Iceland on 4m?

[G4HYG]

Does anyone know if Iceland has a 4m allocation? I note that the Faroe Islands has.

I may be working in Iceland for two months next year and if I can it would be interesting to take some 4m gear and see if I could work back to the UK.

Regards,

Chris, G4HYG

[G0DJA]

I've checked several sites, including the Icelandic club website, and there's no mention of any 4M allocation.

You could try contacting the Secretary of the Icelandic Amateur Radio Club.

Secretary Benedikt Guðnason TF3TNT email = bennig at simnet.is (remove the spaces and replace 'at' with @ )

Dave (G0DJA)

[G0DJA]

Bo (OZ2M) pointed me to this link http://www.70mhz.org/bands.htm?PHPSESSID=6c411ece8a46a934c15f9bc8a6d00e7a

So, it looks like Iceland does not have an allocation at 70MHz.

[G4HYG]

Dave,

Thanks for the information. I'm still waiting to hear if the work is on so I'll delay contacting the Icelandic ARC until I know that I'm really going!

If I do go and I can't transmit I will be taking a radio receiver that will cover 70 Mhz so I'll regularly check the UK beacons to sample tropo and auroral propogation.

[G6GVI]

Chris, there may be a historical precedent: I had email correspondence last year with a G3 station who recalled that in the late 1960's, TF3EA was QRV on 4m from Iceland, also a beacon TF3VHF was heard on a number of occasions in South of England.
VE2AIO in Montreal detected this signal using correlation techniques to dig into the noise and he was also heard and worked cross-band 70/50 on a number of occasions.

73 de Ross

[VE9AA]

I have a copy of that recording on CD ! VE2AIO (now in the UK) sent me a copy of his tapes he made. Quiet eeerie, Au-Es signal.

[G3LVP]

[quote="G6GVI"]Chris, there may be a historical precedent: I had email correspondence last year with a G3 station who recalled that in the late 1960's, TF3EA was QRV on 4m from Iceland, also a beacon TF3VHF was heard on a number of occasions in South of England.


73 de Ross[/quote]

Quite correct Ross TF3EA (SK) was active on 4m for a number of years as was the TF beacon which I recall hearing but unfortunately never made a QSO with 'EA.


73...

Ken

G3LVP

[GW3MHW]

I did QSO TF3EA in 1960s JRB