This Sunday, 6th May 2007 many Tango Mike members will be taking to the hills across the UK attempting to make contact with CB users around the country and the world. This event was organised by the users on the Citizens Band Radio forum and particular thanks go to Paddy for the superb name! (We love DX Super Sunday!). As people will be on at various times of the day my advice is to simply tune in and give a few shouts. The Easter DX weekend was a real success even without large scale propagation some amazing groundwave contacts were possible with modest equipment.If you get chance listen out on your radio on 27.555 MHz USB or the FM side of 25 EU and UK bands – you’ll be surprised at how far you can get out! Please submit DX reports to Callum, 108-TM-742 for inclusion in the next monthly report .

73′s

Simon, 26-TM-001

Tango Mike is pleased to announce that we have agreed a scheduled net on 27.535 MHz USB every Sunday between 18.30-21.30 UTC (19.30-22.30 BST) for all UK members. It’s a great opportunity to try and contact fellow members of the group, especially more so if you are mobile and plan to head off towards the hill tops like quite a number of our dedicated people! If you manage to make contact with anyone on the net frequency then please do post your comments under this article so we can see how successful you have been and what distances are achievable – particularly as we are mainly working flat band with the low conditions of the present time.

Angola station on 27.430mhz USB most afternoons
39CO Operator name of Didier.
Good luck.

108TM742
73′s

Each afternoon on 27.275USB there is OP: Mike, 151/44MD717.
He is a supply driver. And is located in the south of Iraq and monitors this freq as it is also the calling channel for south Africa. Good DX all. Please drop me an email if you make contact.

108TM742
73′s

On the 8th and 9th of April on 27.245 and 27.841
(ch25 EU/UK FM) Good DX all.

This weekend Tango Mike is applying to Royal Mail for use of a PO Box. Several members have already paid their subs and they have been informed about the lead time on setting up the post office box. Basically we are looking at having the PO Box operational by the first week in March 2007 but this is subject to the post office setting up the provision at my local office once payment has been made.

For those members who are thinking of joining the PO Box and redirection service then please do so now – it will make life easier for managing when subs are due to be renewed. Once you have paid you are covered for a whole years use and this year will start from when the PO Box is set up – so don’t worry about paying early, you’ll still get the full year.

I’ll post again once we have some more details from Royal Mail regarding progress on our application.

Thanks for your support.

Tango Mike isn’t just about DX you know. Our members are renowned for their experiments too as this short video hosted over on YouTube.com shows. Callum (108-TM-742) proves that a standard fluorescent tube can be lit with 27 MHz.

Here at Tango Mike we are currently designing some QSL Cards ready to be printed by CoolQSL. Many thanks must go to Callum for his hard work and researching some suitable materials. We’ll be showing some proposed designs shortly.