Hi Jay,
You'll be able to watch all the European activity in near real time via
the grabber in the Shetland isles. Obviously narrow bandwidths work best
and although beacons are generally at the 503.5 to 504k section of the band,
there are still a few station who presumably using crystal control who are
further down the allocation.
Any signs of life on your screen can be quickly checked against:
Unfortunately there seems to be no equivalent on the East coast of the
USA or in VO1 for us to see if our signals are making it over to you. So it's
a little more hit and miss for us. - But with a little effort I'm sure a two
way TA contact will happen fairly soon.
73
David
Mal...and other T/A enthusiasts
I'm interested in additional W
/ EU contacts on 500 kHz. To date the only
station I've worked is Finbar
... albeit on three occassions. It would be
helpful if those interested
would run periods in beacon mode (normal cw
speed) so that I can listen
for your signals. If I can hear your station,
you should be able to hear
mine...with the higher ERP from this end.
Setting up a sked for a
particular night at a particular time is unlikely to
produce a QSO -
conditions vary widely from day to day, hour to hour and
even minute to
minute over this path.
Jay W1VD WD2XNS
WE2XGR/2
