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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:39:32 -0000
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Subject: LF: Re: 2200m Trans-Atlantic QSO dream...
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Lots of people talk about a ''season'' but in propagation terms there isn't 
one. you can get as good a propaga
tion in summer as in winter. There is possibly less noise to listen to in 
winter and the darkness period is longer. I have copied Joe VO1NA all year 
round on QRSS (3 and 10 second dots) Poor nights can be predicted by 
watching the Dst index but a high index ,above -20nT dos not guarentee a 
good night but it is more likely. Good indictions for 136kHz can be had by 
monitoring DCF39 on 138.83kHz (just the idle tone)

See http://www.472khz.org/pages/technical-topics/propagation.php
Though it refers to 475kHs most of the observations were derived from 138.83 
and CFH on 137.00kHz over about 11 years.

Alan
G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N1BUG" <paul@n1bug.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>; <rsgb_lf_group@yahoogroups.co.uk>; 
"Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 4:07 PM
Subject: LF: 2200m Trans-Atlantic QSO dream...


> One of my big dreams is to complete a two-way QSO across the
> Atlantic on 2200m. It has been done. It can be done. My station is
> getting close to being ready. I have heard 2E0ILY up to -12 SNR on
> WSPR2 and I have been reported with -19 SNR by G8HUH and G0LUJ.
>
> It is too late for this season as QRN is always high now. But for
> next winter I should have 3 dB more power and hopefully more/better
> receive antennas.
>
> Modes are a bit of a problem. On the best nights JT9 would be easy
> but most of the time it would probably have to be QRSS or DFCW. It's
> too bad we don't have a very slow digital QSO mode like JT9-10 or such.
>
> So, who is going to take the challenge for a dream QSO next winter?
> You have all summer to get the station ready... ;-)
>
> 73,
> Paul N1BUG FN55mf
>