<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just my 2 cents worth 😉</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 September 2014 07:45:59 GMT+10:00, Phil Shields <shields_phil@yahoo.com.au> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Phil VK2CPR</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br /><br /></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On
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I would think that you are more likely to get a response if you use
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Gerard vk2io is the 20m HF net station ( <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv4236161888moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.aprs.net.au/hf/hf-net-stations">http://www.aprs.net.au/hf/hf-net-stations</a>
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<div class="yiv4236161888yqt9470153648" id="yiv4236161888yqt42600"><div class="yiv4236161888moz-cite-prefix">On 9/09/2014 3:55 PM, Phil Shields
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<div>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.</div>
<div>Cheers Phil VK2CPR-2<br clear="none" />
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