[South Florida DX Association] Low Band DX

[Peter Rimmel]

I woke up at 5 AM today, and being wide awake I decided to see what was on
80 and 160 meters.  Not much so I started tuning the BC band and then the LW
band.  I was surprised what I could hear on this clear cold morning with 33
deg. f. temp outside.  The band was quiet and I heard the following using my
IC7600 and 160 meter Inverted Vee.

Tuning around the old AM band I found:

AM 1100 Cleveland
AM 650 Nashville

These were "easy"

Then I decided to look at the LW band and heard many beacons.  SOme
interesting ones were:

216 KHz  CLB  Wilmington N.C.
221 KHz  FX   Ft. L Exec Airport
331 KHz  FIS  Key West, FL
329 KHz  CH   Charleston, S.C.
344 KHz  JA   Jacksonville
344 KHz  ZIY  Grand Cayman Is.
376 KHz  ZIN  Great Inagua, Bah.
379 KHz  TL   Tallahassee, FL
385 KHz  EMR  Augusta Ga.
391 KHz  DDP  San Juan, P.R.
415 KHz  CBC  Cayman Brac

Then, I was surprised to tune to 508.9 KHz and hear CW ! I heard W5JGV and
WD2XSH/7 transmitting on the experimental 600 meter allocation.  They were
both Q5 and about S-7 here.  Then JGV went to PSK-31 and I had 100/100 print
of that.  A very nice christmas message to all.  More on the low band
experimental efforts are at:  http://w5jgv.com/600_mrg.htm

If you find yourself awake with nothing to work, try some listening, like I
did.  It brought back the "old" days of radio.

73 and HNY

PeteR  N8PR


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