Stefan
The majority of my acty has been two way CW 137-137 and NOT XBAND. The only
reason I had to work XBAND was because some stations had no licence for 137
and requested me to work xband also some operators had no 137 TX but
listened on the band. No QRSS BEACON RUBBISH and QSL via Internet or
Grabbers. These days most operators are in BEACON mode and do not work CW
QSO MODE. that limits my CW activities.
I must check my records sometime but last count was about 35 different
countries worked, and quite a lot were GERMAN stations.in the early days
Like I have said before many times I am only interested both on LF es MF in
QSO mode and not repeative BEACONS either on CW or DATA
If DX stations can hear/see my signal I would like a reply in real time and
not via Internet or watch a Grabber. My logic is that  if they can hear/see
me then I will be able to hear/see them and this has been the case in the
past. I am not interested in ONE WAY traffic. I will switch the LF TX on
when there is someone available at the other end for a QSO.


de mal/g3kev





----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Schäfer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: WSPR tests by DK7FC


Hi Mal,

When was your last 2-way CW QSO (137-137, not the 137-HF stuff) on 137
kHz? Who was the worked station?

73, Stefan

Am 18.09.2012 17:43, schrieb mal hamilton:
> Stefan
> Faster speeds are BEST not slower
> I am working on Fast Bursts of CW
> I will have been on the frequency made a contact and gone before you get
> started !!
>
>
> Mal/G3KEV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefan Schäfer"<[email protected]>
> To:<[email protected]>
> Cc: "Joe Taylor"<[email protected]>; "Edgar J Twining"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:20 PM
> Subject: LF: WSPR tests by DK7FC
>
>
>
>> Dear LF group,
>>
>> A few days we started a discussion about a slower WSPR here in the
>> group. After that, i've been in contact with K1JT who meant he will work
>> out a slower WSPR version for LF, in a few months (hopefully).
>>
>> Markus/DF6NM kindly prepared a tool to generate different types of WSPR.
>> There are 3 versions. The first takes 2 minutes, i.e. the normal WSPR
>> that can be decoded with the normal WSPR software. Then there are slower
>> versions taking 8 and 32 minutes.
>>
>> We want to make some pre-tests to see the SNR improvement of a slower
>> WSPR, i.e. check if it will be confirmed by the SNR display that WSPR-8
>> shows a 6 dB better SNR (12 dB SNR improvement for WSPR-32 respectively).
>>
>> Hopefully this will result in a new DX-mode on LF (Yes Mal, i know :-) ).
>>
>> So now i joined the WSPR group and start to do some test transmissions
>> with the normal 2 minute WSPR code, using Markus' tool. The goal is to
>> see if the tool works properly and what decode levels i can obtain in
>> various distances.
>>
>> A 2 minute WSPR beacon is running here in Heidelberg / JN49IK, 50% TX
>> time. I will run it until tomorrow 6 UTC.
>>
>> Reports apprechiated :-)
>>
>> Please can we try to move the LF reports/hour peak in the diagram above
>> the level of the 20m band? ;-)
>>
>> Tests using the 8 and 32 minute WSPR will follow soon.
>>
>> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>>
>> PS: TX pwr may be a bit reduced in first tests, abt. - 10 dB f.s.
>>
>>
>