Lots of people talk about a ''season'' but in propagation terms there isn't
one. you can get as good a propaga
tion in summer as in winter. There is possibly less noise to listen to in
winter and the darkness period is longer. I have copied Joe VO1NA all year
round on QRSS (3 and 10 second dots) Poor nights can be predicted by
watching the Dst index but a high index ,above -20nT dos not guarentee a
good night but it is more likely. Good indictions for 136kHz can be had by
monitoring DCF39 on 138.83kHz (just the idle tone)
See http://www.472khz.org/pages/technical-topics/propagation.php
Though it refers to 475kHs most of the observations were derived from 138.83
and CFH on 137.00kHz over about 11 years.
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "N1BUG" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
"Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands"
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 4:07 PM
Subject: LF: 2200m Trans-Atlantic QSO dream...
One of my big dreams is to complete a two-way QSO across the
Atlantic on 2200m. It has been done. It can be done. My station is
getting close to being ready. I have heard 2E0ILY up to -12 SNR on
WSPR2 and I have been reported with -19 SNR by G8HUH and G0LUJ.
It is too late for this season as QRN is always high now. But for
next winter I should have 3 dB more power and hopefully more/better
receive antennas.
Modes are a bit of a problem. On the best nights JT9 would be easy
but most of the time it would probably have to be QRSS or DFCW. It's
too bad we don't have a very slow digital QSO mode like JT9-10 or such.
So, who is going to take the challenge for a dream QSO next winter?
You have all summer to get the station ready... ;-)
73,
Paul N1BUG FN55mf
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