We, being my father and myself should be on the Great Orme with our 19 set from 0900 UTC tomorrow morning. Weather forecast is not brilliant at the moment, but should be usable.
I will be using the ‘official’ VMARS frequencies as per usual.
80m has been poor today, I am aiming to start here first and change over to 60m mid morning. I suspect the batteries will last around 4 hours giving a large enough window for any callers. 40m will be last, I am not expecting any inter-G propagation on this band.
Arial is the original 1940’s long wire and radial ground. It seems to perform well, we shall see
I have a few of them at the end of my bed, they weigh more than the 19 set with the wooden box. Work incredibly well though if the calibration book is accurate.
The 19 did have a crystal calibrator unit but its not often seen.
Yes, I have hours of fun checking the calibration of my collection of Marconi TF144H’s with one. You may be getting some idea why my XYL dreads me going to rallies so
We use a TF144H as the main signal generator at home, its variable attenuator is very useful. It has good phase noise performance too. I have no reason to replace it with a modern generator. I suspect that will happen one day though.
My university has one sitting on a shelf, I suspect most of the international PhD students don’t know what it is, rather a shame really.
My mother lost that battle when I was 14, I do wonder if things will change when I move to Cambridge. I suspect they won’t
80 metres certainly from this prediction appears to be the best band all day at the moment, for up to 500Km, and further in the evening. (No 5MHz allowed here). 40m for longer distances, 20m - forget it!
Not sure where you found those conditions, Schedule 1 table A of your license details what frequencies and power you can use as a Foundation licensee - no mention of modes.
A novel idea would be to turn that carrier on and off, perhaps with some sort of keying device.
Someone could device a code which represented letters and numbers, and you could communicate with just the switched carrier instead.
Sounds like an A1 idea although unlikely to catch on…
