Hallo Steve,
Hallo Group,
was QRV on sunday morning 02:45 to 4:15 UTC. Could not hear anything. Called
CQ for several times but no answer.
Had some trouble with the antenna. The normal antenna system resistance of
abt. 50 ohm has increased to nearly 100 ohm. Don´t know what happend. May be
the snow and ice on the wires caused this change. Did some other
measurements on sunday afternoon, when the sun reduced the ice but there was
no difference.
Nevertheless lets make an other trial the next weekend. What about the same
time? Could we go down to 136.4 kHz because I have a qrm-carrier on 136.9
kHz?
73 DL1SAN Wolfgang
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Von: Steve Rawlings[SMTP:[email protected]]
Antwort an: [email protected]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Dezember 1999 23:20
An: LF Group
Betreff: LF: QRV 03:00 5th December
Wolf DL1SAN wrote:
> . . . what about a sked on sunday morning at 3:00 UTC? How will we
> proceed to reach a high probability of qso?
>
Yes! Hopefully, propagation will be as good as when Christer and I did a
similar test two weeks ago.
I hope to be QRV from 03:00 - 05:00 UT, Sunday 5th December on 136.8 kHz,
+/-
QRM [!], weather permitting. I will call DL1SAN for 5 minutes starting at
03:00 & 03:30. I will listen for DL1SAN for 5 minutes starting at 03:05 &
03:35. Each time, I will listen first on my TX frequency, then carefully
tune 136.2 to 137.4 kHz.
At other times, I will either be sending CQ calls, or listening for other
'early birds'. (I hope some other TXing/RXing stations will be able to
join
in the fun too!)
To increase the probability of a QSO if copy is difficult, I find that the
following procedure works well:
1) start and end the first transmission(s) with 3 x 3 callsigns (e.g.
N4ICK
N4ICK N4ICK DE GW4ALG GW4ALG GW4ALG);
2) once you are sure that both callsigns have been copied correctly, start
and end each over with 1 x 1 callsigns (e.g. ZL4MD DE GW4ALG);
3) if you think that one of the callsigns is in doubt, use 1 x 3; or 3 x 1
callsigns, as appropriate;
4) send two 'K's at the end of each transmission;
5) only send the outgoing report (i.e. do not re-send the incoming
report),
and send it at least five times at each attempt; and,
6) only send a series of 'R's when you are sure that you have copied the
other station's callsign - and your incoming report - correctly.
Regards to all,
Steve GW4ALG
[email protected]
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