[OZAPRS] HF Frequency

[Ray Wells]

Hi All,

With "most" travelling done during the daytime, is the issue of 
frequency occupancy at night really such an issue ?

Just a question not aimed at defending other "night time" signals.

Ray vk2tv

David and Justine Olsen wrote:
> HSE-4 is normally decoded by me and I suspect vice versa, but at 
> present I am rearranging antennas and have the APRS on a low Bushcomm.
> My original reason for setting up 40m was to allow standard better 
> access to APRS and to have aprs for remote traveling hams. 
> Remote travelers tend to be in the winter months. 40m APRS was pretty 
> active then.
>
> David
>
>
> On 30 Oct 2009, at 19:27, Scott Evans wrote:
>
>>
>> Hmm... its a little tricky! in that there has been fair pro's & cons 
>> for staying, but I still think that if 40m is to remain viable as 
>> well then we will need to action something!
>>
>> Since sunset here I have not decoded a thing due to PSK31, Olivia and 
>> some CW
>>
>> Port HF:
>> Callsign  Port Packets   Last Heard
>> VK7HSE-4   HF      330   Fri Oct 30 20:09:16
>>
>> So as you can see, just me! I've also upped my power back to 100w 
>> (was 50w) normally at this time of night I hear both VK5LY-4, 
>> ZL2TZE-4 reliably on Tuesday - Thursday but not on the other nights 
>> due to QRM...
>>
>> So Phillip, what's the status for band use above 7.100 in NZ? 
>> (question only!)
>>
>> Is it worth while announcing on the news bulletins (WIA & NZART) that 
>> get repeated around the country, that we are here on 7.036 (7.034300 
>> centre freq) and we want a fair chance at using the frequency?
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 22:11 +1300, Phillip wrote:
>>> Well we have some suggestions so what should we do ???
>>>
>>> Do we protect what we have or do we just let the status quo run ??
>>>
>>> If we do nothing then I believe we KISS our aprs section on 7035 good bye 
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 Phillip
>>> ZL2TZE 
>>>
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>>
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