[Lowfer] LF QSOs

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:10:50 -0400

Hey guys,

Let's have a bit of a reality check here. First of all LEK and group are 
doing this QSOing on New Years day via surface wave. - Very predictable, 
assuming good beacon installations and minimal local noise. Normal CW 
skywave communication is very rare - and to predict that on a predetermined 
day the conditions will be right...... well, maybe a 1 in 20 probability at 
the very best?

Don't get me wrong; I think LF QSOs at 1w are super!  I still get a kick out 
of LISTENING to TH at about 275 miles, maybe 10 times, at best, in a 100-day 
season. Most of the time when I copy him it is too weak to recognize 
anything but his repeating  _ ....

In the "good old days" there were many Lowfer guys that had never copied a 
skywave beacon in years of listening . Conversely there were many beacon 
operators that never had anyone copy their signal in years of sending. 
........And I won't go into the disappointing news that a big percentage of 
the active senders back then were cheating on the power input.

Bill A

>From: "Peter Barick" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] LF QSOs
>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:46:32 -0500
>
>
> >>> [email protected] 09/10/03 11:14AM >>>
>
> >I'd like to try this and some other LF QSOs this year.
>
> >Eric, KD5UWL
>----------------------------------------------------
>I applaud your intents Eric and feel an actual cw, aural qso is a noble
>goal at 1750.
>
>I was extremely pleased that I actually heard some cw during last
>winter's peak, although it was QRSS30 and dead slow. LEK was one of
>them, but only after first locating with Argo and the signal built up.
>
>That's why I was so impressed with that 1990 article by Raney on the
>then state-of-the-art goings-on -- they were only listening for signals
>on analog-tuning rigs.
>
>Keep the faith.
>
>Peter
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