From Dave G3YMC I was pleased to work Bob G8RW in Bromley this afternoon Tuesday 2nd, his first QSO on the band. Using 30W into an inverted L antenna he was a very reasonable 559. Recent improvements
From Dave G3YMC Peter DF3LP suggests the use of HTML mail as a way to get round spurious control characters in e-mails. I would kindly request that HTML mail is NOT used for reflector mail, or mail s
From Dave G3YMC The RTTY signal which has reappeared on or around 137kHz is the self same signal we were discussing in January and at various other times. It appears for a few days at a time and then
From Dave G3YMC I would back the request by Rik ON7YD (in your excellent German!) for slow CW ops to occasionally call and listen in normal CW. I would certainly hope that Peter and his group give su
From Dave G3YMC Friday evening I am copying DJ8CY/P with 559 signals, very fine. However listening to a few stations trying to establish contact they do not seem to be receiving quite so well. Let us
From Dave G3YMC My 1987 Klingenfuss Guide to Facsimile Stations lists DCF39 on 139.0kHz as a FAX station. Presumably now that it is transmitting other data the last letter has been changed from F (fo
From Dave Sergeant G3YMC I can answer Peter G8AFN's questionaire right now with no need to switch my receiver on on Saturday morning. DCB39 will be S9+18dB +/- a dB or so, as it always is apart from
From Dave G3YMC We discussed the subject of beacons, band plans for them etc a long time ago on this reflector. I would like to remind us that unattended beacons are not permitted under the license c
From Dave G3YMC Like all of us, I was most sad to hear about Peter. I have always been a close friend of his, having our first QSO on Top Band in November 1973. While I was very active on that band d
From Dave G3YMC It seems Rugby (60kHz) has started its annual maintenance program and is off the air every day during daylight (including weekends) for the whole of May. The 73kHz RTTY also seems to
From Dave G3YMC <It seems Rugby (60kHz) has started its annual maintenance program and is < off the air every day during daylight (including weekends) for the whole of < May. The 73kHz RTTY also seem
From Dave G3YMC Forwarded message from Steve Rawlings. Hope his ISP gets sorted soon! [ Hi Dave, [ I'd be grateful if you could forward this to the LF Group, as my ISP [ (Cable OnLine) appears to hav
From Dave G3YMC The packet cluster reports given by Mike G3XDV are, I think, from the internet based version of the packet cluster. This is totally seperate from the VHF packet cluster network in the
Rod I don't know whether David G0MRF has his circuits anywhere, but you may find mine useful. The receive part of my 136 transverter is a simple to build LF receive converter to 10MHz (and doesn't su
Gerald Try also looking at my web site, which has circuits of my transverter together with lots of 136 stuff. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sergeantd/
From Dave G3YMC re: the request for a suitable time for 'activity periods' it is worth considering a time rather earlier in the day when band noise is quite a lot lower. I am on (or at least listenin
From Dave G3YMC <You should see my antenna in the moment. Everything that can be done <wrong (following the theory) was done wrong: not heigh enough, not <sufficient ground, one top-wire is broken at
From Dave G3YMC <It has been noted in ZL that noise blankers do not work so well on <narrowband loop receiving antennas I have never found a noise blanker on any amateur receiver which has the slight
From Dave G3YMC An associated topic, not yet having hit us in the UK yet, but imminent, is the ADSL system for putting high speed internet at 1.5Mb/s down normal telephone lines. An excellent, though
From Dave G3YMC Dick's field strength meter looks interesting - well done Dick. Not sure whether it would detect much of my QRPP set up at 1km! I wonder how this direct conversion receiver works as a
