Hi Stefan,
Last two or three days have been rather noisy, yesterday I had to turn
down the volume of the receiver as the static was reaching annoying
levels. But hey, transmitting _is_ fun and I am sure you will have
plenty of reception reports, even if you don't make it to VK this
time.
I am so jealous of the amateur density in Europe and the level of
activity over there on LF - here, I need to drive to my country block
to set up my transmitter, transmit, then go back home to check the
received signal in my grabber!
By the way, has anyone in the group experimented with transmitting
into the ground with earth probes? It seems to be working reasonably
well here, in fact I have been thinking that it's comparable to my
very limited inverted-L LF antenna...
http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~dxt103/136/earth/
73, Dimitris VK1SV
2011/10/12 Stefan Schäfer <[email protected]>:
> Hi Dimitrtios,
>
> When i look on your grabber it seems the dark times between VK-DL are longer
> now. So, you told about quiet conds on your side in the last days. My PLL is
> locked again and i will TX today again in QRSS-120, starting 17 UTC on
> 136.172.
> Good that your grabber runs 24/7 since probably you are sleeping right now
> ;-)
> Maybe that is all a bit to optimistic and i'm still running the old system
> (coil Q 285) but anyway. Somehow i like transmitting just for fun :-)
>
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
>
> Am 11.10.2011 07:05, schrieb Dimitrios Tsifakis:
>>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> I will pass your suggestion to the local QRO operators here in VK.
>> Personally, I am a bit of a QRP person, so all my transmitters are
>> less than 100 W output power. And my antennas are so bad that sticking
>> a couple of rods in the ground and feeding them with the 136 kc RF
>> results in similar performance!
>>
>>
>> 73, Dimitris VK1SV
>>
>>
>> 2011/10/10 Markus Vester<[email protected]>:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dimitris, g'day VK,
>>>
>>> southern summer coming - time to swap roles! You guys down under come
>>> up with a "decent watt" ERP, and we'll be spending long dark
>>> evenings, staring into the noise pixels ;-)
>>>
>>> Actually, for starters Chris' 4X1RF 424 µHz grabber in Haifa
>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10280270/4X/TA3600.jpg
>>> would be a good target. With a long carrier from a 1ppb stable
>>> source, there's a real chance for a VK detection between 15 and 20 UT
>>> this
>>> time of the year.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Markus (DF6NM)
>>>
>>> http://www.alice-dsl.net/df6nm/grabber/Grabber.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Dimitrios Tsifakis
>>> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:12 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: LF: M0's on the MF/LF
>>> Greetings from VK!
>>>
>>> Temperatures are climbing up here but I'd rather be freezing in the
>>> shack and have decent, QRN free reception on LF/MF!
>>>
>>> 73, Dimitris VK1SV
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>>
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