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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:21:02 +0000 (UTC), Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
The only chance I have of a voice QSO with the U.S. is on 20m just before and after sunset. Since that's currently around noon on the east coast, there aren't a lot of people listening. When I was living in Ramat Gan, that was the schedule that I maintained, two sunspot cycles ago (38 years or so). 15 and 20 meters. The US was a double hop away, and the Tel Aviv - NY commercial HF radiotelephone circuit (pre-underseas cable, pre-satellite) was the worst one we had. We had a better chance Tel Aviv - Paris or Tel Aviv - London and then on TAT-5 to New York. I was involved in the upgrade negotiations, but the Tel Aviv - Marseilles cable and eventually the IntelSat circuits came on line several years after I left. No sweat - the folks whom I communicated with on 20 and 15 meters were available. I made the first legal ham phone patch between 4X4 and the US in 1965, and had to beat the Germans and Russian stations off with a stick!! "Ah, for the good old days..." -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane (4X4UQ) |
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