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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. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Support the growing boycott of Google by radio users and hobbyists. It's starting to work, Yahoo has surpassed Google. |
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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..." -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane (4X4UQ) |
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