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Dennis
These Beacon Appliance unattended machine operators
are causing QRM galore to the Radio Amateur in QSO mode.
The present band has insufficient bandwidth to
accommodate unattended beacon modes, with real time QSO'S one can avoid QRM or
QRX until the QRG is clear, whereas Beacons just belch out repeative gibberish
and the same persons respond via the reflector daily with the same old
reports.
You are quite right to make
your point known.
73 de mal/g3kev
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:12
PM
Subject: LF: Re: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF
QSO
Congratulations Chris.
Most wspr stations seem to congregate at the top
end of the band and are not too much trouble. Jim G7NKS is the biggest pain as he sits on my xtl frequency
and is so close. Maybe a compromise would be for people using
beacons to keep to one segment of the band (hopefully not 502.2 kHz
-hee)
73 Dennis M0JXM
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:03
PM
Subject: LF: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF
QSO
LF
It was a red-letter day today as I achieved my 1000th QSO
using 600m.
This includes 72 cross-band contacts, virtually all of which
were 600m / 80m.
Rog GW3UEP was my 1000 th QSO with runners up G3XPU
- No. 999 and EI0CF - No. 998.
QSO break-down according to mode:
928 CW, 34 RTTY and 5
QRSS
600m
STATIONS
My personal 600m (EU) spreadsheet lists a total of
59 stations and many of these go back
to the start of the UK 600m allocation in March 2007.
Of these I
have worked or heard only 15 in the past month (excluding beacons).
Many
stations on my list came up only briefly and were never heard of
again: G3KZU, G3YHV . . .
Others were once very active but have
subsequently gone QRT: G3UNT, G3VTT, G4GDR. . .
MOST FREQUENTLY WORKED
With
so few active operators it is obvious that one will work the same stations
many times and the top 10 stations account for 70% of my total
contacts.
My most frequently worked stations are:
GW3UEP -
120 G3KEV - 102 M0FMT
- 90 G3ZWH - 80 (alas now
SK)
G3DXZ - 67
G4GDR - 60 EI0CF/ GI4DPE
- 51 M0JXM - 48
G3UNT -
45 G3VTT - 38
CROSS-BAND AND EU
STATIONS
There are a few 'regular' stations who listen to 600m
and enjoy a cross-band QSO:
DK6NI, F6CNI, F6ACU, OH1LSQ, PA0LCE, G3TVF .
. .
and our few EU MF friends are still active:
ON4KTJ, OR7T and
OZ8NJ. . .
WSPR ON
600m
I personally find it sad that the present level of
enthusiasm for the WSPR mode was never achieved for hand sent Morse
(CW), which after all is the mode which I call to mind when thinking of the
old MF marine band.
If the WSPR 'enthusiasm' phase lasts, with more and
stronger stations operating 24/7 in the narrow 3 kHz segment which is the
600m band then I guess it may be time for me to QSY.
73 Chris
G3XIZ
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