Hello Jeff,
Am 12.07.2018 22:21, schrieb F6CWN:
It's a pleasure when it works!
My experience balloon and kite (Spountnik
loads tests a few years ago, launched since MIR, a great thing too!):
Do not use plastic wrapped wire (static electricity, several KV!).
Do not forget a resistance (~ 500 K Ohms 2W)
between the antenna and the ground otherwise it is very unpleasant!
(Hi!)
I hope to contact you this winter, here I use
a kite (6m ²) and aluminum wire (1.6 or 0.8mm diameter). Tests have been done on 160m and it works very well,
I hope to reproduce these tests on 136 KHz (QRSS and normal CW), always
with a kite (helium and the balloon are too expensive for me).
VY 73 Alex and thank you again for the report.
Great! I'm looking forward to your signal. Some years ago i also worked
with kite antennas on LF and VLF. In the first experiments i've built
e.g. a J-antenna for 160m, i.e. a 82m vertical wire and a transformer
cable to transform to 50 Ohm. A used a call-E PA running 600 W at 160m.
The PA worked at 36 V (using 4x IRFP 260N), 3 car batteries switched in
series :-) It was all portable and i had CW QSOs with Japan on 160m m
at lower power levels :-)
Great great great times!
What type of kite are you using for your experiments?
Good luck to all kite transmitting stations :-)
73, Stefan
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