Re: LF: EU BEACON

[MarkusVester@aol.com]

Dear LF Group,

it's a quiet and cold night, no wind, the antenna is up ... might as well feed it! Will run my usual 200 W (should be ~400mW ERP) from 22:00 to 8:00 or so. Frequency below Uwe perhaps  922.1/.2 DFCW, or any other free pair if that should be in use.

Uwe, I'm not quite sure about coil safety - the main risk seems to be E-field burns and arcing. The magnetic field in my indoor variometer (about 1600 A/m) is way above the recommended exposure limit of 5 A/m, but I have not felt any heat sensation when carefully approaching the coil with my hand from the "cold" side. But I do feel a lot more relaxed since the setup is covered by a plastic basket - it prevents our curious and "radiophile" cats from sneaking in and getting burnt.

Hartmut, your signal reports and images are really motivating - excellent stuff.

73 and good luck
Markus


In einer eMail vom 06.02.2005 19:54:11 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 0482183881-0001@t-online.de: 

> DJ8WX will be on the air the coming nights. mode QRSS60, QRG 135,9224kHz.
>
> BTW. Markus, the coils dont get warm not even lukewarm(4mm diam. wire) 
> but for fear that old Tessla would be active I stopped the transmittings.
>
> regards
> Uwe/dj8wx/jo43sv