----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:49
PM
Subject: LF: TA beaconing
Dear Mal and LF group,
good, I promise I
will be among the first to congratulate when you have crossed the pond in
"honest CW". But my views on QRSS transatlantic beaconing are quite
different.
The extra hop we need from central Europe makes it much more
difficult to get across, and of course most of us LFers don't own large rusty
antenna arrays or live near near the seashore. Many countries have not been
seen stateside once ever. Personally, I still find it very rewarding to even
see only a couple of bright noise pixels on the right frequency in one of the
screenshots, or to receive Joe's signal once in a couple of weeks.
What
worries me a little right now is the increasing Eu transmitting activity in
the 137775 region. Even at QRSS30, the key clicks of a local station can
easily clutter up a few Hz and cover potential DX signals. I would much prefer
sticking to the proven scheme of us transmitting around 135922, and watching
for stateside/ZL signals at the top end of the band.
Hi Markus
I have mentioned this a number of times. Some
sort of bandplan is necessary. EU stns use 135.922 khz and outside EU use
137.700 khz. Most nights 137.7 khz is occupied by EU stns. So how do we get
the bandplan to work??
Most ignore sensible suggestions. Inter EU
working would have to be 135.922 khz plus/minus a little like it used to be
and not the present 137.7 khz area. Maybe we could suggest
a START date for the changes.
73 de Mal/G3KEV
Last night, VO1NA was visible four times between 2 and 5 UT. I
transmitted 135922.3/.4 DFCW for a couple of hours before local sunrise (~7
UT), and if all goes well I'll try again tonight.
73 and best wishes to
everyone,
Markus, DF6NM
In einer eMail vom 30.12.2003 19:57:04
Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt
[email protected]:
Hi Dexter
I can send you plenty of LF RF as you already
know from previous
observations your end. What I want in return is a
proper QSO on normal CW. I
will TX on 136 and you TX on say 7025 khz. If
any others are interested so
much the better. I do not want to send out
repeative and meaningless Beacon
signals, I and others already know we
can get across the Atlantic and vice
versa from VE to Europe.
I have
an array of LF antennas just rusting away.
de
Mal/G3KEV
