Why not GE which could stand for general enquiry and is one dot shorter.! Laurie Good idea but it can be confused with Good Evening. Why not just G9XYZ dah-di-dah-di-dah? Like K and A put together. K
Jim, LFers I have some samples of old trans-atlantic telephone coax cable - according to the labels, they are from the TAT-1, TAT-II and CANTAT-2 cables. Measuring the dimensions of these, they work
Hei Jan-Martin, Checked the 74HC4066 which one manufacturer spec'd up to above 12V For some strange reason all 74HC... analog switches are spec'd for higher supply voltages than other chips in the sa
it will certainly make a good second leg of a vertical dipole !!! It worked quite WELL here. I have no exact figures but the feedpoint resistance of my antenna was 30-40 ohms depending on WX, all lo
Bryan, Of the earth return loss resistance, how much of the resistance is the actual earth rod(s)-to-soil contact and how much is the earth path ? that is a very interesting question but it is diffic
Hi Wolf and the group, Unfortunately, in a domestic environment I could not decode your QRPPP signal on 40m yesterday. Was it on the whole night ? The beacon went QRT last night (some time after 1800
Dear LFers, my weak signal beacon has moved to 40m and will remain there until a few hours after sunset. I will let you know when it goes QRT. Details: Format: DFCW10, 2Hz shift Dit frequency: 7,099,
Dear LFers, if you have run out of LF signals and still want a weak signal challenge, I have put a temporary DFCW beacon on 80m. Details: Format: DFCW10, 2Hz shift Dit frequency: 3500,000.993 Hz (say
Hi Rik, Johan's signal has been more or less audible all day here. Funny doppler shift, or is there an earthquake in Belgium? 73 Johan Bodin SM6LKM TIFF image
One boasted, "I can climb in my pickup truck first thing in the morning, drive and drive all day, and not reach the other side of my spread by nightfall." What a stupid man! I'd suggest changing the
Dear group, at a wavelength of 2200m I can't see any reason why a bucket of salt water can't be used as a "poor man's dummy load". Also, water needs a lot of energy to heat up. At 4.18 kJ/(kg*K) a 10
