Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org)
DomainKey-Status: bad (test mode)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
  s=s1024; d=btinternet.com;
  h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:From:To:References:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE;
  b=VI8wErI8XVZaO2/kypxglUgpPgDjeq/iGDUYUkfMkLRJNkVDGySmWtj7Lg253T6un1kO69ULgckdUfStmyBMCGHfigHD4rfbkdrIqxpQLdioxOZXxPV6lWfS0XLhaIhAD68kPHles0O1hqBep1bSE8cv90a/qturlF3afbZ5oik=  ;
Message-ID: <004d01c762ab$a94bdf40$0300a8c0@lark>
From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
References: <PAEFLMFGBDKKCONLMLBIOENCCJAA.ganymede444@btopenworld.com> <128501c76290$67010040$4e6f6a58@wgt01> <45F1D746.6010607@telia.com> <000501c7629b$c4b6dd80$0300000a@bob2l2u6k2n1g3> <003a01c762a7$574441a0$0300a8c0@lark> <001401c762aa$5398e580$0300000a@bob2l2u6k2n1g3>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:32:56 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
DomainKey-Status: good (testing) 
Subject: LF: Re: Re: Re: ZM2E activity from the end of the month
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Status: O


----- Original Message -----
From: Vernall <vernall@xtra.co.nz>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: 10 March 2007 00:23
Subject: LF: Re: Re: ZM2E activity from the end of the month
snip

>  I hope your request works.  Do you have a limit on how many requests can
be made
> ???
Only if you get neurotic about dodging the thunderbolts !!  :-))

Alan


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:16 PM
> Subject: LF: Re: ZM2E activity from the end of the month
>
>
> > Hi Bob , I am sure that you are aware of this but do get the guys to
> > remember that it is not ground sunrise/sunset that matters. It is the
> > darkness edge about 1000kms away. You can heft a signal into the dark
zone
> > ionosphere up to an hour before sunset and an hour after sunrise at this
> > part of the sunspot cycle. On good days trans-Atlantic signals have been
> > seen two hours after dawn in Eu.
> >
> > I look forward to your tests and hope for a bit better luck with the
> > conditions. I have submitted a request to Ra for a quiet period but a
> > little
> > geomag activity about 5 days earlier !!  :-))
> >
> > It will be a pity if the wind farm QRTs you permanently from that site.
It
> > has been a major landmark in LF development in amateur circles.
> >
> > Best Wishes de Alan G3NYK
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Vernall <vernall@xtra.co.nz>
> > To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> > Sent: 09 March 2007 22:37
> > Subject: LF: ZM2E activity from the end of the month
> >
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> ZM2E is setting up for 136 kHz DX activity from 31 March, for up to
three
> >> consecutive nights.  This could be the last time that there is LF
> >> transmitting from Quartz Hill as the district is planned to become a
> >> large
> >> wind turbine project, and all radio antennas could need to be removed
in
> > the
> >> next few months to cater for development.
> >>
> >> We are in private discussion with VO1NA and RU6LA regarding LF QSO
> > attempts.
> >> Expressions of interest are invited from others, as at ZM2E we will try
> > and
> >> cover moderate receiving bandwidth by having multiple Argo sessions
> > running.
> >> If we see an opening with another DX station we will "go fo it",
whoever
> > it
> >> is, and try to make the best use of an incidental propagation lift.  As
> >> we
> >> are prepared for three nights of operation, then we are hoping there
will
> > be
> >> multiple "events" arising.
> >>
> >> The previously selected 137.7886/137.7890 kHz 0.4 Hz FSK, using "DFCW"
> >> coding, is the preferred transmission mode for ZM2E.  There is very
> >> little
> >> QRM for ZM2E receive (no Loran lines of significance), so we can accept
a
> >> range of receive frequencies within the receiver IF bandwidth, and we
> > could
> >> have three receivers running.
> >>
> >> If we are not in QSO mode before a ZL sunrise, we will go to beacon
mode
> > and
> >> send a string of Z Z Z Z .... at FSK120, with the start of any Z
> >> synchronised to the hour and ten minute rests thereafter, so that EU
> >> monitoring may receive something identifiable from EU sunset.
> >>
> >> 73, Bob ZL2CA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>