Bob Macklin writes:
Wish I had a panadapter for the SB-301. It's easier to look over at
the scope every few minutes than trying to tune around all day.
Hello Bob,
I run an old Tektronics spectrum analyzer on my primary IF
of 6mhz while working on the bench all day.
It is one of the
How about a change of subject?
I live just south of Seattle. I live in a 4th floor senior apartment and only
have a 40M antenna running around the wall near the ceiling. My penelty for not
having a decent retirement plan.
But when I moved into this pace in 2003 I could copy several of the NW
On 4/3/07, Bob Macklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am at the point of not knowing if the problem is tha solar cycle or just a
lack of activity.
On contest days I hear all kinds of activity. So my antenna while not really
good, is not totally bad.
An inside antenna won't help the cause, but
Todd, KA1KAQ comments:
Folks seem to expect all sorts of activity to exist
for their pleasure and convenience, when they turn on the rig. Calling CQ
appears to be a dying art, along with hamfests, CW, amateur radio, comon
sense, apple pie, etc etc...
One of my problems is not knowing where or
On 4/3/07, Bob Macklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my problems is not knowing where or when to look. The other is I am
not one to call CQ unless I know I have a receiver that is working.
Geographic location has a lot to do with it, but what works back this
way for a starting point on 80
On 4/3/07, Craig K6QI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody still doing the coast to coast late
night 40 meter stuff? The band seems to go long enough
when I listen when I get home around 01:00 AM Pacific.
Haven't tried 40, Craig (never thought to, due to the foreign BC
stations), but I was able to
I admit, I mostly listen in the usual places, I
don't tune all over all the bands every time I turn
the equipment on.
Last Saturday and Sunday I listened and called CQ on 7285 and up
for 1/2 hour with no response.
I also tuned around 3870 to 3890 and heard KG2IR in QSO with someone
weak and
When the band is open, most AM operation is between
7270 to 7300 around New Jersey (eastern US and Canada really).
7290 and 7295 used to be very popular, and I try to get on
7285 as there is a broadcast hole there, otherwise carriers start
about 2pm on 7290 sometimes.
Lately, before the band
it comes around again,
your indoor antenna and some little rig may work great on 40.
Brett
N2DTS
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:02 AM
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Subject: [AMRadio] West Coast
Brett N2DTS comments:
Bob,
Not sure how it is there, but in the past, 40 meters
was great to operate on in the daytime on weekends.
I would spend winter weekend mornings on 40, you could very often
get by with 25 watts, 100 watts was a strong station!
Short wave broadcast did not start till
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