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So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. Beep beep, de Hans, K0HB |
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:45:46 -0500, KØHB wrote:
So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. So, where were you?? QSO: 28021 CW 2007-12-08 1544 W9WI 599 TN WA0MHJ 599 MN QSO: 28005 CW 2007-12-08 1600 W9WI 599 TN K0AD 599 MN QSO: 28005 CW 2007-12-08 1610 W9WI 599 TN K0RC 599 MN QSO: 28014 CW 2007-12-09 0157 W9WI 599 TN N0UY 599 MN QSO: 28020 CW 2007-12-09 0314 W9WI 599 TN K0TCP 599 MN QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1625 W9WI 599 TN KR0B 599 MN QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1643 W9WI 599 TN AC0W 599 MN QSO: 28039 CW 2007-12-09 1707 W9WI 599 TN W0LS 599 MN QSO: 28021 CW 2007-12-09 1713 W9WI 599 TN N0AT 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1719 W9WI 599 TN KN0V 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1741 W9WI 599 TN KI0F 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1806 W9WI 599 TN K0SR 599 MN w9wi@linux5:~/Contests$ (I don't see K0HB in this list!) The first five QSOs were pretty weak on scatter, but the other seven were pretty loud. Decent (though weak) Es opening up your way. Managed just shy of 400 QSOs. Oh, and the DX wasn't completely missing either: QSO: 28002 CW 2007-12-08 1542 W9WI 599 TN ZW5B 599 114 QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-08 1543 W9WI 599 TN WP4I 599 52 QSO: 28024 CW 2007-12-09 1412 W9WI 599 TN HD2A 599 234 QSO: 28029 CW 2007-12-09 1542 W9WI 599 TN PJ2T 599 180 QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1611 W9WI 599 TN ZS6WN 599 011 QSO: 28034 CW 2007-12-09 1705 W9WI 599 TN ZS1EL 599 193 There was more DX (notably HP1WW and HK1KYR) that faded out before I could work them. I did however get a BUNCH of reading (and my Christmas cards) done during the contest... |
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KØHB wrote:
So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. My best DX for the 'test was Kansas and Nebraska. Dave K8MN |
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KØHB wrote:
So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. My last was in error. I worked all the way out to NM and NV. Dave K8MN |
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Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:45:46 -0500, KØHB wrote: So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. So, where were you?? QSO: 28021 CW 2007-12-08 1544 W9WI 599 TN WA0MHJ 599 MN QSO: 28005 CW 2007-12-08 1600 W9WI 599 TN K0AD 599 MN QSO: 28005 CW 2007-12-08 1610 W9WI 599 TN K0RC 599 MN QSO: 28014 CW 2007-12-09 0157 W9WI 599 TN N0UY 599 MN QSO: 28020 CW 2007-12-09 0314 W9WI 599 TN K0TCP 599 MN QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1625 W9WI 599 TN KR0B 599 MN QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1643 W9WI 599 TN AC0W 599 MN QSO: 28039 CW 2007-12-09 1707 W9WI 599 TN W0LS 599 MN QSO: 28021 CW 2007-12-09 1713 W9WI 599 TN N0AT 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1719 W9WI 599 TN KN0V 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1741 W9WI 599 TN KI0F 599 MN QSO: 28017 CW 2007-12-09 1806 W9WI 599 TN K0SR 599 MN w9wi@linux5:~/Contests$ (I don't see K0HB in this list!) The first five QSOs were pretty weak on scatter, but the other seven were pretty loud. Decent (though weak) Es opening up your way. Managed just shy of 400 QSOs. Oh, and the DX wasn't completely missing either: QSO: 28002 CW 2007-12-08 1542 W9WI 599 TN ZW5B 599 114 QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-08 1543 W9WI 599 TN WP4I 599 52 QSO: 28024 CW 2007-12-09 1412 W9WI 599 TN HD2A 599 234 QSO: 28029 CW 2007-12-09 1542 W9WI 599 TN PJ2T 599 180 QSO: 28003 CW 2007-12-09 1611 W9WI 599 TN ZS6WN 599 011 QSO: 28034 CW 2007-12-09 1705 W9WI 599 TN ZS1EL 599 193 There was more DX (notably HP1WW and HK1KYR) that faded out before I could work them. I did however get a BUNCH of reading (and my Christmas cards) done during the contest... I never considered a serious effort at this point the cycle. I did about three hours in the contest and quit when the Steelers-Patriots game began. I must have missed the DX. I worked SOAB HP mixed with: 71 QSOs 18 States on CW 47 QSOs 17 States on SSB Total 13,370 mostly search and pounce Dave K8MN |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:34:13 -0500, Dave Heil wrote:
KØHB wrote: So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. My last was in error. I worked all the way out to NM and NV. http://www.w9wi.com/ham/10m.gif (I hope.) It's an animated GIF, roughly 2.8MB. Shows which states I worked during each hour of the contest - the little blue bar at the lower left is a relative QSO count gradually increasing. (actually it's one pixel long for each QSO made to that point) Worked coast-to-coast including a nice little opening to VE7 and Seattle around noon Sunday and one to New England around 0000UTC Sunday. (Sat. night) |
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Larry Weil writes: "KØHB" wrote in news:9f1699bf-0ae5-4f1c-bc9c- : So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I worked Argentina from Salem, NH on Sunday. All my other QSO's were MA and NH. Perhaps it's just me, but does anyone else see a dcided disadvantage to being on either coast for a contest like this during the down side of the sunspot cycle? bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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when the Steelers-Patriots game began.
Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) |
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Jack VK2CJC wrote:
when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) Hi Jack, It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit rougher. I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:54:56 -0500, Jack VK2CJC wrote:
when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? American rules football. (Pittsburgh vs. Boston. I think Dave is not too far from Pittsburgh.) |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:12:58 -0500, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Perhaps it's just me, but does anyone else see a dcided disadvantage to being on either coast for a contest like this during the down side of the sunspot cycle? I think it's largely a chance thing - if the short-skip happens to go your way then it's best to be in the middle. (this year the Texans got the luck. Right now 5 of the 10 top claimed scores in high-power CW are in Texas.) |
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Jack VK2CJC wrote:
when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? A bit like a cross between Rugby and Football for girls. They wear padding and stop for a chat every few minutes. In the USA universities are rated on the success of their teams rather than any academic achievement. -- g4jci |
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KØHB wrote:
So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. Beep beep, de Hans, K0HB I Heard nothing but noise anywhere I tuned in the technician class segmen t (28.5 and down). no signals, not even a local calling CQ. what gives? DE N7ZZT |
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"Bryan" writes: Jack VK2CJC wrote: when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) Hi Jack, It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit rougher. I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC Look at his call. Then ask him about his brand of football!! bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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Eric Oyen - N7ZZT writes: KØHB wrote: So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) I suspect most scores from this weekend may look more like the typical number of band changes on a multi-band contest than total score. Beep beep, de Hans, K0HB I Heard nothing but noise anywhere I tuned in the technician class segmen t (28.5 and down). no signals, not even a local calling CQ. what gives? DE N7ZZT 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. :-( 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. Sure wish I knew what I did with that W3DZZ Trap Dipole I started with in Germany 30 years ago!! bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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(Bill Gunshannon) wrote in
: 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). -- Bert Hyman | W0RSB | St. Paul, MN | |
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"Bill Gunshannon" wrote in message ... In article , Eric Oyen - N7ZZT writes: KØHB wrote: (28.5 and down). no signals, not even a local calling CQ. what gives? DE N7ZZT 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. indeed except for some very local signals (and a bit on FD) I have not used the bands above 20m amuch at all and each station in my personal log between 20 and 6m has been one I help set oup the station and anttena myself |
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Bert Hyman writes: (Bill Gunshannon) wrote in : 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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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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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Bert Hyman writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: in 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Bryan WA7PRC |
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"Bill Gunshannon" wrote in message ... In article , Bert Hyman writes: (Bill Gunshannon) wrote in : 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. bill KB3YV Beacons A Bunch at AC6V's site URL: http://ac6v.com/beacons.htm Lamont |
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Bryan writes: Jack VK2CJC wrote: when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) Hi Jack, It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit rougher. I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC Look at his call. Then ask him about his brand of football!! bill KB3YV Yes, I've worked many VK... I should've mentioned Australian Rules Football. A friend (with tongue in cheek) explained it to me, "The first rule is, there are no rules." ;-) As a kid, we used to play touch (American) football in the schoolyard. It was too easy to tag a ball carrier, so we made it two-handed. That was too easy, so we made it two-handed-below-the-knees. Whether your tagged the ball carrier or not, you were headed for the ground. The question was how much it was going to hurt! ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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"Bryan" writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: Bert Hyman writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: in 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. A major point in my decision to go with a 40M dipole. :-) While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. It wasn't by any chance G3YEU, was it? A very good old friend of mine from the days when I was DA1WO and he was DA1BS. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Well, I do have a Dentron Super Tuner as well, so in a pinch I can work any band (except 160 which seems to be not working on my Drake at the moment.) bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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What!!! Football made you miss part of a 10mtr band contest????
Well.... I dont know what to say..... I...... I...... I....... I'm shocked and appauled :o) |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:27:36 -0500, Jack VK2CJC wrote:
What!!! Football made you miss part of a 10mtr band contest???? Well.... I dont know what to say..... I...... I...... I....... I'm shocked and appauled The *real* ham would have installed a TV tuner card in his hamshack computer & operated during the time-outs. (which seem to comprise 90% of the broadcast of an American football game...) |
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Bryan writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: Bert Hyman writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: in 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. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. A major point in my decision to go with a 40M dipole. :-) While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. It wasn't by any chance G3YEU, was it? A very good old friend of mine from the days when I was DA1WO and he was DA1BS. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Well, I do have a Dentron Super Tuner as well, so in a pinch I can work any band (except 160 which seems to be not working on my Drake at the moment.) bill KB3YV I cut my 40/15m dipole for 7.07/21.21 MHz. I don't recall the callsign of the G3. Check out some of the nifty calculator programs on www.smeter.net. I used two... one for the cage dipole/inv-vee and one for a lambda/2 vertical for 20m. I use Davis RF (I have no connection with them) for my wire antenna parts. I found my local metal supplier *stocks* a good variety of aluminum tubing. I'll use them as a source of materials to resurrect my 15m/3el homebrew yagi for the upcoming sunspot peak. 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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