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The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Greetings all, Nice activity on MF last night. Would have liked a bit more crossband activity (especially from the DI stations) but none of them seems to have been active for xband QSO with those poor fellows without tx permission on 500 kHz. [...] Content analysis details: (-0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [195.4.92.96 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (dl4yhf[at]freenet.de) -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Scan-Signature: 5c335215f1b3de26d890ee84d49616ce Subject: Re: LF: Titanic acty 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-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:481862144:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d41194f8ab48c55db X-AOL-IP: 195.171.43.25 X-AOL-SPF: domain : blacksheep.org SPF : none Greetings all, Nice activity on MF last night. Would have liked a bit more crossband activity (especially from the DI stations) but none of them seems to have been active for xband QSO with those poor fellows without tx permission on 500 kHz. I could significantly improve the rx quality at the club station (DF0WD) so a couple of QSOs was possible with "armchair" copy this end (rx on MF). Thanks everyone involved, especially Finbar and Graham. The big difference was a large resonant tuning coil (which will one fine day be used as a loading coil). 20 cm long, 15 cm diameter, 60 turns of 1.8 mm enamelled copper wire neatly separated by a plastic wire ("Maurerschnur" in german, can't translate that into english). L approx. 320 uH, and Q at 500 kHz about 500 (calculated). The primary's ends were connected to a 10 meter vertical wire, and the "MF earth" on an earthstake located as far away from the shack and mains as possible. A secondary winding with few turns (tapped for 50 ohms) acted as insulation between "shack earth / mains ground" and "antenna earth", spaced a centimeter above the primary coil layer. When connecting "ground" and "antenna earth", there was tremendous QRM (only OK2BVG, G3KEV, and IQ2MY audible). With separate grounds, DI2AG, DI2AF, DI2AM, many UK, PA and OK stations were nicely audible after sunset. (crossband) QSO were made with EI0CF, GB100MGY, OK2BVG, IQ2MI. Sorry to have missed you Mal, you were very solid copy during your QSO with Finbar. All the best, Wolf