Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:08:11 +0200
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From: Rik Strobbe <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>
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Hello Laurie,

nice to see you back and I hope your health will improve.
There is indeed little activity on 500, but over the past days I 
heard GI4DPE, SM6BHZ (even in SSB), G3XIZ and GW3UEP.
When time and WX are permitting I call CQ once in a while.

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T


At 02:14 16/04/2009, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>About a year ago I became rather seriously ill (I still am actually) 
>my antennas
>blew down in the gales and I was unable to fix them. So I have not 
>been active on LF.
>Recently with help I fixed the antennas, and burnt the spiders out 
>of the loading coils.
>Last weekend I listened and called for hours on 136/137, but nothing 
>heard, no replies
>to my CQ calls. So I re-tuned to 500kHz, I called many times but 
>again nothing heard except
>for G4JNT's very welcome beacon, which came in at 20 over nine, at 
>least the equipment
>is working!
>Where has everyone gone? Have we all worked each other so often that 
>we are bored? Have
>we heard all the possible DX ? Have all the weak signal techniques 
>like Argo been developed?
>Do we now know so much about LF propagation that there is nothing 
>new to be discovered?
>Or are we all now so old and tired that we cannot solder a few 
>components together or string
>up a few bits of wire?
>If you are not on 136, or 500 where are you? Where has everyone 
>gone, please let
>me know, perhaps I can come and join you, its certainly lonely down 
>here on my own.
>73 Laurie
>G3AQC