Re: LF: The summer hole...

["Roelof Bakker" <roelof@ndb.demon.nl>]

Hello Stefan,

I am missing the patience to monitoring 137 kHz and 470 kHz all the time.
However, I have been monitoring every night reception of Canadian NDB's  
for years.
So far Summer reception has been excellent and every night there has been  
propagation from Newfoundland to the Netherlands. Th reception window is  
quite narrow now and is best between 01:30 to 02:30 UTC. At times signals  
have been quite strong (I am talking about aural copy).
So you might try to contact Joe, VO1NA with one of the faster QRSS modes  
for a real time QSO!
Greyline propagation is good now and I do receive stations that are much  
rarer in winter!
It might also be interesting to note which band is better at this time of  
the year 2200 m or 630 m!
My guess is 2200 m, but I can be completely wrong.

73,
Roelof Bakker, PAoRDT