Thanks John! everyone assumed it was okay but it's good to hear it officially. Now we can re-assure the stations in other countries that they can work us cross-band. ....on with the good work! Cheers
Hi Lubos & LF, The "dots" I see, hear are around 502.6 and 505.6 with occasionally a much weaker set at mid way between. I don't know what produces the signal. Occasionally there is a long dash of a
Hello Jim & LF group, Thanks for the report. This is the sort of thing I wondered about. Up to 18:36 the 5W / 20mw ERP signal was readable but dropping another 7dB and it was below the noise floor. I
Hello Mal & LF, The best I've acheived with Class-E has been about 70-75%. I understand that you're supposed to select values of components and tune the o/p stage for best efficiency at your chosen D
Hello LF, It is normal, polite amateur practice to a) listen for a few minutes and b) send a signal such as QRL? when selecting an operating frequency. On 500kHz itself this is rarely a problem, as b
Hello Dave, LF, Yes, I totally agree that for the majority of 80m users the existence of 500kHz cross-band activity is either unknown of of no interest. I'm not surprised or concerned, that normal 80
G, Chris & LF, psk31 seems to work quite nicely, better than the RTTY! CQ CQZQ´E...g0nbd g0nbd g0nbd CQ CQ CQ DE...g0nbd g0nbd g0nbd CQ CQ CQ DE...g0nbd g0nbd g0nbd kkk The CW is hard going too at ti
Hi Wolf, LF I heard you call on 80m and replied on 502.1. You weren't very strong (439 at best) on 80m but then you disappeared completely. Heard you again just now at 22:39, I called but no reply ag
My grabber isn't meant to be used to read CW, that's what your ears and brain are for! The grabber is meant as a remote signal reporting tool. Admittedly it allows reading of QRSS3 CW visually, but t
Hi Hajo & LF, Yes, it's been a very interesting evening. Firstly thanks Hajo for the x-band QSO. I chose 3551 because 3533 had a strong data transmission and 3545 was also busy. I found 3551 to be be
Hello LF, I've restored my TX antenna (temporarily at 8m height instead of the previous 11m) with the same top loading as previous. The grabber looks normal again, with signals from G3XIZ, G0MRF, DI2
Hi Ken, LF Congratulations on working Rik. That 477 is an interesting report! "Readable with practically no difficulty, moderately strong signals, near pure tone with trace of ripple modulation." Don
Hello LF, I am currently (at approx 09:30z) hearing G3ZWH calling CQ on 501.92kHz. RST 329 (with tuneable pre-amp and 10Hz AF filter!) Despite several calls I'm unable to raise him, although not real
Gus is 599+ here too, but he can't seem to here Rik's replies! I'm listening 3551kHz for x-band (TX 502.1kHz) BTW... Cheers, John -- John GM4SLV IP90gg Clousta, Shetland
Graham, LF Signal faded up on grabber at around 18:50 Here's a decode from 18:54z RYRWCYRYRYRYRY CQ CQ CQ TEST EDE G0NBD G0NBEYV0,?$ RYRYRYRYRYRYRY CQICQIP TEFT DEHG0BD G0NBD G0NBD RYRYRYRYRYRYRY CQ
Thanks for the QSO Rik! Nice signal up here in Shetland a good 569 by ear, pity to only get 339 from you, but that's enough to make the first GM-ON in-band QSO on 500kHz! Congratulations and good luc
Thanks for your kind words Lubos! I have put up a short, untuned, vertical of approx 5m height and am feeding this to the RX that runs the grabber. The signals are not as strong as usual, but I see D
Hello LF, Following Laurie's comments re: AGC action on my grabber display I've turned the RX AGC OFF. The band is quiet at the moment (1030z) with only DI2AM and G0MRF visible. I've set the RF gain
