[600MRG] 630 meter work here...

[Roger Graves]

Ken,

Thanks for posting this re. potential of 630m for local traffic. I have been trying to raise awareness of the potential utility of 630m for local emergency communications among our Emergency Comms guys, who are mostly VHF and know nothing about 630m. Any info on your efforts would be helpful as added data for me to use up here. 

FYI, the VE7 630m ops are planning to do a 24/7 test/demo of the reliability of the 100km 630m groundwave path from my qth in this island city on the edge of the San Andreas fault to the mainland where all assistance would come from. 

73,

Roger





> On Jan 24, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> I am in the process of becoming QRV on 630 meters too. 
> 
> As some of you may know, I am quite active in traffic-handling, mostly on CW, but some 
> digital too.
> 
> Since propagation on the HF bands has become so generally rotten, I have been using 160 
> meters for much of our "local" traffic work, as have several other, mostly CW, nets across 
> the continent.
> 
> Some of us also believe that 630 meters will be useful for our sort of work, so several of us 
> are working to become active on that band too.
> 
> As I have discussed here a couple of times previously, my antenna for 630 meters will be 
> very inefficient, but will work well enough for our needs.
> 
> Keeping my fingers crossed.
> 
> Ken W7EKB 
> 
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