From: "Keith Ballinger" <kballinger@idirect.com>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Subject: LF: RE: HB9ASB
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:48:15 -0500
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Toni,
	Where in Switzerland do you live? I have several friends and former
co-workers who live in Appenzellerland - was that area also badly affected
by the storms?

Regards,
Keith Ballinger VA3QF (ex-HB9KOW)
NEPEAN, Ontario, CANADA

E-mail: kballinger@idirect.com


-----Original Message-----
From: majordom@post.thorcom.com [mailto:majordom@post.thorcom.com]On
Behalf Of Toni Bärtschi
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:38 PM
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Subject: LF: HB9ASB


Hello friends,
and thanks for all the e-mail.
Yesterday I have tested a replacement for my LF antenna and had two nice
QSO's with G3LDO and DL1SAN.
I don't know if the thing I'm using can be called an antenna but it
seems to radiate (SWR is terrible). It would be too confusing to
describe it, so I call it the chaos antenna. I have put up as high in
the air what I've found in my junk box, including a 0.75mH loading coil
at 17m. It is an inductively and capacitively loaded multi-wire zig-zag
antenna, including parts of a broken helical vertical.
Anyway it will certainly not survive a storm and I hope it stays up
until next summer when I will replace it by something more robust.

The storm last year was the worst we ever had and up here every roof was
damaged and the forest looks like after a nuclear war. There is still a
lot of work, but now everything is covered with snow and ice.

In addition we have been attacked by a very bad millennium bug. But
instead of the computers it "crashed" the operators and my doctor said
it was an influenza virus.

73 de Toni, HB9ASB