Dear LF,
I am back in Germany, after a very fine und friendly weekend in France.
First i want to thank all those for the support, the activity and the
reports here in the reflector. Special thanks to Markus/DF6NM for QSP
to the reflector.
As you have heared, there were not many hours with good winds conds but
for camping and barbecue and getting brown it was excellent :-) The
wind came out of NE which is usually weak and unstable. But i have
taken my receiving loop antenna there and have clearly received DF6NM,
OE5ODL, F4DTL, SM6BHZ (JO67WQ copied!), F6BWO, DK6NI (maybe someone
forgotten, sri). Tnx
to those stations for the activity which impressed many people who have
been demonstrated real LF activity in live, the first time! Some
screenshots are attached. The slow hell transmission of DF6NM was vy
impressive to the visitors.
Tnx for the RX reports to G3WCB, F4DTL, W1VD, RA3YO, DF6NM, DD7PC,
DJ1ZB, F5VLF, G4AYT, PA3CPM, F1AFJ, PA3FNY!
Tnx for QSO to DF6NM and F4DTL. Sadly there was no time for CW since
the kite took all of my attention.
There was no chance to get the kite into the air, even the 8.1m^2 kite
stayed on the bottom. But on saturday night arround 23 UTC the wind
increased and lifted the kite into the air until i went to bed/tent at
6:30 AM local time. On sunday morning it was up for some minutes just,
sadly... It was not a strong wind but mostly stable, so the
angle of the antenna was just about 45 deg. There were many hedges and
some metallic towers near the antenna which made it a little dangerous
to operate this antenna near (thinking about loosing the kite and
destroying the antennas). Additionally there was high grass which made
a capacitive coupling to ground (by my broad aluminium and copper
plates) difficult. Even by using all the metallc stuff arround as the
ground (included the mains earth), the overall loss restistance
remained at about 50 Ohm, which made TX coupling easy of course but not
the efficiency. But i have had a mains connection, so no need for a
generator and so on.
I am happy about my new ODX to W1VD, which is 5907 km from
there. Jay, do you have further informations for me, such as the S/N?
Would it have been possible in QRSS-10 or QRSS-3? The signal looks
quite fine, except my unstable carrier (always a problem in a heatet
car when opening the door several times, even with the DDS VFO).
The distance to LU8YD is 12150 km. Sadly there was no reception this
time. But i want to give it a try again in a not so lossy location and
at better wind conds.
All in all it was very satisfactory :-)
So, hpe cuagn in my next activity which will be in this month i think
:-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
PS: The RX signals seem to have successfully passed my fiber optic
cable link!;-)
Am 05.09.2010 14:38, schrieb Dave G3WCB:
Massive signal here - about the
same strenght as Mike G3XDV who is relatively local to me.
73, Dave G3WCB IO91RM nr
Windsor S.E. England
F/DK7FC calling now on
137,720 kHz QRSS3.
F4DTL JN18FP
Dans un e-mail daté du
05/09/2010 01:16:56 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), [email protected]
a
écrit :
Latest news from F/DK7FC: The wind has
now picked up. After a short QSO with F4DTL, he is currently optimizing
the setup a bit, and hopes for more QSO's during the rest of the night.
Before sunrise between 4:30 and 5:30 UT,
he will beacon to Argentina and America on 137.775 kHz.
Best of luck,
Markus (DF6NM)
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