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DX, CW only or do some people do voice too?
On Jan 21, 9:54 pm, (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote: Since you did not say where you are or give a callsign, I'll assume you are in the U.S. The FCC slants DX contacts twoard CW. During the sunspot low, the prime DX bands are 80m and 40m. Outside of the America's 80m is 3.500 to 3.850, most of which is CW only in the U.S. 40m is 7.000 to 7.200, but until very recently it ended at 7100. Yep, I'm in the US. Also, I already have an HF rig, but my antenna is a "work in progress" at this point in time. Basically my gardener cut it in half :-{ I know that before I aspire to DX I need to improve my antenna situation, but DX is mostly why I got into the hobby. I want to see how far/who I can make contact with. Also, I'd like to get into some of the homebrew QRP stuff as well. The main problem I have with morse is synchronization... by that I mean, I can learn the tones, but at some point I can't distinguish a dit from a dah, and then I lose track of where I am in a character and it all seems to mix together...need more practice. My dad tells me about the guys he knew in the service who could use dual paddles and send code all day long while simultaneously reading something else. |
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