below, but crap outside.

hence why i can'r hear anything at east midlands either, but donnington is banging in..
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bigpimp347 wrote:bit like broad marsh and victoria center, they only want the signal in the centers so they use downward firing aerials, as they have the height for the aerial, but a normal aerial would cover miles even at low power..
so low power downwards is better for those below, but crap outside.
the downward pointing antennas and low power explains everything now you mentioned it bigpimp :D
i could never get broadmarsh or any football matches from the nottingham way..now the low power explains why :?
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i use google chrome here :)
used to use safari, but got a new PC so started using chrome, i also have the IE tab so i can listen to my stream without having to actually use IE..
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cracked it bigpimp..i had notscript chrome blocking it :D :oops:
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I'm currently picking up what I presume to be an OB uplink from Donnington on 455.031
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Wyndham wrote:I'm currently picking up what I presume to be an OB uplink from Donnington on 455.031

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