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Hi Warrren,

   and thanks to both Daves, Grahm and Mike.  I've checked out the websites=20
suggested and may go ahead with a basic receiving set up.  Non-directional=20
beacons on the MF band are still widely used here for enroute air navigation=
=20
and would give me an idea of what propagation on the 600 metre band may be=20
like.

   What is the mode of propagation on 600 metres, primarily ground wave?  Ho=
w=20
much influence does space weather have on the MF band, does the band black=20
out like the HF bands? =20

    another question, would there be any advantage to going lower, to the=20
137KHz band?

    Thanks,

            Ron

On Monday 16 March 2009 08:04, Warren Ziegler wrote:
> Ron,
>
>         Not to throw a wet blanket over your ambitions, but it will be
> very challenging (to put it mildly) for you to hear 500kHz amateur
> activity.
> The nearest active stations are thousands of miles away and you are
> under the auroral oval which really does a good job absorbing MF/HF
> signals.
> Rudy in Oregon was the closest signal and that was over 2000kM away!
>
> You never know, you might pick up one of the big guns under ideal
> conditions but it's always good to have realistic expectations.
> -
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>                 WD2XGJ
>                 WD2XSH/23
>                 WE2XEB/2
>                 WE2XGR/1
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Ron Thompson <ve8rt@xplornet.com> wrote:
> > Hi Graham,
> >
> > =A0 =A0my actual location is at postal code X1A 2H5
> >
> > =A0 =A0I'm in the company crew house at the float base. =A0In the Google=
 map
> > for the postal code, at the highest available satellite magnification,
> > you should see floatplanes along the parking lot and then in a cove on
> > the upper side of the parking lot is a yellow Cessna floatplane. =A0The
> > house just to the left of the floatplane is where I live. =A0Unfortunate=
ly,
> > as the house is in the floatbase parking lot, there isn't any antenna
> > space around it. =A0What I do have is two 15 metre towers spaced about 4=
8
> > metres apart that I use for my HF antenna (it used to have a company
> > commercial HF antenna before). =A0Any LF/MF antenna must be compact and
> > mountable either to the house or one of the towers. =A0Power lines are
> > between the house and cove, which may be a noise source.
> >
> > =A0 =A0 =A0Ron

--=20
Ron Thompson, VE8RT
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
62 28.060 N  114 20.648 W  Grid Square DP22tl
"Who are are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their window?" Is 60=
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