Alex, and LF,
I posted a message to LF when I had "First Fire" a couple of days ago.
Even though no one copied, it felt good to have the system finally able to
transmit.
Your help with the antenna calculations was very valuable to me. I wound
the coil as indicated and it was only necessary to tap a few turns in from
the end of the coil, as the inductance was a little more than needed. The
system matched your calculations very well!
Tapping the coil worked perfectly, because the part of the coil that was not
needed for
baseloading the vertical became the matching transformer winding. I now
feed the bottom of the coil with my transmitter coax, the coil tap is
grounded and the upper coil winding feeds the vertical. The SWR is 1:1, and
I find that the antenna is very high Q. I no longer receive the NDB
interference from "JB" which is about 1 km from my station. It is such a
pleasure to receive 137 kHz. signals clearly.
In a few days I will be sending a thank you note to Steve, Scott and others.
I should then have the transmitter working which is borrowed from Scot, and
I hope it will make my signal visible. My initial tests which were only at
26 Watts were invisible to anyone watching.
Alex, when I get that transmitter going, (hopefully for this weekend) I
would like to specifically see if you can copy me as we are both in the
north. Please advise me of the best time of the day for your possible copy
of VY1JA from CP20kw at 200Watts. Also, I am thinking of setting my beacon
work initially near 137777, or 137779, Please advise me on the best
frequency to start working with. With only 200 Watts, I am planning to use
QRSS60.
73
J.
VY1JA
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