Re: LF: Re: Beacons from Eu / UK

["Jean-Pierre Méré (F1AFJ)" <jpm.f1afj@online.fr>]

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" <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> 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 <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
> >     
> 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" <ku4xr@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> > > 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
> >
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