Amrad LF Reception test ?]

Andre' Kesteloot akestelo@bellatlantic.net
Wed, 09 Dec 1998 07:51:07 -0500


Rik Strobbe wrote:

> At 00:11 9/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >...
> >The BBC on 198kHz (necessarily closer to the ocean than any continental
> >one) may in that respect be even better than the station he suggested.
> >...
> DCF39 has the advantage that it is very close to the 136kHz ham band. I
> wonder if propagation (skywave) on 200kHz and on 136kHz are the same.
> DCF39 is more to the south and maybe 800km furter away than the UK ham
> stations, but it's amost 50dB stronger signal should make up for that ...
> I will be on EA8 (Gran Canaria) from 30 december to 6 january and will
> listen out for ham signals on 136kHz (over a +/- 3000km path), maybe this
> will give some indication.
>
> 73, Rik
>
> Rik Strobbe  ON7YD
> rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
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