From: "James Moritz" <j.r.moritz@herts.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Hertfordshire
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:34:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: LF: ZL DX testing 22 September
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Dear Bob, LF Group

As I think I mentioned a while back, there is a quiet-ish segment in 
the LF broadcast band, some hundreds of Hz wide centred on 
about 172.0kHz. The sidebands of the adjacent broadcast stations 
leak into it if they are carrying high-pitched programme material, but 
most of the time during darkness the noise floor seems to be QRN, 
at my location at least. This certainly seemed to be the quietest 
frequency in the 165 - 190kHz range.

Are there any strong signals in roughly this part of the spectrum 
emanating from the VK/ ZL region that we could try to receive here 
in Europe, as CFH and DBF39, etc, have been used over the trans-
atlantic path? This would give some sort of handle on the signal 
levels and optimum time of day for a ZL > Eu attempt. I guess this 
would be easier to do in the other direction - the Eu LF broadcast 
stations are not exactly low-power, and operate continuously, so 
should be a relatively easy target for reception in ZL.

Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU