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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:01:36 GMT
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From: "Peter Dodd" <g3ldo@zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: LF: Re: OK1FIG
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During Saturday I reinstalled the 136kHz station in the shed after 
dismantling it for the GB2CPM session the previous weekend. This job 
takes about an hour because all the remote control bits have to be 
reconnected and tested. Found there was a problem with the coax 
feedline from the receiver preselector in the shed to the receiver in 
the house, reducing the signal levels by 35 to 40dB.
Later that evening around 2030 carried on trying to fix the fault. 
Spectrogram was connected to the receiver and I saw two good signals 
in spite of the cable fault. One was ON4ZK and the other ...K1FIG. 
Hmm.... not April the first!

Went down to the shed and QSYed the TX to the QRS band and came back 
to see the mystery callsign was OK1FIG. Gave him a call (while at the 
same time checking the e-mail to see all the excitement I had missed) 
and received an 'O'. After I sent an 'O' I saw the request for a fast 
CW and saw the fast CW on the screen but I could hear nothing on the 
receiver but white noise and an occasional burst of static due to the 
cable fault. It is amazing that Spectrogram can pull these signals 
out of noise like this.
The cable fault is fixed now but:
Lesson - to keep my equipment on the ball to be ready for the unexpected.
Thank you for the QSO Petr


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Regards, Peter, G3LDO

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