I am not transmitting tonight. Weather problems. I am under so much snow now that I may need someone to send a search party in the spring. :-( 73, Paul N1BUG
Hello Paul, Get a big shovel out, weak excuse ;) Seriously though, the UK stops with a bit of a flurry of snow, hope you can get back with a big signal soon, I'm still trying to find time to re-do my
Hello Chris, I went on a treasure hunt and found my variometers! :-) However, digging them out of the snow made little difference. The antenna R remained high, well beyond the range of my tapped matc
Hi Paul, to my knowledge snow and ice act as a very lossy capacitor for AC signals above some kHz. Losses decrease with temperature, so the worst thing is snow and ice at temperatures just below 0°C.
Hi Rik, That makes sense and my observations seem to be consistent with that. Things have mostly cleared and I am transmitting again since last night. 73, Paul N1BUG
Hello Paul, just found this: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b9bd/c3ce15dd09a2bc59d410ad1d36d9c2bc7246.pdf 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T Hi Rik, That makes sense and my observations seem to be consistent wit