[Lowfer] W0AH QRPp Part 2: about 3/4 milliwatt on 1817.5

[Steven Brooks]

Hey Doug,
I miscalculated UTC time to AZ time and missed your window this
evening.
However, between 7:30pm and 8:00pm local, I did hear some fast CW but
could not read any of it, it was to faint.  Lots of static and
lightning crashes here tonight.  Spectran did not show anything clear
either.  I beleive I just barely heard you if you were transmitting
very fast CW.  Will try again at 4:00am if I can get up that early.
Steven Brooks
BZS  187.302 Khz  QRSS5
--- W0AH@aol.com wrote:
> Topbanders:
> Over 30 stations reported copying the 15 mw W0AH/B to a quarter wave
> vertical 
> the nights of September  18-22 before it went QRT.  Part two of the 
> experiment is a much greater challenge. The signal will be about 2
> S-units 
> weaker this time!   I am running 100 mw to a 12 1/2 foot antenna
> which is 
> less than 1% efficient compared to a perfect radiator.  Thus, the 3/4
> mw. A 
> local ham reported me about 21 db down from my 1/4 wl vertical, and
> I'm 
> hearing about the same on receive. The transmitter is a two
> transistor 
> "Peanut Whistle II" from Don Stoner's 1964 Transistor Transmitters
> for the 
> Amateur, modified for 160M.  The antenna is the top and bottom
> sections of a 
> Hustler trap vertical minus all the traps, of course.  There is a
> homebrew 
> capacitance hat at 9 1/2 feet made of two director elements from a
> six meter 
> beam at right angles to each other with aluminum ground wire
> connecting the 
> ends of the four "spokes."  The antenna resonates at 9.89 MHz (hmm,
> maybe the 
> 30 meter antenna I have been planning to build) and with 16 turns of
> 14 guage 
> copper insulated wire wound around a 2 1/2 gallon bucket, it
> resonates at 
> about 1817.5 where I will be CQing THE FIRST 30 SECONDS of each
> minute from 
> 0330 to at least 0400 UTC tonight and from 1200 to 1245 UTC tomorrow
> morning. 
>  If you hear me, please call, and we will exchange signal reports. 
> Please do 
> NOT call during the first 30 seconds of the minute when I am CQing
> (set your 
> time piece to WWV) OR if you do not hear me.  If you can just barely
> detect 
> my signal or choose not to call, I would appreciate an email on what
> you 
> heard.  It's a stretch to think anyone will copy me tonight/tomorrow
> morning 
> with the auroral conditions and high levels of QRN we've been having 
> recently, but you never know.  Hope we work tonight/ tomorrow
> morning!  This 
> setup, in a new reincarnation (the antenna will be reduced to 10',
> reducing 
> the ERP a little) will begin life as a 1695 KHz MEDfer becon soon. 
> In the 
> meantime,  I may repeat this experiment several times, hoping for
> good/quiet 
> conditions.  Anyone who hears or works me gets the "good ears award."
> 73,
> Doug W0AH  DM78 central Colorado near Pikes Peak
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