I'll slot myself in amongst the lines somewhere... In an effort to drum up some activity, W4DEX and I will be watching the 135.922 kHz region on Sunday night/ Monday morning, starting at 2200 UTC on
That's a good point Markus. I thought of joining the beacon test but there would be no point as only one signal can be in the window at once. We could do a timed window idea with different stations a
That bloke seems to really like Wellbrook stuff.... Has anyone ever tried one as a 136 receiving antenna? How does it cope with being under a TX antenna on power? Anyone can receive beacons and broad
Dear all. I just saw on the DX cluster that S57A has worked OK1DTN for the first S5/OK contact. Also, following EA1PX's mail about his QSO with Hube, I called him on QRSS and we had a QSO. Thanks Jos
Ahh well Mike, you're still on the podium with the silver medal! I will update the matrix in your favour Peter. 73 Dave G3YXM was I had an attempted QSO with S57A on 8/2. It failed because of his bre
Mike. Congratulations! As far as I know that's the first S5/G QSO. Dave G3YXM. It is turning out to be a good weekend. Just had a QRSS3 QSO with S57A and exchanged O reports at 1202km. This brings my
You always know you're improving things when the aerial falls down when you key-up! Keep up the good work. Dave G3YXM -- Original Message -- From: "Ian Kyle" <[email protected]> To: <rsgb_lf_grou
Peter. Try G4FGQ's web-site http://www.btinternet.com/~g4fgq.regp/index.html There are a few programs which may help you such as vertload, tant136 and solnoid2. 73 Dave G3YXM Hello lf-group, is there
It was me! And it wasn't as wobbly as the screen shot makes it look... 73. Dave G3YXM. Hello group, Somebody came back to my QRSS3 CQ last night at 19:53, and due to my lack of experiance, I didn't r
Jim and all. It's on the web-site at http://www.wireless.org.uk/bploop.pdf Thanks Jim, another excellent article. Dave 'YXM I think I have sent out the .pdf file to all who have asked so far - let me
Bill The ground is peat and rocks.. The only earth system is radials and wire fences. Pointless banging stakes into this! 73 Dave GM3YXM -- Original Message -- From: "Ashlock,William" <William.Ashloc
Looking at Steve and Dex's DFF39 shots it seems the "something" happened at 0300, before which time things were climbing nicely.. Pity I didn't fire up until 03.30! I don't know if Brian was on but m
Derek and all. Good news that Jim will be with you, I'll probably be back home before you come on but we may work on Monday. I hope to be active from Friday evening on 136 and 73k. My contact number
Didn't work first time so here it is again..... Derek and all. Good news that Jim will be with you, I'll probably be back home before you come on but we may work on Monday. I hope to be active from F
Michael That Surplus Sales site is brilliant! I especially like the insulators and feed-thoughs on page 10... Dave G3YXM. Hi Tom, A short google search brought up the following: http://www.surplussal
Dear all. I did some tests today with Alan G3NYK at about 220km distance, to compare the performance of different QRSS speeds under real band conditions. How much better is QRSS60 than QRSS10 or QRSS
Dear all. The 6L6s are glowing cherry-red and I've found the "sweet spot" on the crystal ready for tonight's tests. The knife switch will be thrown at 03.30 and emissions will continue until about 07
and a brief appearance of YXM on 4.6. There was a trace of something at 3.3 as well. That'd be the first spotting of the "pip-squeak" T/A( about 100mW erp). What time was that? 73 Dave G3YXM.
Dear all. The G3YXM pip-squeak beacon will be on from 0400 on .7747 again tonight. Dave G3YXM. Now that I have got things more or less 'automated' I shall also be transmitting QRSS60 from about 0430
