Dear LF Group,
Happy new year and millenium to all - hope it brings you happiness
and good fortune.
I too heard an "Icelandic" station on LF - on 3rd of Jan at 1421 utc,
calling CQ - but this time the call was TF1IS. The CQ calls stopped
as soon as I replied. It was certainly strong enough to be a UK
station.
On a different note, I have a NOV for 73kHz operation, but can't
actually put out a signal on the band at the moment due to lack of a
suitable antenna loading coil. Until I finish struggling with my
computer and it's sound card, I also won't have any QRSS
capability, but if I cobble together a loading coil I could get on the
band with manual CW fairly quickly. If any other fairly local stations
who are active on 73kHz would be interested in arranging a sked, I
will press ahead and do this - please let me know.
I was interested in the AMRAD beacon WA2TXF/12 and it's 1600ft
"earth bipole" antenna - what is the benefit of grounding both ends
of the antenna, rather than tuning it up as a 1/4 wave, as OH1TN
seems to be doing rather successfully?
Cheers, Jim
73 de M0BMU
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