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Hi Dex
Tnx for ur reply.
I will be off to GI3KEV QTH soon for a few weeks so
will not be active from Scarborough for a while. My dxpeditions are a one man
affair and I have to do in a couple of day what others take weeks to do. Get the
120 ft tower unparked and extended, rig the antennas for LF and the HF bands.
After all this effort when I get active on 136 Khz I might be lucky to work a
couple of station on CW, most these days seem to be on QRS although
perfectly audible and workable on CW to me.
On the other hand GI/Tyrone on HF is still
rare especially on CW and I get a pile up on any band that I choose to
operate.
I often have to pull the plug or the pile up would
go on for ever !! On a recent trip to CT1/Algarve it was the same on
HF.
LF activities do not justify the effort.
I have offered other amateurs both in Scarboro and
Tyrone the antenna facilities but none are interested. Most do not have the
equipment or cannot be bothered.
VE1ZJ and VE1ZZ are good cw ops but they have
gone QRT, the only other active VE stn these days seems to work QRS
only. The Russian stns also seem to have gone QRT this year so it is not
very encouraging.
Maybe later next year.
By the way most weekends there is a lot of EU
activity from OH, SM, PA, DL ,S52, I5 YU7 etc all on QRS these days on
137.7 khz and I am surprised that you have not copied any of them. They are all
very strong with me.
73 and HNY
de Mal/G3KEV
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