Hi Dave,
in Belgium we can use both 472-479 kHz and 501-504 kHz.
73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T
Hi, Stefan.
Thank you for the WSPR report from France. I also get regular spots from F4DTL, F5WK and F6CNI, so I know that there are regular WSPR listeners in France, even though they cannot
transmit on the 630m band.
Are any countries still transmitting in the old 501 - 504 kHz band?
73, Dave G3WCB IO91RM
Hi all,
Without any announcements i've been in France again last weekend, like each year, meeting some friends on a fieldday.
This time no LF experiments were planned and no MF / 630m, because the band isn't still allocated in France. The WX was bad, no wind but mostly raining.
However there was mobile internet available and so i run some RX tests on 630m WSPR. First i wanted to use a my active ferrite antenna but then i remembered that i have done a modification on my MF converter so that it doesn't work in combination with that
antenna. My last chance was to use a simple piece of wire, connected to the RX. It turned out that it was very easy there in the open field to get some very good results! I just took a simple wire, 10 m long, dropped in some nearby (wet) hedge. The RX was
then grounded by a 10cm long/deep tent peg. No matching transformer or resonance circuit was used!
Outside the city and far enough away from DCF39, AFN and DLF it was quite easy to get a nice S/N from the transmitting stations. The background noise was 20 dB above the RX+soundcard noise.
I've been active for just a few hours and these are the best S/N reports for the active stations (thanks to them for the interesting tests).
| Timestamp |
Call |
MHz |
SNR |
Drift |
Grid |
Pwr |
Reporter |
RGrid |
km |
az |
| 2013-09-07 22:48 |
IZ7SLZ |
0.475646 |
-29 |
1 |
JN80nu |
50 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
1307 |
319 |
| 2013-09-07 21:26 |
I5MXX |
0.475618 |
-19 |
0 |
JN53ju |
10 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
723 |
326 |
| 2013-09-07 21:22 |
M0PPP |
0.475617 |
-15 |
0 |
IO93gm |
0.2 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
675 |
133 |
| 2013-09-07 20:22 |
DF2FF |
0.475773 |
-28 |
0 |
JO44th |
0.5 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
647 |
209 |
| 2013-09-07 20:18 |
G3WCB |
0.475732 |
-23 |
0 |
IO91rm |
0.02 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
491 |
120 |
| 2013-09-07 20:46 |
PA0A |
0.475697 |
+2 |
0 |
JO33de |
1 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
455 |
189 |
| 2013-09-07 21:34 |
G6AVK |
0.475759 |
-23 |
0 |
JO01ho |
0.005 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
429 |
128 |
| 2013-09-07 20:48 |
DK6NI |
0.475696 |
-18 |
0 |
JN59ln |
0.1 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
413 |
266 |
| 2013-09-07 19:56 |
PA3ABK |
0.475741 |
+3 |
0 |
JO21it |
0.01 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
299 |
172 |
| 2013-09-07 21:24 |
F4DTL |
0.475616 |
-17 |
0 |
JN18fp |
0.2 |
F/DK7FC |
JN29pd |
214 |
74 |
73, Stefan/DK7FC
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