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Radio Amateur KC2HMZ wrote:
Hmmm...lemme see...we're faced with the possibility of having a lot of newcomers with little or no practical experience WRT radio wave propagation on the HF bands, and thus little knowledge on which to base selection of a frequency band on which to begin making contacts at any particular time. Back in the early days of my HF career, I figured that if the band seems empty, well either propagation is out or everyone's asleep or at work or such. In any event, there's nobody to qso with, so check other bands. After a while, one figures out that on say ten meters, you can (when the sunspots are in) talk to Texas from NJ, but not Ohio. That the coverage looks more like a ring instead of a disc. Which also means that the ham in Texas can hear a ham in Ohio that you cannot hear. Thus you could QRM a Ohio to Texas QSO while doing a QSO from NJ to California. Thus you should realize that the Texan isn't talking to himself, but to someone you cannot hear. And QSY up or down a little. But say you're using a kilowatt linear to QSO from NJ to California, and the Texan is only using 50 watts and is S1 on your receiver and thus you don't know that he's there. BUt things like this happen, and it is understood that it is not malicious. |