going on 1100UCT
7.091 LSB
QTH: Cincinnati,Oh.
Antenna: AD DX sloper
Receiver: DX398 &Hammarlund HQ 140X

**some guy is cleaning up, talking to Italy and Japan and some other
countries. Very nice sounding station, I wonder what he's running?

Dxluver wrote:

going on 1100UCT
7.091 LSB
QTH: Cincinnati,Oh.
Antenna: AD DX sloper
Receiver: DX398 &Hammarlund HQ 140X

**some guy is cleaning up, talking to Italy and Japan and some other
countries. Very nice sounding station, I wonder what he's running?

It's the ARRL International DX Contest.

Next time -- get the call sign, check URL: http://www.qrz.com/ for the
address

Send an SASE or SAE with postage -- with a Signal report date etc. Ask for
his/her station equipment

Most Ham contesters both in the USA and world wide will return a QSL card to
SWLers

The contest was the ARRL International DX Contest. Rules and info at URL:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/

And you too can talk to the world -- see URL:
http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html

--
Incognito By Necessity (:-(

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- - -Harry S Truman




"Dxluver" wrote in message
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going on 1100UCT
7.091 LSB
QTH: Cincinnati,Oh.
Antenna: AD DX sloper
Receiver: DX398 &Hammarlund HQ 140X

**some guy is cleaning up, talking to Italy and Japan and some other
countries. Very nice sounding station, I wonder what he's running?

Listening on 40m is neat because they run split ... the US hams above 7150, and
all the DX below 7100. Early this morning the VK's (Australians) were comming
in as well as strong, low power Central America.

I checked out 75m around 3800 and the high power east coast guys were
complaining that conditions were weak. I didn't hear any VK's or JA's (Japan).

Check out all the hambands tonight, should be wild. Contest runs until 0000z
tonight.

jw
wb9uai

(Dxluver) wrote in message ...
going on 1100UCT
7.091 LSB
QTH: Cincinnati,Oh.
Antenna: AD DX sloper
Receiver: DX398 &Hammarlund HQ 140X

**some guy is cleaning up, talking to Italy and Japan and some other
countries. Very nice sounding station, I wonder what he's running?

Dunno, but he's DX himself, if he's on 7.091. U.S. stations can't work
fone in that part of the band. But many in semi near countries can. I
think maybe even Mexico can work fone there, but I'd have to check.
40m is a mess. I'll be glad when they get all the different countries
on the same page and move the BC farther up the band. IE: a station in
europe can only work up to about 7.100. Higher than that is BC in
europe. But here in the US, we can go up to 7.300. Here, we must work
CW or other modes below 7.150. So that means to work Europe or other
countries like Japan, etc, we have to work split. And that sucks,
because most that work split don't bother to see if they are trampling
over a QSO on their transmit freq, being they listen mostly to the
receive end. I've had many a QSO in the US fone band trashed by
contesters working split. They usually don't care who they run over as
long as they can make the contact. MK

And you too can talk to the world -- see URL:
http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.htm

Yeah...yeah......I know. You sound like my friend, he's always trying to get
me to get my ticket.

Actually, I think (maybe) I might check into it seriously for the first time
in my life, this spring/summer and get it. I wouldn't mind txing again,
actually I mis it.

Dunno, but he's DX himself, if he's on 7.091. U.S. stations can't work
fone in that part of the band. But many in semi near countries can. I
think maybe even Mexico can work fone there, but I'd have to check.
40m is a mess.

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So you're saying he's brealing the rules?

Eventually I'll find out all about that stuff when I go and get my ticket.
Sorry to say, I won't announce it on here because everyone will know your
address and personal info.

So I'll keep it quiet for a couple years and keep em' guessing. ;-)