From Dave G3YMC I shall be repeating my talk on 136kHz - '136kHz from the Suburban Plot' at Bracknell ARC, Coopers Hill Centre, Crowthorne Road North, Bracknell, on Wednesday 11th. April at 8pm. All
If you missed the 1200z transmission note that it ended with the line: 'This message will be repeated at 1330 gmt' ie. NOT 1345 as advertised. I have a full transcript, but won't spoil your enjoyment
From Dave G3YMC Just a few more comments! Although activity is low during the day there is rather more than you imagine. I monitor the band every day all day, and there are a number of stations - G8R
From Dave G3YMC Steve Rawlings made comment on the proposals for 136 contests and use of beacons. I would endorse his comments. The band is far too narrow to support contest activity, but more could
From Dave G3YMC There has been discussion on the difference in current below and above a vertical antenna's loading coil. I was not going to get involved in this discussion, but when I see some of th
From Dave G3YMC Comments on remarks by Mike G3XDV and others: Be realistic: If you have a 40m dipole, 8m above ground and strapped as a Marconi, over poor soil, you are wasting your time with 5W. Goo
Hi Steve Just to let you know I had a QSO with Finbar EI0CF this morning. Quite a struggle and not sure if he got my report OK in the end, but I could sense the thrill he was feeling! Do you have the
I have not been following the transatlantic path on 136 since I got the station back but have been frustrated by the recent hf conditions. Alan is correct when he says things have shown a sign of imp
against the greater public interest of an interference-free power grid." Have they got this the right way round? Virtually all radio services on LF suffer a continual and steadily increasing amount
After a long break I have now dug out my 136 gear, dusted off the cobwebs, and re-erected my transmitting loop. All seems to be working but have not heard any activity yet, and a few CQ calls brought
In the past when I have copied the SAQ transmissions it was with extra capacitance across the tuned input of my LF converter (circuit on my website somewhere!). I had long since tidied up the convert
All I here down there is noise from TV SMPSUs and no hope of hearing anything at all - even the 75kHz time standard is not that far above the noise. Well listening this morning the QRM was much lower
Reading the mails with interest I took a listen down on 73kHz with my long wire, having not listened down there for some time. In the 'good old days' soon after we got the band I heard quite a lot of
The city of Manassas has received FCC approval to put RF in the range 1.7-30 MHz onto their power lines for "carrier current" tests. (Good bye Ham Radio reception there ???) Andre and others might l
I would encourage folks to rethink the use of HTML email on the reflector, though. Yes indeed. I use Pegasus Mail (http://www.pmail.com) which is excellent and virtually immune from all the MS explo
I am also an MMANA user, but havent' tried at LF. If you go to http://www.dsergeant.btinternet.co.uk/fivemegs/fivemegs.htm you will see a simulation I did on my longwire at 5MHz. As Dick says the int
Hi all, I totally agree with Mal's comments. I have also chatted at length with the guys who produce the HF predictions and they worry a lot about their work actually discouraging people from puttin
Here is the picture 73, Dick, PA0SE Sun.jpg Thanks Dick. It seems Westminster has simmered down enough for some other news to appear today, and there is a half page spread on the solar storms and au
Well perhaps if our papers weren't devoting all their pages to a non event in Westminster we might have seen the same in the UK.... The predicted storm certainly seems to be a biggy, there was virtua
Rogue carrier - actually not rogue - can anyone in Eu see a carrier centered on 137,7748 with, possibly a fsk/psk content. Is this not the weak carrier I remember having heard/seen in the past and o
