> Sorry for the extreme off-topic, but it's just to witness that VHF
> isn't dead and many of us don't even have HF antennas and still enjoy
> the activity in the VHF challenging bands all the year.
Yeap , you're right...
I'm only active from 1296MHz and above, and I could have activity (both
building/setting-up and operating) orders of magnitude higher than I
could possibly handle.
My 2cents to help changing the general misconception that above HF there
is very little do do... On the contrary...
> many of us don't even have HF antennas
Hummm... What is HF ??? ;-) :-)
Luis Cupido
ct1dmk.
http://w3ref.cfn.ist.utl.pt/cupido/
..... Opssss... this one was very off-topic, my apologies.
Although I posted it at a very precise time ;-)
francesco messineo wrote:
On 11/25/09, Robert Darlington <rdarling...@gmail.com> wrote:
Out here I'm almost exclusively on HF bands using the modern digital
communications modes like PSK31. The first license (Technician) will not
get you on the HF bands unless you count 6 meter (50MHz) as HF.
well, 6m isn't anything like HF (imho).
In 10 years
I haven't heard a soul on 6 so I don't really even bother with listening
anymore. To get on HF, the General license will get you 95% of what Extra
wow... I think I worked something like 90 dxcc countries with modest
setup in less than three years (but that was in 2001-2003).
For sure I worked all europe and all african active countries with 10W
into a homemade vertical J-pole antenna back in the best years of the
last solar cycle.
Now with a medium-sized beam in the right months I can work from USA
to Japan (with 100W only).
I see from the cluster spots that USA and all american continent are
also much more blessed with 6m propagation all the year with respect
to europe in this very low cycle minimum.
Sorry for the extreme off-topic, but it's just to witness that VHF
isn't dead and many of us don't even have HF antennas and still enjoy
the activity in the VHF challenging bands all the year.
Amateur radio has so many different aspect that any technical person
can find always new challenging aspects to explore.
No band is dead if someone has the right interest in it!
best 73
F
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