[Lowfer] LF rx operation - from Fiji

[Laurence KL1X]

Confirming Ill be setting up in Fiji  3D2 on 19/20th June and should be 
receiving up till around 8th July - these dates may vary but its hope the 
station will stay monitoring even if Im not as base camp some 45 miles drive 
from Suva on the S side of the Island.

This side doesnt favor "going North" paths but seeing as I cant see to 
guarantee which way the signals come from I dont its too bad a location 
being less than a mile from the coast.

Rx antennae will be a "steerable" K9AY + pre amp being deployed to reduce 
the likely qrmn. Rx tests continue here at the moment but it will be the 
TS870/850 or FRG100 - these dates may coincide with some other LF tests but 
dont let the fact its summer in Eu and winter in Oz/nz stop any 
experimentation. DCf39 will be used as the LF Eu beacon. I maybe able to 
upload Argos' to my present website http://myweb.cableone.net/flow if I can 
get more than 9.6K out of the landlines.

Talk back on HF is likely but Im still (since Jan!) waiting for the callsign 
- the ministry has just moved and a lot of applications have been mislaid 
including mine.

Im on the island to set up an mulitsite HF net and teach some of the charity 
staff what a dipole isnt. (http://www.raleighinternational.org.uk) so this 
isnt  just a ham dxexpedition and time will be shared - I also hope to sit 
on a beach for a while with my wife! More when I have it.

Future expeditions to Southern Patagonia in October are likely but I know I 
have the Andes in the way for a lot of directons, but there again it didnt 
stop Eu reception in the centre of the volcanoes in Costa Rica.

Laurence KL1X/5, wd2xdw  ...-.-

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