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From: Dimitrios Tsifakis <dtsifakis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:09:48 +1100
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Hi Luis,

Looks good! My first large loading coil was my laundy basket. My wife
wasn't terribly impressed but for a period, it served both as loading
coil and a laundry basket :-)

73 and good luck with your experiments!


Στις Κυρ, 10 Φεβ 2019 στις 11:46 μ.μ., ο/η VIGILANT Luis Fernández
<luis@vigilant.es> έγραψε:
>
> Hi VLF
>
> Congratulations Dimitris :-)
>
> Anybody mentioned an activity rush in VLF ? I'm working on this right now
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vkmlm8kn80688l/IMG_20190210_104522_952.jpg?dl=0
>
> 73 de Luis
> EA5DOM
>
>
> El 9 feb. 2019 1:26 p. m., DK7FC <selberdenken@posteo.de> escribió:
>
> Hi Dimitris,
>
> My congrats! That is a good success and progress!
>
> Can you tell more details?
> How much power was used?
> How much antenna current?
> Was it the 3 turn loop?
> What type of receiver was used on the RX site?
> Is that site in a quiet location?
> Which bandwidth or mode?
> Was it actually QRSS-10 (Which i would watch in 122 mHz)?
> What was the SNR?
> Is there a screenshot for us to see?
> What is your plan for today? :-)
> Who is the next distant station?
>
> This could be the beginning of a growing worldwide VLF activity, if you
> can 'mobilise' a team of stations who build up RX and TX systems arround
> VK.
>
> 73, Stefan
>
>
> Am 08.02.2019 23:01, schrieb Dimitrios Tsifakis:
> > Hi Stefan and VLF,
> >
> > well, I am now officially hooked! My signal on 29.5 kHz (VLF's edge)
> > has been detected 22.3 km away in Canberra by Dale VK1DSH. Only
> > casualty is the russian mica capacitors (K31-11-3) which got really
> > hot (I was focusing on the amplifier and neglected the poor caps). I
> > had 4 of them in parallel, each 4700 pF.  Maybe they will recover if I
> > let them cool down :-)
> >
> > That's probably a first for Australia, I haven't heard anyone else
> > doing tests like this.
> >
>
>