Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 8:09
PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: Transmitting on
8969.998 Hz
Thanks a lot Stefan for this nice confirmation! I'm
quite amazed that it did work so well. And congratulations to you - as they say,
with QRP all the hard work is being done on the receiving side! And I
recall our conversation not long ago, when the two of us half-jokingly
calculated that we could probably work each other at one bit a day
;-)
The amazing thing is that virtually
everybody can do this. For transmitting, all you need is an average
LF backyard marconi, or a strapped 80 m dipole with reasonable insulation.
We actually live on a fairly small plot, and I have 42 m of wire up
at about 7m effective height. A power of 80 W gives around
0.28 A (ie. 21 kV antenna voltage). Thanks to Spectrum Lab,
accurate GPS or MSK stabilisation has become almost
straightforward.
I have stopped the transmitter now at 18:00, as I
do not dare to let it run through the night. If conditions allow, I will try to
add another dash tomorrow ;-)
Best regards,
Markus (DF6NM)
