From: Rick Wakatori <7l1rll@dp.u-netsurf.ne.jp>
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:03 +0900
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Subject: Re: LF: Earth-mode success: G6ALB copied at my home QTH
	(3km)<=Congra.
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Roger and Andrew,
 Congratulation.
7L1RLL Rick

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 23:43 +0000, Roger Lapthorn wrote:
> This evening G6ALB fired up his 8.760kHz earth-mode TX running QRSS3
> and 40W into earth electrodes spaced 25m apart. We started outside his
> QTH with a colossal signal, moving to the next village (Reach - about
> 2km) where the signal was still good copy. Finally we parked up
> outside my QTH in Burwell exactly 3km from Andrew's TX. Signals picked
> up in the road with my 80cm portable loop into the tuned preamp were
> still strong - at least 20dB S/N on QRSS3 (see attached).  For some
> reason I was unable to copy Andrew's signals on my own earth electrode
> pair. I may have had a fault and need to check why, as I was expecting
> this to give the best result. Andrew's signal was so strong on the
> 80cm loop that 12 wpm CW would have been copied.
> 
> This is the first time I've received another amateur by earth-mode
> (conduction). The result suggests much further is possible.
> Experiments continue!
> 
> 73s
> Roger G3XBM
> 
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