[Lowfer] WD2XKO + WD2XES on tonight
Garry Hess
k3siw at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 24 20:51:55 EST 2009
John,
Sorry to hear a fire forced you to QRT. I was listening for WSPR signals
on 60 meters when I saw signals from you and Dex on the F1AFJ grabber.
By the time I tuned in yours had gone away, but Dex is still pounding in
here on QRSS30 (he was sending QRSS60 11/22/09).
I have no ham transmitting experience at LF, but I did thesis work with
a 5 MW, 40.92 MHz meteor radar. The 17 dBd phased dipole antenna array
was matched with open wire lines and I certainly worried about setting
weeds on fire during the summer. To pass the time during 24-hour data
collection runs the operating wavelength was noted via the variation of
arcing distance to a pencil held cautiously on a long pole near one of
the high-SWR lines.
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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