This arternoon around 1900 utc I was picking up very good propagation on
11 meters in the 26.000's. It was filled with cq calls. Mexico and a
few countries in Westen Europe came in.

But now at 2300 utc the band is dead.

SR

Some Shortwave bands go to other frequencies at certain times to make
room for other Shortwave bands to use the bands they were previously
using.They will be back later on.
cuhulin

wrote:
Some Shortwave bands go to other frequencies at certain times to make
room for other Shortwave bands to use the bands they were previously
using.They will be back later on.
cuhulin



That might be a reason. But the much more likley reason is that
higher frequencies tend to work well in the daytime, lower frequencies
at night. Propagation is very poor at 11 meters in the dead of night,
just as it is in 90 meters at noon (at your location). They move around
according to where the best propagation is going to be in reference to
their target audience.

Tony

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Yes and also on 10m.

SR

wrote:

Some Shortwave bands go to other frequencies at certain times to make
room for other Shortwave bands to use the bands they were previously
using.They will be back later on.
cuhulin

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:23:09 -0500
Subject: 11 meters

Some Shortwave bands go to other frequencies at certain times to make
room for other Shortwave bands to use the bands they were previously
using.They will be back later on.
cuhulin

In technical terms it's called the Battle of the Bands.

Greg

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:10:33 -0400, SR said:

This arternoon around 1900 utc I was picking up very good propagation on
11 meters in the 26.000's. It was filled with cq calls. Mexico and a
few countries in Westen Europe came in.

But now at 2300 utc the band is dead.

It's normally dead during darkness, so that's normal if you're
anywhere it's evening or night time.

I think it also has to do with the time of the year. And another
factor. On the weekends during the mornings I pick up a lot. My guess
it that people may be off from work and that is when they have time to
transmit.

I am a night person. But I make an effort to get up earlier on Sat and
Sun to pick up dx on 11m.

At one time I was into listening to the marine band on my scanner. But
I got board with it. And funny because I am not far from the Atlantic
Ocean. I think that the marine band is not for chat. I've only heard
coast guard transmissions and boats only transmitting when coming into
ports.

And for the AIR band, transmissions from ATC and pilots are usually to
fast and short. And I am not sure what part of the sky the aircraft is.
It could be near or far away. When the weather is bad, that when I
listen in.

SR



Al Klein wrote:

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:10:33 -0400, SR said:


This arternoon around 1900 utc I was picking up very good propagation on
11 meters in the 26.000's. It was filled with cq calls. Mexico and a
few countries in Westen Europe came in.


But now at 2300 utc the band is dead.


It's normally dead during darkness, so that's normal if you're
anywhere it's evening or night time.

On 2005-10-16 19:10:33 -0400, SR said:

This arternoon around 1900 utc I was picking up very good propagation
on 11 meters in the 26.000's. It was filled with cq calls. Mexico and
a few countries in Westen Europe came in.

But now at 2300 utc the band is dead.

SR


That band has been dead since the 70's.....

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