[Lf] LF: Transatlantic]

[Andre' Kesteloot]

MarkusVester at aol.com wrote:

> Hi John and all,
>
> as Alan has observed before, transatlantic condx appear to be quite good
> lately. Last night's spectrogram showed CFH on 137.742 peaking 26 dBuV/m
> several times, and rather consistently above 15 dBuV/m for most of the time
> until 7:30.
>
> Yes, SVX has moved down again. I see its RTTY as a bright strip from 135.70
> to 135.80, the strongest signal on the band at dark (approx. 40dBuV/m). This
> will render the lower band edge useless for the EU-NA-direction as well. We
> could shift our little "transatlantic qrss band plan" up by 200 Hz.
> Alternatively, 137.79 might be best both ways, at least with CFH in the
> current idle mode.
>
> Of course I'd love to be in business myself, but I'm restricted to rare
> occasions of zero wind: To radiate any reasonable signal, I have to fly the
> balloon antenna.
>
> What are the chances for a 73 / 137 kHz transatlantic crossband QSO?
>
> 73s de Markus, DF6NM