[South Florida DX Association] Low Band DX

[Adam Farson]

Hi Guys,

One of the nice features of the IC-7600 is that unlike its predecessors, its
sensitivity is undiminished below 1.6 MHz.

Cheers for now, 73,
Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ


-----Original Message-----
From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Kai Siwiak
Sent: 28-Dec-10 07:09
To: Peter Rimmel
Cc: SFDXA
Subject: Re: [South Florida DX Association] Low Band DX

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
>
>
> Please Pray For Peace Every Day
> www.prayforpeace.info
>