Hello Pete
I am not surprised that you are not getting many reports on your daytime mf
transmssions as neither do I, but still get reports from Chas G3DXZ
(Retford) every Sunday morning, and had similar reports from Northern
Ireland (weeks ago). The fact is that there as been little activity on mf,
as with most bands except contest times. Why not join us Sunday morning (9
to 1030 local)? Chris G3XIZ has advertised our net in Sprat and a regular
net is one way of keeping the band open with the hope that the more often
the band is used, the more popular it might get. Chris often gets an EU
contact late evenings, but I have to reserve that time for my wife. Chris
said he has seen you on the Sheffield grabber in the past. Things should
look up in the winter with the longer hours of darkness.
Incidently, on mf I am still running 20 watts into a 40m inverted 'V' dipole
(24ft high) with 50ohm twin feeder (loudspeaker figure of 8 wire),
connected as a 'T' aerial with the usual mf inductometer in series in the
shack of course. I can tune the ae as a dipole on most bands with my 'T'
match ATU and as a 'T' aerial with ittle extra inductance for TB. Not the
most efficient arrangment but running only 5watts QRP, it gets me out
without too much trouble. My Wellbrook RX loop works much better since I
elevated it 8ft away from all the garden clutter, and the RX mini-whip 20 ft
high serves a turn also
PS: Some of those long dashes may be mine as I have been trying to prevent
mf getting into my PC.
73 Dennis M0JXM
----- Original Message -----
From: "M0FMT" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:40 PM
Subject: Fw: Re: LF: Re: Fw: Black balled .... me?
Many
thanks Dennis
Thanks for
the Blacksheep report I have to send the same mail about two
or three time before it goes. I got a similar mail from
Chris G4AYT Whitstable Kent and Alan saying they were
getting my mails so it is possible with perseverance.
It's you and
Chris(G3XIZ) that can hear my beacon nobody else can this
is my new antenna up 45ft and abt 230ft long and this is
the best I can do 589 over a flat six miles path. I told
Chris if no one reported by the week end I would take it
down and discard the MF kit because there is nobody out
there. Its like a desert 630m I sit there at nights
listening to BIA forlornly beaconing away and occasionally I
get DK7FC Stefan coming in at around 22:00 our time and
that's it nothing, nada, zilch, zero a deafening
silence. Well apart from the QRN crashes and those long two
minute dashes in the middle of the band!.
73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX
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On Wed, 25/6/14, dennis <[email protected]>
wrote:
Subject: LF: Re: Fw: Black
balled .... me?
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 25 June, 2014, 17:35
Hi Pete
I am still getting your
e-mails via Blacksheep.
Also heard you tx
on
473kHz this afternoon (Wednesday) 1630
local time rst
589 as follows:- vvv de
m0fmt io91ux qrv and
long dash.
73 Dennis
m0jxm
----- Original
Message
-----
From:
"M0FMT" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:37 PM
Subject: LF: Fw: Black balled .... me?
--- On Tue, 24/6/14, M0FMT <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
From: M0FMT
<[email protected]>
> Subject: Black balled .... me?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 June, 2014, 19:31
> Hi all
> All my
mails
are coming back from Blacksheep and
have done
> for ages now. Have I been
black balled on
this reflector? I
> don't mind but it
would be nice to know and I won't bother
> in future......}o(
>
Who knows????
> 73
es GL Pete M0FMT
IO91UX
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