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ARRL 500 kHz ExperimentThe group of Amateur Radio operators researching the radio spectrum in the vicinity of 500 kHz have already recorded a few successes, according to an ARRL release. The 500 KC Experimental Group for Amateur Radio is operating under experimental license WD2XSH which the FCC granted September 13 to the ARRL. Project manager Fritz Raab, W1FR, says WD2XSH participants have been heard across both the Atlantic and the Pacific as well as all around the USA. “Things took off much faster than I had ever imagined,” Raab said. “Eleven stations are on the air now.” Others in the 21-station group continue efforts to cobble together the transmitting and antenna systems necessary to put out a signal on what group members call “the 600 meter band.” Raab says the 600-meter signal of well-known low-frequency enthusiast “Dex” McIntyre, W4DEX, in North Carolina – operating as WD2XSH/10 – was copied October 10 in Germany using very slow-speed CW (QRSS). Other stations have since duplicated that feat. Rudy Severns, N6LF, operating as WD2XSH/20 from Oregon, not only is heard regularly throughout the western half of the US but has been copied in Hawaii and, possibly, in New Zealand, Raab says, noting that the New Zealand reception was “not sufficiently clear” to make a claim.
Source: Radio Bulgaria
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