[Lowfer] KE Beacon

Douglas Williams williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 09:02:10 EST 2020


Welcome to the list, Kasey. We are only 122 miles apart, so I will keep
trying for your lowfer beacon. Andy, KU4XR, in Knoxville should have a good
chance to hear it also.

I 100% guarantee you that more ground radials would help. ;-)

73, Doug WB4DW  (changed callsigns very recently, so I'm still listed at
KB4OER on QRZ.com)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 8:55 AM ka4sey <ka4sey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone trying to hear it. It's still a work in progress so
> maybe adding a tuning coil to the existing coil will let me fine tune it. I
> believe I blown another transistor so that needs to be replaced again.
> Frequency drift problem I believe was due to the battery being weak or
> cold. Replaced that with a 13.8v power supply so now I dont have to worry
> about batteries. Not sure if adding more/longer ground radials would help
> either with my transmitted signal. I currently have 8, 10 foot radials
> buried a few inches under the ground. Thanks again for the reception
> reports.DE KA4SEY, KaseySent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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