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Subject: Re: LF: Intercontinental LF waterholes
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HI Guys

I wish this was problem here!!!

Here's hoping they give us the band in Canada in the new year. 

73 Scott


Markus Vester wrote:
> Dear Warren, LF,
>  
> well your point about the winter night is perfectly understood...
>  
> A fixed QRG will not be a problem for transatlantic contacts, as long 
> as we Eu's would transmit in the lower band. Only if during the second 
> half of your night you'd aim West, and someone from over there might 
> want to fire up near your QRG, the two of you could end up 
> blocking possible coast-to-coast contacts.
>  
> There is also a technical answer: you could perhaps tune remotely 
> using a relay, or even connect the additional capacitance at the input 
> of the feedline. It may add in a bit of extra loss but not much, as 
> only 2% of the reactance would need to be switched.
>  
> Best wishes,
> Markus (DF6NM)
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Ziegler" <wd2xgj@gmail.com <mailto:wd2xgj@gmail.com>>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org <mailto:rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: Intercontinental LF waterholes
>
> Markus,
>
>               My antenna tuning unit is outside 100 meters away from 
> the ham shack.
>  I am unwilling to go out in the winter night to retune the antenna to 
> QSY to the lower frequency segment.
>
> -- 
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>                 WD2XGJ
>                 WD2XSH/23
>                 WE2XEB/2
>                 WE2XGR/1
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Markus Vester <markusvester@aol.com 
> <mailto:markusvester@aol.com>> wrote:
> Dear LF,
>
> the passage should have said:
>
> Taking into account the path of mutual darkness, this would mean that 
> all stations should transmit in the UPPER band during their evenings 
> until local midnight, and then QSY to the lower band for the rest of 
> the night.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> 73, Markus
> ...