I use two or three cable ties, in loops like the old style paper chains. Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT) I used to do that too, works fine but I had to replace them at the end of the summer as they seem to be
Lots of rain and strong winds all weekend, so my antenna was is 'save position' (all ropes loose) all weekend except for friday evening when I heard ON6ND with his new TX (now 599+), some G's and OH1
Uhm ... with the attitude that the 'commercials' and 'proffessionals' do everything better and the we 'poor amateurs' shouldn't try anything else, we would still be using AM instead of SSB, would nev
At 15:19 17/12/99 -0000, you wrote: Relating all this to the possibility of transatlantic QSOs it seems that there will be no ground wave so we are only concerned with the reflected wave and therefor
On lot of QRN this weekend, rather unusual for mid december. Also less activivity than the weekends before, maybe a lot of Xmas shopping to do ... Heard (CW) : PA0LEG (579), G6RO (539), G4GVC (559),
I have released a new version of QRS (2.05) as freeware for general distribution. Main changes to the previous general release (1.17) are : - full support of DFCW (Dual Frequency CW) and QRSS (slow C
Hello Malcolm, Can anyone explain to me why qrss is necessary on 136 khz. All the activity that I have heard on this frequency is workable on normal speed cw at my qth. With Gram (if used properly) y
At 18:48 21/12/99 +0000, G3KEV wrote: Hi Geri. Qrss is discouraging experimenters from improving their antennas, receivers and associated equipment to make a normal aural qso. It is also encouraging
Over the last weeks I noticed that Werner, ON6ND, always got a +/- 10dB better report from UK stations. The fact that he is about 70km closer to the UK may take 2dB. From his antenna details I could
Very little slow CW activity noted during the holiday period. I called CQ in DFCW once in a while and I saw G3LDO few times Cq-ing in QRSS mode, that's all. 73, Rik At 16:47 4/01/00 -0000, you wrote:
I monitored the 137kHz 'mistery signal' last night : 1. Although it sounds RTTY-like I cannot see any mark /space lines with GRAM 2. It came out of the noise arround 21.30UT and built up (with some Q
I just checked TF1IT on the Buckmaster callbook and in the OH2AQ DX-cluster : That call is unknown in the callbook (and plenty of other TF's are in it) and has not been reported on the DX-cluster the
I have recorded the 137kHz signal from 4 jan 22:20UT to 5 jan 08:00UT with the ON5OO software. A lot of data (1 recording per second) over 800kB unzipped but it is a 97kB ZIP-file. The recordings sho
Last night I worked DJ9IE, first time I heard him. His name is Uli, located in Unna (JO31RH). He is running only 10W but the antenna sounds great : a 250m long wire at 15m hight. His signal was 539 t
I cannot get GRAM working at 5.5kHz on my 'ham-PC', but it works perfect on other PC's. I haven't figured it out yet, but my 'ham-PC' has only 16MB RAM so that might be a reason. 73, Rik ON7YD Does a
At 19:37 8/01/00 +0000, G3XDV wrote: A bit desperate I started my final attempt, again inspired by Mike, G3XDV, who reported an improvement of his antenna by adding some inductance at the top of the
'Highlight' of the weekend was without any doubt the appearance of OE5ODL with a very good signal. My thanks to Dick (PA0SE) and Geri (DK8KW) for the signalstrength measurements, this helps a lot of
I tried to make a loop with flatcable once and was not very happy with the result either. Maybe the rather large stray-capacitance between the windings is decreasing the loop performance ? Replacing
....After realizing my loop I found out, that the capacity of the loop itself between the turns was already 800pF. That generates losses. Do you know that capacity in your loop? How can one measure
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 with a much
