[Fwd: LF: EI0CF heard in Sweden]

Andre Kesteloot akestelo@bellatlantic.net
Sun, 01 Mar 1998 17:50:48 -0500


Gang,
Spain to Sweden, on my map, that is about 2,000 miles ...
Not bad  :-)
André N4ICK
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Johan Bodin wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> tonight I heard EI0CF on the 136 kHz band. His signal was
> clearly audible but there was a lot of 50 Hz related interference
> and QRN as well.
>
> At 21.40 UTC he sent "EI0CF QSX 3530" or something like that.
> A few minutes later I heard him in QSO with G3TMC or was it
> G3TNC... Cross band? I did not check the frequency exactly,
> but it was in the "lower half" of the band.
>
> The receiving equipment was a 1 x 1 meter indoor loop, a VLF
> converter and a Yaesu FT757 using the SSB filter (!).
>
> I saw a few other CW signals with Spectrogram software but
> the noise level was too high to let me decode them.
>
> 73 de Johan, SM6LKM