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Markus
I have similar images of various blue/violet arcs
in the sky. However the best story is this... When I was commissioning this
antenna for the first time I created a large orange fire ball in the sky.
The story starts innocent enough with me in the shack sending dits... I noticed
that my HF rig was going nuts with noise and an odd orange glow appeared in
phase with my keying on the neighbours wall outside my shack
window...
So being the smart guy I am I locked the key
down and walked outside and to my horror there was a large ball of flame in
the sky above my garage. At this point a light bulb went on in my
head and I made the connection between orange glow, noise and
keying...
Needless to say I RAN back to the shack and
unkeyed the TX.
The problem was two // pieces of wire with
insulation still on... The insulation vapourized resulting in the orange fire
ball. The neighbour commented later that if I planned on doing that again
would I do it in the daytime so it didn't dazzle him.
I'm sure as I push the 2KW mark I'll top that on
;-)
I'll find a spot near John and give it a go.
Maybe ten minute on 5 off then switch phase...
73 Scott
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:46
PM
Subject: Re: LF: Slow BPSK Test
Hi Scott,
corona - boy there's a few
stories I can tell. With my ever-too-small antenna made from a pair of 0.5 mm
enameled copper wires, I have to run 15 kV rms to radiate 200 mW, and it
always glows at one point or another:
http://members.aol.com/df6nm2/antenna_ursa_major.jpg
I have set up the decimated audio around John's 137577.31, so if you
can get on, I guess it would be best if you joined in within +- 0.4 Hz from
his QRG. I am now working on injecting a 1pps GPS reference to the second
antenna input. This will (in theory) allow phase measurements if you
transmitted spot on 137577.000 tonight, but bearing the risk of local
QRM.
73 and good luck
Markus
In einer eMail vom
19.02.2006 23:02:36 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [email protected]:
I'm headed out to repair the last remaining discharge point and
will advise if I'll be running tonight. I could run in the wateringhole on
137778 as Steve is away from his station tonight.
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