[Lowfer] split it up

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:57:47 -0500

Bob, Bill, All

I am all for groups of  beacons! The 185.3 grouping has worked great
after a little coordination! Last season the Midwest grouping worked well also!
My capture of LEK, BRO, and NC at the same time was one of my best.
With the beacons currently on the air there could be a North, South and West
grouping. If regional grouping interferes with your reception then just schedule
certain days and or times for the groups to gather. That gives the beacon ops
 a chance to listen for others. There are lot of ways to work this out!
Dex would probably show up in all directions as usual! 

Thats my two cents!

73

Larry

P.S. where is Les???

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ashlock" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] split it up

> Bob,
> 
> >Just wondered what the thoughts are in forming another watering hole
> >,,say fer the folks in the mid west, wherever. With the advantage of >the 
> >loopers and others in the north east grouping around a common freq, why not 
> >create another geographical freq? Sure makes it nice to cover many stations 
> >with one setting of the rcv
> 
> >Along with this can you get enough separation within the LOFER band to
> >allow watching and transmitting at the same time. If this can be done >then 
> >the obvious idea would be to start QSOing ,, in Duplex ??
> 
> Good ideas! I was pondering about this yesterday when I was thinking about a 
> new site for the RX loop so I can transmit and receive at the same time. I'm 
> getting the bug to do more receiving now that the RX antenna situation has 
> greatly improved, but it's always a conflict with transmitting. I'll 
> determine how far away from 185.3, frequency-wise, along with the physical 
> separation of the antennas.
> 
> It's not that good of a deal to make this a regional grouping because we 
> tend to interfere with each others receiving ability. For example John A and 
> I mess up each others screens since we are 40mi and only 3Hz away from each 
> other. Jay at 115mi is strong but just low enough in strength that he 
> doesn't modulate my ARGO AGC to any great degree.
> 
> There's a lot of band width there and I suppose changing frequencies is not 
> that difficult for most of us. I'm interested in other's thoughts on this - 
> particularly from 'receivers' Mitch and Larry that feed us our 
> ego-satisfying daily signal reports. <G>
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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