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.
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. .
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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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