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Re: LF: Lighthouse MF activity from OH next weekend

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Subject: Re: LF: Lighthouse MF activity from OH next weekend
From: "C. Groeger" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:34:44 +0200
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Hello Paul-Henrik,
Can hear your sigs 579 qsb.
Called you several times but you seem to be in beacon mode?
73, df5qg

Christian Groeger

[email protected] schrieb:

>Hello,
>
>I'm hereby announcing that OH1AH (The Top Radio Club) will bring 630m
>equipment for the yearly lighthouse activity at Utö in the Finnish
>archipelago.
>
>We hope to make some daytime groundwave QSO:s over the Baltic Sea as
>well since the Darlowo NDB in Poland was a good mid-day signal last
>year.
>
>Last summer we made some rough plans for how to put up a fairly decent
>TX antenna and located a few old radials from a decommissioned
>maritime NDB plus some thick general grounding wires heading for the
>sea. There is almost no soil at the site so "artifical" ground is
>brought up from the seashore at about 100m distance.
>
>The International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend activity is 17-18
>August 2013 - Duration 48 hours from 0001 UTC 17.8.2013. We will start
>building the station on Friday morning, August the 16th and may be
>testing in the same evening if all goes well. Due to travelling
>arrangements we will have to take down all equipment on Sunday morning
>as usual.
>
>I have made a compact "expedition tuner" with a  600uH variometer,
>universal impedance matching transformer and an antenna current meter.
>The TX will be a JUMA TX500, 60W max. The setup was tested tonight at
>my QTH and good signals were received at 350km distance so now it is
>up to what kind of antenna we can produce on-site.
>
>Utö is in the locator KO09QS
>
>Due to the traditional activity on the HF bands this will not be a
>pure MF operation. We will try to announce MF activity on dxsummit.
>Unless local QRM or other factors favour another QRG we will try to
>stay around 472,5kHz.
>
>Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
>
>BR and hope to make at least a few QSO's
>
>Paul-Henrik, OH1LSQ
>
>
>
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