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Date: 23 May 2008 21:41 GMT
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Subject: Re: LF: OR7T on 500 kHz
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Dear Rik,

your cq calls were 549 here at 21.13 UTC and 559 at 21.17 UTC, both
clearly readable. Thank You for identifying ON4KTJ, but I remember
having read similar bad reports from G-Stations over rather small
distances.

Perhaps You should think about working xband 600m/80m. About midnight
your signal should be fine here and also in similar distances. But I
have read that your problem at your QTH is a second antenna. Or You have
to find a way to switch your MF antenna at least for receive on 80m.

Just hear your cq call at 21.35 UTC, agn 549, nw answered by G3xiz (whom
I do not hear).

Nw will send this email. 

73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB

"Rik Strobbe" <Rik.Strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be> schrieb:
> Dear Hajo,
> 
> thanks for the report.
> Just worked ON4KTJ, but even here he was only 339 over abt 70km distance.
> His QTH is Ath (abt 50km SW of Brussels).
> Maybe southcoast G's can copy him.
> 
> Anyway: my 14th station and 5th DXCC.
> 
> 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
> 
> Quoting hajo.brandt.dj1zb@t-online.de:
> 
> > Just heard weak signals from OR7T on 502,2 kHz in eastern Bavaria, QTH
> > JN68GN;
> > at 20.40 the end of a qso with ON4??, and
> >
> > at 20.44 cq d3e OR7T
> >
> > Paul-Hendrik, tnx for your explanations. I also feel that for the time
> > being 23.00 UTC will be the optimum time for EU dx. We both have the
> > same local summer time i guess.
> >
> > Nw back to the reiceiver.
> >
> > 73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB
> >
> > "Paul-Henrik" <phl@netikka.fi> schrieb:
> >> 500kHz propagation from western europe sets in very late (early   
> >> morning) here
> >> now, there is no complete nighttime darkness up here anymore so the D-layer
> >> gets very little rest. Midsummer is about a month away and it will be August
> >> before signals slowly start improving here again on MF.
> >>
> >> DI2AM was weak too at the time I had the first copy of Rik.
> >>
> >> 2200z is local midnight here and mid-path midnight will be almost one hour
> >> later.
> >>
> >> So in fact 2125z was still "early" copy of Rik here. I expect   
> >> signals would have
> >> improved vastly from that. This is a very typical behaviour for   
> >> DI2AM signals
> >> during recent weeks.
> >>
> >> The opposite situation:
> >>
> >> In mid winter I could copy GM4SLV 24/7 on the Shetland - Vaasa path  
> >>  during some
> >> longer tests we ran.
> >>
> >>
> >> Will keep an ear on 502.95kHz during the weekend when/if I'm in the shack
> >>
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> Paul-Henrik / OH1LSQ
> >> Vaasa / KP03SD
> >>
> >>
> >> Quoting hajo.brandt.dj1zb@t-online.de:
> >>
> >> > This is a pity. According to Rik's time table I did not listen after
> >> > 21.00z
> >> >
> >> > But during the summer season this seems to be necessary. No problem for
> >> > me, I am retired.
> >> >
> >> > 73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Paul-Henrik" <phl@netikka.fi> schrieb:
> >> > > Hear you calling CQ on 502.95kHz at 2125z
> >> > >
> >> > > Weak but readable, a Q4
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > 73's
> >> > >
> >> > > Paul-Henrik / OH1LSQ
> >> > > Vaasa / KP03SD
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Quoting Rik Strobbe <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Dear all,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I have been calling CQ once in a while last night (on 502.95 kHz) and
> >> > > > once I thought to hear a response near 501.9 kHz.
> >> > > > Unfortunately QRM is very high in the lower part of the band. Lowest
> >> > > > QRM level (at my location) is between 502.9 and 503.4 kHz.
> >> > > > I will try to be QRV on 600 m the next days from 19-21 UTC,
> >> > > > monitoring the band for activity and calling CQ every now and then.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I am running 250 Watt (= 2 A antenna current) into a 11m high and 25m
> >> > > > long T-antenna.
> >> > > > Calculated radiation resistance of the antenna is 0.4 Ohm, the
> >> > > > theoretical ERP should be around 3 Watt.
> >> > > > But I am afraid that the greenery surrounding the antenna absorbs a
> >> > > > good part of it.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
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