Hello Hartmut, Group.
Good to hear from you again, Hartmut. Thank-you for the report.
The beacon is on again, but there was some trouble: to use the tower
on 160m the 500 kHz tuning coil (0.2 mH) is shorted by a relay. The
N.O. contacts on this relay arced over. Perhaps a high voltage (vacuum)
relay would help?
This problem will be much worse on 137.777 kHz with the higher voltage.
I have some spiral wound 4mm (Decca) litz to make up the 3 mH for that
project. (The spiral winding was inspired by G3NYK's experiments with
tuning coils on his web page.)
73
Joe
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Hartmut Wolff wrote:
Am 2011-10-09 23:50, wrote [email protected]:
Dear Group,
Reports on the 8 WPM CW beacon will be appreciated!
73
Joe VO1NA
Attached a screenshot of the 8wpm signal. The signal came up at about 23:20
and faded out at about 7:35. The strongest part was between 04:00-06:00 UTC
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73
Hartmut
www.h-wolff.de
Locator: JO52hp
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