RE: LF: LF tonite <WSPR>

["Dave G3WCB." <ganymede444@btopenworld.com>]

LF, Chris, Stefan,

 

Has anybody reported any success with WSPR 2 on 137.5 kHz? I haven't seen any 137 kHz spots reported.

 

I could probably radiate in that mode, given a few days notice.

 

73, Dave G3WCB IO91RM

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org [mailto:owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org]On Behalf Of Chris Osborn
Sent: 14 March 2014 05:52
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
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