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Hi Mal,

Things are not complicated in the way you imply.. The earthing system is the kind of thing that us suburban non-agriculturists have to devise and put up with, and as I said in previous posting I have been so far been unable to persuade the thing to accept the 4/50 matching transformer or I wouldn't be fulminating on the reflector about it.

Now, you keep telling me yourself that my sigs are adequate, and M0BMU reckons that things are fairly respectable, so there is probably little real point in seeking those last few milliamps. I am not interested in being the biggest signal on the band or swelling Viridian (NIE) profits running big TXs, nor chasing DX. The challenge from the day I first heard about the possibility of an LF allocation back in 1994 or 5 and decided to go for the A licence to be able to get on 73, has always been to see what could be done from a 60ft x 40ft back garden with what was readily available and without getting into QRO or 'cheque-book radio' territory . But there is a puzzle in what I have found, like an itch you can't scratch, so I asked for ideas - scrapping what I have and starting again is not solving the problem and not, in my opinion, in the true spirit of amateur radio, self-training and experimentation.

I am not really all that interested in 136KHz except that like Mike XDV , I can provide an 'ordinary' station for T/A tests and be on occasionally if any DX chaser is rabid for GI, and once 73KHz goes I will need a deal of persuading to carry on on LF. I have had to sacrifice all my VHF/UHF and satellite antennas to get enough space to put up the LF antenna, and there is still the challenge of 'single antenna' moonbounce to try for before the deterioration in my physical condition makes antenna work too difficult.

Here endeth the Easter sermon.

73,

Ian GI8AYZ/MI0AYZ