Hi Jim
I was speaking figuratively as you are so near and on my xtl
frequency. My comment was directed at Chris' statment in email
subject1000 QSOs, who also suffers and others who have complained
about beacons in general. In fact the band is often dead for hours
on end and it is nice to find any signal, beacon or QSO, especially
when testing. My point is that is there should be room for both
beacons and QSOs, then follows a suggestion that LFrs may like to
come to some agreement about reserving a section for each mode.
Hoping I did not offend, 73 Dennis M0JXM
----- Original Message -----
From: James Cowburn<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:51 PM
Subject: LF: RE: Re: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO
Hi Dennis
I did not realize I was causing you QRM. A quick e-mail would have
alerted me to it, rather than me being a “pain”. I’m happy to work
out a compromise where we operate at separate times or if you
suggest a different frequency for me to work on. Just drop me a line
with your ideas on this.
With best regards
Jim
Dr. James Cowburn G7NKS
________________________________
From: [email protected]
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EASTERLING
Sent: 10 November 2009 16:13
To: [email protected]
Subject: LF: Re: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO
Congratulations Chris.
Most wspr stations seem to congregate at the top end of the band and
are not too much trouble. Jim G7NKS is the biggest pain as he
sits on my xtl frequency and is so close. Maybe a compromise would
be for people using beacons to keep to one segment of the band
(hopefully not 502.2 kHz -hee)
73 Dennis M0JXM
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Osborn<mailto:[email protected]>
To: LF Group<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:03 PM
Subject: LF: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO
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
