<?color><?param0100,0100,0100><?fontfamily><?paramtimesnewroman>WOW!! What a weekend. Dramatically increased my best DX on both 136 and 73kHz. Heard a few records broken. 136kHz sounded like a topban
Ah, the clue is "just prior to one of Mike's calls". I pressed the wrong memory button on the QRSs keyer and realised after a while that I was sending part of an old QSO with HB9ASB. Sorry for the c
Sorry, Steve, I had promised to be on 136 early, but the prospect of working GD on 73kHz diverted me to that band. I will be there next time. 73 Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT) http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/a
<?color><?param0100,0100,0100><?fontfamily><?paramtimesnewroman>Another week, another country - this time thanks to Petr, OK1FIG.<br><br>Friday 26 November <br>Heard MM0ALM (589); G3XTZ (59<?smaller>
Not much time for going on the air this weekend but highlights were: Friday Heard OH3LYG for the first time (549). He did not reply to my call. Saturday Spent all day working at RSGB AGM, but managed
After consulting DF8ZR and DF6NM, who both are also active in DFCW, I would like to suggest a kind of temporary DFCW standard in order to enhance DFCW QSO's and avoid 'collisions' with other modes :
I use old toothbrushes! Dave G3YXM. I use two or three cable ties, in loops like the old style paper chains. Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT) http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm
Mike, I seem to remember you saying you made great improvements to your antenna current by getting rid of plastic insulators. I'm wondering if looped tie-wraps would be strong enough as there is quit
Many thanks to all the stations who have worked me during the last week or so, for the very warm welcome I have received, and their patience with my patchy morse capabilities! It has made all the wor
Not a lot to report as I have not switched the radio on a for a couple of weeks. Like many others, I went down with the flu and have had all the usual seasonal commitments, too. I will be on the Rope
My thanks to Dick, PAoSE, for his very useful comparitive signal strength measurements. These will be even more useful if repeated from time to time to see what long-term improvements have been made.
<?color><?param0100,0100,0100>At last, I have managed to get back on the air after a break of several weeks. My trip to GW was very pleasant but I did not operate the radio at all.<br><br>Interesting
At 1920 last night, I had a successful contact on 72.0kHz with M0BMU. We exchanged 559 reports at a distance of 11km. The noise on the band is still very bad (my meter drops from 9 to 1 when I go fro
G3YMC wrote: Mal mentions the problem of QRM from CFH - in case we hadn't noticed! I suggest that the Rugby transmitter on 73.4, which has more or less put an end to realistic QSOs on that band, is s
ON7YD wrote: The best way to find out wether we can cross the pond on 136kHz is to try it. What I have in mind is a transatlantic test, similar to what we did last year in cooperation with N4ICK, but
G3NYK reported from the DXCluster: 1800.0 EU 11-Jan-2000 1649Z eu bc 5/5 160-190 khz <VE1ZZ> Now, if VE1ZZ is listening on LF there is a good chance of a transatlantic QSO. He is very successful on a
DK8KW wrote: I have found Dick's (PA0SE) field strength measurements of last weekend very interesting. I have used Dick's observations, "normalized2 them to dBu (0 dBu=0.775 V at 75 Ohm, so simply su
Well, that's the point I was trying to find out. I wondered whether I could calculate my ERP from your graph, and plainly I could not. But is this Vaino's theory, or something else. If we could sort
John, beware that there is a 200ft height limit on kites in the UK without special permission (presumably from Air Traffic Control). Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT) http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm
Monday, 17th. For an hour in the evening, my noise level on 136kHz went right down to zero on my s-meter. It is usually at S2-3 on the quietest days and up to 9 on the noisiest, typically 5 in the ev
