[OZAPRS] Testing on 20 mx

[Scott Evans]

A few years ago I went through the process of deciding on what band would suit best for my HF gateway, initially 20m was the preferred option but I ended up settling on 40m. This was because I'm a lazy kind of guy, I've been meaning to upgrade my licence class for years but as usual I never get "round to it" so obviously I can't transmit on 30m (legally) but I wanted to have something on HF. Over the last 6 or so years it's had good use from VK2/3/5 & ZL. 40m is noisy and crowded on 7.036L (1800/1600Hz) whereas 20m is quite and not as crowded. 

Just my 2 cents worth 😉

On 10 September 2014 07:45:59 GMT+10:00, Phil Shields <shields_phil at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>Thanks for that Gerard and Larry, I've moved it down to 14.103L to line
>up and see how that goes. I see to remember I was getting beacons there
>but it is interesting to experiment.
>Phil VK2CPR
>
>
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>On Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 7:33, Larry <larrykin at nuskope.com.au>
>wrote:
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>I would think that you are more likely to get a response if you use the
>established net frequencies as detailed at
>
>http://www.aprs.net.au/hf/hf-aprs-frequencies
>
>Gerard vk2io is the 20m HF net station  (
>http://www.aprs.net.au/hf/hf-net-stations )  although I am not sure
>that he is back from overseas.
>
>Anyway good luck with the test.
>
>73 Larry vk5ly
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>
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>On 9/09/2014 3:55 PM, Phil Shields wrote:
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>Hi all, I'm testing a 20mx APRS gateway on 14.107L. My rational is that
>I can beam across WA from here in Sth East Australia to assist any
>travelers in the WA bush. I have a 3 element beam doing nothing and a
>rig. I chose 14.107L because it is relatively quiet, 14.109 is chockers
>with OLIVIA and any lower I get into beacons. If anyone in WA could
>test it out that would be good.
>>Cheers Phil VK2CPR-2
>>
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