Re: LF: LF tonite

[John Rabson <john.rabson07@gmail.com>]

Recently a new source of QRM has started here Still trying to find it. On Argo 
it appears as a comb of lines with 50/100Hz spacing. Not even Stefan is 
detectable..

John F5VLF

On 14 Mar 2014, at 06:51CET, Chris Osborn <g3xiz@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> LF,
> 
> Yes, the LF band appears dead as far as real QSO's are concerned.
> 
> Following Dave G3YXM's RadCom article on LF / MF I beaconed and called CQ on 
> 137.7 kHz extensively for consecutive weekends.
> My signals are not huge but have a range of several hundred km judging from 
> the various grabbers' displays.
> Apart from one CW QSO with Dave on 136.5 kHz I had no other report or reply!
> 
> LF operators are spread far too thinly and unless one makes a sked or 
> advertises well in advance then the chances of a QSO are very slim.
> 
> In the good old days the time for calling / QSO's used to be 'on the hour'.
> It's now probably time to have specific  'day and hour' periods each month 
> for LF activity.
> If we knew that say the second Sunday in each month at 10.00Z would be 
> activity time then maybe a few more ops would dust the cobwebs from their 
> rusty LF rigs.
> 
> 73
> Chris G3XIZ
> 
> 
> On Friday, 14 March 2014, 1:03, Stefan Schäfer 
> <schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> LF!
> 
> There's not much activity these days on 137 kHz. I thought i spend the 
> night in good old QRSS-60 on 136.172 kHz.
> 
> Reports welcome :-)
> 
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
> 
> 
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