Thanks Peter - Very good, and Im sure it will be very well received.
Ive pointed Hiroshi to all the well known sites, but I know (and remember) how daunting it must be/seem, and I think Ed has also been doing the same, though that might have been another JA.
Still, Hiroshi's transmitting on 136.9 CW and Ive left my grabber on there on slow speed to see if I can detect anything after dusk tonight - its a +-2000Kms all water path save Korea and a bumpy bit as it crosses Japan - as hes on the East Coast, and yes Ill have the volume up as well...
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Hoping to be active one way or another from home in Alaska in the middle of June and will get something up in the air for 500 and 137kHz, thats if the moose and the bear leave me alone, togther with my other more pressing duties. Ill have some noise mitigation to do but it isnt a bad start as we nixed the crud from DSL by filtering it as it comes out of the ground last time around. That was making a mess of 500kHz.
Mal - I dont think Ill scare him off on the 10W ERP requirement!
Laurence KL1X in BY3A
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> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:51:55 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: LF: JA ops
>
> Hi Laurence,
> It takes time and experience to learn how to get any sort of signal
> from very electrically small antennas and there has been very little
> information in Japanese on this subject.
> I recall when working with Mike G3XDV at the RSGB we waited in vain for
> articles on LF after NOVs were issued in 1997 for 73kHz. From the
> pioneering work of G3XDV, G2AJV and G4JNT (to name but a few) signals
> only started to be heard on the band six or seven months after the NOVs
> were issued.
> This should soon change.
> I have been working with Taizo Arakawa, JA3AER to produce articles on
> the subject in the Japanese magazine CQ Ham Radio.
> The first one was a general interest article '136kHz in the UK and
> Europe', published in April 1999.
> Because the release of the 136kHz to Japanese amateurs was imminent I
> was asked do write a practical 'How to get started on 136kHz'. This was
> published in CQ Ham Radio May 2009. This also tended to be rather broad
> and general so a more detailed follow up article on the problems of
> using an electrically small antennas and the design of loading coils has
> been submitted.
> I can put copies of these articles on my web site if anyone is
> interested but I guess I will first have to get the permission of the
> CQ Ham Radio editor.
> The Japanese call this new band the 135kHz band.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter, G3LDO
> > Ive asked Hiroshi for more details and passed reflector and info sites
> > - fyi 73 Laurence KL1X in windy BY3A
> > From: ja3vqw Hiroshi
> > Hi Laurence
> > Thanks for your e-mail.
> > Yes, I got license form the department of Telecom in JA ( Sohmu-sho)
> > last month.
> > I make CQ many times everyday around 1200 UTC but I have not got QSO
> > with any station.
> > I guess there a very few licensees in JA ob 136KHz.
> > So if you find my signal please QSL me.
> > My TX is modified IC-731 output 25W.
> > The antenna is long(short?) wire 25ms long.
> >
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