Dear LF group,

 

last night between 23:30 and 1:45, Joe VO1NA and myself had our first two-way contact. Joe was sending 10 second QRSS and DFCW modes on his usual frequency 137.777 kHz, and I called him in 30 s DFCW on 136.172 kHz. After a couple of attempts to synchronize to each other, we finally ended up exchanging reports successfully, as shown in the attached screenshots.

 

Joe mentioned that he had 4.5 A current into his 100 m longwire antenna. With propagation about 6 to 12 dB weaker than during peak times about a week ago, his signal was still very clearly visible at about 0.3 µV/m in Nuernberg. The other direction was a bit more marginal: Using 250 W transmitter power, I had 3.5 A aerial current and about 0.6 W ERP.

 

For me, this was the first-ever transatlantic QSO on LF. Thank you very much Joe!

 

Best 73,

 

Markus (DF6NM in JN59NK)