Hi Wolf, I have been away most of the day and now that I listen agn its much quieter, the spacing works fine and a qso should be possible once agn. I will start the server now and I will set it for scanning operation, I will let the beacon be on during minutes 0-4 on the fq's: 10148.25, 14077, 18105, 3595,25 and 7038 I have switched to a 45 degree sloping wire, fed with an icom AH-4, and I may not be as strong on 30 meters but that antenna lets me scan. At the moment the band seems pretty dead (quiet at least) so I don't know where you'll hear me (I'll send an asaps prognosis later). 73 de Per, sm0rwo On sön, 2007-09-09 at 18:29 +0200, Wolf Höller wrote: > Hi Rein! > > > We are working towards setting up a server on 80 meters here near Eindhoven > > (PA0SON), > > possibly also scanning 40 and 10 meters. That will definitely increase > > coverage. > > > Good news! > > > Maybe you can try some other bands with Per? > > > Yes, but I've seen sm0rwo is down today. > > > With regard to setting up a server, is there a possibility to set one up at > > a club station? > > > There are only few persons which are willing to do experiments in this > dimension. As the sysop of one of our main packet node systems here in > Innsbruck, I recognize the user only want be served with perfect working > digis/repeaters. > Our clubstation can be setup in in 1 or 2 years again, because of > reconstruction of the building in which we are hosted (regional government). > > At this time we only can do this at a individual location of one of our > members with a suitable enviroment. But who wants to blockade his own > hf-working possibilities? > > I hear our head of the club chapter Tyrol saying: '... who pays the bill > for the licence (automatic station)? ... who pays the bill for the > electricity? ... who is responseable for the station? ...' Believe me, I > know him very well for many years, I need every year a lot of money to > keep our digipeaters up-to-date and running perfect for the user!! > > But, perhaps I can find somebody to setup a server for some defined > hours per day for testing.