LF: IK1WVQ and full calls in beacons

[Stefan Schäfer <Stefan.Schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de>]

LF,

Below you see another example why it is useful to transmit a full call in beacon transmissions.
There is a newcomer from Italy, who did his first experiments on receiving LF. I assume he does not know this group or other radio amateurs beeing active on LF.
If i transmitted "FC" the whole night through then he would have had no chance to find my email adress (qrz.com) and contact me! Now i gave him some hints and who knows, maybe we will see him on air soon, joining in to IK1HSS :-)

Apart from that one can see that there are all the time new chances to gain newcomers. For me that is a very pleasant report and i know that it is always worth to stay active even if the band looks totally abandoned :-)

73, Stefan/DK7FC

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Von: "Mauro Bernardetto" <mauro.bernardetto@poste.it>
Gesendet: 21.01.2012 10:28:21
An: dk7fc@darc.de
Betreff: reception of your 137KHz beacon from Italy

Hi Stefan,
i am Mauro IK1WVQ from Albenga, north Italy , JN44CB.
This night i received your 137KHz beacon.. signal was clean and strong, as you can see in picture attached.
about 600 Km it is not a dx for you, but is my first activity at all in the 137 KHz band.
The signal was stable for all the night...

my working conditions:
- antenna home made like MINI-WHIP PA0RDT (sensor area: 30 * 100 mm) 10mt ground.
  (i am astonished how sensible is this incredible small antenna!)
- RX RACAL R1792 locked to GPS Trimble ThunderBolt.
- the time showed IS LOCAL (GMT+1).

Give me please some info about this beacon (exact frequency, power, antenna sistem)..
(do you know if other 137KHz beacons are active ????)

compliments for your activity in VLF ..

many thanks.

Mauro IK1WVQ

http://www.qsl.net/ik1wvq/
 

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