Return-Path: Received: (qmail 708 invoked from network); 21 Nov 1999 23:30:13 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by guiness.force9.net with SMTP; 21 Nov 1999 23:30:13 +0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11pgFY-0003pW-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:18:28 +0000 Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.111] helo=gadolinium) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11pgFX-0003pR-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:18:27 +0000 Received: from [62.172.94.157] (helo=default) by gadolinium with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11pgFQ-00048o-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:18:21 +0000 Message-ID: <000601bf3476$98912ea0$9d5eac3e@default> From: "Alan Melia" To: "rsgb_lf_group" Subject: LF: DX Cluster spots & my LWL log Nov 19/21 Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:16:08 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Hi All, access to the local DX Cluster is still proving difficult, though I did manage a down-load. So I concentrated on listening. It proved to be a very busy weekend with the boys on GD and a relatively (static) quiet weekend there were certainly plenty of calls around. All very exciting, even Mal slipped in an odd GI3KEV in one of his CQs!! Sunday afternoon at about 1600z I could see traces for 10 different stations on the screen at once. Sunday morning sounded like a slice of 20m....even to the 'sweepers' ....I had thought this anti-social activity was confined to 20m! I know LF aerials are high Q and tuning drifts a bit with the weather, but it is extremely frustrating to have a full power carrier swept through your filter when you are trying to copy a signal right down in the noise. (Not just once but for about a minute and a half!!) Come on fellas there is enough technology around these days to make this unnecessary. Bearing in mind that my nearest neighbour on LF is maybe 100kms away, I hate to think of the effect in more active areas! Friday 19th Nov 1126z G6NB 136.96 cq 1605z G6NB wkg G3AQC 137.02 2000z G3XDV cq 2013z OH1TN wkg G3XDV 2014z G8RW cq 50Hz lf !! Peter G3LDO called Reino on 137.62 but I think Reino can't work above 137 because of his local qrm Opened out the filter and mayhem started breaking out around 136.82 as Dave and the boys fired up from GD Heard SM6PXJ Christer make the contact (a new country for me) It must have got a bit confusing here as stations were calling GD3YXM/p and getting a reply from GD3XTZ or GD0MRF. Early on the signal strength seemed to be a bit variable and dependent on which call was in use. It soon settled down to a consistent strong signal. Wil, PA0BWL is now a nice steady signal here. Heard Rik ON7YD struggling at 2204 and not quite making it through. At 2210 a good signal from Geri DK8KW made the qso with Dave. I seemed to get a build up of static through the evening, until it was quite continuous by 2300z Sat 20th Nov. I noted that activity started at 0332z!! A lot of the usual stations around (G4GVC,PAOSE,G3GRO,G6NB,EI0CF,G3XDV and others) I concentrated on the qrs end of the band. I did catch a snatch of a call "S9AST " just prior to one of Mike's cqs which I take to be someone calling HB9AST probably about 1200 to 1215 time not logged (I dont think Toni works QRS so it couldn't be 'B') CQs heard from G3XDV and PA2NJN. Mike seems to have 'breathed on' his antenna again because he is even stronger this week and my loop is not really pointing at Welwyn. There was a very weak signal I could not decode at 1230- 1243z on 137.7 Then DL8ZR working PA0BWL, and a nice signal from Geri DK8KW at 1457z on 137.69. At 1712z I saw a signal that I could only decode as 0U(?)F as it was in amongst the time markers on FFTDSP4 on 138.15 (Whoops!) Sun 21st Nov. 0930z DJ5AO QRS cq on 137.27 ON4ZK QRS working DL8ZR on 137.71 reply was 'T' copy 0945z DJ5AO QRS cq (O copy) 1022z DF8ZR QRS cq (O copy) As I have remarked before I was able to copy DJ5AO on Spectrogram (8k points) where he wasn't really visible on FFTDSP4 (4Hz resolution) I was beginning to think my visual decoding had gone dyslexic when I read my notes but it seems as though there are DF8ZR and DL8ZR active (I hope!) Thanks again to the two Dave's and Graham (and Peter from the chalk pits) for making it such an interesting weekend of activity. G3NYK de GB7DXM 21-Nov 2252Z > 136.8 GD3YXM/P 21-Nov-1999 1551Z 579 136.9 DJ5BV 21-Nov-1999 1014Z 136.9 GD3XTZ/P 21-Nov-1999 1005Z 136.6 G3LNP 21-Nov-1999 0949Z 559 136.8 G4GVC 21-Nov-1999 0940Z 549 in qso with pa0se 559 136.8 GD0MRF/P 21-Nov-1999 0617Z 559 136.4 SM6PXJ 21-Nov-1999 0553Z 549 cq.. 136.8 MM0ALM 20-Nov-1999 2147Z 579 ! ufb 137.0 DJ5BV 20-Nov-1999 1142Z 439 in jn48wl 136.9 PA0BWL 20-Nov-1999 0020Z 137.0 OH1TN 19-Nov-1999 2354Z 136.2 MM0ALM 19-Nov-1999 2316Z 137.8 GD0MRF 19-Nov-1999 2253Z ufb Signal! 136.9 GD0MRF 19-Nov-1999 2213Z sri corrct call 136.9 GD9MRF 19-Nov-1999 2212Z QSO with DK8KW 136.9 GD3YXM/P 19-Nov-1999 2212Z cq\ 137.0 GD3YXU/P 19-Nov-1999 2209Z cq G3NYK de GB7DXM 21-Nov 2252Z > 1800.0 GD0MRF 19-Nov-1999 2224Z [136kHz] 559 here, gl LFers! G3NYK de GB7DXM 21-Nov 2254Z > Bit of a long one this week, but it was a good 'un 73 de Alan G3NYK Alan.Melia@btinternet.com