----- Original Message -----
From: "James Moritz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:57 AM
Subject: LF: Re: O copy of RN6BN
Dear LF Group,
Very good... looking at the map, this looks like it must be the new
one-way
distance record. It is interesting that both UA0LE and RN6BN have put good
signals into ZL, but although the distance from western Europe to New
Zealand os not that much greater, no signals over that path seem to have
been copied, despite several attempts.
Try a similar antenna system and power as RN6BN and you might succeed.
Except you are exceptionally lucky and the wind is in the right direction a
40ft pole and a 100 ft or so of wire will not do the trick.
RN6BN considering the distance difference was nearly as strong as you last
night !!!!!!!!!! I have heard you stronger in the past.
My 120 ft vertical is currently being used for dxing on 160 metres and not
available for LF otherwise I might be in with a chance. If MM0ALM was about
these days he also would stand a good chance of being seen/heard around UA0
and beyond possibley ZL.
Distance between stations could be measured more accurately using GPS,
conventional methods are subject to big errors and the signal path has to
be determined more accurately, to much guesswork at present.
G3KEV
Thanks for the reports on my beacon signal - I transmitted from about 1650
to 1920z on 137 703.5Hz. At the same time, I could see RN6BN in between my
characters - Sam's signal started quite weak, but by 1800 had risen
rapidly
by about 20 - 30dB and was audible here for about 30 minutes. After that,
the noise level rose rapidly too, but RN6BN remained at "O" copy on the
spectrogram.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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