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TRANS-PACIFIC LF TEST SCHEDULE                        6 June 2000

Arrangements have been made for a number of West Coast stateside LF
listeners to 
find out what they can receive from ZL LF test transmissions.  The
timing is 
Saturday night 17 June (New Zealand time) which is Friday night and
Saturday 
morning California time.  It is intended to also try again on Saturday
24 June, 
but subject to review, depending on what is reported for 17 June.  The
following 
table shows the respective sunset and sunrise times:

              ZL sunset      CA sunrise     ZL sunrise
              =========      ==========     ==========
   17 June    0455 UTC       1252 UTC       1950 UTC
   24 June    0457           1253           1952

The timing happens to be around the longest day (mid summer) in the
northern 
hemisphere, which of course corresponds to the longest night in the
southern 
hemisphere (mid winter).

The following stations intend to be transmitting:

    ZL1WB  181.42 kHz
    ZL6QH  182.10 kHz  (operated by ZL2BBJ and ZL2CA)
    ZL3PN  182.70 kHz
    ZL4MD  183.50 kHz
    ZL3VN  184.00 kHz
    ZL3JE  184.50 kHz
    ZL4OL  185.00 kHz
    AX2TAR 176.50 kHz  (VK7ZAL, Tasmania, Australia)

The station with highest radiated power is likely to be the Quartz Hill
station 
ZL6QH.  It is intended to run ZL6QH as a continuous beacon transmission,
from 
around 0400 - 2000 UTC on 17 June.  This covers times for many "dark"
paths, both 
east and west.

AX2TAR is also planning to run continuously, from 0630 - 1300 UTC on 17
June.

All other stations will definitely try to be transmitting for around
half an hour 
either side of ZL sunset time as well as the California sunrise time. 
As each 
station has a unique test frequency, there is no co-channel pile-up. 
Frequencies 
have already been checked for not coinciding with local QRM for
receiving stations 
in California. 

In general, stations will attempt to maintain their assigned carrier
frequency 
within 10 Hz.  In general emissions will be conventional CW at around 5
wpm.

Reception reports are welcomed.  Email to reflector sites would
generally be the 
fastest and most effective way to disseminate reports.

Bob ZL2CA