[ARRL-OK] 60 Meter Test

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:00:46 -0600

Please note the following:

Bill, W1WJB alternates NCS duties for the MAEN with Norm, W1BYH for the 
first
call district.  He has offered to compile signal reports so that we can
develop a picture of what to expect from 60m propogation.  This will be a
valuable tool for ARES and RACES groups intended to use this band for EmCom.

Please assist Bill in this worthwhile effort and circulate this email among
your ARES, RACES and NTS list servers so that we may get enough 
participation
in these tests to develop a useful preliminary study.  If these efforts are
successful, and Bill gets another volunteer of help, it would be useful 
to
consider expanding the initial ranging study to include a full 4-season
evaluation correlated with daily SFI data from WWV.

Please read the attached email and feel free to discuss this thread on the
Yahoo group. 73
----------------------  Forwarded Message:  ---------------------
From:    William Barrett

Hi, Ed;

A thought...

My eye was attracted to the sentence in Norm's recent net report referring
to the visible shift in propagation just during the brief half-hour net.
Interesting implied point, here!

If you approve of this idea, I suggest the following:

Every member of this rapidly developing group make a test call, whenever 
one
happens to be available, on the following
24 hour schedule: every hour divisible by four.  Midnight, 4am, 8am, noon,
4pm,
8pm, midnight.  Each station that makes
a contact---either with a Mid-Atlantic group station or with any other
station,
send me an email with ONLY the following
information. Time, Your Location, His Location, Signal Report, which 
channel,
and any "Extra-Special" additional info---such
as being mobile.  Location should be city, state.

I'll track and compile the data, and after a couple of months, I'll make a
report.  (Format to be determined by what data
comes back, and what it might suggest.)

The raw data should go to  [email protected].

The subject line should ALWAYS say, "Mid Atlantic Propagation 
Observation".
I'll set up a special mailbox for it all to go into.

Bill Barrett,  W1WJB
DEC CT-ARES Area One
Connecticut

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Let me know more I can help.

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