Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:57:59 +0100
From: Chris Wilson <dead.fets@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: LF: First MF transmission from Oscar LU1DOW
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Hello Luis,

Please  pass  congratulations  to  Oscar  and  good  luck  on his next
endeavour. Nice to see a valve (tube) amp in use, I am still hankering
after building one myself for LF. Good to see Argentina on the MF map,
I always thought they were all beef farmers or wealthy polo players ;)

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 9:17:14 AM, you wrote:

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> Hi MF
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> While there is only residual activity in north hemisphere, we are
> aproaching winter solstice in south hemisphere
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> Oscar, LU1DOW, confirms his first QRSS transmissions were
> successfully received by LU8YD at 1000km. See picture attached
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> This is the first MF ham transmission in Argentina. A great achievement
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> Oscar is using a tube amplifier with a 4CX1500A running about 1400w
> if I recall correctly. The antena is a Marcony T
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> 20m long and 20m high. He was using this setup in LF and recently
> modified it to MF but the bad weather delayed
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> the transmissions untill now
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> Next goal is to modify the exciter to be able to work with WSPR.
> Martin YV7MAE and Ruben EB8ARZ looks like ideal
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> candidates to receive his transmission
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> Good luck Oscar !
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> 73 de Luis
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> EA5DOM 
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Best regards,
 Chris                            mailto:dead.fets@gmail.com