GW4ALG's 136 kHz Pages

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Station Details:
Operator  Steve Rawlings, GW4ALG
IARU locator  IO81PP
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This page updated  17 May 2001

 

Equipment & Operating Information: 136 kHz band
Operating times 

Evenings and weekends.  Skeds welcome. 

Transmitter Power  100 W RF output (G0MRF PA); 400 W RF output (from 2 x 572B valves)
Antenna 1  Single-turn delta loop running east-west (nulls to north & south). 
Antenna 2  12 - 27 m experimental vertical.  Only erected in good weather!
Operating modes  Conventional (normal speed) CW only
Statistics 97 different LF stations contacted in 16 countries
QSOs over 1000 km 33 QSOs (for a list, click here)
Furthest 2-way contact  OH3LYG, 1946 km (GW distance record on 136 kHz)
Furthest UK 2-way contact  GM3YXM/P, 703 km to Gairloch, Highland Region
Other stations contacted
(all 2-way)
 

DF0WD, 768 km; (first DL-GW);
DF2BC/P, 687 km; DJ5BV, 685 km; DJ5DI, 661 km;
DJ8WX, 860 km; DJ9IE, 704 km; DK5PT, 704 km;
DK8KW, 881 km; DL3FDO, 828 km; DQ0KBM, 647 km;
EI0CF, 508 km; F/G0MRF/P, ??? km;
F6BWO, 685 km; F6CNI, 518 km (first F-GW);
G0AKY, 237 km; G0MIN, 163 km; G0MRF, 163 km;
G0UPU, 64 km; G0VXG, 113 km;
G2BBC/P (Market Bosworth), 140 km;
G2BBC/P (Telford), 113 km; G3AQC, 158 km;
G3BDQ, 246 km; G3CCH, 259 km; G3DQC, 110 km;
G3GRO, 184 km; G3HEJ, 143 km; G3KAU, 182 km;
G3KEV, 333 km; G3KMP, 241 km; G3KZU, 104 km;
G3LCB, 197 km; G3LDO, 182 km; G3LNP, 145 km;
G3OLB (Yateley), 132 km; G3OLB (Sheldon), 97 km;
G3UNT, 229 km; G3WFM, 178 km; G3WSC (Crawley), 184 km;
G3WSC (Puckeridge), 184 km; G3XDV, 173 km;
G3XTZ, 157 km (first G-GW, and my first LF QSO);
G3YMC, 141 km; G3YXM, 105 km; G3YXM/M, 98 km;
G3YXM/P, 212 km; G4BAO, 212 km; G4CNN, 122 km;
G4FKK, 176 km; G4GVC, 151 km; G4HYU, 263 km;
G4KLF, 240 km; G4WMZ, 206 km;
G6NB, 107 km; G6RO, 253 km; G8IK, 101 km; G8PX, 99 km;
G8RW, 192 km; G8TB, 183 km; GB4RS, 150 km;
GB2CPM, 175 km; GD0MRF, 325 km; GD3YXM/P, 325 km;
GD3XTZ/P, 325 km (first GD-GW);
GI/EI0CF/P, 431 km; (first GI-GW);
GI3KEV/P, 423 km; GI3KEV, 431 km; GI3PDN, 412 km;
GM3YXM/P (Dumfries), 395 km (first GM-GW);
GU3YXM/P, 249 km

GW3ITD, 150 km; GW3XDV/P, 149 km;
GW3XYW, 92 km (first GW-GW);
GW4HXO, 174 km; HB2ASB, 902 km;
HB9ASB, 902 km; (first HB9-GW);
M0AYF, 234 km; M0BMU, 173 km; MM0ALM, 598 km;
MB2HFC, 150 km; OE5ODL, 1219 km (first OE-GW);
OG5UFO, 1916 km
OH1TN, 1916 km
(first OH-GW);
ON4ZK, 545 km; ON6ND, 483 km; ON6UX, 482 km;
ON7YD, 521 km
(first ON-GW);
ON7ZO, 516 km; OZ1KMR, 896 km (first OZ-GW);
PA0AWN, 634 km; PA0BWL, 568 km; PA0CC, 494 km;
PA0LEG, 505 km; PA0LQ, 495 km (first PA-GW);
PA0SE, 484 km; PA2NJN (Eenrum), 648 km; PI4DEC, 505 km
PI4OSS, 568 km; PA2NJN (Usquert), 660 km;
SM6PXJ, 1294 km
(first SM-GW);

 


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