Re: LF: MF acty

[John Andrews <w1tag@w1tag.com>]

I dearly love subscribing to this list, absent the periodic "harrumps" 
from those insisting that most of us are well down the road to perdition.
Anyway, please allow a suggestion. I recall nothing in our regulations 
over here that amateur contacts must arise from a chance meeting of 
operators at the same time on the same frequency under conditions that 
would support a QSO. Assuming the same is true on the other other side 
of the pond, why not have some publicly-announced regular schedules 
between two or more stations, or even have a net one night a week? This 
should at least encourage listening or even on-air participation by 
others. Coordination could easily be handled on this mail list.
Were I an Ofcom official (perish the thought), I'd be much more 
impressed by a report on the 500 kHz NOV's next spring describing 
regular scheduled activity than by one claiming that the band always 
seemed dead. The former would give some hope that the band would be 
useful for emergency communications, a good argument for an amateur 
allocation.
John Andrews, W1TAG