[OZAPRS] 40m HF.

[Tony Hunt]

Thats interesting Noel.. The times in the morning would be around sunrise
at
the moment.. We are almost right on the shortest day of the year. The sun
seemed to appear at about 0700 local here today and seemed late compared
to
last week.

Likely you heard VK7HSE's beacons on the Grey line. Thats what its
called..
The Grey line neither daylight or nighttime. Its an interesting time of
the
day for propagation on the lower frequencies. You can go huge distances on
160m with Grey line propagation. Ive heard ZLs on 40m voice quite strong
around sun down in the mobile. Both Sun rise and Sunset seem to have a
relavance but alot of web pages seem to talk about sun rise..

If you get a programe like Nova32 or similar satellite tracking programes
you can track the grey line as it moves between VK and ZL. Maybee its a
good
time of year to experiment a bit with this on 40 and 80m ..

Tony & Eva Hunt  wavetel at internode.on.net


> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:49:46 +1200
> From: Noel Rowe <noel-r at clear.net.nz>
> Subject: [OZAPRS] 40m HF.
> To: VK / ZL APRS Users <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>, zlaprs at mail.nzart.org.nz
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> I can report that today I received APRS beacons from VK on 40m.  VK7HSE
in
Tasmania was heard here this morning with 4 beacons decoded between about
05.10 and 07.25 hours NZST.
>
> These as far as I can remember would be the first VKs beacons ever
decoded
ex 40m at my location.  Mind you I havent listened much on 40m over the
years, usually sitting on 30m.  However not long ago I added a second
dipole
allowing a dual watch.
>
> At present I am monitoring similtaneously on 30m (tuned to 10.151.00
LSB)
and 40m (tuned to 7.036.00 LSB), both with TNCs with 1600/1800 tone pairs.
>
> Regards, Noel, ZL3GR (living in ZL1 land).
>

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