Hi all, A mixture of LF events is planned for the Quartz Hill club station on Saturday 26 June. For most of the time we will have a DFCW120 beacon running with the usual QQQQ.... identifier, frequenc
Hi all, The ZM2E beacon transmission from Quartz Hill went well from our point of view, but it seems LF DX propagation was probably thinner than normal. As Laurence 3D2KL has already reported, we had
Bryan, No initiative , that's the trouble.with amateurs today... ;-) After sutable temporary extra guying, saw thro' each leg in turn and insert a compression resisting insulator. OR , to save money
Marcelo LW2ETU, I'll check for your signal, and I'm sure some other ZLs would also listen out. For ZL it means running a longer transmission time than if you were thinking only of DX testing over Atl
Hi all, At this stage it looks like we can not go ahead with LF beacon and other tests at ZL6QH that were booked for 18/19 September. I will post another bulletin nearer the time, once our present di
Hi all, There will be no LF QRSS beacon transmission from ZL6QH Quartz Hill this weekend. The next booking for LF tests is late December. 73, Bob ZL2CA
John, Thanks for clarification of time. Looks like I exercised my gear a day early .... and I'll try again tonight. 73, Bob ZL2CA Bob, The announcement here was that the test would run from 1815 UTC
John, I guess this will get better in the future. When the captain of the Enterprise tells someone two light years away that he will meet him at 1400 hours, he always gets it right. Only if they all
Hi all, Confirming I got M to O copy of RU RU ... on 137.7895 kHz in the predawn period this morning, on my home receiving setup. I'll post edited pics in due course (unless Ed beats me too it, I ema
Hi all, Attached are windowed Argo captures of what I received on 137.7895 kHz, with 120 second dot length. This is the first time I have observed reasonable copy after local sunrise. I estimate my s
Ed RU6LA, Thanks for working out the distances. ZLs have made new best distances 1-way on 136kHz (in LA0FX's software): Bob ZL2CA (RE78IR) - 16473km Andrew ZL2BBJ (RE78JS) - 16477km These paths are s
Ted, For info, LF one-way world records were extended overnight last Saturday, by the RU6LA beacon from European Russia. Paths are some 34 km more than previous best paths to RN6BN. 73, Bob Dear LF e
Hi all, Some interesting comments on wood and plunging Q of LF coils. It also made me think about "live wood" and that definitely does have sap. It strongly suggests that a transmitting antenna shoul
Bill and others, ....... For example, at MS1000 the total frequency shift is only 0.50 Hz (+ or - 0.25 Hz away from the nominal 800 Hz audio carrier freq) - and any mistuning seriously eats into our
Hi all, I'm parallel to Jim M0BMU for regarding that QRSS reception via a sound card does not benefit from very narrow analogue filtering in the radio, or at audio prior to application to a sound car
