Skip KH6TY, Thanks for your report and post!
As Andy and others have indicated the MEPT and PropNet data is good information: http://www.wsprnet.org/meptspots.php http://propnet.findu.com/catch.cgi?band=HG&last=4&geo=world.geo (although PropNet doesn't have enough stations outside NA to really indicate the true band propagations) I would like to add that Sholto KE7HPV came up with a very intuitive idea of using the Panoramic feature in MultiPSK to actually document 30 Meter Digital (mostly PSK) activity without using any transmit/rf out but using receive only of `auto' spotters placed in key areas that would document propagation on the band (`auto' spotters have been placed on the West Coast NA, Central NA, East Coast NA, two in EU and one in OC-New Zealand..still looking for SA,AS). Skip you were `auto' spotted on Sholto's page and it also documented not only you but to whom you had a QSO with: http://www.30meterdigital.org/30mspot.html 04-13 12:35 NL9222 Auto JO22ke RA1WZ 10.140 1547 PSK31 Working OZ1PMX 04-13 12:30 WB6YTE Auto DM12lp KH6TY 10.140 774 PSK31 Working KD6NRP 04-13 12:25 KB9UMT Auto EN50dp HK4SAN 10.140 2468 PSK31 Working KH6TY I think you are right the 30 band isn't dead and believe it is open most all the time somewhere (just a matter of if there is another op somewhere to answer back...and although the band might not be dead if there is no participation or ops then alive or not it is still dead and not by propagation but by lack of activity). KD6NRP Brain that you had QSO with on 30 Meters is one of our 30MDG Members and HK4SAN Humberto is a Columbia Ham emailed in the past months in an effort to let SA know that NA,EU and OC are active on the 30 Meter Digital band and are in hopes that SA stations would give 30m digital a try and not skip over the band going from 20 to 40 meters. HK4SAN indicated he would check in from time to time on the band and has done so many timesÂ…not only on the band but our 30MDG site: http://feedjit.com/stats/30meterdigital.org/map/?x=115&y=47&w=160&h=94 If I was a betting man I would say if you would have put out a PSK CQ on the 30 Meter Band a year ago at this same time you might have sadly been all by yourselfÂ…and for hours. Sholto has done a great job on the 30 Meter Digital Spot page and we pretty much have the documentation from his efforts of the steady increase of participation and use of the digital part of the 30 Meter Band and one of a positive nature with good digital ops (respect of the band, experimentation, ragchew, dx, and so far not an increase over kill..slow and but steady). I think Sholto and other here that started increaseing their usage of the 30 Meter digital back a year ago could remember just documenting a few PropNet Stations and calling CQ for hours or wanting to have some other digital ops to try different digital modes, power, test propagation, etc but now it seems many are interested in the 30 Meter band thus the MEPT folks there, JT65a, PropNet and the best part folks like you Skip actually taking the `big' risk of calling CQ. Thanks De kb9umt Don www.30meterdigital.org --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kh6ty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Started listening to 30m at 8 AM. Only heard a propnet station coming on periodically. For one hour, no other activity - took a *big* risk - called CQ! ;-) > > Worked Columbia and California. > > When in doubt - just try calling CQ! Maybe the band is not "dead" after all. > > 73, Skip KH6TY >
