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To all ,
Heard the special event station MB2HFC with manual CW this morning with signalstrenght 7 . I could not make a contact with my 150 Watts .
Perhaps a high noise level at MB2HFC ?
73, William PAØWFO
----- Original Message -----
From: "DEREK ATTER" <derek.atter@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:55 PM
Subject: LF: Re: Special Event Station MB2HFC 7/8/9 Oct.

> Hi LF'ers
>
> The RSGB will again this year be running the HF Conference HFC2005 at the
> Gatwick Worth Hotel just outside Crawley in Sussex over the weekend
> 7/8/9October and the special event station MB2HFC will be operating on the
> HF bands and also on 136khz over the weekend.
>
> Crawley Amateur Radio Club will be providing logistic support to the
> conference including deploying a variety of HF antennas including an HF beam
> at 20m AGL and several E/H antennas for comparison.
>
> We also plan to erect a 136khz station with a 1KW ex-Decca amplifier and
> FT100MP as prime- mover. The transmitting antenna will be 20m vertical wire
> with two 40m top loading wires spaced about 2m apart. Experience gained from
> last year's event showed that the hotel has a high local electrical noise
> level on LF so we are unlikely to be able to use the TX ant on receive -  we
> also have Loran QRM to contend with!   Jim M0BMU has kindly volunteered  to
> deploy his double- nulling loop receiving antenna hopefully in a quiet spot
> outside in the grounds away from the main sources of electrical noise.  We
> also intend to have a back-up receiver system by taking 136khz signals the
> local MB7LF remote receiver at the Crawley Club HQ relayed via 2m at
> 144.986Mhz (which equates to 136.000 kHz). The 2m receiver will have an LO
> source from a high-stability ovened source checked against the MSF national
> frequency standard.
>
> We expect to be QRV much of the time much over the weekend both on hand-CW
> and QRSS from Friday evening onwards (7th Oct) through to Sunday mid-day
> (9th Oct) depending on availability of operators - we will also be attending
> some of the lectures from time to time. Any delegates attending the
> conference wishing to have an operating spell on 136Khz will be most
> welcome.  Contact me, G3GRO,  in the Hotel or Jim M0BMU or any of the
> Crawley stewards on duty at the time.
>  I will flag any further info on the reflector.
>
> 73,   Derek Atter  G3GRO  for Crawley ARC.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vernall" <vernall@xtra.co.nz>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:39 AM
> Subject: LF: Re: ZM2E LF DX
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Confirming ZM2E had an active night transmitting wise, got part of the
>> VA7LF
>> call sign and there were problems for R6L (RU6LA special call sign)
>> transmitting when it came to QSO time.
>>
>> Around 0840 UTC we received quite a good 7 at 120 second dot length and
>> elements either side fitted what would be VA7LF, but that part call sign
>> was
>> the best we got in all the various receiving times for ZM2E before Gulf
>> Island sunrise.
>>
>> When it came time to try R6L we were advised by HF liaison that R6L had
>> problems, and we should start the QSO rather than the earlier arrangement
>> that R6L would start at 1500 UTC.  We later got advice to go to beacon
>> mode
>> so at 1637 UTC we set the message to ZM2E ZM2E .... and got to bed earlier
>> than expected.  The beacon ran till well after ZL sunrise.
>>
>> From the other reports it would seem DX propagation was "not good".
>>
>> We are back tonight for another bite at the cherry.
>>
>> 73, Bob ZL2CA and Mike ZL4OL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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