Hi Dave for my threepen'orth the answer is "Not yet" I think the max number
of signals I have seen at any time was probably 4, or maybe 5. I dont think
we have a qrm problem yet. Certainly 500 to 501.5 is affected by 50Hz
sidebands from the TV Line harmonics. These are only bad here when I have my
set on. It does not seem to be too difficult to watch the whole band with a
waterfall and detect signal that cannot be heard. My inclination is to say
let us get more operators on and then there will be more people with
experience to debate the detail. Never mine the "plan" get a signal on !
At first thought the 504 end might be a good place for those wishing to
contact 505-510kHz stations, but that makes it difficult for anyone locally
listening for DX. So maybe the 501 end would be better for TX. 501 sounds a
good place for QRSS beacons There seems plenty of room and not the qrm from
nearby commercial stations we suffer on 136 which means that different part
of the world need to use different prefered frequencies. My vote goes for
the old favourite of "doing nothing 'til it bites us!"
....and a definite "NO" to another reflector ! Plenty of room (bandwidth?)
on this one.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Pick <[email protected]>
To: LF Group <[email protected]>
Sent: 13 March 2007 15:19
Subject: LF: 500 bandplan?
> Someone had to ask the question "Do we need a band-plan?".
>
> Finbar is beaconing down the bottom, which seem OK to me, I've been trying
> for QSOs near the top because my local noises seem to congregate near
> 501kHz. Do we want to suggest areas for different activities like on 136?
> In fact do we need to set up a Google / Yahoo group (or is there already
one
> going) for European 500k activity to be discussed or is this the place to
do
> it?
>
> Questions questions!
>
> Discuss...
>
> Dave.
>
> --
> G3YXM IO92BK Birmingham UK
>
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