Hello Stefan,
My 500 transmit set up has been dismantled for some time. I achieved only
local QSO's up to 225 miles due entirely to my very small antenna in my very
small garden. As Mal once said to me I need to move house! Well that is not
possible but I could go /p and I have been following all your activities to
learn from your experiences. I am also encouraged by Finbar EI0CF, who has
achieved great success on 500 portable as well as from his home QTH.
I am a technician not an Engineer or Scientist (ex. marine R/O) but I can
reproduce ideas from others so I am a keen observer and one of the many
"silent"
members learning from the group.
Close to the North Sea my /p activity will take advantage of that,
rather than forests.
Good luck on the new band and I hope to join you there live on air, in January
2013.
73, Mike, g3gms
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Schäfer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: LF: DK7FC on 473.5
> Hello Mike,
>
> Thanks for the report! Well,
the CQ call comes from the memory of my
> keyer (by DL4YHF) but the CW in
a QSO is hand given. No PC in use for QSOs.
>
> Are you already QRV
on 500? I could listen for you there. However i'm
> still at the
beginning and have to do some improvements on the receive
> side. I'm
also planning to be QRV from /p, RX wise. Yesterday i have
> extended the
range of my active ferrite antenna. So now it covers LF and
> MF. See
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/MF/LF%2BMF_active_ferrite_antenna.JPG :-)
>
> What antenna do you plan for /p? A full size dipole in a
forrest will be
> interesting! I will prepare my 700m earth antenna to
make such a dipole
> and see what the efficiency will be :-)
>
> 73, GL! Stefan/DK7FC
>
> Am 19.06.2012 00:37, schrieb Mike
Thayne:
>> Hello Stefan
>>
>> I am hearing a very
nice 559 signal of you calling CQ on 473.5khz at 2216utc tonight. No
interference and nice hand sent morse from you. Using a miniwhip rx
antenna.
>> I am looking forward to joining in the fun in January 2013
when we get access to the new band.
>> Small garden here so I will have
to be /p to get a decent signal out, I learnt the lesson on
500khz!
>>
>> 73
>> Mike Thayne
>>
G3GMS
>> Whitley Bay IO95GB
>>
>>
>
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