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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:44:18 +0000
From: "g3kev" <g3kev@netscapeonline.co.uk>
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Andre' Kesteloot wrote:

> Dear G3KEV,
> Have you made a specialty of positive comments

> Sincerely
> Andre' N4ICK

I try to be realistic. Most are struggling to work each other a few hundred
miles around Europe on LF. I hear them every day struggling and often
failing.  Except there are some improvements in the pipeline like hooking up
to commercial towers a few hundred feet high, the transatlantic qso is wishful
thinking. There are a few equipped and geographically suited in the UK,
IRELAND and Northern EU for the experiment that might have a chance, but they
did not participate in the last experiment.
73 De Mal/G3KEV


>
> *************************
> g3kev wrote:
>
> > Until we get some of the big antenna 160 metres operators in the
> > USA/CANADA and the UK plus the rest of EU interested in 136 khz the
> > chances of a qso are NIL across the ocean. These operators have the
> > facilities plus operating skills to achieve success if at all possible.
> > 73 de G3KEV with 158 countries worked on 160 metres. Just worked XZ0A on
> > 160 a few minutes ago after two calls. Antenna 3/8 wave on 160 and up
> > 100 ft.