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Hello William, PA0WFO,

Thanks for your report on our signals from MB2HFC at the HFC convention. I did hear your signals briefly through the local noise and the Loran QRM and I thought that you were calling us but readability at that time was very poor. At that time, Jim M0BMU not yet managed to deploy the receiving loop with the Loran null canceller in a quiet spot which turned out to be some 200m away from the main Hotel building! Later in the afternoon reception was much better when the loop was in use. We also had local noise on the alternative receiving channel on 2m relayed from the remote receiver at MB7LF which we later managed to reduce by moving the 2m HB9CV beam antenna further away from the building.

Activity was disappointingly low but we managed to work a number of DLs plus PA0SE and several G stations - some on QRSS . Apologies to any stations who may have called us without success due to our noise problem. The station was not permanently manned because the operators were at times attending some of the interesting lectures during the day and also attending the Conference dinner on Saturday evening.

73, Derek Atter G3GRO

----- Original Message -----

From: PA0WFO

To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org

Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 3:51 PM

Subject: LF: Re: Re: Special Event Station MB2HFC 7/8/9 Oct.

To all ,

Heard the special event station MB2HFC with manual CW this morning with signalstrenght 7 . I could not make a contact with my 150 Watts .

Perhaps a high noise level at MB2HFC ?

73, William PAØWFO

----- Original Message -----
From: "DEREK ATTER" <derek.atter@blueyonder.co.uk>

To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>

Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:55 PM

Subject: LF: Re: Special Event Station MB2HFC 7/8/9 Oct.

> Hi LF'ers
>
> The RSGB will again this year be running the HF Conference HFC2005 at the
> Gatwick Worth Hotel just outside Crawley in Sussex over the weekend
> 7/8/9October and the special event station MB2HFC will be operating on the
> HF bands and also on 136khz over the weekend.
>
> Crawley Amateur Radio Club will be providing logistic support to the
> conference including deploying a variety of HF antennas including an HF beam
> at 20m AGL and several E/H antennas for comparison.
>
> We also plan to erect a 136khz station with a 1KW ex-Decca amplifier and
> FT100MP as prime- mover. The transmitting antenna will be 20m vertical wire
> with two 40m top loading wires spaced about 2m apart. Experience gained from
> last year's event showed that the hotel has a high local electrical noise
> level on LF so we are unlikely to be able to use the TX ant on receive - we
> also have Loran QRM to contend with! Jim M0BMU has kindly volunteered to
> deploy his double- nulling loop receiving antenna hopefully in a quiet spot
> outside in the grounds away from the main sources of electrical noise. We
> also intend to have a back-up receiver system by taking 136khz signals the
> local MB7LF remote receiver at the Crawley Club HQ relayed via 2m at
> 144.986Mhz (which equates to 136.000 kHz). The 2m receiver will have an LO
> source from a high-stability ovened source checked against the MSF national
> frequency standard.
>
> We expect to be QRV much of the time much over the weekend both on hand-CW
> and QRSS from Friday evening onwards (7th Oct) through to Sunday mid-day
> (9th Oct) depending on availability of operators - we will also be attending
> some of the lectures from time to time. Any delegates attending the
> conference wishing to have an operating spell on 136Khz will be most
> welcome. Contact me, G3GRO, in the Hotel or Jim M0BMU or any of the
> Crawley stewards on duty at the time.
> I will flag any further info on the reflector.
>
> 73, Derek Atter G3GRO for Crawley ARC.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vernall" <vernall@xtra.co.nz>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:39 AM
> Subject: LF: Re: ZM2E LF DX
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Confirming ZM2E had an active night transmitting wise, got part of the
>> VA7LF
>> call sign and there were problems for R6L (RU6LA special call sign)
>> transmitting when it came to QSO time.
>>
>> Around 0840 UTC we received quite a good 7 at 120 second dot length and
>> elements either side fitted what would be VA7LF, but that part call sign
>> was
>> the best we got in all the various receiving times for ZM2E before Gulf
>> Island sunrise.
>>
>> When it came time to try R6L we were advised by HF liaison that R6L had
>> problems, and we should start the QSO rather than the earlier arrangement
>> that R6L would start at 1500 UTC. We later got advice to go to beacon
>> mode
>> so at 1637 UTC we set the message to ZM2E ZM2E .... and got to bed earlier
>> than expected. The beacon ran till well after ZL sunrise.
>>
>> From the other reports it would seem DX propagation was "not good".
>>
>> We are back tonight for another bite at the cherry.
>>
>> 73, Bob ZL2CA and Mike ZL4OL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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