Hi All, an interesting weekend, though quite a lot of static crunches in the
mornings. I heard a BIG signal from Lech G3KAU on Friday at about 2055Z on
136.76 despite the static. Saturday started reasonably quiet, a QRS cq from
DJ5BV on 137.70 'O' here, and just a little bit lower was Geri DK8KW at
0701Z
,0714Z znd 0725Z also 'O'. A nice signal from G3BDQ at 0815Z on 136.54khz on
hand keyed cw. G3KEV off the null of the loop at about the same time on
136.2
khz, and a big signal from John G4GVC at 0824Z, so strong I could see an hf
100Hz sideband. (Nearly as strong as Dave!! must be the rain on the earth!)
Lech G3KAU came up at 0909Z with a stonking great signal to work PA0LEG and
DF5DI. John G4GVC was heard again at 0944Z with a very much weaker signal, I
guess he must have tripped off the dormant TV (or whatever) earlier and was
getting SMPSU interference. If you find out where it is, John, you need to
suggest that they use the  on/off switch last thing at night. It saves a lot
of electricity and circumvents a significant fire risk (bit of good PR
that!!).

Sunday logs on the QRS front were again DJ5BV and DK8KW. I think Geri worked
DJ2LF at 0758Z at strength 'O', but I could not detect the other station.

G0AKN's Earth radio tests, nothing heard on 71.85khz (unless I had a bit
of finger trouble !) but there was a high level of drifting 50Hz hum
modulation
pulsing across the passband of the rx. Nothing heard initially on 136.15 khz
until I realised I had an unusual setting on the passband shift tuning
and the BFO. Correcting than and John's signal came in at just about 'O'
with
an integration time of 6secs on FFTDSP4. The sea-sea period gave about 3dB
better S/N indication on FFTDSP than the later sea-earth period. His 5wpm
cw was about 1-2dB S/N with an integration time of 1 second, and not
readable
out of the radio speaker. I have 3 GIF files of the signals I have offered
to John.

The Cluster spots do not seem to go so far back in history this week, I
think
there was a VHF contest so there may have been a purge before the weekend.
There were a couple of interesting postings during the week which I didn't
save, expecting them to be on the bottom of the list....sorry.
Postings to GB7DXM
G3NYK de GB7DXM    8-Aug 2018Z >
  136.6  G3KAU        8-Aug-1999 1931Z  cq
<DJ5BV>
  137.1  PA0MLC       8-Aug-1999 0955Z  (539)
<DJ5BV>
  137.0  G3XTZ        8-Aug-1999 0916Z  (539)
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DJ5AO        8-Aug-1999 0845Z  cq slow-cw
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DF8ZR        8-Aug-1999 0727Z  ! sri
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DF9ZR        8-Aug-1999 0726Z  cq slow-cw
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DF8ZR        8-Aug-1999 0727Z  ! sri
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DF9ZR        8-Aug-1999 0726Z  cq slow-cw
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  DK8KW        7-Aug-1999 0716Z  cq slow-cw (549) ufb lf
signa<DJ5BV>
  137.2  G4GVC        7-Aug-1999 0711Z  (549) in qso with pa0se (569
<DJ5BV>
  137.7  HB9ASB       7-Aug-1999 0710Z  cq slow-cw
<DJ5BV>
  137.0  GW4ALG       7-Aug-1999 0640Z
<DJ5BV>
G3NYK de GB7DXM    8-Aug 2019Z >
 1800.0  DL3FDO       8-Aug-1999 1208Z  137.1 normal CW CQ
<F5MLP>
 1800.0  DL3FDO       7-Aug-1999 0900Z  137.7 Khz normal CW CQ CQ
sr<F5MLP>
 1800.0  DL3FDO       7-Aug-1999 0859Z  normal CW CQ CQ rst 509
<F5MLP>
G3NYK de GB7DXM    8-Aug 2020Z >
73 de Alan G3NYK
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