Greetings. I've only been a ham for a couple years. Not really done anything
w/ it however. Just homebrewed a thing or two, but never made any QSO's. I
just acquired a 5w 20m rig (all my budget could allow).
Can someone give me any tips on how to know when 20m is open? What time of
year or time of day is typically good for 20?
I tried looking over some MUF charts... but its greek to me at this point.
I've tried googling, but unless I know exactly how to phrase my search, I'm
coming up empty...

Any pointers would be great.
Thanks
Jim
KC9FFX

"J Shrum" wrote in message
...
Greetings. I've only been a ham for a couple years. Not really done
anything
w/ it however. Just homebrewed a thing or two, but never made any QSO's. I
just acquired a 5w 20m rig (all my budget could allow).
Can someone give me any tips on how to know when 20m is open? What time of
year or time of day is typically good for 20?
I tried looking over some MUF charts... but its greek to me at this point.
I've tried googling, but unless I know exactly how to phrase my search,
I'm
coming up empty...

Any pointers would be great.
Thanks
Jim
KC9FFX


Turn the rig on and listen. 20 meters is open about any time of the year
especially during the daylight hours.

hi jim,

you should be able to copy wwv at 14.000 mhz anytime,

what type of antenna are you using (dipole, long wire)
tuner also ? How high is your antenna ?

73 wendy


J Shrum wrote:

Greetings. I've only been a ham for a couple years. Not really done anything
w/ it however. Just homebrewed a thing or two, but never made any QSO's. I
just acquired a 5w 20m rig (all my budget could allow).
Can someone give me any tips on how to know when 20m is open? What time of
year or time of day is typically good for 20?
I tried looking over some MUF charts... but its greek to me at this point.
I've tried googling, but unless I know exactly how to phrase my search, I'm
coming up empty...

Any pointers would be great.
Thanks
Jim
KC9FFX

wendy wrote:
hi jim,

you should be able to copy wwv at 14.000 mhz anytime,

Ouch! Try 15.000 Mhz.

-Bill

you should be able to copy wwv at 14.000 mhz anytime,

(15MHz and a little QRP transceiver probably isn't a general coverage
receiver but...)

Not that easy here on the East Coast. Pretty reliable when there's
daytime on one end or the other or both, but a fair bit of fluctuation.

Tim.

Sorry Wendy... must of been a typo, right? WWV is on 15 Mhz.

Dan/W4NTI

"wendy" wrote in message
...
hi jim,

you should be able to copy wwv at 14.000 mhz anytime,

what type of antenna are you using (dipole, long wire)
tuner also ? How high is your antenna ?

73 wendy


J Shrum wrote:

Greetings. I've only been a ham for a couple years. Not really done
anything
w/ it however. Just homebrewed a thing or two, but never made any QSO's.
I
just acquired a 5w 20m rig (all my budget could allow).
Can someone give me any tips on how to know when 20m is open? What time
of
year or time of day is typically good for 20?
I tried looking over some MUF charts... but its greek to me at this
point.
I've tried googling, but unless I know exactly how to phrase my search,
I'm
coming up empty...

Any pointers would be great.
Thanks
Jim
KC9FFX

Dan/W4NTI wrote:

Sorry Wendy... must of been a typo, right? WWV is on 15 Mhz.


Unless the receiver is really out of alignment! ;-)

--
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Dan/W4NTI wrote:

Sorry Wendy... must of been a typo, right? WWV is on 15 Mhz.



Unless the receiver is really out of alignment! ;-)


well, the IF image on many 'lesser' general coverage rigs with 455 kc IF
would fall within a pointer width of 14000 so the OP may have been
correct with his statement.



-Bill

Bill ) writes:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Dan/W4NTI wrote:

Sorry Wendy... must of been a typo, right? WWV is on 15 Mhz.



Unless the receiver is really out of alignment! ;-)


well, the IF image on many 'lesser' general coverage rigs with 455 kc IF
would fall within a pointer width of 14000 so the OP may have been
correct with his statement.



-Bill

And of course, the receivers that had such bad image rejection tended to
have lousy dial calibration too.

Michael VE2BVW

J Shrum wrote:
Greetings. I've only been a ham for a couple years. Not really done anything
w/ it however. Just homebrewed a thing or two, but never made any QSO's. I
just acquired a 5w 20m rig (all my budget could allow).
Can someone give me any tips on how to know when 20m is open? What time of
year or time of day is typically good for 20?

As a **VERY** general rule 20m is open pretty much every day pretty much
all day long and an hour or two into the evening.

(many nights it will stay open considerably later)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com