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LF: Re: OK1FIG

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Subject: LF: Re: OK1FIG
From: "Peter Dodd" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:01:36 GMT
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During Saturday I reinstalled the 136kHz station in the shed after dismantling it for the GB2CPM session the previous weekend. This job takes about an hour because all the remote control bits have to be reconnected and tested. Found there was a problem with the coax feedline from the receiver preselector in the shed to the receiver in the house, reducing the signal levels by 35 to 40dB. Later that evening around 2030 carried on trying to fix the fault. Spectrogram was connected to the receiver and I saw two good signals in spite of the cable fault. One was ON4ZK and the other ...K1FIG. Hmm.... not April the first!

Went down to the shed and QSYed the TX to the QRS band and came back to see the mystery callsign was OK1FIG. Gave him a call (while at the same time checking the e-mail to see all the excitement I had missed) and received an 'O'. After I sent an 'O' I saw the request for a fast CW and saw the fast CW on the screen but I could hear nothing on the receiver but white noise and an occasional burst of static due to the cable fault. It is amazing that Spectrogram can pull these signals out of noise like this.
The cable fault is fixed now but:
Lesson - to keep my equipment on the ball to be ready for the unexpected.
Thank you for the QSO Petr


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Regards, Peter, G3LDO

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