Congratulations Chris   A nice piece of work. And thank you for making 600metres the kind of band it should be.   I support your comments. We really need a band the size of the Norwegian allocation to coexist with these incompatible, to CW, modes.    Very 73   Petefmt --- On Sun, 8/11/09, Chris Osborn <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chris Osborn <[email protected]> Subject: LF: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO To: "LF Group" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 8 November, 2009, 18:03 LF It was a red-letter day today as I achieved my 1000th QSO using 600m. This includes 72 cross-band contacts, virtually all of which were 600m / 80m. Rog GW3UEP was my 1000 th QSO with runners up G3XPU - No. 999 and EI0CF - No. 998. QSO break-down according to mode:     928 CW,  34 RTTY  and   5 QRSS 600m STATIONS My personal 600m (EU) spreadsheet lists a total of 59 stations and many of these go back to the start of the UK  600m allocation in March 2007. Of these I have worked or heard only 15 in the past month (excluding beacons). Many stations on my list came up only briefly and were never heard of again:  G3KZU, G3YHV . . . Others were once very active but have subsequently gone QRT:  G3UNT, G3VTT, G4GDR. . . MOST FREQUENTLY WORKED With so few active operators it is obvious that one will work the same stations many times and the top 10 stations account for 70% of my total contacts. My most frequently worked stations are: GW3UEP - 120     G3KEV - 102      M0FMT - 90     G3ZWH  -  80  (alas now SK) G3DXZ    -   67     G4GDR -   60      EI0CF/ GI4DPE  -  51   M0JXM - 48 G3UNT    -   45     G3VTT  -   38 CROSS-BAND AND EU STATIONS There are a few 'regular' stations who listen to 600m and enjoy a cross-band QSO: DK6NI, F6CNI, F6ACU, OH1LSQ, PA0LCE, G3TVF . . . and our few EU MF friends are still active: ON4KTJ, OR7T and OZ8NJ. . . WSPR ON 600m I personally find it sad that the present level of enthusiasm for the WSPR mode was never achieved for  hand sent Morse (CW), which after all is the mode which I call to mind when thinking of the old MF marine band. If the WSPR 'enthusiasm' phase lasts, with more and stronger stations operating 24/7 in the narrow 3 kHz segment which is the 600m band then I guess it may be time for me to QSY. 73 Chris G3XIZ