OK OK...you caught our second stuff-up as well ! Geez... .you guys are good. (The dds got nudged during one of our sleep-deprived halucinations.) Dear VA7LF, and all who sail in her, I concur with Ja
Thanks Jay and John. Just our luck that the only glitch of the 3 day affair was also your best screen capture! It seems that the lack of sleep was catching up with us this morning when, after the fir
November 28, 2005 Gentlemen: Walter Staubach DJ2LF has an experimental license to transmit on 440.044 kHz. He has reception reports from all over Europe, but so far none from North America. His licen
Congrats Dexter and well done. That big antenna is certainly working well. Interestingly, the west coast ndb guys all reported very poor condx to the south Pacific this morning. Everything must have
An HF to LF crossband was completed last evening between myself and K0SM, Andy Flowers, in Lincoln, NE. The distance between our stations is 1412 miles. Andy, using his 80m trapped sloper to receive
Peter - I have had good results by gluing these together at the ends with regular thin CA ('crazy glue') and then bundling them together and staggering the end joints. I have one that is 22" in lengt
The next round of Trans-Pacific testing between ZM2E (Quartz Hill, New Zealand) and VA7LF (South Pender Island, B.C.) will take place next week on the nights of April 3, 4 and 5 (Mon-Wed). Testing wi
smaller verts/loops welcome. Mal - during our last TransPacific tests with ZL, we had the opportunity to run two rx's on the ZL frequency. One was our mainstay and always reliable performer, the lar
807's (later models 6146's) Walter...I would be curious about the output circuit...is it a standard pi-network or an LC circuit similar to, say, a 160m output circuit? Steve / VE7SL
VY1JA in Whitehorse has sent nice screen captures of ZM2E's signal into Whitehorse. His period of reception appears to parallel ours, in the hour just before dawn. Steve / VE7SL
Good morning J.B....that's us...we are sending a fsk90 'V' every 10 mins while they send a 'Z' on the other 10 min sequence. We will do this until we see signals from each other. Many thanks for the
tests. Good luck to the Jay - just to clarify...the overnight tests with ZM2E begin late on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday night (4th-6th UTC). If we get the antenna work finished today, we may be on t
The recent Trans-Pacific LF Tests with New Zealand were undertaken on the nights of April 3-5, 2006. Although these dates were selected several months ago, it seems that we could not have picked a po
This is a bulletin from VA7LF located on South Pender Island, B.C. For the next two overnight periods, VA7LF will be attempting to complete a low-frequency QSO with ZM2E in New Zealand. Operation wil
What does the amp look like into a 50 ohm load , on the scope match? Can you borrow that camera again and send us a jpeg or two? The transformer is not the issue. Hundreds have had success with those
