Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [195.171.43.25]) by mtain-dk01.r1000.mx.aol.com (Internet Inbound) with ESMTP id 8DA1B3800009B; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:45:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1S64mU-0005L4-7b for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:43:10 +0000 Received: from [195.171.43.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1S64mT-0005Kv-Rq for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:43:09 +0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de ([129.206.100.212]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S64mS-0004rU-Dy for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:43:09 +0000 Received: from freitag.iup.uni-heidelberg.de (freitag.iup.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.29.204]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q29Ih7HG022754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:43:07 +0100 Received: from [129.206.22.206] (pc206.iup.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.22.206]) by freitag.iup.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.2) with ESMTP id q29Ih6ED005784 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:43:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4F5A4EFE.1090301@iup.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:42:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Stefan_Sch=E4fer?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <1331298569.45324.YahooMailClassic@web86504.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <4F5A1D7B.5020709@iup.uni-heidelberg.de> In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 1.4 (+) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD=1.426 Subject: Re: LF: Big solar flare - major geomagnetic storms to follow Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false x-aol-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:479500832:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1db4054f5a4fb1323c X-AOL-IP: 195.171.43.25 X-AOL-SPF: domain : blacksheep.org SPF : none Hello Roelof, Thank you for the answer and interesting insight in NDB hunting. I wil ltake the challenge to VK and am already having daily skeds with the VK1SV grabber. Just started the TX. The band seems to be "open" between 18...20 UTC in the moment. 73, Stefan/DK7FC Am 09.03.2012 16:43, schrieb Roelof Bakker: > Hello Stefan, > > As far as I know, reception of Australian NDB's in Europe is yet to > happen. > I have received China, Japan, Taiwan and Bangkok on 518 kHz NAVTEX, > but this is quite rare. > > Reception from NDB's due south is problematic as there are not many > active in Africa. > I have heard Nigeria and Cape Verde, but nothing else. > To the south east, Pakistan is about the longest distance from Europe. > > My best reception ever is Easter Island in the Pacific around the > spring equinox. > Unfortunately this station has been decommissioned. > > Japan and New Zealand have often been received from the US west coast, > but that is a different path. > > My guess is that with narrow bandwidth modes, VK should be possible on > the new 472-479 kHz band. > > 73, > Roelof, pa0rdt