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From: Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ <k2ors@comcast.net>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org,  rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Cc: "James Moritz" <james.moritz@btopenworld.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:54:08 +0000
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Jim,

    I was curious and decided to Google Brookmans Park. You have probably seen this before but there is a great web site documenting the history of broadcasting at Brookmans park:
http://brookmans.com/history/bbc/index.shtml


--
73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ
FN42hi
http://www.w4dex.com/wd2xgj.htm

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "James Moritz" <james.moritz@btopenworld.com>
> Dear Mike, LF Group,
> 
> That's basically it - The antenna here is an inverted L with a 40m horizontal 
> part about 9m average height - at night, I put a 14m telescopic fibreglass mast 
> under the middle of it, making it into an inverted V shape, and adding roughly 
> 4dB to the ERP. It has to be in hours of darkness only, otherwise the neigbours 
> become convinced I am trying to blight the landscape, give them leukaemia, etc. 
> Strange, considering that this QTH has the masts of Brookmans Park looming over 
> it, pumping out 400kW of MF night and day, but there you go...
> 
> Cheers, Jim Moritz
> 73 de M0BMU
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: MIKE REID 
>   To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>   Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:08 AM
>   Subject: LF: Re: T/A last night
> 
> 
>   Hi Jim,
> 
>   Did you wait until it was dark so the neighbors didn't see you crank up the 
> big tower??? Hi hi...
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Mike
>   WE0H
>   WD2XGI
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: James Moritz
>     To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>     Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:33 AM
>     Subject: LF: Re: T/A last night
> 
> 
>     Dear LF Group,
> 
>     The M0BMU beacon shut down at about 0755 this morning - in the daylight, it 
> became apparent that the aerial wire had got caught up, and as a result was not 
> at its full height, so ERP would probably have been down by a few dB.
> 
>     Cheers, Jim Moritz
>     73 de M0BMU
>       ----- Original Message ----- 
>       From: James Moritz
>       To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>       Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:05 AM
>       Subject: LF: Re: TA - WCB QRV 136.320 tonight...
> 
> 
>       Dear LF Group,
> 
>       M0BMU QRV from about 0000utc on 136.3175kHz, QRSS30. G3WCB and CT1DRP are 
> also visible here.
> 
>       Cheers, Jim Moritz
>       73 de M0BMU
>