Hello everybody !
After a lot of fiddling with taps on the
loading coil for the tx output and the antenna and also the best setting of
the variometer I this afternoon (oct 3) called a number of CQ:s for the
first time on 136190. The time was 1400 to 1430Z. The question is: did
anyone hear me ?
When listening I found the noise level being quite low
and when home again I found a bad solder connection in the pre-amp so no
wonder the noise level was low.
The tx has about 130W output into a
T-antenna with the vertical part about 10m high and top loading with 3 wires
30m long spaced 50cm. The ground system is so far only one ground rod and 4
radials.
The rx is a TR7 and preamp.
What trigged me to try this band was that a
couple of months ago I heard OH1TN and an OZ.... on a 40 turns loop with a
side of 70cm.
73 de SM5EUF / Urban in JO78SQ (summer
QTH)
