I heard about this some time ago. I wonder what 40 would be like at night, I think it goes real long skip. I often hear holes at night, after the broadcast clears out I guess, with no ham activity.
I often hear CW at night in the lower part of the band, seems to be Eastern half of the US stuff... Brett N2DTS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radio Station KW1I" <k...@earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Cc: <kf6pqt...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Fw: GB> 40m SWBC QRM to end 3/29/09... why isntthisbeing hyped? > Minor correction on the attached: The SW broadcasters are due to vacate > 7100-7200 kHz by Mar 29, 2009. > > Hopefully many amateur AM stations will fire up on this band segment on > Mar > 29 to celebrate. Generals can use 7175 kHz and up, Advanced and Extra > 7125 > kHz and up. > > This is the first time in 70 years this frequency segment will be > exclusively amateur radio 24 hours a day! DX stations who formerly had to > work western hemisphere stations split from 7000-7100 kHz, if not already > under temporary authorization, will soon be authorized to operate on > 7100-7200 kHz as well. > > Here's hoping all the broadcasters comply. > > Dale > KW1I > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Szendrei" <n...@neandertech.com> > To: "AM Reflector" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:56 PM > Subject: [AMRadio] Fw: GB> 40m SWBC QRM to end 3/29/09... why isnt > thisbeing > hyped? > > >> Forwarding from another list, and relevant to this one... >> >> 73, >> -Larry/NE1S >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "kf6 pqt" <kf6pqt...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Tue, March 10, 2009 12:20 >> Subject:GB> 40m SWBC QRM to end 3/29/09... why isnt this being hyped? >> >> >> As decided by WRC-03, we get the upper part of 40 meters back this >> month, world-wide! >> >> It almost seems like very few want this information disseminated, I >> almost fell out of my chair after bringing in the latest issue of ER >> in from the mailbox. I thought it was NEXT year. >> >> Nothing to be found on the ARRL site, except an editorial back in 2000 >> proposing the return of the upper part of the band. For every two >> things they do right, it always seems they develop a bad case of >> cephalo-posterioritis on something else, and a lot of the reporting is >> a day late and a dollar short. >> >> I then spent some time looking through AMfone.net, but they don't seem >> to be discussing it either. Makes me wonder if the saying about >> fone-only operators might be at least partially true: "Without CW, its >> just CB." ;) And maybe they're just fine sitting on one frequency on >> a band that usually goes flat by 10pm. >> >> The only place I found on the net that has it straight and out in the >> open is Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_meters >> >> I don't get it... Unless the word gets out, there'll be no one ON the >> upper part of 40m when it opens up! C'mon, this is a BIG deal! >> >> I'm betting this news is a big surprise to many here, please respond >> to the thread if that is correct. >> >> Regardless, three Sunday nights from now I'm going to have the DX-100 >> fired up on 7290! >> >> 73, >> Jason kf6pqt >> >> -- >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_box >> AMI #1625 SKCC #3768 FISTS #14233 GQRP #12446 >> http://kf6pqt.net >> >> >> ************ The Glowbugs E-mail List Website is: *************** >> *********** http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~glowbugs/ ************** >> *** Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to this address: **** >> ************** majord...@piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu ************** >> >> >> >> >> ----- End of original message ----- >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net >> AMRadio mailing list >> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ >> List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html >> List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio >> Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >> To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with >> the word unsubscribe in the message body. >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1993 - Release Date: 03/10/09 > 07:19:00 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. 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