From HB9ASB, JN36pt
Now the band gets also busy here in Central Europe. Last weekend I've
heard 17 different callsigns and sometimes it sounded like a "dialogue
des sourdes": Strong signals but they did not hear each other.
Alarming is the increasing number of stations with good signals and
mediocre receivers. It seems to me, that the real challenge on the LF
band is the receiving part and I think there is still a lot of work to
do. This includes also directional receiving aerials.
I am aware of the fact that some locations suffer from heavy local QRM
or Loran-splatter or have more Luxembourg-effect than others. On the
other hand are receivers suffering from front end overload,
inappropriate AGC-characteristics and large bandwidths far from the
optimum.
73 de Toni
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