11 Contacts in about an hour. Yay...
No takers on AM tho. I tried.
Did work QRP SSB to Washington and Oregon.
Gee Wally, that was Neato!
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11 Contacts in about an hour. Yay...
No takers on AM tho. I tried.
Did work QRP SSB to Washington and Oregon.
Gee Wally, that was Neato!
I love the magic band. I have about 30 states confirmed on QRP ssb. About 11 years ago I made a confirmed contact to France CW QRP (in the ssb calling channel) The FR op understood that most transmissions are valid. After the op cleared with me, there was a flurry of activity. All one could hear was cw signals trying to match my shear luck of being at the right place at the right time. CW IS permitted on every amateur frequency (it used to be) That was a one time fluke I bet. I have only made a few unconfirmed contacts into Canada (big deal), Summer time is about 75% of the activity in my experience. Look out for tropo anytime. BTW, congrats, the hook has been set deeper. I noticed 6M is always alive on field day, go figure.
I need to get some sort of horizontally polarized antenna up for 6M. AM on the band...can do with a TS-660, FT-90x/FTV-901R or FT-980/FTV-901R. That might be fun.
I have no ant here. I might have hit that one during tropo. Up near cleveland, and across the mud puddle at HAMilton! just listen about 50.07 up and down for beacons. Then scan 50.100-50.200. The calling channel is 50.125. Don't be afraid of a long CQ, that is how you meet your neighbors. 52.525 the other calling freq usually does not reach muf when I am on patrol.
50.400 has traditionally been the AM calling frequency, while .410 is one of the working frequencies which seems popular in this area. How about Springfield/Dayton, Tim - anyone in the vicinity use either of those?
Had a blast listening to the 10 meter repeater outputs from New York...