Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19244 invoked from network); 23 May 2001 15:31:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 23 May 2001 15:31:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 20120 invoked from network); 23 May 2001 15:30:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior with SMTP; 23 May 2001 15:30:59 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 152aWK-00070x-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:25:56 +0100 Received: from cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.195.176]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 152aWI-00070p-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:25:55 +0100 Received: from modem-86.pinnatus-batfish.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.50.86] helo=g3aqc) by cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 152aVT-0001Eg-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:25:04 +0100 Message-ID: <002401c0e39c$7ac04c40$5632893e@g3aqc> From: "Laurie Mayhead" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re. Beacons Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:23:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 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

I am as keen as anyone to encourage more activity on the LF bands 136 and 73Khz.

It has always been the aim of amateurs to improve their stations by attempting DX contacts.A band without DX is less intresting.

I belive that my Beacon activities last winter helped to promote interest in 136,especially in the USA. More people were encouraged to look for the signals and to improve ants. etc. Finally T/A communication was accomplished, not all my work of course but at least the band has been proved to be capable of supporting long distance communication and must therefore be more intresting to newcomers.I am still running the beacon from time to time in the summer in order to try and understand propagation further .Surely this additional activity is valuable even in the UK and EU for setting up and testing Rx.equipment. I dont think I have ever caused interference to stations 100 Hz above me. If I have let me know. 73s Laurie.