I wonder... The past few days I have heard little, if any, AM on 7160. The DX chasers scared everyone away? Later at night after most Europeans have gone to bed, the band is sometimes still open for good solid stateside QSO's, particularly from here to the west coast. But I have heard very little west-coast AM operation on 40 since the band changes took effect.
During the daytime I haven't heard much AM activity period, either near 7160 or 7290. I fired up my automated CQ on 7160 about 1600 GMT yesterday morning and ran several CQ's, and the only response I got (on what sounded like ricebox AM) was someone griping about how long my CQ's were (each cycle of the automated recording runs 2 minutes with frequent CQ's and callsign ID's, then pauses into listening mode for 30 seconds), but he apparently wasn't interested enough in a QSO to came back to my call or even to give his call sign. I did hear a weak signal from VA calling CQ about 2300 GMT yesterday running 40 watts from an Icom. We chatted briefly, but I had to get back outside to finish what I was doing, before dark. And where are all the Euro-AM'ers? I have yet to hear a single one of the 3705 kHz crew anywhere on 40m AM since the band opened. French stations were allowed on 7.1-7.2 as of 29 March, but so far I have heard only ONE F-callsign (on SSB), period. Maybe that bloke was right about driving across France recently and no longer seeing any ham radio antennas on rooftops. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
