Thank you Jan for the QSO, Chris and all the others for the many reports my email.
Yes, it was a historic moment for me! The first amateur radio station i ever heared on MF (except 160m of course). The QSO was like on HF, without any problems! I can well imagine that this is a CW band where real time QSOs can take place. And this night is
in summer and with high QRN, so winther must be wonderful.
No contest stress like on HF and still a special place below 1 MHz :-) 137 kHz is the real challenge of course but its very nice to have a real QSO band now!
I will go on to improve some things here and will see how the active ferrite antenna performs on MF, maybe cancelling out the QRN...
The QSB was interesting and it clearly shows up that the ground range distance is much lower. I got audible copy from the UK but nothing at DJ2LF in 175km distance...
Will continue to listen and prepare my remote link to key the PA here while sitting in the forest and receiving there :-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
Am 16.06.2012 23:24, schrieb Chris 4X1RF:
Jan, Stefan
Congratulations for your 477.5 / 502 KHz QSO! It was fun to hear it in real time on the Delfi WebSdr.
73s
Chris 4X1RF
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:57 PM, pa3abk
<[email protected]> wrote:
Stefan,
At the mom I'll will call you on 502kHz everytime you stop your CQ.
And stop when your CQ starts again.
There's some QSB on it but have peaks in the region of 4-5.
Jan/pa3abk
On 16-6-2012 22:40, pa3abk wrote:
Stefan,
Can you indicate were you listen in your CQ call?
At te mom you are becoming better.
Jan/pa3abk
On 16-6-2012 22:01, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
MF,
Now my RX and active antenna is much better after adding a band filter in front of the first gate. Most probably there was an overload of the input before. Now DLF is 40 dB attenuated and the RX performs much better. I can hear the crashes / sferics and see
several traces, still not sure if they are local QRM or a far field signal.
My TX is ready as well. I will *call CQ on
477.5 kHz in CW and look for skeds*! I can receive on 505 kHz (arround) as well but my filters in the RX already attenuate the region by about 20 dB... Anyway worth a try.
Starting now!
73, Stefan/DK7FC
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