[600MRG] KU4XR CW Beacon during the day 5-24-18 - A while this evening

[Neil Klagge]

Great news, Andy. 2.5 amps is huge. I am lucky to get mine to 1.3 amps.

Are you putting all that capacitance across the entire base loading coil ??

Neil

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From: 600mrg-bounces at mailman.qth.net <600mrg-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Andy - KU4XR via 600MRG <600mrg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:01:55 PM
To: 600 meter group
Subject: Re: [600MRG] KU4XR CW Beacon during the day 5-24-18 - A while this evening

Hello all:

Scrounging thru stored parts in my garage; I found a box of Potted Type Mica Capacitors that I forgot I had from
several years ago.. Armed with more Capacitance than I will ever need, my L-Network now has 8 less turns on the coil,
and 2.5 Amps of RF Current going into the Antenna, and the VSWR is barely moving off the peg during transmit..
I'm a bit excited ... hi - hi .. I will let the CW beacon run for a while longer into the evening hours and see if I get
any reports .. Didn't get any thru the daytime, BUT , this was a spur of the moment experiment..
If you want to listen for my signal, you should find it close to 476.750 KHz - +/- a few Hz ..
Thanks, and 73 to all:

Andy - KU4XR
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On Thu, 5/24/18, Andy - KU4XR via 600MRG <600mrg at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

 Hello all:

 Just for the experience ; I am running a 7 wpm CW Beacon thru the daytime . Carrier frequency is 476.750 KHz .
 The Beacon sequence is every 2 minutes...I made some changes to my Antenna tuning on Wednesday, and
 now have 2.2 Amps of Antenna Current on the meter, ( up from 1.5 Amps ) .. Any reports will be excitedly appreciated.

 73:

 Andy - KU4XR
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