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June 28th 10, 12:33 PM
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Are the bands completely dead?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:39:39 EDT, Bill Horne
wrote: On 6/27/2010 6:37 PM, wrote: I operated Field Day from opening until around midnight EDST Saturday. Did not operate at all Sunday due to family obligations. Now, a few minutes before the end of FD, I tuned around 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 -- NOTHING. One CW station on the low end of 40 and possibly a couple of South Americans on 20 SSB. Are the bands that dead? Same thing in E.MA. We ran 4A, all barefoot, but still you'd think we were using spark transmitters for all the contacts we got. I've never heard things so dead. The only stations doing well were running class "F". W1AC The bands were dead here in southern Nevada, also. Class F stations are Emergency Operations Centers. They are permanent installations and as such have months to get their stations and in particular their antennas correct. In contrast class A and B stations are temporary setups. Most of them set up on Saturday morning, although a few set up beginning at 1800 UTC Friday. Our FD site was a patch of desert about 5 miles outside of town. In the desert southwest where I live, temperatures get to 110 F at midday. So we set up beginning at 6 AM local time (1300 UTC), when the temp was only in the 70's. That took 2 hours, and then we waited until 1100 local (1800 UTC). We had the usual problems of temporary setups, such as bad cables. One RF connector was found to be hot to the touch, so we found out where most the RF from that transmitter went. Dick AC7EL |
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