[Lowfer] Re: Lowfer digest, Vol 1 #851 - 38 msgs

Clint Turner [email protected]
Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:12:57 -0700


Hi,

>   I know that no one has heard a medfer beacon on skip in several years,
>but I don't understand why they haven't.  Using this same antenna and much
>less than 100 mw input (and an estimated 4 mw ERP out), my 160M beacon
>(1805 KHz) runing 10 WPM CW was heard by half a dozen stations last year
>during the few days I had it on.
>I just hope I'm close enough to 1704.80 to be in the ARGO passband at
>QRSS3.
>Doug
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That's not quite true:  VE7SL could hear CT on about any night that he'd 
try (on QRSS3, anyway...)

(Capture at:  http://www.ussc.com/~turner/ve7sl_ctcap1.jpg  )

Admittedly, that was in August of 2001, but I don't know that the world 
has changes that much since then:-)

Clint
KA7OEI
CT