Hi all, I have not been listening too seriously recently but the list of
stations spotted on the cluster may give a flavour of the activity to the
East of me. I have been surprised to listen on some days and hear that the
static background was very low even for this time of year. Regulars like
G8RW, G6RO, G6NB, and G3OLB can be heard most afternoons..... from further
east DJ9IE. F6CNI seems to be fairly active in the evenings, and is doing a
good job to make that country available on the band.
One interesting opinion I gleaned during the week was from an attendee at
the Time/Frequency seminar at Rutherford-Appleton Labs. It seems that though
it was being considered for use as a 'distributed' standard, no-one is now
doing any serious work on Loran-C. One person's opinion was that due to
political/economic circumstances the system now has a limited life.....he
did not expect it to continue beyond 2007, and did not rule out earlier
closure. There is also some disquiet about the future situation of the
BT-operated Rugby standards. Another snippet was that the state-of-the-art
GPS timing is now, since the removal of S/A, reaching an uncertainty level
of a mere +/- 10nsecs !! It would seem that GPS standards are here to stay.
There is so much of the worlds telecom systems dependent upon GPS
distributed time for clock synchronisation that it will be very difficult
for the it ever to be removed.
Cluster spots follow:-
136.6 F6BWO 24-Jun-2001 1000Z in QSO dj1rl
<DJ1YFK>
136.9 DL3FDO 24-Jun-2001 0949Z cq cq
<DJ1YFK>
137.7 I5TGC 24-Jun-2001 0910Z CQ QRSS
<OM2TW>
136.6 OZ1KMR 23-Jun-2001 1843Z cq cq
<DL3FDO>
137.6 OM2TW 23-Jun-2001 1134Z slow CQ...
<HA6PC>
136.4 G6RO 22-Jun-2001 1956Z cq 569
<G3NYK>
136.5 F6CNI 22-Jun-2001 1914Z 519 clair dans Paris 11hme
<F6GOX>
136.5 F6CNI 22-Jun-2001 1907Z wkg G3OLB
<G3NYK>
136.5 G3OLB 22-Jun-2001 1416Z cq 589
<G3NYK>
136.5 DJ9IE 21-Jun-2001 1645Z cq 579
<G3NYK>
136.5 DK6NI 17-Jun-2001 0937Z cq
<DL6SN>
137.6 OM2TW 17-Jun-2001 0916Z qrss 10 sec/dot
<DL6SN>
137.6 OM2TW 17-Jun-2001 0809Z cq qrss
<DL6SN>
137.6 OM2TW 16-Jun-2001 0957Z qrss
<DL6SN>
137.2 OM2TW 16-Jun-2001 0821Z with new PA. BIG sigs
<HA6NA>
136.4 DL3FDO 14-Jun-2001 1701Z in qso dk6ni
<DL6SN>
136.4 DK6NI 14-Jun-2001 1700Z
<DL6SN>
136.6 DL3FDO 14-Jun-2001 0904Z CQ 59 as usual in JO42
<DF0WD>
136.6 DF0WD 14-Jun-2001 0832Z 569 in JO02PB
<G3NYK>
136.4 OM2TW 13-Jun-2001 1654Z cq...strong
<OM1BM>
136.5 OM2TW 12-Jun-2001 1657Z cq cq no takers
<DL3FDO>
136.6 DL3FDO 10-Jun-2001 1645Z in qso df6nm
<DL6SN>
136.6 DF6NM 10-Jun-2001 1631Z in qso dk6ni
<DL6SN>
136.5 OM2TW 10-Jun-2001 1304Z
<DL3FDO>
136.5 DL3FDO 9-Jun-2001 1443Z 549 wkg dk6ni 519
<DL6SN>
136.5 OK1FIG 9-Jun-2001 1327Z weak
<DL3FDO>
136.5 F6CNI 9-Jun-2001 1159Z with DK6NM
<F5OIH>
136.8 F6CNI 9-Jun-2001 1145Z
<F5OIH>
136.4 F6CNI 9-Jun-2001 1137Z 419 wkg df6nm (579)
<DL6SN>
136.3 F6CNI 9-Jun-2001 1137Z with DK6NM
<F5OIH>
G3NYK de GB7MRS 25-Jun-2001 0944Z >
Cheers de Alan G3NYK JO02PB
[email protected]
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