An LF beacon in eastern Ontario will be on the air shortly, a LowFer beacon is on the air in Southern Ontario as well. Larry (and Andre as well), In order for DX beacons to be REALLY useful, ie ident
But my first LF crossband QSO - and presumably the first G/GW LF crossband - took place when I worked John G4GVC (140 km) last night. Noise levels were higher last night, but John's 73 kHz signal was
G3AQC wrote: << The performance of the Decca Ant. is quite interesting, the "gain"or at least the advantage over the normal amateur installation appears to be at least 20db.... This is tremendous and
G3KEV- IO94SH --G3WSC/P- IO91XS--AZ 175, DISTANCE 287.3 Kms G3KEV- IO94SH -- MM0ALM- IO87UA--AZ 340, DISTANCE 320.8 Kms MM0ALM is 2db stronger de G3KEV/SCARBOROUGH. So, if both MM0ALM and G3WSC were
G3YMC wrote: Also the opportunity to use the Decca masts in the current experiment is a golden opportunity which shouldn't be missed. It may well be argued that QSOs made with commercial stations sho
I heard that N.O.V. for 73 kHz ends this June or July. Is it true? Will it have any continuation? What is the reason? Can anybody provide me with brief info? I need it for article "Long waves" that I
Assuming you are running a PC, a really easy way of getting a screen capture is to press ALT and Print Screen at the same time. This puts a bit map onto the 'clipboard'. It can then be Pasted into j
I will be in the far south-west of Wales from Saturday the 23rd. I will be able to listen on LF for the first few days but cannot transmit until I hire a portable generator on Wednesday 26 April. It
I operated on the 73kHz band on Thursday, 27 April between 1700 and 1830UTC, and again on Saturday 29 April between about 0900 and 1100. Unfortunately, on the Thursday evening the kite gradually got
I have posted the following on the RSGB's web site (www.rsgb.org) today: -- At a meeting on Thursday 4 May, the Radiocommunications Agency agreed to a request from the RSGB for continued use of the 7
GW4ALG wrote: New subject: Ron G6RO wrote to say that he has been off the air due to a TX power supply problem. His constant efforts to improve his LF station resulted in a pair of rectifier diodes f
G3KEV replied: Tell me Rik, why is there no qrss(LMCW) when the band is noisy like lots of qrn/static about. My ANSWER after monitoring and experimentation with spectran is that the qrn chops the lo
ON7YD wrote: DFCW is still a very experimental mode, so not very standardized yet. Generaly accepted is that the higher frequency stands for 'dash' and the lower for 'dot'. The frequency shift is dep
In theory there is no need for these 'gaps', but a series of tests (mainly conducted by DF8ZR, DF6NM and me) showed that these small 'gaps' had 2 advantages : 1. It eases the reading of characters wi
If Spectran and the other programs offer the capability to copy stations 20dB below noise, in these circumstances this would only take you to s9, which was certainly copyable with normal CW. I admit
When I returned from GW a couple of weeks ago, I reinstalled my station and was puzzled that it took a very long time to get any amount of current into the antenna. I initially thought it was the eff
This reminds me of the day I got my licence. It was January and it had snowed the previous night. Excited by the new licence, I had several successful 160m CW QSOs before I found that the antenna was
DF6NM wrote: yesterday night, the qrn seemed to be fairly moderate, so I decided to start spectrogram at 22:00 UT (5513 Hz, 512 pts, 30 s dwell, 128 averages, resolution bandwidth with windowing appr
I have just changed my ISP to save money (a service that's totally free - even the phone calls - has finally tempted me away from Demon)! Note that my new home e-mail address is: mike.dennison@ntlwor
