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Hello all,
I did, as announced, call cq at 1600hrs and 1930
hrs today, Monday,and listened on 136.9 kHz and 3073 kHz. The only station
I heard was Werner ON6ND. Thank you Werner for calling. I thought at first you
had heard my cqs but I realised that that was not the case when you did not
reply to me. You had responded to my e-mail I think. Werner I was copying
you at 589 as I often do as I have called you many times but my signal is not
making it to you.
Thank you Jim for your thoughts on my location. I
will persevere with improvements to the antenna then. For those who wish
to know, I run 415 watts from the tx and I obtain 2 amps into the antenna
which is an inverted L with vertical slightly sloping of 35 ft and top of 117
feet. I use 2 radials of 130 ft with earth rods but intend to increase
them. I thought that should have done the business but not so. The
loading coil is a large one using a muck bucket of 600mm dia and 500 mm
high.
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