Henny, thank you! That's
nice. Your RX stn is very good on LF and i am sure you will also have a good
VLF RX :-)
What is our distance? I think less than
400km!?
Let's dream :-)
73, Stefan
PS: The next time i think it is a good
idea to transmit a "K" in DFCW-600. That's a combination out of a long carrier
and a real information and a good mode for first dx tests. Since i transmit
DFCW without gaps between dash and dot it will take exactly 30 minutes,
further information. After that secqence, the full callsign and a message in
DFCW-60 might be an idea... Let's see...
PPS: Our radio club has a long friendship
with the radio amateurs in bar le duc, france. There, near
verdun, we stay each year (for me since 10 years) and participate on the
VHF contest but also some acty on HF. This year i plan to be qrv as F/DK7FC on
LF and maybe also on VLF (if there is still interest ;-) ). It is always the
first fully weekend in september. Last year i was active with a J-antenna on
160m, so a vertical end fed half wave antenna, 82m long, 100m up. No nerving
radials, no lossy matching coil. The transformer is a RG58 cable, abt 28m
long, surely with some losses but it must be less than 3db since i apply 600W
(here in DL) without any SWR-changes.
So, the kite took the 82m wire PLUS the
28m RG58, without problems! And the wind was not too strong. The best thing
about this story is that i have put this antenna into the sky on saturday
afternoon and, since 160m is rather interesting at night, have let it there
until i was tired and go to bed/marquee. Since i was to tired and it was dark
i just let the kite at the sky! And, in the morning, it was still on the sky!
If it would have dropped once, it would never go up again since there were
trees that cause turbolences... I put it down in the afternoon, after
24hours!
So, what this tells us here, discussing
VLF, is, that it is often no problem to be QRV with the kite without watching
it the whole time and have to be afraid that it comes down. So DFCW-600 is no
problem, if the wind comes from south-west. That's my observation on this QTH.
So i will choose a good time for the next test, just like at the
last...
That it get's not boring just to transmit
there, all those german (or other) stns who have received the signal should
come with a bottle of wine and so on, to have a big party,hi ;-) You know
the exact QTH! :-))
73, Stefan/DK7FC
