At 12:14 05/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
I suggest the following for the 2002-2003 winter season:
1) One day / weekend each month to be devoted to crossband with HF
(3.5/7MHz).
I now have the facilities to work cross-band HF/LF, so I could certainly do
this - allthough reception on 80m is poor at my QTH due indirectly to the
Brookmans Park broadcast transmitters. 40m is OK, so is 20m, on which I had
an X-band QSO with EA1PX (using QRSS on LF) not long ago, so this is
certainly a practical proposition.
2) One morning each month to be devoted to 73kHz activity, with listener
reports.
The Rugby 73.25kHz signal still seems to shut down on the first Tuesday
morning of the month...
3) Two dates (in December and February?) to be called LF Field Days, where
portable operation (or operation from the QTHs of non-LF operators) is
encouraged.
...Everybody's favorite time of year for going portable :-)
4) Two dates to be devoted to 73kHz crossband activity (QSX 136kHz or
3.5/7).
5) Local QSOs to be encouraged by a competition (probably just for fun)
where operators try to work stations whose callsign ends with each of the 26
letters of the alphabet (G3MBA, ON6VB, F5CDC . . . GW4KDZ). This should
allow quite small stations to be very popular with competitors and might
lead to people being encouraged to come on the band. The competition to last
from 1 December to 30 April. I stole this idea from another amateur radio
group, I think it was QRP. The advantage or using the last letter is that
everyone is potentially an exotic station.
6) All of the following to be publicised in AR magazines, newsgroups, etc,
to ensure maximum support from inside and outside the LF community.
I think the last point is very important - most amateurs probably are not
aware of what is happening on LF. So to reach a large number of potential
new listeners, these types of event would need widely-circulated advance
publicity - perhaps in the news pages of RadCom for example.
For my own part, due to work commitments I am unlikely to be doing a vast
amount of LF experimental work and operating this winter - but spending a
few hours here and there on this type of event would not be a problem.
Hope to see everyone down at Windsor next week,
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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