[OZAPRS] 40m good but wierd

[Ray Wells]

Philip,

VK2TV (Kempsey), VK2AAB (Sydney) and VK2SLM (Casino) have been 
forwarding on 40m for up to 8 years. We used to be marginally lower in 
frequency than we are now. See two paragraphs down. The frequency had 
originally been occupied for many years by ex-OTC personnel and they 
invited me there. They have since moved elsewhere.

My dial reading is 7035.33 (USB) which places my tones at 7037.355 and 
7037.555 (calculated, not measured). I use a Baycom USCC> 4 card on 40m 
and it uses the 2025/2225 tone pair. The radio is the TS430 (for now) 
and is, in combination with the half-power plug being fitted and not 
being driven to the hilt (no ALC), producing 40W.

You may recall a previous posting when I mentioned I had moved the 
crystal in the Tracker Lynx (the radio that just died!) as high in 
frequency as it would go to move away from vk4 stations trying to work 
weak PSK signals from Europe in the Region 1 narrow-band segment of the 
band. I also offered to move closer to 7.040 if such a move was deemed 
necessary. Such a move would indeed be easier right now with the TS430 
in service on 40m.

I need the feelings of those operating 40m aprs and, I need to consult 
my forwarding partners and users, if a move is considered in the 
interest of aprs operations.

Ray vk2tv

Phillip wrote:
> Hi Tony and All,
>
>                            Yes  40 mtrs is alive but again many touch on the
> few Hz High / Low issue and we need a rock solid known 
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> net station to over come this .
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> I had bleed over last night from Ray VK2TV / VK2AAB and another from 7034
> USB doing packet forwarding I put this down to 
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> some weird condx it lasted about 6 minutes I chased them and wow great copy.
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> 73 Phillip
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> ZL2TZE
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Tony Hunt
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> Date: 04/03/09 22:28:40
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> To: OZ-APRS Mial-list
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> Subject: [OZAPRS] 40m good but wierd
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> Well in about the last 24 hours 40m seems to have proved good. As opposed to
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> about 5-6 days on 20m this last week. 40m seems better now than it was this
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> time last week. This is possible becuase my noise levels seem to have
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> dropped also.
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> Within a couple of hours I heard about 4 stations regularly last night. Ive
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> also noticed some RTTY spot on our channel . Maybee some of you are playing
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> sound cards with RTTY as well.
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> So far Ive heard on AX25 APRS in no particular order
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> VK2KCM-4
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> VK7HSE-2
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> VK5EX-4
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> VK2XGJ-15
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> ZL3RX
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> VK3JFK-5
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> Interestingly nothing from VK4 and I notice that they are hearing stuff that
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> Ive never seen yet also like VK2SLM possibly because hes 400 Hz High by the
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> looks. Its almost like we are on different frequencies or planets to the
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> VK4s etc ..
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> But alas we must be on the same frequencies because your seeing the same
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> stuff I am seeing from VK2 and ZL arent you ?? Its wierd because I am seeing
>
> ZL3RX but VK4JRC was seeing ZL3RX-4 .. Yet VK4JRC is seing me .. Odd stuff.
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> Tony Hunt  VK5AH
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