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Ray Wells wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4AA18B69.3000000@exemail.com.au" type="cite">Stephen,
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Good information.
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Like Canada, Australia also has a vast interior with no VHF
infrastructure. A not insignificant percentage of our major highways
also have no VHF infrastructure, resulting in substantial use of HF,
principally on 30m, but there is now also a 40m frequency receiving a
bit of attention and success. </blockquote>
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What frequency are you using on 40? I'll add it to the write up. Who
knows -- with the impending re-alignment of 40 meters to move
international broadcast out of the ham band, we may start being able to
actually hear something on 40 at night. <br>
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[Currently, the entire upper half of the 40M band in most of North
America at night is a howling mess of S9+20 heterodyning carriers
and sideband splatter from dozens of megawatt shortwave stations in
Europe, the Middle East and South America , rendering it totally
unusable by hams. Don't know if you hear anything remotely like this
"down under". ] <br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4AA18B69.3000000@exemail.com.au" type="cite">The
latter emerged as a result of one licence class not being permitted to
use 30m.
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Given the large number of HF Igates around the world, one could almost
argue against the need for WIDE2-1 in a HF beacon.</blockquote>
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Not almost. TOTALLY argue against......<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4AA18B69.3000000@exemail.com.au" type="cite"> I
regularly (almost daily) have two US stations in my heard list and I
was gating a /MM station in the Caribbean a couple of years back. This
morning I see WB9OTW, VE4GLS and EA8ADH-9 on my 30m port. I'm on the
east coast of Australian between Sydney and Brisbane.
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Good God!! I regularly see VE4GLS on my 30M APRS map at:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439"><http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439></a> <br>
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monitored off-the-air in Los Angeles, but I had no idea he was getting
clear across the Pacific. I wonder how many KW he is using and what
kind of miracle antenna he has???<br>
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I'm amazed you are hearing these stations that have a long (presumabley
lossy) path over the North American landmass before they even reach the
Pacific, rather than stations on the California coast and Vancouver,
B.C. <br>
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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
EchoLink Node: WA8LMF or 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]<br>
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