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10M contest
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Bill Gunshannon wrote: I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. :-( As another poster said, "Not necessarily". The higher bands do open, although less well than during a sunspot peak. Part of the problem, I think, is that so many people are convinced that the higher bands are dead that they don't bother to listen _or_ call CQ. A few weeks ago I had a nice (brief but easily-copyable) PSK31 contact on 20, from northern California to a polysyllabic city on the Kamchatka peninsula. 35 watts and a simple horizontal dipole at 25' on my end. Looking around for antenna wire now so I can get some kind of a dipole up as I was really never impressed with the oerformance of any of my trap verticals. Ordinary TTHN-insulated stranded wire from your local homebuilding store works fine and isn't expensive. No need to get fancy, unless of course you _want_ to get fancy :-) -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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