Hi LF'ers
The RSGB will again this year be running the HF Conference HFC2005 at the
Gatwick Worth Hotel just outside Crawley in Sussex over the weekend
7/8/9October and the special event station MB2HFC will be operating on the
HF bands and also on 136khz over the weekend.
Crawley Amateur Radio Club will be providing logistic support to the
conference including deploying a variety of HF antennas including an HF beam
at 20m AGL and several E/H antennas for comparison.
We also plan to erect a 136khz station with a 1KW ex-Decca amplifier and
FT100MP as prime- mover. The transmitting antenna will be 20m vertical wire
with two 40m top loading wires spaced about 2m apart. Experience gained from
last year's event showed that the hotel has a high local electrical noise
level on LF so we are unlikely to be able to use the TX ant on receive - we
also have Loran QRM to contend with! Jim M0BMU has kindly volunteered to
deploy his double- nulling loop receiving antenna hopefully in a quiet spot
outside in the grounds away from the main sources of electrical noise. We
also intend to have a back-up receiver system by taking 136khz signals the
local MB7LF remote receiver at the Crawley Club HQ relayed via 2m at
144.986Mhz (which equates to 136.000 kHz). The 2m receiver will have an LO
source from a high-stability ovened source checked against the MSF national
frequency standard.
We expect to be QRV much of the time much over the weekend both on hand-CW
and QRSS from Friday evening onwards (7th Oct) through to Sunday mid-day
(9th Oct) depending on availability of operators - we will also be attending
some of the lectures from time to time. Any delegates attending the
conference wishing to have an operating spell on 136Khz will be most
welcome. Contact me, G3GRO, in the Hotel or Jim M0BMU or any of the
Crawley stewards on duty at the time.
I will flag any further info on the reflector.
73, Derek Atter G3GRO for Crawley ARC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernall" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:39 AM
Subject: LF: Re: ZM2E LF DX
Hi all,
Confirming ZM2E had an active night transmitting wise, got part of the
VA7LF
call sign and there were problems for R6L (RU6LA special call sign)
transmitting when it came to QSO time.
Around 0840 UTC we received quite a good 7 at 120 second dot length and
elements either side fitted what would be VA7LF, but that part call sign
was
the best we got in all the various receiving times for ZM2E before Gulf
Island sunrise.
When it came time to try R6L we were advised by HF liaison that R6L had
problems, and we should start the QSO rather than the earlier arrangement
that R6L would start at 1500 UTC. We later got advice to go to beacon
mode
so at 1637 UTC we set the message to ZM2E ZM2E .... and got to bed earlier
than expected. The beacon ran till well after ZL sunrise.
From the other reports it would seem DX propagation was "not good".
We are back tonight for another bite at the cherry.
73, Bob ZL2CA and Mike ZL4OL
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