"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:41:34 GMT, "Hank Oredson"
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"Wes Stewart" wrote in message
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Anyone know why/how these guys are selecting their operating
frequencies?

14.278 MHz for instance. They plop down in the ragchewing part of the
band and get covered up. Fortunately, I don't need them, just
wondering.

Wes N7WS

There are segments reserved for ragchewing?

I thought it was a net frequency ... arn't all 20M SSB
frequencies net frequencies?

In any case their signal was S9 this morning, and S9+10
yesterday, fairly easy to work them.

Depends on where you live. They were 45 (LP) this AM in AZ and the
ragchewers were 9+.

Oregon. Long Path. I'm on the east slope of a small mountain,
path obstructed to west, didn't matter. 100 W and 3 el SteppIR.
Twiddle beam and filters to drop rag chewers a bit. Screw down
ears and don't listen to them :-) Only call on signal peaks. Don't
bother to call when they are listening on a freq. that has two
dozen 1.5kw / 4 stack monobander folks. Wait. Listen more.
Notice they are now listening on quiet frequency and their signal is S9+.

14.195 was quiet and VR2XMT on 14.210 was 59+10 and begging.

Doesn't do me any good ;-)
Would much rather see them go to CW and more bands.

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... Hank

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