Wolf, DF2PY and Mike ZL4OL, have made suggestions regarding sked and
activity times for the LF band. As the amount of signals heard on the band
seem to have dropped quite a bit in more recent times, this idea appears to
be excellent, provided we could get a broadly based agreement as to what
times/activity skeds would suit.
The advantages would seem to be many, particularly.....
1. Knowing the exact times of activity in advance.
2. More likely to hear and be heard by station as opposed to random use
3. Beacon operation could also be tied in to fixed skeds , without stations
   having to transmit for long periods, with little or no results ( I
know).
4. Cross band operation, again with fixed times and fixed HF freq plus or
   minus  qrm.
5. Linked HF talkback freq, depending on season, ie  160 m useless
   during the Summer, as we have found. 80m or 40m seem a better bet,
   but  160m is great during the Winter.

However if we make to many sked times, our efforts will be spead over too
many possible times and will defeat the object. Certainly Saturday mornings
seem popular ( not too early please, I need my sleep, shift work is taking
its toll), and after the evening meal/tv news, say 1900, as suggested.
Should we come to a conclusion on this, maybe the radio magazines could
publish the times/skeds and we might get some more listeners tuning in and
then getting going themselves on LF.

Best regards to all the LF gand  from,
Finbar  EI0CF     Malin Head.

-----Original Message-----
From: ComPact <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: 10 June 1999 22:11
Subject: LF: Re: daily avtivity time

Good morning all

Wolf wrote

After some days with unanswered CQs it came to my mind that due to the low

number of active stations on longwave it would be beneficial to establish

a

activity hour for regular working days.Maybe  from 19 to 20 zulu would be

ok for

the continental and British stations as well.Sunset times of course would

be in

the middle of that for some more weeks and allow for some interesting
propagation studies.i appreciate any feedback on this !

With the even smaller number of active stations in ZL/VK it has proved
extremely useful to have regular activity times. Every Thursday evening we
run a round robin cw session, each station in turn sending 2 minutes of cw,
coordinated on 80 metres. There are also regular SSB and CW nets on LF on
Tuesday nights and Sunday mornings. These sessions are used for checking
out equipment and antenna changes, following propagation changes through
the seasons, and just ragchewing.

Mike ZL4OL