[TransAtlantic] Welcome Message to Trans-Atlantic Remailer

[Mark Casey]

Hello Friends,

Thanks for subscribing. Please let anyone know about this remailer that you feel would be interested or have something to contribute. They need not be hams. I'm sure we'd love to have a transatlantic airline pilot with an interest in VHF listening subscribed, or maybe some DXer's that monitor the TV and FM bands for transatlantic signals. This remailer was an idea before a reality for a while. I hope it helps get a signal recieved across the Atlantic.

Most of all we need subscribers from both sides of the Atlantic, and South America and Africa, and from all the islands in between.

We are up to 15 subscribers in 1 day. Bob, K4ESA is the first subscriber to test the remailer a few minutes ago. And, congrats to Dave, N7BHC, for being the first subscriber only 14 minutes after the annoucement was sent out yesterday! Dex, W4DEX was a close second, only 1 minute after Dave. At last April's South East VHF Society Conference, in Charlotte, NC, Dave made 2 different presentations, both on subjects relating to transatlantic VHF communication. His talks were voted as the best of the conference. So, as shown by Dave's talks, when it is presented to the VHF/UHF ham community, the subject of a possible transatlantic qso is interesting to quite a few weak signal enthusiasts.

Scientific theoretical, predicted, and actual propagation disussions and observations will be welcomed on this remailer. For example, a subject like, "How different propagation modes might work together to complete a path from North America to Europe", would be a very good one.

This remailer will probably not be very busy, unless some propagation starts to happen. Interestingly enough, if you take a look at William Hepburn's North Atlantic map for yesterday, Tuesday, Nov., 10th, the first day of the remailer's existence, with the exception of a very narrow distured area mid-way, there was predicted an area reaching across of mild enhancement from the Southeast US coast to Spain and Portugal.

Initially the list is set at a maximum message size of 20kb. That will let you include most original messages in a reply, if desired. But, you might want to cut off some of the longer original messages in a lengthy reply.

Please listen for the transatlantic beacons:
WA1ZMS, FM07fm, Virginia, west of Lynchburg, 144.285
N7BHC, FM15pa, Oriental, Pamlico County, NC, (about 60-70 miles south west of Cape Hatteras), 144.291
K4MHZ, FM25df, Hatteras (town),near Cape Hatteras, NC, 144.300 

73
Mark Casey, K1MAP