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LF: Re: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:12:55 -0000
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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
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Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:03 PM
Subject: LF: G3XIZ - 1000 th MF QSO

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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








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