Re: LF: 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete

[N1BUG <paul@n1bug.com>]

Thanks Markus,

Also thanks for the file. Kilowatt-hours were not so bad here at 175
to 200W transmitter power (depends on R of antenna which is always
changing a bit)... but maybe Chris doesn't want to talk about
kilowatt-hours. ;-)

Today I installed SpecLab. Now trying to get ftp set up correctly. :-)

73,
Paul



On 03/28/2018 05:38 PM, Markus Vester wrote:
> Congratulations to Paul and Chris! Looks like this was quite an
> endeavor, taking turns in transmitting through a whole night. Must
> have been a record-QSO in terms of kilowatt-hours as well ;-)
> 
> Hartmut and I noticed Chris' dashes a couple of nights ago, so I ran
> a SpecLab instance with screenshots for souvenirs ("final" R attached).
> 
> Best 73,
> Markus (DF6NM) 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
> Von: N1BUG <paul@n1bug.com>
> An: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>; rsgb_lf_group
> <rsgb_lf_group@yahoogroups.co.uk>; Discussion of the Lowfer (US,
> European, & UK) and MedFer bands <lowfer@mailman.qth.net>
> Verschickt: Mi, 28. Mrz 2018 21:13
> Betreff: LF: 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete
> 
> Last night Chris 2E0ILY and myself completed a DFCW60 QSO over a
> 4731 km path on 137 kHz. To my knowledge this is the first USA to
> Europe two way amateur radio QSO on the band. My sincere thanks to
> Chris for his time and effort to make this happen!
> 
> I apologize if being in the WSPR band created problems for anyone. I
> asked Chris to give up four nights (or more) of other activity to do
> this. I did not want to additionally ask him to spend hours tuning
> the antenna elsewhere and then back again.
> 
> Signals were at times outstanding with three hours of perfectly
> solid copy here one night. While not quite that good in the other
> direction, I am very pleased with the copy Chris had on me. We would
> not be able to make it on any other QSO mode, but slow DFCW made it
> possible!
> 
> This QSO was like an adventure. :-) The first night of transmitting
> I had to constantly retune the antenna due to influence of very
> heavy snow squalls. I'm glad I put a motor on the variometer.
> Without it, transmitting that night would not have been possible.
> 
> 73,
> Paul N1BUG FN55mf