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From: "jannsen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: LF: VE3ZJ
Jonathan Naylor schrieb:
>
> Oh dear.
>
> 136kHz, like 73kHz and the microwave bands is primarily about
> experimentation. This is the spirit of the band, if someone comes on the
> band looking for another single band DXCC certificate or whatever then I
> am saddened, this is not what its about. LF belongs to experimenters who
> run tests and make a note of conditions and try to learn. If you and
> your friends feel that this is boring then perhaps its not the band for
> you.
>
> Amateur radio is (or should be) about experimentation and self-training
> which seldom comes out of DXCC certificates and rag-chewing. 136kHz is
> one of the few bands that encourages amateur radio as it should be.
What experimentation ? It has all been done before. I have a good
installation suitable for working any station that appears on the band. If
you are still struggling and fumbling on the band do not object to others
that want to progress further, encouraging others to the band. I want 100 or
more stations active on 136 khz so that I can get the DXCC score up. You
obviously have not heard of G3KEV before and the number of countries worked
especially on normal CW. I cannot say I have heard you on the LF bands, keep
soldering.
There is a decline on 136 khz activity this past couple of years just the
opposite to what you are saying, it does not seem to be encouraging any new
amateurs, in fact the opposite. When CW is mentioned as the main mode on the
band most enquiring amateurs turn in the opposite direction.
de G3KEV/9V1OY/VS6HI and dozens more if you need them
>
> Jonathan G4KLX/HB9DRD
>
I take the above words giving reasons for disfiguring the yard with poles.
Uwe/dj8wx
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