Hi Jean-Pierre,
I ended up on 184kHz last night by accident!
One of the two parallel loop conductors (which are made of coaxial
cables) had a break in the center conductor.
This changed the tuning of the antenna, and with the available
capacitors in the ATU I could not resonate in the 137kHz band.
Therefore I removed some of the capacitors and resonated the antenna on 184!
We have a saying "when life hands you lemons you make lemonade" !
I don't know how long I will stay on 184kHz. I need to repair the
antenna for 137 but this might take some time.
I may try to use a Decca antenna coil to resonate my 160m inverted "L"
which is 1/2 wave on 160.
If there were sufficient interest in the 184kHz band I would convert
one of my spare Decca TXs to that band.
--
73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ
WD2XSH/23
WE2XEB/2
WE2XGR/1
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Jean-Pierre Méré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Warren , LF ,
>
> Sorry , I am not anymore qrv on 184 kHz , after the tests that we led with
> Joe VO1NA ,
> my SDR 184 has been converted in 500kHz ! If there is a lasting activity on
> this strip ,
> I will redo something for 184kHz , to note that here in europe , we can only
> listen during
> the stop of maintenance of "Europe 1" ( 2 hours every night )
>
> 73 Jean-Pierre f1afj
>
> Le 01/11/2011 21:31, Warren Ziegler a écrit :
>>
>> WE2XEB/2 is running QRSS60 beacon mode on 184.510
>>
>> Reports Welcome!
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