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ZR6CPB > QRP 06.03.02 06:33l 105 Lines 3759 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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> From: G0TEZ@GB7HVU.#16.GBR.EU
> To : QRP@WW
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> G0TEZ/TPK 1.83c Msg Num:363 Date:04-03-2002 Time:22:38 GMT QTH COLNE NW
> England.
>
>
> I've just been reading the bulletin from David,G4EBT, whom I respect
> greatly BTW. In it he mentions the large number of QRP contacts
> acheieved by certain stations.
>
> It brought back memories of the late 70s - early 80s when people in
> the UK were transmitting illegally on the 11m band using, normally,
> 12W PEP into an aerial cut to be resonant only on 11 metres.
>
> Thousands of people made regular contacts with the USA mainly ion AM.
> A friend of mine would come home for lunch and CQ, then chat, usually
> with a North American CB operator until his wife brought him his lunch.
>
> For a couple of years I had a regular contact with 'Otto' who was
>
> 'Somewhere in Texas. running 12W PEP into a « wave wire dipole from a
HiGain 5/8 'ths, still the best omni.
General Electric A, fine tuned for maximum smoke, about 45 watt PEP @
5Amps. BC 109C for mic preamplifier, diode clipper, audio lowpass filter,
ALC set for 99% modulation ;-).
Channel synth fixed for 125 channels.
Later, 4 element quad, armstrong rotator, ... that's a mean thing ...
> Hi Gain 5'. The identical setup to the one I was using when I first
> contacted him.
> My longest contacts were only two, both in Victoria Au, using a
> President Grant, giving 22.5W into my « wave wire dipole.
RSA to Canada.
>
> Naturally, no one ever exchanged QSL cards. Some clubs did start which
> had P.O. boxes but it still wasn't very safe and interest died with
Got a box full, then realised the people who do the mail delivery, also
check licences ... oops, postcards are a dead giveaway, stopped that.
> the inroduction of the weird FM channels in Nov '81.
>
> The point to all this is quite simple. If you listen and call on the
> same, small group of freqencies, with a transmitter and an aerial tuned
> to that small band, you are bound to make a lot of DX contacts.
It's not the band / it's the people ...
>
> Oddly enough, during that period, a local G3 with 400W and a very big
> AE assured me that 10 metres was 'totally dead' and that I had to be
> lying about 11m.
I find the sensitivity / efficiency of older "HAM" equipment/antennas (and
HAMS ;-)) poor in the upper hf bands. I got a ICOM-R72 receiver, on the
packet computer, and the PSK31 modes are strong these days, so SSB should
perform well. The Higain 5/8 got stretched to a mean +/- 11 m long, and
works fine as receive vertical down to 14 MHz.
>
> Many amateurs in the UK, who started via CB are going to be able to
> verify everything I've said but I don't expect tham to risk it,Hi!
What? CHICKENS!
>
> The eqivalaent for hams would be for a group to gather around 28 - 28.5
> MHz and chat with long pauses. If there were enough, you could divide
> that part of the band into 10KHz 'channels' and start a chat on each.
The GE will do 28 MHz nicely ... needs max smoke retune, is all.
Should do PSK 31 just fine, small enough to add to the PC setup.
There's a 30 W mosfet with BFY 96 preamp, somewhere around here ...
There's a dead Yaesu lying around, think the 120 W final module still
works ... so much for QRP ...
Have circuit for FM transverter 80/40/30/20/15
(The GE doesn't have NBF ... ;-) )
Any body got ideas for SSB linear transverter?
Now lets leave it till 2003, when this CW cr*p dissapears ...
>
> As for 666 LSB, the less said the better:-)
>
> All the best. Count dracula, er, I mean
>
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> ³ ßßÛ ßßÛ G0TEZ Ian.
GreenGrabber.
Chrissi.
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