Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14826 invoked from network); 10 May 1999 06:38:10 +0100 Received: from magnet.plus.net.uk (HELO magnet.force9.net) (195.166.128.26) by guiness.force9.net with SMTP; 10 May 1999 06:38:10 +0100 Received: (qmail 29123 invoked from network); 10 May 1999 05:39:58 -0000 Received: from punt.unica.co.uk (194.75.183.60) by magnet.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 10 May 1999 05:39:58 -0000 Received: from troy.blacksheep.org ([194.75.183.50] ident=root) by punt.unica.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.00 #2) id 10gigU-0002AI-00; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:32:58 +0100 Received: (from root@localhost) by troy.blacksheep.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA01627 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing; Mon, 10 May 1999 05:32:40 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from post.thorcom.com (root@post.unica.co.uk [194.75.183.70]) by troy.blacksheep.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id FAA01623 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 05:32:37 GMT Received: from ns.cro.cz ([193.179.196.2] ident=qmailr) by post.thorcom.com with smtp (Exim 2.04 #3) id 10gig3-0006GG-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:32:31 +0100 Received: (qmail 15558 invoked from network); 10 May 1999 05:32:26 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from fw.cro.cz (HELO ns-int.cro.cz) (193.179.197.2) by ns.cro.cz with SMTP; 10 May 1999 05:32:26 -0000 Received: from radiohk.hk.cro.cz (ns.hk.cro.cz [172.27.1.2]) by ns-int.cro.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA23491 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 07:32:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pc033hk.hk.cro.cz ([172.27.1.33]) by radiohk.hk.cro.cz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA05043 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 07:31:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by pc033hk.hk.cro.cz with Microsoft Mail id <01BE9AB7.2ACCA560@pc033hk.hk.cro.cz>; Mon, 10 May 1999 07:31:50 +-200 Message-ID: <01BE9AB7.2ACCA560@pc033hk.hk.cro.cz> From: "Petr Maly" To: "'137 kHz'" Subject: LF: First report Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:31:48 +-200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Hello guys. For the first time, since I got interested in LF, I spent weekend in my second QTH, weekend cottage in JO80CD. As int I used vertical abt 15mtrs with capacitancy hat. Actually, it was 1/3 lambda GPA for 28 MHz hung on nylon rope between trees, coax shielding and middle wire joined together on RX side (BTW is it correct in English to say "hatted" vertical?). On saturday evening at 1917 UTC, on 136.7 kHz, I heard pretty well I5MXX with RST 539. Not too strong but quite stable and readable. He sent CQ in normal CW for several tens of minutes. It is for the first time that I heard HAM station on the band for me. Result: My IC-751A seems not suffer from cross-modulation since insertion of 20 dB attenuator did not help to clear the band. But it urgently needs some preamlification because I had to have both RF and AF gain turned fully clock-wise. 73 Petr, OK1FIG