From Derek, G3GRO.
Thoroughly enjoyed meeting friends old and new on Saturday during the LF
gathering at the HF Convention. Thanks to all the organisers and excellent
speakers and also to David G0MRF, Graham G3XTZ, et al for their hard work
in setting up the LF station on 136Khz and 73Khz.
The Convention special event station GB4RS was putting out a very strong
signal on 136Khz into Crawley, West Sussex on Friday evening and I
exchanged 599 reports with them while they were setting up.
This morning (Sunday) at 10.15 UTC we fired up the Crawley Club station
G3WSC again on 73 Khz and were very pleased to work David G0MRF at the
Convention station hearing him at very readable 569 despite the fairly high
noise level and received a 459 report through their local RF noise and high
audio background level. The the equipment at G3WSC was a FT990 RX with
250hz IF BW and about 100Hz audio BW DSP filter. The TX was a modified BKE
amplifier running at 250W RF into a 120m long
inverted "L" at 20m above the ground. The equipment was on loan from
Lech, G3KAU
73 to all from today's ops at the G3WSC club station - -
From Stuart, G3YSX , Lech G3KAU , Derek G3GRO
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