At 08:02 AM 7/13/2008, you wrote: >Walter, > >Post this to the HCDX list for me. > >You said: "The only channel I'm >not getting is 500 kHz. Not sure why....perhaps they're not on the >air as promised.......Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC (06:45 UTC)" > >The reason you didn't receive 500 kHz is that you were receiving 426 >kHz! There is only one transmitter and it is switched to 500 kHz when >ships (or coast stations) were calling them. Stations responded to >calls on 500 kHz and then informed the ship that they should shift to >426/425 namely that KPH would go to 426 and the ship should go to 425 >kHz which was one of the stzandard ship working frequencies - which >were 425, 454, 468, 480 kHz. > >Ships also had 410 kHz for sending radiodirection finding shgnals as >well as 500 for distress and calling and responding, as well as 512 >which was used as a back up calling frequency if 500 kHz was being >used for distress and calls were prohibited there because of the SOS. > >At 0001 UTC if they got off on time, you would have heard on 500 kHz - >"CQ CQ CQ DE KPH KPH KPH = KPH NIGHT OF NIGHTS RETURNS TO THE AIR QSW >426/HF =" which would have been sent on 500 kHz and all running HF >frequencies. Then KPH would shift to 426 kHz and what was being sent >on 426 kHz would also be sent on HF. > >Of course in the heyday of marine radio, each frequency would be >manned by a different operator so more traffic could be handled and >more income generated: The frequencies were only simulcast during >traffic lists and weather - or at night when the number of operators >was cut back and propagation closed 12, 16 and 22 MHz. > >73 > >David Ring, N1EA >former Radio Officer, U.S. Merchant Marine >=30=
Thanks, David! By the way, what power(s) were you using? ........Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
