Dear LF Group,
I was QRV on 73k this morning, and had a QSO with G3XDV, and
PA0SE cross-band 73k/136k. I also heard excellent 599 signals
from G3AQC, but Laurie seems to have problems on the RX side,
since he did not hear either myself or Mike.
Unfortunately, Rugby did not shut down until I had to leave for work
(the band was unnaturally quiet as I was walking out of the door of
course....) - I suppose they do not switch the TX off until the
engineers and riggers get in to work. Next month I will take the
morning off, I think.
Thanks for the comments about the electro-mechanical SAQ
receiver - I think I will try to put together some sort of article with
pictures and so on, but it will have to wait a week or two due to
work pressure. Naturally, I am thinking ahead to the 136k TX
version - I particularly like the idea of a steam-driven TX, just for
the horrendous pun potential (real steam radio, tuning for maximum
smoke, etc., etc., oh gawd..). In the mean time, can anybody help
me locate a few million high speed relays for the accompanying
electro-mechanical DSP project? :-)
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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