Re: LF: LF tonite

["mal hamilton" <g3kevmal@talktalk.net>]

Chris

All the CW operators that used to be active on LF have long gone to other bands. All equipment and antennas have been dismantled, this likewise applies to my LF installation. This is the feedback that I have been getting in recent years. There was over 30 countries active on 136 cw some years back, now all gone and probably never will come back.

also

any stragglers left are too thinly spread across the 9 Khz - 137 Khz spectrum mostly on Beacon/Broadcast mode using data and web reporting.

The MF band is shaping up with quite a lot of CW QSO'S taking place around EU and beyond

The HF bands are also in great shape at present with 10 metres wide open world wide, lots of cw and ssb, which are still the most common modes where all can join in including SWL'S

73 De Mal/G3KEV

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Osborn

To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org

Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 5:51 AM

Subject: Re: LF: LF tonite

LF,

Yes, the LF band appears dead as far as real QSO's are concerned.

Following Dave G3YXM's RadCom article on LF / MF I beaconed and called CQ on 137.7 kHz extensively for consecutive weekends.

My signals are not huge but have a range of several hundred km judging from the various grabbers' displays.

Apart from one CW QSO with Dave on 136.5 kHz I had no other report or reply!

LF operators are spread far too thinly and unless one makes a sked or advertises well in advance then the chances of a QSO are very slim.

In the good old days the time for calling / QSO's used to be 'on the hour'.

It's now probably time to have specific  'day and hour' periods each month for LF activity.

If we knew that say the second Sunday in each month at 10.00Z would be activity time then maybe a few more ops would dust the cobwebs from their rusty LF rigs.

73

Chris G3XIZ

On Friday, 14 March 2014, 1:03, Stefan Schäfer <schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

LF!

There's not much activity these days on 137 kHz. I thought i spend the
night in good old QRSS-60 on 136.172 kHz.

Reports welcome :-)

73, Stefan/DK7FC