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From: "Petr Maly" <p.maly@gmc.net>
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Subject: LF: Re: DX Cluster spots from GB7DXM ++++ CFH??
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:48:48 +0100
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Hello all,
Yes, another OK station appeared. It is OK1AIK. He phoned me that day and
then I listened for him for a while with 569. He lives few tens of
kilometers from me.
Sorry for the test on DX cluss. Now I know on which nodes I can spot 136
kHz. What a relief.
I also heard SM6PXJ. I was surprised because on my "city" antenna I usually
hear nothing except very strong sigs.
I also noticed some new signals on the band. One is in the middle of the
Visual-CW part of the band. This one closes AGC of my RX so I have troubles
to watch Visual-CW.
Some strong carrier apears around 137.1 kHz, but not all day long.
Thanks to snowy wx I cannot go to the cottage to be QRV, but I prepare QRPP
(10 or 20 watts) to transmit from my city QTH ( I want to have another
country - OK, hi).

All the best in the last year of the Millennium
73, Petr, OK1FIG


----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Melia <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
To: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 2:35 AM
Subject: LF: DX Cluster spots from GB7DXM ++++ CFH??


> Hi all, whilst I was retrieving this file from the Cluster tonight, a
stange
> noise came up on 136 and I didn't twig immediately then I saw a wide band
> down the middle of the waterfall display centred on 137.0kHz . It sounds
> like it could be Fax, but it is quite strong here, and I think it is too
> strong to be CFH (only about 3db weaker than the Greek RTTY), although CFH
> has been known to use 137.0 for fax when its usual transmitter ( around
> 122kHz) is down. I have mailed a query to Jon. My suspicion is that this
is
> a European station that has annexed the old CFH frequency (or maybe its
only
> a regional allocation). If so we could have a problem in future as the
noise
> sidebands spread at least a 200Hz either side. If it is CFH, and the
station
> was due for a new transmitter about now, then I have made a more
spectacular
> improvement to my rx set-up than I imagined. We will see if it disappears
at
> dawn.
>
> Last evening the 2nd Jan at about 2210z I was working at another task when
a
> morse transmission came up on the speaker in the 2.5kHz filter. Its
stregth
> was such that I cast half an ear to it expecting it to be a G station only
> to hear CQ de SM6PXJ ! Christer tried for 20 minutes with no takers, I was
> most surprised ....he must have worked you all already!  That confirms the
> replacement aerial is still working well Christer.
>
> Note a new OK call in the lists below, one of Petr's compatriots has
> appeared to ease the load a little, whilst Petr gets some practice in
> spotting stateside calls!
>
> Cluster spots for the festive period from GB7DXM
>    136.5  DK7KO        3-Jan-2000 2036Z  Peter / JO31
> <DL1DCY>
>    136.8  OK1AIK       2-Jan-2000 1402Z  welcome on L.F. dr om
> <OK1FIG>
>    136.5  DK8KW       31-Dec-1999 1515Z
> <DL0CS>
>    136.6  SM6PXJ      29-Dec-1999 2137Z  calling CQ on CW
> <OK1FIG>
>    136.0  AA1AA       29-Dec-1999 0733Z  sri, this is test only
> <OK1FIG>
>    136.6  DL3FDO      19-Dec-1999 1026Z  519 cq
> <DL1SAN-1>
>    136.9  DJ1RL       19-Dec-1999 1022Z  419 cq in jn48wl
> <DL1SAN-1>
>    136.8  MM0ALM    17-Dec-1999 2127Z  vy strong  CQ CQ
<DL3FDO>
>    137.0  SM6PXJ      17-Dec-1999 2114Z  QSO  with PA0BWl
> <DL3FDO>
>    137.0  G3KEV       17-Dec-1999 1938Z  CQ CQ
> <DL3FDO>
> G3NYK de GB7DXM    4-Jan 0012Z >
>
> Hope you all enjoyed the festivities, the cluster spots have been a bit
> sparse recently so I did not bother posting them. The 1800 area is now
> totally useless for LF spots due to internet imported Stateside top-band
> chat.
>
> Cheers de Alan G3NYK JO02PB
> Alan.Melia@btinternet.com
>
>
>