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From: Richard Rogers <vk7ro@netspace.net.au>
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G'day all,

I saw a trace on 137.7876KHz (+/- .5Hz?) from about 0820z to 0840z on 4 Oct
05.   Active vertical, suburbia Hobart, sunset 0819z.

At 09:08 PM 10/3/05 +1300, you wrote:
>﻿   Hi all,      sunset and sunrise sequence is as  follows:   and the
>path becomes  dark to VA7LF   1417 UTC VA7LF sunrise, so nearly 8 hours of 
>dark path to ZL (path is mostly north/south)   1453 UTC RU6LA sunset and
>the path becomes  darl to ZL   1754 UTC ZL sunrise, so only 3 hours of dark
> path with RU6LA (path is mostly east/west)                 This means that
> third party monitoring could see what they get from any or all
>particpants, and  as a compromise it may be best to set 60 second dot
>length as that is more  likely to be the QSO attempt rate than 120 seconds
>(the sun comes up too  soon!).   73, Bob ZL2CA         
73, Ric, VK7RO