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G0FTD > HOBBY 31.12.04 07:21l 81 Lines 3055 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: RE: Ask Yourself
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To : HOBBY@WW
N7CXJ (the most sensible packeteer I've seen foryears!) wrote:-
Hello again Bruce.
Thanks for your contribution whichI've just found time to reply to in my
period of mass packet activity today ;-)
> Andy is absolutely correct about the so called "dead bands" It has
> happened to me numerous times. The bands are usually dead because the
> hams are not thinking positive.
It's too easy for us all just to swing the vfo quickly around the bands
and expect to stumble across a big signal ready to work. We should
all be prepared to tune that VFO s l o w l y and listen for the weak
stuff as that is most likely to be the real dx.
> While the band might not be open to your
> favorite DX location, you could wind up with the rarest of the rarest DX
> due to a different propogation.
Exactly as above - I totally agree.
Another example is 28Mhz propagation at night time.
For years myself and a friend of mine who was also very active on 28Mhz
used to have QSO's at 0200 local time through propagation methods that
even I'm not sure what they were - but they were there.
And I've worked south Americans about the sametime too.
In the last few days I'e also een monitoring the most common frequency
used by european and Russian tv stations (49.739.6Mhz) and I'm amazed
that I can hear meteor scatter pings almost by the minute on my indoor
loop - wow!
The propagation is there if one puts just as bit of effort into
investigating it. Ho hum I've just heard 5 pings average 2 or 3 seconds
as I write this at 2317 utc.
> Do you remember the times you were calling CQ and no one answers, so you
> wonder if you were getting out! Remember that thought are
> sitting there listening to a CQ that is NOT being answered.
Thats why I bother to answer CQ calls as well as put them out in order
to (hopefully) create the best chances of making activity.
> The moral of this story is simply "ham radio (your hobby) is only as good
> as YOU make it"! Don't sit back and expect OTHERS to make it good for
> you!
I suppose that can be taen several ways but I think I understand what
your trying to say - which is exactly what I feel.
And that is we ALL ned to put a bit more effort into making activity.
If everyone just hangs out on a calling frequency expecting some juicy
dx to turn up whilst ignoring the others then ham radio has lots it's
meaning.
(Good gawd I've just had 7 second ping at S9+10db on 49.739.6Mhz again
plus lots of others in the last 10 minutes).
(49.739.6Mhz is the zero beat freq - I use my IC-706 on usb offset by
1KHz to detect the pings).
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