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Hello all de Bob,  ON4DY.
 
Who is going to tell me why someone all of a sudden is catched by LowFer, after spending over
fifty years of activity on HF, and the other end of the spectrum up to the 13 cm band...
but signals I recently heard on 136 Khz remind me the captivating years of 70cm E.M.E work, and
may have been the incentive kick-off to discover another fascinating world of weak signal reception.
 
Not having a dedicated antenna, nor anything else for this band, I built a two stage preamp, to 
enhance the sigs of a 360 ft beverage antenna, and put this in front of my FT-1000-MP.
 
This morning sunday 12th I copied :
 
05:42  136.4   GW4ALG  cq's
06:22 - 06:34  GW4ALG 559 qso with HB9ASB (439)
06:35    136.63            G3BDQ   559  cq
06:48    136.62            OZ5N    cq   439
07:30     136.63           PA0SE (579) - GW4ALG  qso
 
Other station heard before :   Friday Sept 10 :  Pa0CC     559  15:27 qso with G8RW 539
                                                  Saturday  11th   : OZ1KMR  329
                                                  
Of course the following stations have been heard while testing the gear during the two previous w-e :
 
G4GVC, G3YXM (one of the strongest) , G3KAU, G3XTZ, DJ5BV, G3KEV,
EI0CF (weak but just readable), DF2BC/P
 
So when you desperately end a series of unanswered CQ calls, never forget
that most probably someone ... somewhere has heard you. 
 
 
73, ON4DY near Ghent JO10TX