I have used Olivia, Throb, PSK63, Hell, MFSK all successfully on the low end
just below the normal PSK freqs on 20 meters. It would seem to me the best
place on all bands, using the low end of normal PSK frqs, where people would
notice you. Early on, in each of those modes, that is about the only place I
heard anyone, or saw any spots.
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
.
QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesty I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew J. O'Brien
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 6:38 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Clarification : Establishing digital calling/beacon
frequencies
Just to clarify my original point...
I'm looking to establish a suggested calling frequency for ALL digital modes
except CW, PSK31, RTTY, SSTV , PACTOR , and ALE(data ALE).
My suggestion is that members of this list utilize a common frequency to call
CQ and/or use attended beacon features within their digital software. This
would be for Olivia, Dominio EX, Throb, PSK63/125 , , MT63 ,Hell CHIP,
MFSK16/8, PAX/PAX2 , THROB, experimental AX25.
The idea is simply to make it easier to find stations to work rather than
trawling the bands in 300-500 Hz ranges looking for potential signals.
My experience suggest that even on good propagation days, say on 20M, the
amount of simultaneous QSOs in the aforementioned modes rarely exceeds 3-5 .
When it is at the 5 level, it is often 2-3 Olivia stations, maybe 1 MFSK16 and
one Hell. I will argue that MOST of the time it is less than three
simultaneous QSOs . Sometimes NO signals at all.
Thus, the amount of interest in the "exotic digital modes " is at such a
level that we would benefit from clustering, and our use of a calling/beacon
frequency would not likely clutter up the portion of the band.
If we established 4 beacon frequencies (80,40,30, and 20M) you could easily
monitor the bands via scan features in the radio .
Again, the idea would be just to "meet" on the calling frequency and move
further up/down the band for extended conversation. I am NOT suggesting a
different calling frequency for each mode.
20 M seems like the easies band to establish a data frequency that allows
worldwide participation. The others are more complex due to varying regional
bandplans. I will read the feedback I have received so far and suggest some
frequencies to try this weekend.
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