2011 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race - Skeds

20111226 1905

Listen here http://soundcloud.com/ozidrifter/s2h-20111226-1905-sked - download here

The HF conditions started of fairly poor, you can just hear JBW broadcast his 2min pre sked call. at 2min JBW is a little stronger but surprisingly most of the yachts were fairly clear and JBW eventually had a fair signal. Sked lasted to 25min 30sec where JBW broadcasted the weather reports. At 28m 45sec JBW changed from 4483 khz to 6516 khz, had a fair signal there, and could be heard over the interference from 6518 khz.

Aurora was acted as relay for a couple of yachts and can be hear going clear with JBW at 31min. Wasabi position was finally relayed at 31min 45sec.

20111227 0005

Listen http://soundcloud.com/ozidrifter/s2h-20111227-0005-sked - Download here

A great copy of the 20111227 0005 sked. Only issues were a handful of yachts were faint or scratchy signals and even JBW had a tough time with them.

20111227 0735

Listen / Download here

A fairly poor copy of the sked received here in QLD, while a few yachts did come through clear, JBW appeared to be having issues with his transmission, his transmissions appeared to be clipped like there was battery issues. That said, I've upload the record audio. BTW the audio stream from Melbourne Victoria (http://melbourneradio.no-ip.org:88/broadwave.asx?src=1&rate=0) provided by @grantstowell was much cleaner and clearer, so remember if my stream is not the best try his or even the Official stream from the RSHYR web site.

20111227 1205

A vey poor to no copy of the Sked received in QLD. Both VIC: http://tinyurl.com/76swzhs and NSW http://tinyurl.com/6muh2de had some signal, except NSW feed / station had a severe interference that made audio tough to make out at times :( VIC signal was the best one out of the three to listen to comfortably :)

20111227 1705

Another poor copy to QLD, but mostly due to the series of storms around during the sked here in Brisbane. That said, NSW stream came through fantastically (thumbs up to Peter Bye of vk2mpj on the NSW South Coast), towards the end it was fighting a heavier static, but JBW booming through. VIC stream had clear signal and who could hear JBW and the yachts but the audio was faint. The joys of HF Radio. I'm so happy that there are multiple HF Comms streams covering the yacht race :)

20111228 0005

A great copy of the 20111228 0005 sked. Only issue was the static crashed from storms but overall great copy. I dont have access to Audacity so I've uploaded raw stream so you'll need to located the sked :)

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20111228 0735

Moderate signal,so did no worry about uploading sked mp3. VIC Stream was nice and clear.

20111228 1705

Was at work and still have not review my recordings, but if it was anything like yesertday, probably not worth uploading mp3.

20111229 0005

A good copy of the 20111229 0005 sked. Only issue was the static crashed from storms but overall good copy. NSW Stream seem to stay on 6516khz so nothing heard from the sked. VIC stream was a little weak at the start but sarted picking up near the end. VIC stream also had a interfence that made listening a little hard but atleast it did not have the lighting static crashes. I dont have access to Audacity so I've uploaded raw stream so you'll need to located the sked :)

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20111229 0735

Again very poor signals and interference from 6518 khz here in QLD. The VIC stream was brilliant. Only issue was JBW was having transmision issues and so Hobart Race Control had to manage the Sked. The NSW stream was good, however its DSP / filtering was making the listening a little harder / not as crisp as VIC.