I generally try to leave my radio listening to 160 FT8 at night when I
go to bed. I did decode some VK's last night. Not much activity the
last couple of days.
I have nothing for 630. I just started playing with 60m chasing VP8PJ
and they were super easy there. There seem to be many many deaf
stations on 60m or they just don't want to talk to me LOL!
W0MU
On 3/5/2020 1:22 PM, W0BTU wrote:
I just started following the 630m and 2200m "#KHz" Slack Chat. It
looks to me like many CW folks have moved there. Some LF hams use CW
there almost exclusively, although there is a lot of narrowband
digital there (especially on 2200m).
It was kindly pointed out to me there by N03M and KB5NJD that 630
meter antennas are not really all that different from 160. And LF is
kind of a new frontier, similar to what radio was in the early 20th
century (where if you wanted to get on, you had to build your own
radios). Having said that, some transverters and SDRs are now
available. But you'll have to built your own power amplifier.
In a lot of ways, it's like amateur radio was decades ago when the
majority of hams actually had technical know-how and built their own
antennas, etc.
This is /not/ to say that anyone here should up and move to LF. But
when nobody is on 160, why not give a listen there on your Beverages
or browse these websites?
http://no3m.net/
http://njdtechnologies.net/links/
http://www.n1bug.com/lfmf/
73, Mike
W0BTU
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 6:56 AM Roger Kennedy
<roger@wessexproductions.co.uk <mailto:roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>>
wrote:
Well I came on for a few hours last night . . .
Conditions were good, as my RBN reports with NA sites were between
20 and 35 dB over the noise.
But I only worked a handful of NA stations ! (there were several
other European and Russian stations on too)
It's a real shame there's so little CW activity . . . this Season
will be over soon !
Roger G3YRO
--
73, Mike
W0BTU
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