Hi John and all. Sorry can't run the beacon tonight,problem rather more serious than just blown fuses.Will try to fix in the next day or two. I hope! 73s Laurie.
Hi John, Thanks for listening, TX running now. Re. Ant, you asked if improvement could be due to smaller loading coil. I dont think so ,total loss is 35ohms of which coil loss is about 5ohms, so redu
Hi John, Sorry nothing seen last night. I am quite keen to confirm the other nights sighting so will transmit again tonight. Freq. confirmed as 71,921.5KHz. shift now a little greater at 0.1hz DFCW o
Hi Tom / John, Most of the wire is in one length although it zig zags to get it into available space ,looks like a letter N with the vert. section connected to the top of the RH vert stroke.There is
During the T/A tests last winter I ran out 2 additional radials 150 ft. long into the sea water with 4ft long earth rods. Recently the grass had to be cut so I brought these radial in,carefully check
Hi Peter, I dont think Ko's findings are too far out. Please forget my mistake, R.res calculated should read 0.02 ohms. If we take your estimated Rad.pwr of 23.2 mW and increase it by 8db (x6.31) thi
Great John, I think you did it ! my frequencies last night :- Dash = 71,921.45 Dot = 71,921.35 as measured here, +/- a bit I guess. Can you confirm the very close spacing of my dots/dashes ? If so I
Thanks Ko for the report.glad you saw us. Thanks Peter for the comments on the B.09 K Amp.I think I must be getting 600/700 W since my Ant current is 3.5A (ground loss probably twice that on 136 say
Hi Peter and all, I think things are against us but its worth a try,and I want to see if the fuses will hold out. The TX runs more power on 71.9 so gets hotter,but the radiated power is less probably
Hi John, Alan,Brian, and All, Thanks for the report John,looks like you are getting good at forecasting now Alan! Brians excellent plot show the path to CT opening earlier,but closing at about the sa
I ran the beacon from 2230UTC until about 0100 when I checked and found that the fuses had blown. Heat sink still hot so fairly recent. Replaced fuses and reset Dash/Dot ratio to 2:1. Checked again a
Hi John and all, Sunspot no's and Kp index pretty low so I shall run my beacon again tonight. Freq. 71.922KHz., 30 sec dot QRSS., from 2230 to 0400 UTC approx. Hope you are about John. 73s Laurie.
Hi All, Worked my best 73KHz DX this morning G3YXM Birmingham, thanks Dave you were a very good signal on my NW/SE Ant. Also worked Mike G3XDV on manual morse so thats another good one.Thanks Mike. 7
Hi Mike and all, I will look for you this evening . Perhaps we can have that QSO. My freq 71.612 if I see you QRSS .I will also beacon on 71.922 QRSS 30 sec dots from 2100 to 2200.UTC. 73s Laurie.
Hi Alan and All. Alans comments re Reg's Groundwave program and DCF39 prompted me to get my F/S equipment out this morning. I use a calibrated ferrite rod antenna and an SPM-3 Level meter. DCF39 was
I should like to add my congratulations to Steve and all involved in this outstanding event,11,907kms-thats going to be hard to beat. I would appreciate details of ERP and ants,both TX and Rx. 73s La
Thanks Tracey for the information on the PLT situation in Germany. I wrote to my MP a few weeks ago on the subject and finally recieved a disturbing reply from Erkki Liikanen of the European Commissi
Mike your QRSS signals now strength "O" very readable in strong QRN. Not audible in 300Hz bandwidth. Confirm no sig. from loop Ant. used this morning. Thanks for test 73s Laurie.
