[Lowfer] Weekend HiFER report from CN89

[Scott Tilley]

I'm baffled as well... I went for a walk tonight with a portable Sony
ICF-SW55 and with just the stock whip I could hear TIL for about as far
as I cared to walk ~2km (it's raining and my Will gave out before the
beacon.)  So I must be getting a signal up there... Where it goes from
there???

Scott



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Rice" <rice@starband.net>
To: <lowfer@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Weekend HiFER report from CN89


> Scott,
> I have been watching all day and did not see TIL. Everything is
supposed to
> be reciprocal, so I am surprised that you can see NW and I can't get
TIL. As
> far as holes, my TX antenna is in a hole a far as receive. I can't
receive
> much of anything on it. My RX antenna is almost identical but 300 feet
south
> and a few feet higher, it picks up everything! I think it is all as
they
> say--location, location, location.
>
> Dale Rice
> Williams, Oregon
>
>
>
>
> > Only NW was copied during some limited listening sessions with TIL
off
> > this weekend. NW's signal seems to peak around noon local.  I'm
> > beginning to feel I live in a 22m hole as I've only ever heard NW!
> >
> > TIL is now permanently on a 1/4 vertical which has a 1.1:1 SWR and
is 5m
> > above ground.  The output power of the TX into the vertical is
measured
> > at about 4.6mW.
> >
> > Future improvements will include a DDS based TX with DFCW modes on
> > ~13.555 and ~6.777 MHz.
> >
> > Scott
>
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