Fw: ARLX005 LF-to-LF Transatlantic Amateur Contact is Completed

[gmcmanus]

You probably know this already.....  73  Jerry, KA7G

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Subject: ARLX005 LF-to-LF Transatlantic Amateur Contact is Completed


> SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX005
> ARLX005 LF-to-LF Transatlantic Amateur Contact is Completed
>
> ZCZC AX05
> QST de W1AW
> Special Bulletin 5  ARLX005
> >From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  February 20, 2001
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB SPCL ARL ARLX005
> ARLX005 LF-to-LF Transatlantic Amateur Contact is Completed
>
> Amateur Radio history was made this month when amateurs in Canada
> and the UK completed what appears to be the first two-way
> transatlantic Amateur Radio exchange on 136 kHz. Larry Kayser,
> VA3LK, and Lawrence ''Laurie'' Mayhead, G3AQC, managed the LF feat
> using extremely slow CW that featured 90-second-long dits and
> 180-second-long dahs. The two-way contact took two weeks to
> complete.
>
> ''We are the first to do a two-way QSO on LF across the North
> Atlantic as far as I am concerned,'' Kayser said. ''We are the ones
> who put the stakes in the ground; others will build on what we have
> done.''
>
> The VA3LK-G3AQC contact began February 5 and was completed February
> 19 with the reception and confirmation of VA3LK's report by G3AQC.
> Both stations used spectrographic software and computers for
> receiving. The participants agreed in advance to a ''firewall''
> between them for the duration of the contact and that all QSO
> information was exchanged over the LF radio link.
>
> The UK has an amateur band at 136 kHz. While Canada has not yet
> authorized general Amateur Radio operation on 136 kHz, Kayser and a
> few other Canadian amateurs have received special authorization to
> conduct LF experiments there.
>
> G3AQC and VA3LK were using a combination of commercial and surplus
> equipment at their respective stations. G3AQC estimated his
> effective radiated power at 350 mW, while VA3LK said he might have
> been at the 5 W ERP level.
>
> In October 1998, the ARRL petitioned the FCC to create two amateur
> LF allocations at 135.7-137.8 kHz and 160-190 kHz. The FCC has not
> yet acted on the request.
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> /EX
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