AW: [Meteor-Scatter] Perseids and operating procedures!

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:58:15 +0200

Hi there,

More to the same topic; I found it fustrating that I had interference in the
"wrong" period
from stations calling in the opposite direction, apart from the already
mentioned mess on 370.

My suggestion is to split the WSJT/FSK441 calling frequency into 4 - during
shower peak days - as follows :
CQ Dir 0 - 90	144.360
CQ Dir 180 - 270	144.365
CQ Dir 90 - 180 	144.370
CQ Dir 270 - 360 	144.375

(Frequencies and directions up to further discussion, but the main idea
remains. This would have the benefits of
not having interference from unwanted stations calling opposite; the
drawback of not hearing wanted stations
calling in one's direction is minimal as one wouldn't have heard them in the
first place. This is just a suggestion.

I am not opposed to the qsy system, but I do think that QSY system has a
disadvantage - as I experienced myself - it
is possible to qsy to a frequency that is already being used. And that
messes up a lot. A solution wuld be to limit
QSY to go positiv offset only (so above 370). I fully agree that it is far
more efficient to indicate the frequency
as Andric suggests.

I am also not opposed against "self-spotting" in the cluster; one could
easily indicate that he is calling CQ on a freqency
not being .370. It would help avoiding the mess ! But one self spot per half
hour should be more than enough. (if one look now
on the amount of useless and irrelevant spots, it does not really matter).

In order to further avoid frequency clashes, skeds could be set in any part
of the band; but as skeds are sometimes made far before
the shower, and mostly between 2 HAM alone (without making details public)
why not making sure that skeds can take place in peace
and limit the CQ-with-self-spotting-in-th-custer to let's say .350 - .370
MHz ??

Just thoughts, perhaps something usefull for the next showers, as it is very
obvious that MS has increased dramatically since Joe created WSJT.

-> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
-> Von: [email protected]
-> [mailto:[email protected]]Im Auftrag von Goran
-> ANDRIC, S55OO.com
-> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. August 2002 09:02
-> An: Hannu/OH6MAZ; Meteor Scatter mailing list
-> Betreff: Re: [Meteor-Scatter] Perseids and operating procedures!
->
->
-> Hi all!
->
-> I agree that would be good to make some procedure for split CQ
-> and here is
-> my suggestion. At least for EU standard...
->
-> CQ62 S50C CQ62 S50C -> which means that we listening on 144.362
->
-> and
->
-> CQ78 S50C CQ78 S50C -> We listen on on 144.378
->
-> Why this is better then CQ -H S50C and CQ H S50C or CQD8 and CQU8. It is
-> easier for every one to shift and same amount of data i guess.
->
-> Your opinions are vy welcome!
->
-> 73 de Goran ANDRIC, S55OO.com
->