Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4236 invoked from network); 2 May 1999 17:02:23 +0100 Received: from magnet.plus.net.uk (HELO magnet.force9.net) (195.166.128.26) by guiness.force9.net with SMTP; 2 May 1999 17:02:23 +0100 Received: (qmail 3425 invoked from network); 2 May 1999 16:03:27 -0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com (194.75.130.70) by magnet.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 2 May 1999 16:03:27 -0000 Received: from troy.blacksheep.org ([194.75.183.50] ident=root) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #3) id 10dyef-0005Lc-01; Sun, 2 May 1999 16:59:45 +0100 Received: (from root@localhost) by troy.blacksheep.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA14985 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:59:52 GMT Received: from post.thorcom.com (root@post.unica.co.uk [194.75.183.70]) by troy.blacksheep.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA14981 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:59:50 GMT Received: from mashie.force9.net ([195.166.128.30]) by post.thorcom.com with smtp (Exim 2.04 #3) id 10dyeI-0005LV-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 2 May 1999 16:59:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 10450 invoked from network); 2 May 1999 16:00:40 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by mashie.force9.net with SMTP; 2 May 1999 16:00:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 21508 invoked from network); 2 May 1999 16:00:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO prstesv1) (212.56.95.81) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 2 May 1999 16:00:16 -0000 Message-ID: <000701be94b5$0b64cf20$0600a8c0@prstesv1.prestel.co.uk> From: "Dave" To: "LF Group" Subject: LF: G2BBC/P Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:00:48 +0100 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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Dear all. Myself and John G4GVC have just finished a portable session operating as G2BBC/P (my club callsign). QTH was Market Bosworth in West Leicestershire. We have to apologise for the massive QSB that everyone we worked commented on. The reason was the wind, or lack of it! Sometimes the kite would soar up to near-vertical (the 599 bits) then the wind would drop and it would slowly fall back allowing the wire to dangle on the ground and completely de-tune the system. To prevent the wire touching the ground too much I spent much of the time running around with a piece of dowell to hold the drooping wire off the grass... Occasionally the kite would dive off to one side and the wire would get tangled around some small trees, I then had to shout to John to stop sending whilst I disentangled it and run back with my little stick supporting the wire whilst the kite took it back up! LX1PD managed to time his CQ calls exactly wrong so that the kite was flying well during his calls and fell out of the sky when he was listening... better luck next time. The static got too bad to hear much and the picnic-ers became to numerous to continue by 13:45 so when the kite came down for the umpteenth time we gave up. We worked four countries, nine stations in all. We'll be back! Dave G3YXM.