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To All from PA0SE
Sometimes a fellow amateur tells me he would like to become active
on LF and asks my advice. I tell him/her to buy The low frequency
experimenters handbook and/or the older Source book and to read
what has been published on LF in our magazine Electron. After handing
out some tips on receiving invariably the question comes what the best times are
to listen for a signal. My answer has always been "Saturday and Sunday
morning". But I'm afraid that won't help the newcomer much anymore because
there are hardly any signals to be heard nowadays. Perhaps from time to time a
CQ, most of the time not being answered and some QRSS, which is unlikely to be
recognised by a newcomer as an amateur signal.
I accept that to bridge the Atlantic Ocean is much more
challenging than a normal CW QSO within Europe but nevertheless I would
like to hear some more traditional activity on Saturday and Sunday morning, as
it was a year or more ago. If only to give a newcomer something to listen for
and to wet his appetite for LF.
73, Dick, PA0SE
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