Don: I listened a bit around 7160, but being still relegated to the General ghetto, was mostly tuning ca. 7177 - 7189 this w/e. Nice and clear after dark, no bc, heard some SSB QSO's and even a CQ or two (didn't join in); prop. mostly from W0 and W8-land.
Sure wish we could stir up some activity, including some North of 7175 if possible. 73 de Lee W5JQA > From: k4...@charter.net > To: amradio@mailman.qth.net > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:31:43 -0500 > Subject: [AMRadio] Is the novelty of the "new" 40m band wearing off already? > > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
