Last night (7 october) arround 20.10 UT I worked Lars, SM4DHN, on 136.500kHz. despite strong QRN (even worse than the night before) Lars was a solid 559 here, I received a 429 report. The 'first' SM-
Sorry for being a bit 'off topic'. But if someone meets André Kesteloot (N4ICK) at the RSGB HF convention this weekend please tell him that I arranged a talk about 136kHz on friday 15 october in Leuv
A lot of activity this weekend, especially in slow-CW. I did a lot of listening / 'looking' and also worked 2 new stations : OK1FIG (my country Following stations were heard : Friday 8 october normal
A lot of activity last night (monday 11 october) : Heard (all in normal CW) : DJ6FU (529), G3KEV (579), DJ5BV (559), IK5ZPV (559), G3LDO (559), G3YXM (579), PA0SE (589), G4GVC (559), I5MXX (529), SM6
I intend to start sending Wednesday morning at about 05:15 utc. Speed will be at one word per minute and the message I propose to send has been timed at 10 mins. I will send initially at normal spee
Little activity last night (compared to monday) but still good DX-conditions. Heard : IK5ZPV (peaking 569), MM0ALM (peaking 559) and SM6PXJ (peaking 539) All signals had slow QSB and were going up an
At 14:45 13/10/99 +0200, you wrote: Hello LowFers, I begun to dream of an expedition to a new country - Slovakia. Making use of advantage of no language difficulties I could get permission and all th
This morning at 04 UT I had a sked with Valerio, IK5ZPV. But when I tuned up my TX I noticed that the antenna was detuned for some reason reducing my antennacurrent from the usual 1.9A to 1.6A (minus
During the next months I will be giving some talks about 136kHz in various radioclubs here in Belgium. In this talks I want to give an overview of what distances can be covered on this band and there
Basically, the forum came up with the following: 135.700 - 136.000 local tests and temporary beacon transmissions 136.000 - 137.100 CW 137.100 - 137.600 non-CW modes (such as PSK31, RTTY, etc.) 137.
Last night arround 22.20 UT I could hear MM0ALM with an extremely strong signal (569). He was in QSO with G3GRO (549 here). At the same time both DCF39 (DBF39) was about 10dB above normal and 'the Gr
Regarding the strong signals last night : the A-index suddently had rissen from 13 at 18UT to 30 at 21UT. There must have been some magnetic instability for the last days as on my flight from Chicago
Visual-CW (or slow-CW or QRSS) has become a rather popular mode on LF. It has 2 very important advantages : 1. signal far beyond the audible 'triggerlevel' are detectable, allwing QSO's that would ha
At 03:37 14/11/99 -0500, you wrote: ... Now my simple question is: how can I simulate a rotary shift decoder in a simple manner, so that when I key, the freqency is for example 10 Hz higher and then
Almost 'summer-like' QRN on Friday and Saturday, so very little activity and only the strongest stations could be heard. Still high QRN (for this time of the year) on Sunday, but not as bad as the da
Thanks to all who responded to my previous mail, it seems that others had similar ideas to increase the transmission speed for visual-CW. For those who also appreciate the 'therapeutic' value of visu
Thanks to all who responded to my previous mail, it seems that others had similar ideas to increase the transmission speed for visual-CW. For those who also appreciate the 'therapeutic' value of vis
For those who want to know how a visual-CW signal looks like with the FSK system as described in my previous mails : I made a small (10k) JPEG file for 'dry testing', send me a mail (direct - not via
A question to Dick : A. Antenna plus counterpoise in free space: radiation resistance 17.8 milli-ohm Did you calculate the capacitance of this 'free-space' model ? I ask this because further you ment
Strong aurora is reported on 50MHz and 144MHz, last winter this was often a sign for good propagation on 136kHz in northern directions ! So if QRN is not too bad this might be a good evening on LF. 7
