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Old August 24th 05, 10:32 AM
 
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Alun L. Palmer wrote:

Until each country gets the additional 7100-
7200 spectrum, truly random phone QSOs remain impossible.


Why "impossible"?

More and more countries are opening 7100-7200 to their hams. In less
than 5 years the SWBC will all be gone. Non-split 'phone DX QSOs on 40
are becoming more and more common.

If someone over
there calls CQ and doesn't listen up, they get to work any
country they
want bar one, the USA, so why should 90% of them listen up?
Ergo, most of them don't.


Here's a clue: Many of them don't want just another Yank QSL. There are
so many US hams that if they don't "listen up", there's probably a very
good reason.

A lot of DX 'phones work split almost as a rule - not just on 40 but on
every band, as a way of thinning out the QRM and keeping their own QRG
clear.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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Old August 24th 05, 11:21 AM
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Alun L. Palmer wrote:

That's exactly the problem. Until each country gets the additional 7100-
7200 spectrum, truly random phone QSOs remain impossible. If someone over
there calls CQ and doesn't listen up, they get to work any country they
want bar one, the USA, so why should 90% of them listen up? Ergo, most of
them don't.


Not only that, but for many of us "listening up" is worthless. 7100 up
and 3850 up are full of broadcast stations, often several on the same
frequency. There is no place to listen up.

The only chance I have of a voice QSO with the U.S. is on 20m just before
and after sunset. Since that's currently around noon on the east coast,
there aren't a lot of people listening.

When the sunspots are with me, I can pick up 10m repeaters with an
HT. I've never been able to work one with it.


73,

Geoff.

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Old August 24th 05, 09:27 PM
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:21:02 +0000 (UTC), Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

The only chance I have of a voice QSO with the U.S. is on 20m just before
and after sunset. Since that's currently around noon on the east coast,
there aren't a lot of people listening.


When I was living in Ramat Gan, that was the schedule that I
maintained, two sunspot cycles ago (38 years or so). 15 and 20
meters. The US was a double hop away, and the Tel Aviv - NY
commercial HF radiotelephone circuit (pre-underseas cable,
pre-satellite) was the worst one we had. We had a better chance Tel
Aviv - Paris or Tel Aviv - London and then on TAT-5 to New York.
I was involved in the upgrade negotiations, but the Tel Aviv -
Marseilles cable and eventually the IntelSat circuits came on line
several years after I left.

No sweat - the folks whom I communicated with on 20 and 15 meters
were available. I made the first legal ham phone patch between 4X4
and the US in 1965, and had to beat the Germans and Russian stations
off with a stick!!

"Ah, for the good old days..."

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