I occasionally put a beacon on the 180 kHz band with 250 Watts out and
have been copied in France and the Netherlands during the time each
night that Europe 1 is off.
No magic, about the same results as 137kHz except that 137 is quieter.
--
73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ
WD2XSH/23
WE2XEB/2
WE2XGR/1
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Gary - G4WGT <[email protected]> wrote:
> Graham,
> Have a listen after dark, I seem to remember it was quite horrendous last
> time I looked at that part of the spectrum. I will have another listen
> tonight. I think the EU chaps wait until Europe1 has stopped Txing. Here is
> one frequency I know of, extract from Joe's e-mail.
> VO1NA, 184.509.3kHz
> TX about 5 watts 0.4 amps to 100m wire at 15 m high.
> 73,
> Gary - G4WGT - IO83qo.
> LF MF Grabber - Web Site - Blogspot - 9kHz Grabber
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> On 28 December 2010 16:22, Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok Gary,
>>
>> Seems to be some quite big gaps in that spectrum , big enough for
>> a cw filter and wspr signal to sit with no splash ?
>>
>> G
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>> Nb looks like someone has the spam filter -mal-adjusted- ?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Gary - G4WGT
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: LF: 160 to 190 KHz a real magic band ?
>> Graham,
>> I have occasionally read mails on LF regarding U.S. 184kHz qrs beacons &
>> captures from Europe. Apparently there is a very powerful broadcast station
>> in Europe on a near frequency which causes high qrm when on, I believe it is
>> "Europe1"
>> Gary - G4WGT.
>>
>> On 28 December 2010 12:16, Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lifted from the WSPR web site http://wsprnet.org/drupal/
>>>
>>> 1 watt and 15 mtrs of antenna ,decoding over 1148 kmtrs , (best
>>> round 2000k) seems to make the 137 attempts look a little 'coy with
>>> somewhat bigger power levels and rather large arrays , (possibly
>>> mal-adjusted ?)
>>>
>>> Is this a band like 500 with enhanced propagation ?
>>>
>>> WHAT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A TA DECODE ?
>>>
>>> The frequency range is 160 to 190 KHz. This is most commonly known as
>>> Part-15 operation ( under our FCC Part-15 rules ). The basics: Power is
>>> limited to 1 Watt DC Input to the Final amplifier, and the antenna length
>>> cannot exceed 15 meters, including the feed line,
>>>
>>> (XR4TN is the experimental call of KU4XR)
>>>
>>> 2010-12-10 11:16 XR4TN 0.185701 -27 0 EM75xr +30 1.000 W1VD FN31is 1148
>>> G..
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