"KØHB" <groupk0hb@earthlink.net> wrote in news:9f1699bf-0ae5-4f1c-bc9c- c8059ccd43c3@r1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com: > > So who broke the 10 meter band? More so who is going to fix it and > when? (Better be someone good as the last one who worked on it didn't > do so good.......downright well..... unsatisfactory!) > I worked Argentina from Salem, NH on Sunday. All my other QSO's were MA and NH. 73 de KC1IH

> when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address)

Jack VK2CJC wrote: > > when the Steelers-Patriots game began. > > Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. > > What's it all about? > > -- > Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL > FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 > Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org > Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) Hi Jack, It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit rougher. I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC

Jack VK2CJC <vk2cjc@look-me-up-at-qrz.com> wrote: > > when the Steelers-Patriots game began. > > Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. > > What's it all about? > A bit like a cross between Rugby and Football for girls. They wear padding and stop for a chat every few minutes. In the USA universities are rated on the success of their teams rather than any academic achievement. -- g4jci

billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote in news:5sa68oF1859onU3@mid.individual.net: > I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a > hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station > above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. > > Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). -- Bert Hyman | W0RSB | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com

"Bill Gunshannon" <billg999@cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message news:5sa68oF1859onU3@mid.individual.net... > In article <fjodgf$8up$2@aioe.org>, > Eric Oyen - N7ZZT <n7zzt@hotmail.com> writes: >> KØHB wrote: >> (28.5 and down). no signals, not even a local calling CQ. what gives? >> DE N7ZZT > > I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of > more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. > I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. indeed except for some very local signals (and a bit on FD) I have not used the bands above 20m amuch at all and each station in my personal log between 20 and 6m has been one I help set oup the station and anttena myself

Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote: > > One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the > depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first > licensed in January 1961). I was first licensed in 1956 and worked the world with 50 watts and a dipole in that incredible sunspot peak. I was 12 years old. I thought it was that way all the time!

In article <5sa68oF1859onU3@mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <billg999@cs.uofs.edu> wrote: >I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of >more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. >I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. > >Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. :-( As another poster said, "Not necessarily". The higher bands do open, although less well than during a sunspot peak. Part of the problem, I think, is that so many people are convinced that the higher bands are dead that they don't bother to listen _or_ call CQ. A few weeks ago I had a nice (brief but easily-copyable) PSK31 contact on 20, from northern California to a polysyllabic city on the Kamchatka peninsula. 35 watts and a simple horizontal dipole at 25' on my end. > Looking >around for antenna wire now so I can get some kind of a dipole up as I >was really never impressed with the oerformance of any of my trap verticals. Ordinary TTHN-insulated stranded wire from your local homebuilding store works fine and isn't expensive. No need to get fancy, unless of course you _want_ to get fancy :-) -- Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

Bill Gunshannon wrote: > Bert Hyman writes: > > Bill Gunshannon wrote: in > > > >> I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a > >> hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station > >> above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. > >> > >> Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. > > > > Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. > > > > I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday > > afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... > > > > http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ > > > > One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the > > depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first > > licensed in January 1961). > > > > Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could > come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot > better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at > least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. > Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing > above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple > weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting > into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe > my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) > > Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. > > All the best for the holidays to everyone. > > bill > KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Bryan WA7PRC

Bill Gunshannon wrote: > Bryan writes: > > Jack VK2CJC wrote: > >> > when the Steelers-Patriots game began. > >> > >> Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. > >> > >> What's it all about? > >> > >> -- > >> Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL > >> FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 > >> Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org > >> Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) > > > > Hi Jack, > > > > It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. > > I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit > > rougher. > > I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, > > injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is > > incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) > > > > 73, > > Bryan WA7PRC > > Look at his call. Then ask him about his brand of football!! > > bill > KB3YV Yes, I've worked many VK... I should've mentioned Australian Rules Football. A friend (with tongue in cheek) explained it to me, "The first rule is, there are no rules." ;-) As a kid, we used to play touch (American) football in the schoolyard. It was too easy to tag a ball carrier, so we made it two-handed. That was too easy, so we made it two-handed-below-the-knees. Whether your tagged the ball carrier or not, you were headed for the ground. The question was how much it was going to hurt! ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC

What!!! Football made you miss part of a 10mtr band contest???? Well.... I dont know what to say..... I...... I...... I....... I'm shocked and appauled :o)

Bill Gunshannon wrote: > Bryan writes: > > Bill Gunshannon wrote: > >> Bert Hyman writes: > >> > Bill Gunshannon wrote: in > >> > > >> >> I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a > >> >> hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station > >> >> above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. > >> >> > >> >> Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. > >> > > >> > Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. > >> > > >> > I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday > >> > afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... > >> > > >> > http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ > >> > > >> > One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the > >> > depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first > >> > licensed in January 1961). > >> > > >> > >> Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could > >> come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot > >> better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at > >> least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. > >> Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing > >> above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple > >> weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting > >> into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe > >> my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) > >> > >> Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. > >> > >> All the best for the holidays to everyone. > >> > >> bill > >> KB3YV > > > > The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power > > on 15m as well. > > A major point in my decision to go with a 40M dipole. :-) > > > While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when > > there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my > > personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 > > have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a > > G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. > > It wasn't by any chance G3YEU, was it? A very good old friend of mine > from the days when I was DA1WO and he was DA1BS. > > > I'm on the left coast and > > have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). > > Well, I do have a Dentron Super Tuner as well, so in a pinch I can work > any band (except 160 which seems to be not working on my Drake at the > moment.) > > bill > KB3YV I cut my 40/15m dipole for 7.07/21.21 MHz. I don't recall the callsign of the G3. Check out some of the nifty calculator programs on www.smeter.net. I used two... one for the cage dipole/inv-vee and one for a lambda/2 vertical for 20m. I use Davis RF (I have no connection with them) for my wire antenna parts. I found my local metal supplier *stocks* a good variety of aluminum tubing. I'll use them as a source of materials to resurrect my 15m/3el homebrew yagi for the upcoming sunspot peak. 73, Bryan WA7PRC