Hello LF, Dave & Mike A pile up! I was waiting to pounce on Mike G3YPE after Brian finished and F6BWO nabbed the QRG! I QSYd to 501.5 and 3530 and had a succesful x-band QSO - thanks Mike! This x-ban
Thanks again Ha-Jo. Conditions seemed quite good last night, several good QSOs were held. Things are still very variable though. Perhaps with more ERP we will be able to reach even more listeners, wh
It may be apocryphal, but there was a story around the BBC TX training centre when I was there of someone very close to Droitwich who did just that, and got caught. Can't quite be sure what his crime
Yes this is also true Uwe. I don't think everyone in the UK realizes that the DI and OK beacon stations are just that - beacons only, not for 2-way communications. Keep up the good work Uwe. It's gre
Hello again Ken, That sounds promising indeed. We're only 580 miles apart - easy DX! What is your local noise level like. I'm finding that many stations in urban areas are greatly hampered by electro
Hello Dave & LF, I have to concur that the Au probably wasn't helping things. Ray GI3PDN was good but I suppose no better than he has been over the last week or so. I worked G3UNT at last, after hear
Hello LF, The range just keeps increasing! Last evening I had the following cross-band QSOs:- 2115 DL2HRE Ed, JO51TQ Distance = 1249km 2126 F6CNI Andy, JN19QB Distance = 1283km This morning I receive
Hi LF, Another good night in progress. Just had QSO in CW with Chris G3XIZ and a first QSO at long last with Colin G3VTT. Fantastic to hear so much CW on the band...now off for G3KEV... -- John GM4SL
Hi Mal I got mine yesterday, all the way up here. In the same delivery was this month's QST and on Monday this quarter's SPRAT. Too much to read, so little time! Cheers, John
Thanks Lubos for another welcome report! I placed my beacon transmission close to Finbar's so that they could both be observed at the same time. I have now stopped the tranmission so the grabber can
Hi Graham and the LF group, Yes I rather cheated by picking the best bit. It does get errors in the QSB dips, I can kick the decoder away again and see if I can quantify the period of good/bad copy.
Hi Vernon. LF, This is fantastic news and might be a great source of encouragement to the 500kHz experimenters here in the UK. I'm really amazed at this report. I know Finbar, from participating in t
Hi Graham.. I saw the RTTY on the grabber, put gMFSK into action and I RX'd this:= QIAGOUXRZMPVYDQFJVKVXPRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYGYRY QRYJYRYRYRYRYRSRYRYRYRYRRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY G0NBD G0NB
Hello LF, I mentioned I had arranged a streaming audio feed from my "grabber receiver" in a previous email. I'm sitting at work listening to the audio from the RX and can hear G3UNT calling CQ. Even
I've just been calling CQ, in CW, at speeds between 10WPM and 35WPM, for almost 2 hours. Had a difficult QSO with GI3PDN at 1650UTC - severe QSB. Other than that heard nil. Daylight conditions, can't
I presume that UK stations operating Beacons on 501-504kHz and on 136kHz must have special permits to do so. I do not. 73 Dave, LF, On your first point (above) I'm disappointed not to have heard any
Thanks Ha-Jo for the report. My antenna was faulty for the past week or so, first with a loose top-loading wire and later it fell down completely during a storm! I repaired it on Sunday and have had
