Heard anything on 630 meters?

[rtc]

Has anyone heard any stations since the band became a
ham band?
Part 5 Experimental stations could run up to 25 watts.
Ham stations are limited to 5 watts and have to be cleared
first by the powerline industry's United Technology Council
to see if they are up to a kilometer (0.62 mile) from a powerline
running plc sensors...sort of like a background check.
CW is run on 474.5,other modes like WSPR elsewhere.
See

http://njdtechnologies.net/category/630-meters/

for more.

 

[rtc]

It's funny how you forget the little things.

One thing about Longwave,and it is a
big thing, is that Greyline reception is
everything:

http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/greyline.html

Signals are quite strong during this RF Happy
Hour just before and right after sunset.

So tonight a W4 calling CQ was heard with
about a 579 a little below 474 khz.

Now the band has gone to bed.
It's odd but this works on the lower
freq. where it was noticed with LWBC
and up in the MW portion of the
band,too.

 

[jim-satx]

It's funny how you forget the little things.

One thing about Longwave,and it is a
big thing, is that Greyline reception is
everything:

http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/greyline.html

Signals are quite strong during this RF Happy
Hour just before and right after sunset.

So tonight a W4 calling CQ was heard with
about a 579 a little below 474 khz.

Now the band has gone to bed.
It's odd but this works on the lower
freq. where it was noticed with LWBC
and up in the MW portion of the
band,too.

Thanks, Ron. As you well know, I can vouch for greyline reception being everything. Just over a year ago is when I made my only transatlantic LWBC catch so far - France Inter on 162 kHz at 5:55 p.m. local time.

The RFI in my neighborhood is getting worse, and I haven't had as much time this season to get out to the nearby park where I made that catch. Looking forward to work slowing down soon so I can take some time off and get outside to hunt down more LWBC and 630 meter hams.

 

[rtc]

Glad you're doing well,Jim.
630 meters is turning out to be (as one Eham commenter said) "a tinkerer's band".
Given the low power,the usual Noise,etc. it's a wonder you can hear anything.
Greyline is the only way to go below 500 khz if you want "easy" reception like on HF.
The "other" band (2200 meters) at 135-137 khz is more "challenging" with a 1 watt
limit and tons of noise...otherwise you need lots of real estate for at least a 500 to
1,000 foot longwire.

 

[radiocph]

Last summer I heard a WSPR station on 474 kHz. The station was (and is) about 7 miles away from me. That's about all, so far.