Believe it or not, I made about half a dozen randoms on 1296 (as well
as a few on 903 and 2.3G) by just watching the band with the SDR
while waiting for Xtof to find some stuff to pass to me .. of course
roving the northeast helps since there's so many guys around,
especially on 1296 :)
de w1rt/john
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:04 PM, STeve Andre'<andres@msu.edu> wrote:
> This is absoutely true. ONCE in my life have I called CQ on 1296 and
> gotten a reply--during an ARRL UHF contest a few years ago. More
> random contacts have occured on 222, but yeah, the pickings are
> slim.
>
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