Rik, Finbar's beacon is about 6dB down on his maximum signal here. To Dave : what signalstrengths did you get from Finbar before (some months ago) I often heard him 10 to 20dB S/N, so even is he is r
Dear All. I tried some Spectrogram plots to see how EI0CF's beacon may be received at a distance. Unfortunately, due to the speed of the transmission, Spectrogram gave no better copy than my ears did
Dear Peter, I think it would make a good pattern for a shirt... Dave G3YXM Made a complete scan with high resolution from 135.0 to 137.8 kHz this morning. The Graphic was "glued" together from 14 sam
Dear all, This weekend look out for Alfred DF2BC/P from the Campen Lighthouse. He has an excellent signal into G. He is on 136.53 with a Ropex TX. Dave G3YXM
Dick, It's Alfred KluB (Kluss) Osterstrasse 83 26725 Emden 73, Dave G3YXM. Worked DF2BC/P at Campen Lighthoudse near Emden this morning with a formidable signal, RST 599 both ways. I would like to QS
Dear all, I agree with Dick and Alan that it would be good to have an 80m net again. The questions are; when and where? For my pennyworth, I suggest mid Sunday evening and somewhere low in the 80m ba
Dear all, I propose that we start a net on 3646kHz on Sunday evenings at 1900utc (2000 UK). I will be there, I hope someone else will! Let's try it and see how it evolves. News... I made the first DL
Dear all, Did anyone else hear OZ1KMR and OK1FIG working this afternoon (Saturday)? I just heard the end of OZ1KMR's over and he was signing off, did they make a QSO? No sign of Petr's signal here un
Geri and all, Talking of homepage access problems! My ISP has had a major crash and the news page has been inaccessible all weekend ( http://www.picks.f9.co.uk/136.htm ). It's back now but I can't FT
Viano, I wouldn't recommend the Datong convertor for use on long wire aerials. It overloads too easily for serious use. I understood that Datong VLF/LF converter is best available? Have been using a
Dear all. There's been some discussion about filters etc recently which reminded me of a question I wanted to ask the group... What receivers/tranceivers work well on LF? and possibly.. What receiver
Dear all, Myself and John G4GVC both had good QSOs with Christer SM6PXJ tonight about 2030utc. He was almost as loud as OH1TN at times. My first new country for ages! Thanks Christer. 73, Dave G3YXM
Dear all, Thanks to those of you who nominated me for the Nevada cup. It was a great pleasure to receive it. I know there are many other deserving cases because there are so many of us helping eachot
Friday evening, after a good start at 17:30 UT, our slow CW QSO failed. The signal of GB4RS disappeared in the middle of his call. Does anybody know what happened? Sparks from the loading coil. The e
Bob, I have had a "play" with a TS 850SAT, as a try before buy offer. I can confirm it works better than I would have thought on receiving LF. The circuit diagram shows it has a separate pre-amp for
Dear all, I will be in North-West Scotland (near Ullapool) from 24th to 30th October and will have the LF gear with me. Antennas will be limited to kites so operating times will be hard to plan becau
Dear all, I have just returned from NW GM and am in need of a new kite! I put up a rather poor inverted L antenna at the holiday chalet and was very pleased to work MM0ALM and EI0CF. Operation could
Dear all. I received this from G3KEV yesterday: "I will be in Gi fm 6th-20Nov and hope to be active on 136 khz. This event depends on the wx and being able to keep the antenna tower airborne hi. The
Mike I know the problem! No matter how you park the car, the wire always seems to brush against the car and destroy the paintwork... Congratulations on the DX, you did better than I did in GM. 73, Da
I don't think this is genuine but my cat is looking worried! Dave G3YXM. When you receive an e-mail wityh attachment How to Give a Cat a Colonic do not open it. It will immediately destroy the data o
