Message-ID: <29188.200001071140@gemini>
From: "James Moritz" <j.r.moritz@herts.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Hertfordshire
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:40:48 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Subject: LF: TF1IT/73kHz etc
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Sender: <majordom@post.thorcom.com>

Dear LF Group,

Happy new year and millenium to all - hope it brings you happiness 
and good fortune.

I too heard an "Icelandic" station on LF - on 3rd of Jan at 1421 utc, 
calling CQ - but this time the call was TF1IS. The CQ calls stopped 
as soon as I replied. It was certainly strong enough to be a UK 
station.

On a different note, I have a NOV for 73kHz operation, but can't 
actually put out a signal on the band at the moment due to lack of a 
suitable antenna loading coil. Until I finish struggling with my 
computer and it's sound card, I also won't have any QRSS 
capability, but if I cobble together a loading coil I could get on the 
band with manual CW fairly quickly. If any other fairly local stations 
who are active on 73kHz would be interested in arranging a sked, I 
will press ahead and do this - please let me know.

I was interested in the AMRAD beacon WA2TXF/12 and it's 1600ft 
"earth bipole" antenna - what is the benefit of grounding both ends 
of the antenna, rather than tuning it up as a 1/4 wave, as OH1TN 
seems to be doing rather successfully?

Cheers, Jim
73 de M0BMU