X-GM-THRID: 1236180560990961007 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.78.172.1 with SMTP id u1cs324218hue; Fri, 11 May 2007 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.123.4 with SMTP id v4mr946475huc.1178913651852; Fri, 11 May 2007 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 30si7876414ugf.2007.05.11.13.00.48; Fri, 11 May 2007 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) DomainKey-Status: bad (test mode) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1HmbGM-0006xe-Mt for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:58:50 +0100 Received: from [83.244.159.144] (helo=relay3.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1HmbGM-0006xS-8L for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:58:50 +0100 Received: from smtp803.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.188.63]) by relay3.thorcom.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HmbGL-0000mV-GO for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:58:50 +0100 Received: (qmail 4070 invoked from network); 11 May 2007 19:58:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btopenworld.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MIMEOLE:In-Reply-To:Importance; b=k49xmCJYknm8DthcjRIW2AYeyJp6RYPEKto8jLK2CSwIqqJli5Vw3ZQrTmlg9dCq+TxL+T8zlbtbi9n3pWu221RCxMAv9cPf7Q3IIXrhKv44YPMa4fe0uNgONt4rKkgQlJ34P8f1GsQ1KSOLbKOWqWiHRSRqJ2T19loiu5ho+sc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO aquarids) (ganymede444@btinternet.com@81.154.12.236 with login) by smtp803.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 May 2007 19:58:44 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 5S6MYMIVM1mJxWMjpwV.n7tffxOMSPY.SUgQ_YswWth8g4OHcFPqXNUP7YCQwcY4OZ3LQmHEJqpdAeHfIKiHyou5Geixz7ViG_vxIM5hRnsh0gR7 From: "Dave G3WCB" To: Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:59:09 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <46444F0D.15552.10BC551@dave.davesergeant.com> Importance: Normal DomainKey-Status: good (testing) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,none Subject: LF: [ 500] G3YMC - Report Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1813 Hi, Dave, LF. You're a good signal here - about 589, by ear. Antenna is a 20m "Tee" at 5m, tuned by the ubiquitious plastic bucket variometer, 500 kHz preselector into an ICOM IC-PCR1000. 73, Dave G3WCB IO91RM -----Original Message----- From: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org [mailto:owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org]On Behalf Of Dave Sergeant Sent: 11 May 2007 11:10 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: Re: LF: 500 kHz loop antenna ? The TX is now finished, apart from sorting out a netting method. First time I connected it to the antenna I found the SWR was infinite! Yesterday I lashed up a simple impedance meter (effectively a noise bridge with the 'noise' from my sig genny. That showed me that it had a beautiful resonance on 160m, where it worked before I added the extra loading coil. I have just reconfigured the connections to the loading so about to check it again and hopefully resonate it on the right frequency. All part of our experimentation! You used to be able to see my 136kHz loop on Google Earth but they have just updated their mapping and it is no longer there (which is right!!) 73 Dave G3YMC http://www.davesergeant.com