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VK6BE > 50MHZ 31.12.05 20:31l 40 Lines 2222 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
To : 50MHZ@WW
I only mentioned amateur radio signals on vhf in my post Warren, but it
applies to other signals too. Our local harbour communications were
picking up VHF and UHF signals from our eastern states.Low power signals
on poor antenna systems not designed for more than round the harbour, and
ship to shore.. 470 meg CB from the other states. What does it matter? VHF
and UHF can and does still travel enormous distances if conditions are
right.Mind you I admit 5000 miles is rather a longer than usual distance
even for unusual conditions but it can still happen, particularly when you
consider the 144 meg Darwin to Japan working contact. Anything is
possible.
Let me tell you something else, Warren. During the sunspot peak 1957-1960
I was living in Perth and we 6 metre addicts were hearing an S9++ FM
signal just below the 50 Meg ham band. It ran music and finally was
identified as Voice of America HLKA in Korea. I sent a QSL card and
received one back for the station quoting 17+ megs as the frequency of
transmission. They just couldn't believe that I was hearing the 49 meg FM
signal as it was only the VHF FM link from studio to transmitter at very
low power. Distance? About 5000 miles. At this time also we started
receiving TV pictures at colossal strength on 49.75 megs. These turned out
to be emanating from Eastern Siberia near Vladivostok. Distance? Again
about 5000 miles. From Melbourne around this time a ham reported hearing
an AM BBC progamme in the 48-50 meg region; it turned out to be the nth
harmonic of a short wave station in the HF band.Distance? over 10 000
miles.
If conditions are right Warren, anything is possible on VHF/UHF.
Bob VK6BE
>
> I wasn't talking about 2M nor Australia in 1960, I was talking about a
> railroad (160MHz) FM frequency in 2005. There's quite a difference when
> one claims to hear a track side defect detector only intended to be heard
> by the engineer as he's passing at a distance of 5,000 miles. If you had
> been reading the outlandish claims of this railfan (who happens to be
> from NJ, hi) on a particular Internet forum you'd be ROTFLOL too and not
> trying to out distance me on packet as usual.
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