It's summer and everyone is busy building their LF station... right? I want to remind those who may be building about the North American LF (2200 meter) QSO Stations List: http://www.n1bug.com/lfmf/f
During a stormy night I have made final (I hope) changes to the new amplifier and its power supply. I am running WSPR now as a test. I will continue, maybe with some interruptions, for a day or two.
Hi Bernd, LFers, Wow! I was very surprised to see that spot this morning! I was not expecting this during summer. When I have more experience with the new amplifier, maybe I will try running a few ni
Thanks to all who listened and provided reports on my WSPR test. I was pleasantly surprised to find DL0AO was able to decode me! I have now stopped transmitting. Today I will put the covers on the am
John, LFers, It is of course ridiculous that you have been prevented from carrying on as we all know there is no risk. What a shame. I came into the game somewhat late, less than a year before the ba
Roelof, That is interesting. Signal strength of DCF39 seems consistently lower in summer compared to winter at my station. I will see if I can be heard at DL0AO (or others) again in summer. And winte
Hi Marco, It's always something, isn't it? I am very happy to get this new PA working well. I was (and will be) running it at less than half the power it is capable of, so hopefully it will live a lo
Hi LFers, I got the power supply and PA nicely installed with new cables now. Covers on the boxes and everything. It still works! :-) I want to see if I can again be heard by DL0AO or other DX during
Hi Marco, Yes, a bit odd. :-)) It worked perfectly last night. No rain, so the antenna remained resonated. I got reports from PA0RDT (thanks Roelof) but no others from over the pond. I will continue
Hi Stefan, I am watching your experiments with interest although it's a bit over my head for now. I guess it has to do with cost. Aluminum is cheaper than copper. Maybe this speaker wire is for the n
I have stopped 2200m transmissions. This summer experiment was very interesting! I wish I could continue nightly transmissions but must stop for now. Thanks to all who listened and provided reports.
Hi Chris, I sent an earlier reply which seems to have gone into the bit bucket somewhere, possibly to due to server settings in my mail client which I've just now changed back to what was working pre
Hi Luis, It is nice to see you on my screen again. I might have had more decodes if I had not been transmitting on LF. It looks like you were transmitting every 10 minutes. At 20 and 50 minutes past
Since last night I am transmitting on 2200m again. WSPR2 for now. I I will try now to be transmitting almost every night from before my sunset until after sunrise in westernmost Europe. Mostly WSPR2
Thanks J.B. I got no reports on WSPRnet last night. Things looked OK here but I was wondering if maybe I had a problem with the transmitter. It's good to see I was heard. Static was brutal here last
Hello Chris, Thanks for listening. To my knowledge I was only heard by one station last night. I have no idea how trans-Atlantic propagation was. I could barely see the DCF39 carrier through the QRN!
Subtitle: Be careful what you do in the vicinity of your LF antennas... I had a 14m length of aluminum tube (proposed 30 meter rotatable dipole) laying on the ground just under one end of the top hat
Marco, ... a wingbeat of a butterfly... is very descriptive. I like it. :) Maybe with a sensitive detector I can use the LF antenna to count birds flying under it. :) Stefan, I have not seen any sign
Hi Rik, I'm sorry you have such high losses but it is good to hear finally that I am not the only one. I think sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them I must run a few hundred watts on 137
