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Hi Mal,
Things are not complicated in the way you imply.. The earthing
system is the kind of thing that us suburban non-agriculturists have to devise
and put up with, and as I said in previous posting I have been so far been
unable to persuade the thing to accept the 4/50 matching transformer or I
wouldn't be fulminating on the reflector about it.
Now, you keep telling me yourself that my
sigs are adequate, and M0BMU reckons that things are fairly respectable, so
there is probably little real point in seeking those last few milliamps. I
am not interested in being the biggest signal on the band or swelling
Viridian (NIE) profits running big TXs, nor chasing DX. The challenge
from the day I first heard about the possibility of an LF allocation back
in 1994 or 5 and decided to go for the A licence to be able to get on 73,
has always been to see what could be done from a 60ft x 40ft back garden with
what was readily available and without getting into QRO or
'cheque-book radio' territory . But there is a puzzle in
what I have found, like an itch you can't scratch, so I asked for
ideas - scrapping what I have and starting again is not solving the problem and
not, in my opinion, in the true spirit of amateur radio, self-training and
experimentation.
I am not really all that interested in 136KHz except that
like Mike XDV , I can provide an 'ordinary' station for T/A tests and be
on occasionally if any DX chaser is rabid for GI, and once 73KHz goes I will
need a deal of persuading to carry on on LF. I have had to sacrifice all my
VHF/UHF and satellite antennas to get enough space to put up the LF antenna, and
there is still the challenge of 'single antenna' moonbounce to try
for before the deterioration in my physical condition makes antenna
work too difficult.
Here endeth the Easter sermon.
73,
Ian GI8AYZ/MI0AYZ
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