[OZAPRS] 40m good but wierd

David and Justine Olsen davejust at bigpond.net.au
Sat Apr 4 08:17:19 EST 2009


Ray

Please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we all currently on (or  
some of us very near) the internationally agreed 40m freq?

David



On 4 Apr 2009, at 06:53, Ray Wells wrote:

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