HF channels
Submitted: Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006 at 15:53
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joc45
Our club is about to program some Codan 9313 HF radios with limited channel capacity. We are putting in our club freq's, plus the usual VKS channels. The remainin channels (prob about 6) will most likely be filled with RFDS channels.
RFDS usage has changed significantly in recent times. With a leaning to WA-use, including the CSR, what, in members' opinion, are the most useful daytime frequ's for RFDS these days?
And is 2020Khz used by anyone these days?
Thanks in advance
Gerry
Reply By: Footloose - Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006 at 16:07
Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006 at 16:07
If your club has the capability to program those radios, I'm surprised that the information is requested.
Daytime RFDS frequencies will be 5 meg and above for your selected regions
Any around 7 or 8 meg will work
well.
Nightime use the 4/5 meg ones or lower.
2020 is still used as RFDS common nightime, but mostly in QLD AFIK.
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Reply By: joc45 - Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:00
Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:00
Hmmm, from the above, I'm regretting having posted this request on this
forum and perhaps should have contacted RFDS directly.
Just to put worried people at rest;
- Our club has had a license for several commercial HF frequencies for several decades, and pays a lot of money each year for the privelege. This includes an RFDS outpost license. We do have to share these frequencies with other commercial users; ie, they are not exclusive to our club.
- Yes, several members not only have the programming ability to modify these sets, but have the qualifications and
test equipment to set them up.
- Yes, we know all about night time and daytime frequencies.
- Yes, we have a full list of RFDS frequencies.
- We rarely use RFDS, but fit the channels coz we have a license to do so and it's useful in an emergency.
- Just because we are technically competent in radio communications does not mean that we are necessarily conversant with current RFDS usage.
So re-stating the question:
We have about 6 channels left in the set which we intend to use for RFDS, so we cannot obviously use all the current channels they service. With a leaning to WA-useage, including the CSR, what, in members' experience, would be the best 6 channels to use for daytime use, given that a lot of the RFDS channels get little use these day.
And does anyone still use the RFDS chat channel 2020Khz these days?
Gerry
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