Hello Scott, Piotr, LF,
Schnell ;-) Unfortunately i wasn't really schnell ;-) Haven't been on
air this time :-(
The WX wasn't really suitable for such a kite transmission in that
event. I arrived at Friday night in the dark and there was no wind at
all. But the sky! There were 10000000000000000000s of stars, i have
never seen so many stars at the sky. In Germnay, the density of citys
and so the stray light is always to high to get such impressions!
On saturday there was no wind first too. Later some wind came up before
it became dark again. I lifted the kite to 200m above ground with the
8.1 m^2 kite. It pulled with about 30 kg, fine so far. But the wind
direction moved the kite above a 20 kV line and close to a commercial
tower where some VHF antennas were mounted. So if there would be a
sudden loss in wind strength, we probably would have lost the kite, the
electricity (2m contest crew would be angry) and some lives ;-) So i
decided to pull the kite down again. But it was a nice picture to have
it lifted for some time and a good fun.
Later the wind turned to a suitable direction but thunderstorms and
lightnings came up to that time... Everybody talked about rain and since
it became dark, if put all the stuff back into the car.
On sunday morning, there was almost no QRN, the wind was stable and the
direction fine! Here, i could have been active. But it was time to put
the tent and all the stuff back into the car since we (all) drove in the
afternoon.
I have to learn something from that: I must be careful not to loose my
optimism! If i would have arranged all the stuff a day before, there
could have been a fine signal on the air, in stable wind conds, 1 kW TX
power and a 200m vertical, maybe even in the late night or early
morning. I have to remember that next year!
Piotr, anyway thanks for trying to receive me!
Should do some VLF work soon again and spend some hours on LF too. The
LF system can be nice prepared during transmitting on VLF, enough time! ;-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
PS: Scott, be sure i will take the challenge soon to appear on your grabber!
Am 03.09.2011 05:44, schrieb Scott Tilley:
DCF39 coming up again.
Stefan, here's your cue! We all know Mal won't try :-)
SCHNELL!
73 Scott
On 9/2/2011 9:45 AM, Scott Tilley wrote:
Hi All
DCF39 was detected for the first time this side of summer in VE7
overnight.
The DX season has officially begun.
73 Scott
VE7TIL CN89dk
http://www3.telus.net/sthed/argo/
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