Hi Alan/G3NYK.
Just thought I'd bring you up to date on the
possibility of working EI to OK. The riggers are just finishing off my new
300 metre
tower ( with top loading ), only problem will be adding some series
capacitance to shorten it, so I can put in the usual base loading coil and
tap up for 50 ohms, the capacitor will be a one off specially ordered from
the U.S.A. You were quite right about stoking up for that DX qso, the local
grid cannot cope with the extra electricity demand, so the only thing was to
order up a generator. Could not believe it when I was told I could not get a
gene of that KVA at short notice, but they did have a steam driven one that
I could have straight away. I now have a team of excellent boiler house
staff and a steady supply of coal, so there should be no problems with the
High Tension supply.
My wife has now got the domestic staff in line and the supply of food and
lodgings are complete, however the local supermarket is having some problems
keeping up with the demand and the supermarket chain's HQ are now
considering building a new supply depot. Apparently there have been
complaints from other parts of the county regarding low food supplies, all
because demand has increased here.
A very pleasant chap from the International Copper Federation, called the
other day and presented me with beautiful engraved smoking pipe and a
fabulous bouquet of flowers for my wife. He told us that the price of Copper
has gone through the roof. Did I mention that we laid over 80 kilometers of
10 swg copper wire for the radial system but plan to double that as soon as
we can get more staff. It's a constant juggle between staff, accomodation,
food, etc, but put in context, its a small price to pay.
Until I get things just right, I will continue to experiment with my Mosfet
transmitter, the 14 metre support pole holding up my twin 100 metre
wire antenna, which I can get 3 amps into at maximum smoke and enjoy my new
ICOM R75 receiver, with its 2 cw filters, 250 hz at 9 mhz and 500 hz at
455 khz. This rx is such a vast improvement on my LOWE HF225 or ALINCO DX70,
it makes me want to say something terrible....
......I can't wait for Winter, to give it a good bash on LF and get away
from the Summertime static and T/A.
73's Finbar EI0CF
p.s really looking forward to working OK soon.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Melia <[email protected]>
To: rsgb_lf_group <[email protected]>
Date: 14 July 1999 01:32
Subject: LF: re OK1FIG and cluster report
Sorry Petr, I knew you were there because I could copy the German station
working you, but when I scolled back through the DSP display, the trace
where you were transmitting did not 'go on and off' at the right times, and
switching off my VDU screen, whilst still accumulating the waterfall
display, caused the trace to disappear. Indicating that the response was a
Frame harmonic of my VDU.
Do not loose heart, my receive sensitivity is not very good, the
operational
G stations have much better chance of hearing you. I bet Finbar is stoking
up the milliwatts for next weekend, because EI to OK must be a good
distance. Keep tweeking the aerial, add a few more FETs to the PA and I'm
sure you will soon generate a noisy (but gentlemanly, of course) pile-up on
136.
73 de Alan G3NYK
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