Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Linda
Pennsylvania

Here's planes. Generally pretty busy:

Caribbean - CAR
General: 2887, 3455, 5520, 5550, 6577, 6586, 8846, 8918, 11387, 11396,
13297, 17907


On 09 Mar 2004 15:36:50 GMT, (Love2camp5) wrote:

Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Linda
Pennsylvania

Try 6.350 and 10.320 USB. Armed forces radio network. Depending on time
of day, one or the other should be an easy catch!



"Love2camp5" wrote in message
...
Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my
new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And
this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high
school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Linda
Pennsylvania

Jim Hackett wrote:

Try 6.350 and 10.320 USB. Armed forces radio network. Depending on time
of day, one or the other should be an easy catch!

Those two frequencies are out of Hawaii and since Linda is in Pennsylvania she
might have better luck with 12133.5 and 5446.5 out of Key West Florida or 7507
from Puerto Rico.

Here is the American Forces Network frequency page:

http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/radio/shortwave/

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

SSB is more fun then hunting the AM broadcast stations. The ham bands are 80
meters from 3.500 MHz to 4.000 MHz LSB, 40 meters from 7.000 to 7.300 LSB,
30 meters from 10.100 MHz to 10.150 MHz CW and data, 20 meters from 14.000
to 14.350 USB, 17 meters from 18.068 to 18.168 USB, 15 meters from 21.000 to
21.450 USB, 12 meters from 24.890 to 24.990 USB and 10 meters from 28.000 to
29.700 USB. The ham bands are broken into sub bands for CW or phone. Usually
the lower part of the band is for CW. 20 meters is the most popular
short-wave band and during the right conditions it will give you world wide
radio. Don't worry about feeling like you are eavesdropping. All Hams know
that they are being listened to and that is why we ham it up on the bands.
You may want to try getting a program like MMSSTV and listen around 14.230
MHz USB for hams sending Slow Scan Television. Nets are get together on the
air set up for specific times. Some are daily, some are weekly and some are
monthly. Some are talk nets, some are message and traffic handling and some
are public service nets. They attract hams that are interested in like
things. If you can get on one of the transcontinental nets you can get a
good idea how good your radio is working and what the Ionosphere is doing.
Have fun

"Love2camp5" wrote in message
...
Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my
new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And
this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high
school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Linda
Pennsylvania

"WG" wrote in message news:MjC3c.188313$Hy3.62034@edtnps89...
SSB is more fun then hunting the AM broadcast stations. The ham bands are 80
meters from 3.500 MHz to 4.000 MHz LSB, 40 meters from 7.000 to 7.300 LSB,
30 meters from 10.100 MHz to 10.150 MHz CW and data, 20 meters from 14.000
to 14.350 USB, 17 meters from 18.068 to 18.168 USB, 15 meters from 21.000 to
21.450 USB, 12 meters from 24.890 to 24.990 USB and 10 meters from 28.000 to
29.700 USB.

What? We 160m "1.800-2.000" op's get left out? Sad... MK

I know I left that one out. I find that one too noisy and you need one hell
of a good antenna to pick up anything on it besides crashes and the like.
Also the range under normal conditions is next to nothing, (a few hundred
miles). I apologize to all of you Lowfers.

"Mark Keith" wrote in message
m...
"WG" wrote in message
news:MjC3c.188313$Hy3.62034@edtnps89...
SSB is more fun then hunting the AM broadcast stations. The ham bands
are 80
meters from 3.500 MHz to 4.000 MHz LSB, 40 meters from 7.000 to 7.300
LSB,
30 meters from 10.100 MHz to 10.150 MHz CW and data, 20 meters from
14.000
to 14.350 USB, 17 meters from 18.068 to 18.168 USB, 15 meters from
21.000 to
21.450 USB, 12 meters from 24.890 to 24.990 USB and 10 meters from
28.000 to
29.700 USB.

What? We 160m "1.800-2.000" op's get left out? Sad... MK

"WG" wrote in message news:TmX3c.198781$Hy3.121851@edtnps89...
I know I left that one out. I find that one too noisy and you need one hell
of a good antenna to pick up anything on it besides crashes and the like.

Depends on the static level at the time. In the winter, when it's
quiet, it's really not much noisier than 80m. We've had some very
quiet nights this winter.
Also the range under normal conditions is next to nothing, (a few hundred
miles).

The range can be just as far as the other bands. The main problem in
working DX on 160m, is receiving. Most of the "big guns" use
beverages, phased short verticals, etc. Small loops can also work
fairly well to reduce noise, and give an ability to null. Many people
work far dx on 160m, but most of these type live out in the sticks
where they can have good antenna setups. Myself, I don't work much dx.
But I have worked a few countries, and hawaii 3 times using only 100
watts output. I mainly just ragchew on there. I like the band because
the skip zone is very short. You rarely "skip over" people like you
can on the higher bands. IE: 40m at night is useless for semi-close in
regional stuff. The skip zone is too long. Even 80m, the skip zone can
get kind of long in some cases in the winter, with low solar cdx. The
MUF for a certain path can drop that low in freq in such cases. Most
of the activity on 160 is in the lower half for the most part. MK

Love2camp5 wrote:

Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Here is a list of 'nets' that may be of interest to you:

http://www.worldofradio.com/nets2you.html

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

Eavesdropping Ham radio rag chewing makes me suicidal.

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:54:09 -0500, N8KDV
wrote:



Love2camp5 wrote:

Last night and this morning I was finally able to pull in some SSB on my new
radio. Last night on 3885 I could very clearly hear a ham operator in
Rhinebeck, NY and his conversations (I felt like an eavesdropper!) And this
morning (it was on 7"something") was the radio club from junior high school #22
in New York City area on something called "class net". What is that?

Here is a list of 'nets' that may be of interest to you:

http://www.worldofradio.com/nets2you.html

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B