From: "Clemens Paul" <cpaul@gmx.net>
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 16:56:31 +0100
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I've come across a report of a special international meeting 
of professional CW operators at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ppu4Qsw54

The reporter speaks German but the discussion among the attendees is
is in international language. :-)

73
Clemens
DL4RAJ 

 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>[mailto:owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org] On Behalf Of DK7FC
>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 2:26 PM
>To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
>Subject: LF: MF CW activity
>
>Hi MF, 
>
>Just regarding CW activity on MF, below you can find another 
>good example that (CW) activity rises activity. So if there is 
>no one on the band, just call CQ, preverably with Q R O so 
>that many stations can hear you, even those with local QRM and 
>compromise antennas. First they must hear you, then they may 
>start to improve their RX system and just then they will hear 
>the QRP stations! Even if no one answers, the calls are not "a 
>waste of energy and time". At least for me it's nice to know 
>there are a few people outside catchinhg the signal, maybe 
>even unintended :-) In that case, the OM didn't even know that 
>the 630m band is existing for radio amateurs!
>
>73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
>Forwarded email with kind permission by the author:
>
>
>
>		-------- Original-Nachricht -------- 
>Betreff: 	600m band	 
>Datum: 	Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:37:54 +0000	 
>Von: 	fagend123 . <gw0lbi@googlemail.com> 
><mailto:gw0lbi@googlemail.com> 	 
>An: 	dk7fc@darc.de	 
>
>
>		From Leighton GW-20048 / GW0LBI
>		
>		
>		Hello Stefan,
>		
>		Just a short email to tell you that I picked up 
>your signals on the 600m band yesterday evening. I heard you 
>calling CQ a few times with your locator JN49, then you 
>started working another DK station called Rudi. I didn't get 
>the callsign of the other station because of local QRM, but 
>your signals were clear here at times, best report 519 for you.
>		
>		
>		I was tuning on my RX looking for the 
>non-directional aircraft beacons between 280KHz and 530KHz 
>when I came across your CQ calling on 473KHz. At first I 
>thought there must be a fault with my RX because I didn't know 
>about the new 600m band, but now that I do, I'll listen there 
>some more! Very interesting!
>		
>		
>		My SWL station is a Trio R-600 with end-fed 
>wire antenna (see GW0LBI on QRZ.com), and my location is 
>Bargoed Wales, IO81jq if that is any use to you.
>		
>		
>		Anyway hope this helps Stefan, I'll listen for 
>you again, and good luck.
>		
>		
>		Guten Tag,
>		
>
>		Leighton GW-20049 / GW0LBI
>		
>
>
>
>