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Hello William, PA0WFO,
Thanks for your report on our signals
from MB2HFC at the HFC convention. I did hear your signals briefly through
the local noise and the Loran QRM and I thought that you were calling us but
readability at that time was very poor. At that time, Jim M0BMU not yet
managed to deploy the receiving loop with the Loran null canceller in a
quiet spot which turned out to be some 200m away from the main Hotel
building! Later in the afternoon reception was much better when
the loop was in use. We also had local noise on the alternative
receiving channel on 2m relayed from the remote receiver at MB7LF which we later
managed to reduce by moving the 2m HB9CV beam antenna further away from the
building.
Activity was disappointingly low but we managed to
work a number of DLs plus PA0SE and several G stations - some on QRSS .
Apologies to any stations who may have called us without success due to our
noise problem. The station was not permanently manned because the operators were
at times attending some of the interesting lectures during the day and also
attending the Conference dinner on Saturday evening.
73, Derek Atter G3GRO
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 3:51
PM
Subject: LF: Re: Re: Special Event
Station MB2HFC 7/8/9 Oct.
To all ,
Heard the special event
station MB2HFC with manual CW this morning with signalstrenght 7 . I could not
make a contact with my 150 Watts .
Perhaps a high noise
level at MB2HFC ?
73, William
PAØWFO
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:55
PM
Subject: LF: Re: Special Event Station MB2HFC
7/8/9 Oct.
> Hi LF'ers
>
> The RSGB will again this year be
running the HF Conference HFC2005 at the
> Gatwick Worth Hotel just
outside Crawley in Sussex over the weekend
> 7/8/9October and the
special event station MB2HFC will be operating on the
> HF bands and
also on 136khz over the weekend.
>
> Crawley Amateur Radio Club
will be providing logistic support to the
> conference including
deploying a variety of HF antennas including an HF beam
> at 20m AGL
and several E/H antennas for comparison.
>
> We also plan to
erect a 136khz station with a 1KW ex-Decca amplifier and
> FT100MP as
prime- mover. The transmitting antenna will be 20m vertical wire
> with
two 40m top loading wires spaced about 2m apart. Experience gained from
> last year's event showed that the hotel has a high local electrical
noise
> level on LF so we are unlikely to be able to use the TX ant on
receive - we
> also have Loran QRM to contend with!
Jim M0BMU has kindly volunteered to
> deploy his double- nulling
loop receiving antenna hopefully in a quiet spot
> outside in the
grounds away from the main sources of electrical noise. We
> also
intend to have a back-up receiver system by taking 136khz signals the
>
local MB7LF remote receiver at the Crawley Club HQ relayed via 2m at
>
144.986Mhz (which equates to 136.000 kHz). The 2m receiver will have an LO
> source from a high-stability ovened source checked against the MSF
national
> frequency standard.
>
> We expect to be QRV
much of the time much over the weekend both on hand-CW
> and QRSS from
Friday evening onwards (7th Oct) through to Sunday mid-day
> (9th Oct)
depending on availability of operators - we will also be attending
>
some of the lectures from time to time. Any delegates attending the
>
conference wishing to have an operating spell on 136Khz will be most
>
welcome. Contact me, G3GRO, in the Hotel or Jim M0BMU or any of
the
> Crawley stewards on duty at the time.
> I will flag
any further info on the reflector.
>
> 73, Derek
Atter G3GRO for Crawley ARC.
>
>
>
>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vernall" <[email protected]>
> To:
<[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:39 AM
> Subject:
LF: Re: ZM2E LF DX
>
>
>> Hi
all,
>>
>> Confirming ZM2E had an active night transmitting
wise, got part of the
>> VA7LF
>> call sign and there were
problems for R6L (RU6LA special call sign)
>> transmitting when it
came to QSO time.
>>
>> Around 0840 UTC we received quite a
good 7 at 120 second dot length and
>> elements either side fitted
what would be VA7LF, but that part call sign
>> was
>> the
best we got in all the various receiving times for ZM2E before
Gulf
>> Island sunrise.
>>
>> When it came time to
try R6L we were advised by HF liaison that R6L had
>> problems, and
we should start the QSO rather than the earlier arrangement
>> that
R6L would start at 1500 UTC. We later got advice to go to beacon
>> mode
>> so at 1637 UTC we set the message to ZM2E ZM2E
.... and got to bed earlier
>> than expected. The beacon ran
till well after ZL sunrise.
>>
>> From the other reports it
would seem DX propagation was "not good".
>>
>> We are back
tonight for another bite at the cherry.
>>
>> 73, Bob ZL2CA
and Mike
ZL4OL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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