Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23370 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2002 17:37:32 -0000 Received: from marstons.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.223) by mailstore with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 17:37:32 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 3949 invoked by uid 10001); 13 Oct 2002 18:41:13 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by marstons.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 18:41:13 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.10) id 180mbh-0005w9-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:32:49 +0100 Received: from [205.188.157.40] (helo=imo-d08.mx.aol.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 180mbg-0005w0-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:32:48 +0100 Received: from G0MRF@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id l.7d.2f2d42d9 (4340) for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:32:09 -0400 (EDT) From: G0MRF@aol.com Message-ID: <7d.2f2d42d9.2adb0818@aol.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:32:08 EDT To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows UK sub 10512 Subject: LF: MB2HFC Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0tests=NO_REAL_NAME,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT_AOLversion=2.42 X-Spam-Level: * Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit After a successful weekend at the new Savill court location, the RSGB HF Convention at Windsor closed earlier this afternoon.
The LF demonstration station  benefited from some heavy overnight rain and with the addition of another 80 feet to the top loading managed an improved 2.4 amps of antenna current.
Early this morning M0BMU, G3YXM G3XTZ and I, tried adding an inductor in series to one of the earth radials. We hoped that resonating the radial would more accurately simulate a quarter wave counterpoise. We measured the earth current in the radial and resonating increased the figure by 300%.  Sadly, the antenna current remained the same.......Oh well, more work required.

Thank you to all for reports on the reflector and to the following for QSOs.

G3HEJ  M0BMU  G3XIZ  ON6ND  DF0WD,  F6BWO (cw + qrss), G3OLB  G3FYX
DF6NM (dfcw),  DL3FDO (qrss), PA0SE  G3XDV  EI3CZ  G3LDO  DJ8WX  DL4YHF/P  and DK8KW

73  frm all.

David  G0MRF