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From: "James Moritz" <j.r.moritz@herts.ac.uk>
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At 12:14 05/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>I suggest the following for the 2002-2003 winter season:
>
>1) One day / weekend each month to be devoted to crossband with HF
>(3.5/7MHz).

I now have the facilities to work cross-band HF/LF, so I could certainly do 
this - allthough reception on 80m is poor at my QTH due indirectly to the 
Brookmans Park broadcast transmitters. 40m is OK, so is 20m, on which I had 
an X-band QSO with EA1PX  (using QRSS on LF) not long ago, so this is 
certainly a practical proposition.

>2) One morning each month to be devoted to 73kHz activity, with listener
>reports.

The Rugby 73.25kHz signal still seems to shut down on the first Tuesday 
morning of the month...


>3) Two dates (in December and February?) to be called LF Field Days, where
>portable operation (or operation from the QTHs of non-LF operators) is
>encouraged.

...Everybody's favorite time of year for going portable :-)

>4) Two dates to be devoted to 73kHz crossband activity (QSX 136kHz or
>3.5/7).
>
>5) Local QSOs to be encouraged by a competition (probably just for fun)
>where operators try to work stations whose callsign ends with each of the 26
>letters of the alphabet (G3MBA, ON6VB, F5CDC . . . GW4KDZ). This should
>allow quite small stations to be very popular with competitors and might
>lead to people being encouraged to come on the band. The competition to last
>from 1 December to 30 April. I stole this idea from another amateur radio
>group, I think it was QRP. The advantage or using the last letter is that
>everyone is potentially an exotic station.
>
>6) All of the following to be publicised in AR magazines, newsgroups, etc,
>to ensure maximum support from inside and outside the LF community.

I think the last point is very important - most amateurs probably are not 
aware of what is happening on LF. So to reach a large number of potential 
new listeners, these types of event would need widely-circulated advance 
publicity - perhaps in the news pages of RadCom for example.

For my own part, due to work commitments I am unlikely to be doing a vast 
amount of LF experimental work and operating this winter - but spending a 
few hours here and there on this type of event would not be a problem.

Hope to see everyone down at Windsor next week,

Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU