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I am as keen as anyone to encourage more activity
on the LF bands 136 and 73Khz.
It has always been the aim of amateurs to improve
their stations by attempting DX contacts.A band without DX is less
intresting.
I belive that my Beacon activities last winter helped to promote interest in 136,especially in
the USA. More people were encouraged to look for the signals and to improve
ants. etc. Finally T/A communication was accomplished, not all my work of course
but at least the band has been proved to be capable of supporting long distance
communication and must therefore be more
intresting to newcomers.I am still running the beacon from time to time in
the summer in order to try and understand propagation
further .Surely this additional activity is valuable even in
the UK and EU for setting up and testing Rx.equipment. I dont think I have ever
caused interference to stations 100 Hz above me. If I have let me know. 73s
Laurie.
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