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From: "hamilton mal" <g3kev.ham@virgin.net>
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:33:14 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: MF acty
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How can we have regular skeds when there are only 4 regular stations active,
one on RTTY, one on CW, one on PSK and another only on BEACON mode.
My previous message must have escaped YOU.

G3KEV

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Andrews" <w1tag@w1tag.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: LF: MF acty


> I dearly love subscribing to this list, absent the periodic "harrumps"
> from those insisting that most of us are well down the road to perdition.
>
> Anyway, please allow a suggestion. I recall nothing in our regulations
> over here that amateur contacts must arise from a chance meeting of
> operators at the same time on the same frequency under conditions that
> would support a QSO. Assuming the same is true on the other other side
> of the pond, why not have some publicly-announced regular schedules
> between two or more stations, or even have a net one night a week? This
> should at least encourage listening or even on-air participation by
> others. Coordination could easily be handled on this mail list.
>
> Were I an Ofcom official (perish the thought), I'd be much more
> impressed by a report on the 500 kHz NOV's next spring describing
> regular scheduled activity than by one claiming that the band always
> seemed dead. The former would give some hope that the band would be
> useful for emergency communications, a good argument for an amateur
> allocation.
>
> John Andrews, W1TAG
>
>