Hartmut and Markus chose the freq. At that time it appeared as good as could be found. If a better one is available to everyone I can move to it without a problem [licensed for 68-76 kHz]. It should be such a freq that allows a couple other spots no more than a Hz apart for Dex and John Andrews and maybe Jay and Warren who may be coming on.
Artifacts from various services has been a problem.
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> Subject: LF: 74kHz frequency
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> I wonder why the current working frequency of 74,5495kHz was chosen?
> According to my receive system this is still on the edge of the noise
> sidebands from DCF77, and some 3dB S/N could be gained by operating
> from 1kHz to 3kHz further LF. Is this just my receiver/antenna
> (perhaps my antenna has gone HF as the leaves fall off the trees), or
> do others see this?
>
> 3dB doesn't sound much but is a lot with a marginal QRSS signal.
>
> Any comments from other Eu receive stations?
>
> Mike
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