[Lowfer] 6 MHz Canadian Medfers?

[Bill de Carle]

Hi John
I'll try to leave it running through Sun nite - some chance of thunderstorms
here later.  Reception reports welcome.

Latest freq check: 6,776,794 Hz at 1127z.  The shack temp is lower this
morning than it was last night but freq will probably drift downwards
during the day towards 6,776,791 Hz again.

This low power messaging stuff would be useful for monitoring a cottage
over the winter.  With some FEC and a CRC to verify correct reception there
seems to be a pretty good chance a short message would get through at least
once over a 24-hour period at up to 500 Km.  The energy requirement is so
low that perhaps one of those inexpensive solar garden lights could be
adapted with a better battery to work in cold weather.

Of course there is no guarantee the message will always get through so it
shouldn't be used for anything important, hi!

Reminds me of an old system (Popcorn) using meteor trails.  Transmitted
short packets blindly on a frequency near 50 Mhz - and hopefully at some
point a signal gets bounced back to the receiver.  Claimed to work pretty
well up to 1000 Km.

73,
Bill VE2IQ

At 12:29 AM 7/17/2016, John Davis wrote:
>Hi Bill. First chance I've had to check email in over 24 hours and saw
>that you've revived the BeFER band.  Cool!  Alas, I can't return to the
>field tonight to listen, but I hope you'll be running through Sunday night
>as well.
>
>I've also forwarded a few of your posts to the LWCA Message Board so the
>wider HiFER community can have a chance to look for it as well.