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From: "Dave" <dave@picks.f9.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: LF: More on last weekend
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:01:37 -0000
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John's screenshots are on the web-site at http://www.wireless.org.uk/

73. Dave G3YXM.

> Hi Mike  VE1ZZ was akso received in Finland by  OH9UFO .  You might want
to
> include that also.
>        I feel  we also got a good lesson in 136 kHz propagation after
solar
> flares.  I sent copies of ARGO pictures to  Dave@picks.
>        73 de John VE1ZJ
>
> Mike Dennison wrote:
>
> > I have calculated the locator of Larry, VA3LK, as either FN14TQ or
> > FN14UQ, which makes the distance between him and Ko, NL9222,
> > 5731 or 5726km. This is the current world one-way record.
> > Congratulations to both stations.
> >
> > I have submitted the following story to the RSGB newsdesk (my
> > colleagues in the next office) for use on the weekly GB2RS news
> > bulletin. Please let me know urgently if I have anything wrong.
> >
> > ----------------
> >
> > Over the weekend of the 12th to the 14th of January, stations in Canada,
> > the USA and Europe attempted the first two-way transatlantic contact on
> > the 136kHz band. Although the two-way was not successful, the one-way
> > distance record was broken in both directions. VE1ZZ received OK1FIG
> > at distance of 5694km, and SWL NL9222 received VA3LK at a world
> > record distance of 5726km.
> > G0MRF, who was the first station to cross the Atlantic on
> > 136kHz, put up his antenna on an apartment block on the Sunday, but was
> > hampered by the high static levels and poor conditions that made that
> > day's tests a washout at both ends. On the Saturday, several UK stations
> > received good signals from Canada but MM0ALM was the only
> > European, apart from OK1FIG, to make it in the opposite direction.
> > Extremely slow Morse was used by all stations to enable signals
> > to be decoded well below the noise level. VE1ZZ was occasionally
> > audible in the UK but the strength was not sufficient to read normal
> > speed Morse.
> > The USA team, operating from North Carolina, heard a number
> > of LF stations including VE1ZZ, but no Europeans.
> > ------------------------
> >
> > Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
> > http://www.lf.thersgb.net
>
>
>