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Best band ?
Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna
on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
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Torbjørn Morka wrote: Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... The best band for DX is 10 meters. Unfortunately it will not be much good for about 8 or 9 years. When it is open, a 1/4 wave vertical antenna and 5 watts will do wonders. There will be some activity during the summer, but not like at the peak of a sunspot cycle. Listen around for FM activity repeaters (29.62,29.64,29.66, 29.68) and SSB around 28.5. In the summer, some days it happens, some days it doesn't. 20 meters is a good choice, you can get some activity during the day and around dusk/dawn good north/south propigation. The other evening, about 1700 UTC. I was able to hear Argentina, Japan, Russia, UK, Italy, Switzerland and a bunch of other stations from Jerusalem using a 10 meter long wire on a TS-430. My ground system is not set up yet, so I did not try to work them. If you can try 40 meters, which is difficult, but not impossible with a vertical antenna. Lots of nightime activty there. You need about 10 meters of vertical space and room for lots of radials. Not easy for a stand alone pole, but if you can hang it off of a building or a tree it would be ok. Avoid having the far end dangling where people can touch it. Note that 40 meters as you know it (7.0-7.1) is a CW and digital only band in the U.S. You could try working split, but I've never been able to hear anything from the U.S. when the broadcast stations have been off. YMMV. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson |
Howdy,
To assist in finding the best band and time, have a go with WinCAP Wizard 3 www.taborsoft.com Regards, ku5s -- email sent to: is discarded without being seen. Sorry for any inconvenience. "Torbjørn Morka" wrote in message . dk... Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
Howdy,
To assist in finding the best band and time, have a go with WinCAP Wizard 3 www.taborsoft.com Regards, ku5s -- email sent to: is discarded without being seen. Sorry for any inconvenience. "Torbjørn Morka" wrote in message . dk... Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
W6EL Propagation program will show numerous paths versus sun spots
versus K index versus QTH versus DX Location versus everything else. Free download at www.qsl.net/w6elprop Deacon Dave, W1MCE Torbjørn Morka wrote: Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
W6EL Propagation program will show numerous paths versus sun spots
versus K index versus QTH versus DX Location versus everything else. Free download at www.qsl.net/w6elprop Deacon Dave, W1MCE Torbjørn Morka wrote: Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
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Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a
receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU |
Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a
receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU |
Joe O'Connell wrote:
Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU Became obsolete with the demise of CW!! Now it two fingers and an internet connection!! |
Joe O'Connell wrote:
Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU Became obsolete with the demise of CW!! Now it two fingers and an internet connection!! |
A real time indicator of band conditions is the NCDXF/IARU Beacon system at
URL: http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/intro.html Using the beacon system, you can ascertain band conditions from 20M to 10M by checking the beacons around the world. You may need assistance in determining where the beacons are transmitting from, if so several programs are available -- see URL: http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/BeaconPrograms.html -- Incognito By Necessity (:-( If you can't convince them, confuse them. - - -Harry S Truman "Torbjørn Morka" wrote in message . dk... Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
A real time indicator of band conditions is the NCDXF/IARU Beacon system at
URL: http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/intro.html Using the beacon system, you can ascertain band conditions from 20M to 10M by checking the beacons around the world. You may need assistance in determining where the beacons are transmitting from, if so several programs are available -- see URL: http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/BeaconPrograms.html -- Incognito By Necessity (:-( If you can't convince them, confuse them. - - -Harry S Truman "Torbjørn Morka" wrote in message . dk... Living in Norway, what band would be the best using only a vertical antenna on HF ? Interested in DX with Asia-Pacific-Australia and Africa as well.... LA6WLA. |
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This is perhaps the most "fun" way. Especially when done at leasure. G de ku5s -- email sent to: is discarded without being seen. Sorry for any inconvenience. "Joe O'Connell" w7kquatcomcast.net wrote in message ... Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU |
Hi,
This is perhaps the most "fun" way. Especially when done at leasure. G de ku5s -- email sent to: is discarded without being seen. Sorry for any inconvenience. "Joe O'Connell" w7kquatcomcast.net wrote in message ... Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU |
"Joe O'Connell" w7kquatcomcast.net wrote in message
... Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU Mine are still working. Result today is "Conditions are Awful!" -- ... Hank http://horedson.home.att.net http://w0rli.home.att.net |
"Joe O'Connell" w7kquatcomcast.net wrote in message
... Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU Mine are still working. Result today is "Conditions are Awful!" -- ... Hank http://horedson.home.att.net http://w0rli.home.att.net |
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:03:54 -0700, "Joe O'Connell"
w7kquatcomcast.net wrote: Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU We don't need those kinda tools anymore, Joe. They've been replaced by the Deeee-X Cluster.... 73, Jim KH2D |
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:03:54 -0700, "Joe O'Connell"
w7kquatcomcast.net wrote: Whatever happened to the best tools for checking band conditions-a receiver,antenna and a couple of ears? Joe W7KQU We don't need those kinda tools anymore, Joe. They've been replaced by the Deeee-X Cluster.... 73, Jim KH2D |
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