Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10658 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1999 15:31:34 +0100 Received: from magnet.plus.net.uk (HELO magnet.force9.net) (195.166.128.26) by guiness.force9.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 1999 15:31:34 +0100 Received: (qmail 10221 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1999 14:31:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by magnet.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 23 Jun 1999 14:31:38 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10wnfv-0001Tc-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:06:51 +0100 Received: from smtp.mail.big-orange.net ([143.179.236.32] helo=Lesothosaurus.big-orange.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10wnfs-0001TX-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:06:49 +0100 Received: from w8k3f0 ([143.179.150.49]) by Lesothosaurus.big-orange.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA98 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:06:44 +0200 Message-ID: <000901bebd82$16b34c80$3196b38f@w8k3f0> From: "Dick Rollema" To: "RSGB LF Group" Subject: LF: PA0LQ QRT Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:09:13 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 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 Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
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Harry, PA0LQ, has asked me to put the following message on the reflector on behalf of him:
 
The manager of the apartment building I live in has just ordered me to stop my antenna experiments. Some of the inhabitants, apparently suffering from the radiation hazard syndrome, had complained.  They have seen my activities and despite my assurance that the antenna is removed after every weekend, I have to stop.
This means for me the end of my activity on LF. I regret it very much as it became more and more enjoyable with the improvements of the antenna.
 
It is a great pity that the most active station on LF in The Netherlands should be forced off the air in this way.
Personally I will miss Harry on the band very much as we had a very good co-operation, also in a technical sense; measuring each others signal after a modification etc.
 
Ironic is that on the roof of that very same building one finds base stations of two different mobile telephone systems (KPN and Libertel). The antennas of these stations have been radiating 24 hours per day for years already whilst Harry's actual transmitting time amounts to perhaps one hour or less per weekend! 
 
73, Dick, PA0SE
JO22GD
D.W. Rollema
V.d. Marckstraat 5
2352 RA Leiderdorp
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 589 27 34
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