Heinz,
Will the activity be just CW, or will there be QRSS?
Mike, G3XDV
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Our local radio club will hold its annual fieldday on Saturday,
October 8. This years main activity will be an activation of 136kHz.
The operating site is a cottage out in the country. There is
electricity but no telephone or internet.
We have two transmitters with spare FET's available (G3YXM designs).
Receiving equipment will include various bandpass filters,
preamplifiers, a converter and commercial transceivers. The landscape
at the operating site is mainly meadows (pasture for cattle) with
plenty of old trees around. We plan to build a toploaded Marconi
antenna. A vertical section of 15 - 20m and 100 - 200m in two opposite
directions should be possible. We have a loading coil wound on a rain
barrel and test equipment for resonating the antenna.
We will start at about 0700UTC and operate until the evening hours.
The fieldday activity is centered on this one day, but as long as the
antenna stays up we might continue working longwave during the week
and the following weekends. It certainly will not be a permanent
installation. Callsigns on the air will include OE5EEP, OE5ODL,
OE5PGL, OE5MW and possibly some others.
73 Heinz, OE5EEP
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