Return-Path: Received: from rly-mh04.mx.aol.com (rly-mh04.mail.aol.com [172.21.166.140]) by air-mh08.mail.aol.com (v121_r5.5) with ESMTP id MAILINMH081-bc9497789361bf; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:53 -0500 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by rly-mh04.mx.aol.com (v121_r4.4) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINMH041-bc9497789361bf; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:44:42 -0500 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1LPjvY-0007QU-96 for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:43:56 +0000 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1LPjvX-0007QL-St for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:43:55 +0000 Received: from smtp110.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([98.136.44.55]) by relay1.thorcom.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LPjvX-0001Xn-HX for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:43:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 52446 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2009 20:43:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=kVg0llU4s2Oy6jvGyNtu+NJTA+ffyjF3Sx/BueoB7O7AqTYIMDsBeZB3jsN3jNzJKZt1HYj0f+bs2pgKW4O09hA9wdaMdtfV65C7yP3jTmtn+v2m81YVf2jukEjoY6390CddXCFDN9/0vNKa+Xu7mqhk3eEIdltcOA+u1bJ/Zg8= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.105?) (we0h@75.168.148.14 with plain) by smtp110.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2009 20:43:48 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 3qUXHiMVM1nsYwwXK8eq2qJ9SOwShIkqySwMPbK2y11vSOMh8VDbF2Nc6MTuF9fvXWBOmM7f9gJ3.fNMMqJ08eVdYuEgmEcnuiT5QusoZcC.zqZldb5QH7pbA0Q0Y1CAE3SKdsLaHcqUGOUHvUcy21slA5csjlx31xe0ayxGe71Q2Da1BQg7bVGihv1uYA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <49778901.3060802@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:43:45 -0600 From: Mike-WE0H User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <008c01c97bf2$2ec4eed0$0301a8c0@mal769a60aa920> In-Reply-To: DomainKey-Status: good (testing) Subject: LF: Re: 137 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=HTML_30_40,HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-AOL-IP: 193.82.116.20 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) I wondered that too. 2200 meters is a mess of Loran and other strange signals over here also. maybe we all should push for some new Experimental space down there and later get it turned into an Amateur Band???

Mike
WE0H
/16

Jim wrote:

Dear Mal, LF Group,

I don't know... but it was probably the same as the reason for which the 73kHz band was withdrawn at about the same time that all the utilities which had been operating inside or near that part of the spectrum were decomissioned ;-)

Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU

Mal wrote:

Does anyone know why 137 khz was chosen as an amateur allocation, in that freq area it is the most polluted part, clobbered at both ends by commercial high power transmitters...