It was good to meet all the LF'ers at the HF Convention. I found
Andre's talk and slide display on the activity in the USA very interesting.
I find the display of equipment at the LF station inspiring - I
paricularly liked the remote controlled variometer with the Leggo
motor and gear drive mechanism.
On Sunday I fired up the transmitter on 136kHz at around 0715 local
only to find the remote control keying was still faulty (it has never
been the same since it got caught up with the electric hedge cutter a
couple of months ago).
Transferred to local control in the garden shed.
At around 0800 fired up on 71.68kHz and then went back to receive
using the old R4-C. Heard G0M?? - I was expecting GB4RS. I tried
another call and received a telephone message from Dave that I was
being received by the Convention station.
I conected up the D2155 level meter and received G0MRF 10dBm above
the noise at 20Hz selectivity. We exchanged reports at 549 both ways.
Toward the end of the QSO went back to the R4-C and copied G0MRF qute
clearly above the noise at 250Hz selectivity.
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Regards, Peter, G3LDO
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