----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: LF: LMCW
Error!
LMCW Started in on 27 July 1997 when I first transmitted over the
393km path to G3PLX on 72.09kHz.. Dot period was 100s, and it took
several hours of overnight keying to send my callsign. Peter received in
a bandwidth of 0.03Hz
That was "real" QRSS - none of this namby-pamby 1 - 10s dots the amateurs
of today use :-) You can almost hear that!
You could have done the same thing at the time on
real CW, why was a one day long DOT necessary?
Andy G4JNT
On 22/05/07, hamilton
mal <[email protected]>
wrote:
Lazy
Man CW started in England a few years ago on 137 khz and only spread
to
mainland EU in a small way and I am glad to say that the 30 countries
that I
worked in the past were all on CW including Russia.
LMCW is
useful under very difficultr conditions but seldom necessary for
a
competent CW operator and anything slower than qrs 10 is seldom
necessary,
although qrs3 usually does the trick.
The qrp restriction
in the UK on 500 khz at present is adequate for CW
around EU, it seems
there is no one beyond beyond OM/OK even interested
except by
arrangement.
It has been pointed out by others that the 100 mw does not
encourage real
research because it is so easy to generate this power, so
with a wet string
and a signal generator you have achieved the
object.
We need 10 w and even more realistic 20 w for real R and D to
take placed,
and these power levels(erp) are more difficult to achieve
than you think
given the average radio amateur antenna system.
If
there is no change in the UK pwr restriction in the future I cannot
see
this band lasting for long, and EU so slow to even get going it does
not
justify the effort. What has happened to the EEC one for all and all
for
one. Its all a joke.
I was in EI land a couple of weeks ago and
vehicle fuel was 69 pence a
litre, in the UK 96.9 pence can u see what I
mean, and by the way there is
no council tax on properties in EI.
Its
now the same few amateurs keeping the band going. Look what has happened
to 137 khz, it has virtually died out.
Apart from the novelty of 500
kihz 160 m is a better band, does the same
thing and with 400w in the dx
area the world is your OYSTER!!!!
73 De
Mal/G3KEV
