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LF: RE: Finally 100 mA on 2.97 kHz

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Subject: LF: RE: Finally 100 mA on 2.97 kHz
From: VIGILANT Luis Fernández <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:23:52 +0000
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Congratulations for this great step ahead Stefan !!! :-)
 
From your hard work and impressive pictures it is quite clear that ULF is veeeeeery hard compared to LF/MF and every Hz down there becomes harder and harder
Amazing work and beautiful construction. My best wishes for the results in your tests
 
Please keep posting. May be not many will said anything but we are all watching ....mouth wide open ;-)
 
73 de Luis
EA5DOM


De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de DK7FC
Enviado el: domingo, 04 de diciembre de 2016 23:15
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: ULF: Finally 100 mA on 2.97 kHz

ULF,

It was a clear, cold and sunny day again and finally i was testing the new large 2.97 kHz coil on the roof: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19882028/ULF/20161204_153126.jpg

Not a good idea on MF or LF, but on ULF is can be a good idea to put a resistor in series to the coil. I put 500 Ohm in series. This helps to attenuate eventual HV transients, makes the resonance curve a bit flatter, so the peak is easier to hold.
500 Ohm and 0.1 A, that just a loss of 5W, quite affordable. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19882028/ULF/20161204_153113.jpg

Unfortunetely i found that the actual resonance region is adjustable from 2993...3130 Hz. So the inductance is still to low :-( I've been quite sure that my antenna replacement capacity for resonance tests in the shack has the right value. So maybe other effects like an additional capacitive load by the things standing arround in the shack? Or a different behaviour of the residual antenna +  frozen ground capacity on 2970 Hz?
At least it was possible to get 100 mA anyway, just by applying some more voltage to the antenna. The PA is now running at 20V and less than 1A, most of that are PA- and transformer losses. Anyway i have 12 kV on the antenna! That's ULF!
I was planning to bring the coil down to the shack anyway, after the 65km experiment which will start in a few days i think. Then i can add more turns to come closer to 2970 Hz.

With 70 uOhm radiation resistance the resulting ERP is now entering the microwatt range: 1.2 uW on the 101km band.

A stable carrier at 100 mA was sent from 12:50 UTC to 14:24 UTC.

I tried to measure the antenna current with a true rms digital multimeter, shielded by aluminium foil, measuring on high potential. But the measurement was wrong anyway. The permanent installed analog amperemeter and SpecLab gave a correct measurement. Tomorrow i will check the antenna current measurement on high potential with a calibrated analog amperemeter.

For the 65km experiment i want to transmit some DFCW-12000 again as well as an EbNaut message. The RX site will be in JN39VH :-)

73, Stefan


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