Return-Path: Received: from rly-mb12.mx.aol.com (rly-mb12.mail.aol.com [172.21.131.170]) by air-mb05.mail.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id MAILINMB053-d3d4a181f0856; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:06:53 -0400 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by rly-mb12.mx.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINMB121-d3d4a181f0856; Sat, 23 May 2009 12:06:35 -0400 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1M7tjd-0004EQ-MD for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:09 +0100 Received: from [83.244.159.144] (helo=relay3.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1M7tjd-0004EG-9H for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:09 +0100 Received: from c2bthomr02.btconnect.com ([213.123.20.120]) by relay3.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M7tjb-0005pH-6b for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:09 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.64] (host86-142-69-246.range86-142.btcentralplus.com [86.142.69.246]) by c2bthomr02.btconnect.com with ESMTP id KKL14019; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4A181EEC.5050600@btconnect.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:06:04 +0100 From: Richard Newstead User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2bthomr02.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B020A.4A181EE9.0178,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=192.168.1.64, so=2007-10-30 19:00:17, dmn=5.7.1/2008-09-02 X-Junkmail-IWF: false X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,none Subject: LF: First Portable Trip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none 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 X-AOL-IP: 193.82.116.20 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Not a great success. Tried a 200ft inverted L with 7m vertical section fed against 3 radials each between 50 and 100ft long. The final 100ft was very low - within 1 metre of the ground. Did not succeeded in tuning aerial up in link configuration. Tried tapping the feeder at various points on the main coil but this reduced the Q dramatically and the RX and TX performance were very poor. In configurations where the RX performance was good and the Q high, there was little on no aerial current on transmit. The only configuration that gave some antenna current was nearly useless on receive. Connecting a radial to a metal fence detuned things so much that I go nowhere like that. Heard GW0HXO's beacon at reasonable strength and GW3UEP's beacon - just. Called CQ quite a few times. No takers. Band was still noisy even on relatively remote hilltop with horrible "line-timebase" type burble drifting across band. Clearly more work required to get a viable system. Tips? 73 Richard G3CWI