Hello Dave and all,
yes, good activity tonight.
I worked GI3PDN, G3DXZ, M0KDW, G3XVL and GW4HXO.
4 countries in 2 days ... 96 to go ;-)
Heard: G3AQC, G3ZWH and G0MRF beacon in CW
It had been raining all morning, as I tuned the antenna current was
down to 1.3 A (1.4 A yesterday). Wet greenery is more lossy than dry
greenery ... I knew that already from 137 kHz.
As I has still 30 minutes daylight I added second earth stake, antenna
current went up to 1.55 A. So in dry weather I should have abt 1.7 A.
ERP should be close to 0.5 Watt.
At 22 UTC I disconnected the variometer and loosened the antenna
(supported by 2 trees), as WX-prediction gives wind up to 100km/h
tomorrow.
I guess I won't be QRV tomorrow. But WX should calm down by Friday and
stay so the weekend.
73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T
Quoting Dave G3WCB <[email protected]>:
Dear Rik,
Thanks for the QSO last night. Your signals are consistently stronger this
evening, and you seem to have stirred up quite a lot of activity on 500! The
band sounds more like 80 metres at the moment!
Stations heard in the last hour or so:- GI4PDN 569, G3DXZ 559, OR7T 569/QSB,
GW4HXO 549/deep QSB, G3ZWH 579, M0KHW 589 (new one for me,) G0MRF beacon.
Great stuff!
73, Dave G3WCB IO91RM
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Rik Strobbe
Sent: 30 January 2008 08:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: LF: First night on 600m
Dear all,
a short overview of my first night on 600m:
- 4 stations worked: G3AQC, GM4SLV (1100km), G3ZWH and G3WCB in that order
- reception reports from OH (OH1LSQ, 1680km), SM, DL, SP, OK, PA
- heard but not worked: DI2AM (599) and SM6BHZ (599+)
As the UK NoV's might expire by the end of February I tried to get
QRV asap, with a very "experimental" and temporary station:
TX: clone of the M0MBU 4MHz VXO design with a modified 136kHz PA. The
PA is causing some trouble, efficiency is lousy (40%) and the FET's
are getting very hot during transmission, so I keep the TX periods
short. Output = 120 W.
Antenna: 9m high / 25m long T-antenna with a part of the loading coil
at the top. Calculated Rrad = 0.3 Ohm. Antenna current is 1.4 A, so
theoretical ERP should be about 0.6 W. But due to the many trees
close to the antenna (some only about 2m) I guess that my real ERP is
far less, maybe 0.3 W.
Based on 120 W / 1.4 A the loss resistance is about 60 Ohm
Antenna tuning and variometer are in open air, so for no no operation
when it is raining.
I will try to be QRV with this setup during the next weeks (to get
interested UK NoV's one step closer to their DXCC .... ..) and
meanwhile I will try to
- build a proper high efficiency TX (I aim for 400 W)
- improve ground to reduce the losses (I aim for 40 Ohm)
That should improve my signal by about 7 dB (1.5 W ERP).
73, Rik ON7YD (and OR7T)
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