Hi Paul
The best time for a QSO with the UK is around 2300- 0100 utc
Over the years I have had quite a number of QSO’S around this time at this time of year.
The best mode is QRSS for both 474 Khz and 137 Khz and CW is also possible also I am sure JT9 and and FT8 would work but I have not tried these modes across to the USA
NC1K used to hear me frequently on CW on LF, also stn MM0ALM was heard often on the East coast USA.
There were over 30 countries active on LF about 15 years ago but now it has almost fizzled out and I do not bother any more although I use MF a lot and as you know you report my signal almost nightly on WSPR
If you would like to try a QRSS or JT9 QSO on MF let me know.
My power is 5W erp and antenna is an INV L up 100 ft vertical and the rest horizontal out in the clear in a field.
Last night I got reports on 474.2 from N1BUG, KA1R, VE1YY.
My best DX on MF/630M was Reunion Island last year, almost 10,000 Km
And I do not think he is active this year.
73 es GL
DE MAL/G3KEV/IO94SH/SCARBOROUGH/ENGLAND
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Just think how many trans-Atlantic QSOs could be made. Some, like
myself are very interested but the primary problem is no one awake
on the east side of the pond at the right times!
I have seen signals strong enough for normal CW only a few times.
JT9 would be easy and requires only about 3 dB more signal to decode
than WSPR2. I am looking for information on QSO operating procedures
for QRSS. I have only seen it used for beaconing.
I've been off MF for a while as I put up a temporary HF antenna to
work the Bouvet DXpedition and it severely messed up tuning of the
MF antenna. Now that the Bouvet trip has been aborted I will be
taking that antenna down and returning to MF as soon as I get a
reasonable weather window. I will likely be on MF for a week or so
before moving to LF.
73,
Paul N1BUG
On 02/04/2018 05:05 AM, mal hamilton wrote:
> Last nite results good but not unusual, had reports from
>
> AA1A, KA1R, VE1YY
>
> Transatlantic contacts seem a regular occurrence at present on MF
> between the UK and N.America
>
> Most operators are using WSPR but more CW both normal and QRSS would
> be welcome like it used to be some years ago, ie real QSO mode
>
> 73 de mal/g3kev/io94sh
