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Cc: "Dave Sergeant" <dave@davesergeant.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:45:28 +0000
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Subject: Re: LF: [500]ARRL Letter reports on transatlantic QSOs
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Also no mention of the TWO QSOs that Finbar GI4DPE had with Bob WE2XGR/6 and that is more than 100 miles further than the WE2XGR/2 and GI4DPE QSO.


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73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ     136-140kHz
WD2XSH/23 505-510kHz
WE2XEB/2   160-189kHz
WE2XGR/1 505-515kHz

FN42hi
http://www.w4dex.com/wd2xgj.htm

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave@davesergeant.com>
> The following has just appeared in today's ARRL Letter:
> 
> * 500 kHz Experiment Charting New Territory: The evening of November 
> 13 saw the first transatlantic contact on 500 kHz between amateur 
> experimental stations. US experimental station WE2XGR/2 (Jay 
> Rusgrove, W1VD, in Connecticut) and GI4DPE (Finbar O'Connor, EI0CF, 
> in Northern Ireland) communicated by standard-speed CW for about 15 
> minutes. On that same night, US experimental stations WD2XSH/12 (Mike 
> Mussler, AI8Z, in Colorado) and WD2XSH/20 (Rudy Severns, N6LF, in 
> Oregon) made the first contact in the western half of the USA. Two 
> days later, WE2XGR/2 and GI4DPE repeated their feat and WD2XSH/12 had 
> contacts with WD2XSH/6 (Pat Hamel, W5THT, in Mississippi) and 
> WD2XSH/13 (John Oehlenschlager, K0JO, in Minnesota). The ARRL 500 kHz 
> experimental license, WD2XSH, was issued in September 2006 and has 19 
> active stations. Fritz Raab, W1FR, of Vermont, serves as experimental 
> project manager for The 500 KC Experimental Group for Amateur Radio 
> <http://www.500kc.com/>.  
> 
> (No mention of the crossband QSOs between VE1ZZ and the UK though).
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> http://www.davesergeant.com
> 
>