[South Florida DX Association] Low Band DX
Kai Siwiak
k.siwiak at ieee.org
Tue Dec 28 10:09:02 EST 2010
Peter,
Congratulations on a very nice catch!
If you haven't already, you should send a detailed signal report to
Fritz, W1FR. There may still be a form on the web site. He is one of the
instigators of the 600m band experiments. Fritz is the chief at Green
Mountain Radio Research; they are pioneers in ultra-high efficiency (and
class-E) RF amps.
They definitely want detailed sig reports.
73
Kai, KE4PT
Peter Rimmel wrote:
> 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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>
>
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