Dear Laurie, John, LF Group,
Well ... I leave town for a couple of days and it all starts happening!
Assuming Laurie and John's reports check out OK, this will be
something quite extraordinary. Given the noise level on 73k, and
the reduced ERP available on the band, propagation losses would
have to be very much less than on 136k - I wonder what the
pundits make of this?
I saw Laurie's signal when checking 73 kHz last night, without
having read the E-mails on the topic from the previous couple of
days, so it took quite a while to figure out what it was - the
frequency shift was very small, only about 0.06Hz. Laurie has
probably the strongest signal on 73k at the moment, about 579 with
me, but much lower SNR than on 136kHz. I would be very
interested to hear from John what the band conditions are like in
Canada - here, the QRN seems to drown out even the Rugby
sidebands at night, although it can still be quite quiet at times
during the day.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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