Jean-Pierre,

   Patience please!  The WD2XGJ  ATU is almost ready - this time I
have silver plated the components for good conductivity.
WD2XGJ should be back on 137 soon!

73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ



On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:19 AM, "Jean-Pierre Méré (F1AFJ)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alan , Andy , Warren ,
>
> If I read you well ! I can arrange my LF 137 Khz until the next solar cycle
> !
> To stop the grabber which have not seen anything any more for one month !
> and to make another thing ! I find that it will be interesting to study the
> increase
> of the solar activity, perhaps would have surprises ! ..... ( I remember to
> have
> copied good signals of Warren in August )
>
> 73 qro Jean-Pierre f1afj
>
> Alan Melia a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Warren I dont think anything will prevent TA on 136 but it will become
>> more difficult as the Sun becomes more active. The original crossings on
>> 136kHz  were made near the last Solar max, but it was necessary to select
>> a
>> favourable time, or be very lucky. Large flares and associated CMEs lead
>> to
>> increased path loss often for weeks. Good periods have been much more
>> prevalent during the last 12 months and there have been few major
>> geomagnetic events.
>> 1 watt ERP is probably that marginal, higher powers are probably more
>> likely
>> to succeed more often.
>>
>> Another factor which muddies things is then when the first crossings were
>> made we only have 3sec dot available via Robert Horne's Spectrogram.
>>
>> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Warren Ziegler" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: LF: Re: Beacons from Eu / UK
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Probably not what you wanted but that is the present status. 136 is
>>>>
>>
>> fairly
>>
>>>>
>>>> quiet over here just now, but it may be the last good chance to make the
>>>> crossing for a few years !!
>>>>
>>>
>>>     What are you expecting to happen that will prevent T/A on 137 in
>>> the future?
>>> 73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XJ etc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Alan Melia <[email protected]>
>>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andy there are no stations beaconing continuously on 136khz. However
>>>>
>>
>> the
>>
>>>>
>>>> usual way to observe the propagation is my monitoring the idle signal
>>>>
>>
>> from
>>
>>>>
>>>> DCF39 138.830 and/or HGA22 on 135.54. DCF39 is located at Burg near to
>>>> Magdeburg in Germany. HGA22 is located at Lakihegy near Budapest. It is
>>>>
>>
>> not
>>
>>>>
>>>> as much fun as QRSS.DFCW, or WOLF, but they are very relaible. Steve
>>>>
>>
>> Dove
>>
>>>>
>>>> W3EEE post 24 hour strength plots, though his system is down at present.
>>>> Most TA attempts from this side are made by arrangement usually via this
>>>> list.
>>>> Probably not what you wanted but that is the present status. 136 is
>>>>
>>
>> fairly
>>
>>>>
>>>> quiet over here just now, but it may be the last good chance to make the
>>>> crossing for a few years !!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Andy - KU4XR" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:13 PM
>>>> Subject: LF: Beacons from Eu / UK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings from the US:
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to monitor 136 / 137 KHz this winter for TA beacons,
>>>>> if there are any on. Will someone tell me if there are any
>>>>> that beacon continuously, what mode and frequency, callsign.
>>>>> If I have a list, and know where to look, that is a starting
>>>>> place. Thanks for your replies; 73:
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
>>>>>  LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 184.322 KHz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 73 Warren K2ORS
>>>                WD2XGJ
>>>                WD2XSH/23
>>>                WE2XEB/2
>>>                WE2XGR/1
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
73 Warren K2ORS
                WD2XGJ
                WD2XSH/23
                WE2XEB/2
                WE2XGR/1