> Dont forget to give us Brits and Europeans a shout around 04.00+ GMT on > 3705, during the weekends and sometimes during the week. > 73 Max M0GHQ
I hear you blokes on the band from time to time, but signals usually are right at the noise level, just a bit too weak for me, 1200 miles into the hinterlands where that extra hop over land attenuates signals into the noise floor. The east coast AM'ers have a much better pipeline into Europe. I did have a nice QSO with Jean from France a couple of weeks ago. Henke called in, but his signal was unreadable in the noise. I regularly hear British and European slopbuckets in the so-called DX window at 3780-3900, and many of their signals are comparable to those of N. American stations if not stronger, kicking the S-meter above S-9, but the European stations I hear in QSO on 3600-3700 are usually very weak. I don't know what kind of power and antennas the DX'ers use to put such strapping signals this way, but if a few AM'ers across the pond could generate comparable signals, transatlantic AM QSO's would be routine. For years I have attempted to monitor the French-speaking AM group on 3550, but they are usually just barely too weak to catch the callsigns, even though some of the conversations are comprehensible at times. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
