Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11062 invoked from network); 29 Nov 1999 20:31:49 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by guiness.force9.net with SMTP; 29 Nov 1999 20:31:49 +0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11sX5i-0000ma-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:08:06 +0000 Received: from endjinn.austria.eu.net ([193.81.13.2]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11sX5g-0000mV-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:08:04 +0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from qsl.net (dialup143.ap02-ried.at.eu.net [193.154.148.143]) by endjinn.Austria.EU.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA29844 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:07:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3842DD0B.F66B7500@qsl.net> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:07:39 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 From: "Heinz Schnait" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en]C-NECCK (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: OE Activity Report of November 27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: The 450m wire antenna at OE5ODL, Ossi, is still up! Ossi had already worked OK1FIG earlier this day. Meanwhile he has added some more radial wires across the neighboring fields. We have made some antenna current measurements with a non calibrated ampere meter, which showed a relative improvement (absolute numbers not known). At 1445 we went on the air and heared the finals of a QSO between DJ1ZB and DK6NI. I called DK6NI but he was already gone. DJ1ZB, Ha-Jo, came back and I also heared G3KEV (rst 539) calling CQ in the background when DJ1ZB was not transmitting. I gave G3KEV several calls but no success. At abt. 1455 I heared G4GVC cq-ing (rst 429), also no success. We then wired up a second power supply in series to increase input voltage of the final to 27VDC. At 1630 I started cq-ing and worked DK6NI, Gerhard from Erlangen with some difficulty (rst 339, he gave us 539). Thanks for your patience Gerhard! Both G-stations heared before were stronger than DK6NI at the time of our QSO. At 1645 I heared HB9ASB cq-ing and called him. He came back to G3KEV and gave him a 579 report. No copy of G3KEV here at this point of time. At our next cq the output transformer of the final arced with a spectacular flash and went up in smoke. In total we were on the air for maybe 2 hours of operating time, but what excitement it was! I am going to wind a new transformer. I think that with the increased output power a QSO between OE and G should be possible. In general it seems that we have better ears than we have voice. We certainly will have to upgrade our transmitter and we hope to be on the air the next weekend. At least Ossi will be back as soon as I get the transmitter fixed. It is a 45min drive from my home to OE5ODL but I never regret doing the trip. 73 Heinz, OE5EEP