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Sometimes a fellow amateur tells me he would like to become active on LF and asks my advice. I tell him/her to buy The low frequency experimenters handbook and/or the older Source book and to read what has been published on LF in our magazine Electron. After handing out some tips on receiving invariably the question comes what the best times are to listen for a signal. My answer has always been "Saturday and Sunday morning". But I'm afraid that won't help the newcomer much anymore because there are hardly any signals to be heard nowadays. Perhaps from time to time a CQ, most of the time not being answered and some QRSS, which is unlikely to be recognised by a newcomer as an amateur signal.

I accept that to bridge the Atlantic Ocean is much more challenging than a normal CW QSO within Europe but nevertheless I would like to hear some more traditional activity on Saturday and Sunday morning, as it was a year or more ago. If only to give a newcomer something to listen for and to wet his appetite for LF.

73, Dick, PA0SE