At 09:21 17/07/99 +1200, ZL2CA wrote:
Hi all,
One New Zealand amateur, Bruce ZL1WB, uses a very long wire strung out
over a gully, and with only 30 watts of RF power applied, is the most
often copied ZL LF amateur station in Australia (spanning the Tasman
Sea, a definite sky wave path, signals are zero much of the time during
daylight hours). So there is a suggestion that the very long wire that
is mostly horizontal in nature does provide good LF DX.
Any idea how high (above ground) the antenna of ZL1WB is ?
I might have acces to a 800m (0.36 lambda) abandoned telephone line, but
the wire will be only about 6 meter above ground. Will this work or will I
only get in the Guinnessbook of records for the largest dummyload ever ?
73, Rik
Rik Strobbe ON7YD
rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
Villadreef 14 B-3128 Baal BELGIUM (JO20IX)
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