Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24267 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2001 04:03:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO murphys-inbound.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.225) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 04:03:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 26885 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2001 04:03:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by murphys.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 04:03:04 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 160ENH-0005TQ-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2001 03:55:07 +0000 Received: from mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.15.138]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 160ENF-0005TI-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2001 03:55:06 +0000 Received: from rvernall ([202.27.181.148]) by mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz with SMTP id <20011104035347.BZGP15911.mta5-rme.xtra.co.nz@rvernall> for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:53:47 +1300 Message-ID: <001501c164e4$68bca880$94b51bca@rvernall> From: "Vernall" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <5.0.2.1.2.20011004082609.00a1f080@mail.pncl.co.uk> Subject: LF: ZL6QH 136 tests Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:53:41 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit

Hi all,

ZL6QH tried out the 136 kHz band yesterday afternoon, and got good reports from around New Zealand. It can therefore be expected that all night tests will be possible on 1 and 15 December. Both are Saturday nights in New Zealand, but we are 13 hours ahead of UTC (heading into summer, down here :-). The radiated power is likely to be in the range of 1 to 5 watts. Information on sunrise and sunset "windows" will be posted to the reflector nearer to December.

The preference is for ZL6QH to transmit near the top of the band, with 120 second dots, 0.4 Hz shift DFCW, so the frequencies would be 137.7900 and 137.7896 kHz, with stability of better than 0.1 Hz. Those frequencies are just a little above those used by VA3LK.

Are there any comments from European potential listeners as to viability of the nominated frequencies?

73, Bob ZL2CA