[Lowfer] Common Freq

[Les Rayburn]

At 01:52 PM 2/26/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Re: Common Coordinated Beacon Frequency System
>
>CCBFS: UG! Don't like the looks of that but that's what it condenses
>to. This is meant to elaborate on Rye's point of having a few deacons on
>a near-common ferq for propagation monitoring. Yes, it goes on now in an
>ad hoc fashion: Two lowfers thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if ..." and
>set up on a chosen freq, others monitor same and report capture results.
>All interesting.
>
>Rye's thought of a greater quantity of near-freq beacons prompted me to
>reason, "And why not devise a division of regions that would be assigned
>region local beacons to operate in?" So, say, there were the N-E-S-W
>regions, someone, or more, could populate nearby freqs. Listeners then
>could monitor that one activity channel. Convient and brings more
>listening to one channel.
>
>I'm not suggesting anything formal with rules [Oh heavens!], no, but
>somewhat along the lines things are done now, via list groups. Has it
>been tried?
>
>Peter


I completely support this proposal. It is logical and as I pointed
out in my earlier proposal about regional beacons, it could
allow both mode experimentation and weak signal work to
flourish by generating more listeners for all of us.

A suggestion: I think we should group the beacons by
amateur callsign regions. For instance, all beacons within
the " 1 " call area would be grouped together, all in
region " 4 " etc.

I think we should really work towards setting this up during the off
season. An article outlining how this would work in the Lowdown etc.
We also need to encourage the "casual" CW beacon operators to
adopt this bandplan.

73,

Les



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