Well, Steve, I guess it's worth a try, although it'll be quite a stretch
between you and me on 40 meters.
If you want, just hang around and maybe serve as a relay station. I know,
for example, that Junior wants to try from Florida. I can't imagine I'd
hear him, so maybe a relay would be in order.
Maybe next week, we'll try 20 meters, but will probably have to do that
earlier in the day. Let me know what you think, and we can talk about the
20-meter possibility throughout the coming week.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: anyone wanna try a 40-meter sked this Sunday?
Tom,
Here is what I saw last night (Saturday) on 40 meters at 2300 UTC (7 p.m.
eastern) near Philly.
Band was moderately noisy and not a lot of signals present. Below 7.200, a
number of EU contest stations were on and I worked a bunch. Most of the
stateside stations calling Europe were weak to me. Tuning the band, only
a few VE3's, W4's and W9's were loud enough to have had a QSO with. On
7.230 there was a faint BC station. It's audio was down in the noise, but
if I switched to CW, I could hear the carrier.
As the hour went on, the noise seemed to drop a bit and the band began to
populate with stations from the eastern third of the US and Canada. The BC
station either shut down, or just faded away.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: anyone wanna try a 40-meter sked this Sunday?
> Pat:
>
> I'll be on 7.230 MHZ LSB.
>
> I won't be able to be there more than an hour or so, but will hang in
> there
> at least that long if there are folks to talk to.
>
> If things don't work out, though, I may cut it shorter.
>
> Will just have to wait and see who's there, and how propagation treats us.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pat gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:59 PM
> Subject: Re: anyone wanna try a 40-meter sked this Sunday?
>
>
> Tom I should be there after my 7pm mdd net. I'll have a break give me the
> frequency. 73- pat kk3f
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: anyone wanna try a 40-meter sked this Sunday?
>
>
>> Hey, Butch:
>>
>> The sked is Sunday evening 5 p.m. mountain time on 7.230 MHZ LSB.
>>
>> Where are you now--still in Vegas, or back in Kansas?
>>
>> I would think that if you're in Vegas, 40 should be a piece of cake
>> between
>> you and me. I'm located about 20 miles northwest of Denver, CO in a town
>> called Louisville.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 7:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: anyone wanna try a 40-meter sked this Sunday?
>>
>>
>> Sounds fun to me. What day? I've been thinking about one of those
>> antennas instead of my b and w broad band which I call my dummy load
>> with wires.
>>
>> 73
>> Butch Bussen
>> wa0vjr
>> open Node 3148
>> Las Vegas
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, T Behler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> The following e-mail is directed to both my fellow blind hams, and to
>>> some
>>> of my ham friends back in Michigan. ... I hope you don't mind the
>>> broad-side
>>> post:
>>>
>>> As I think many of you know, I finally have an HF antenna up in the air
>>> out
>>> here at the new home QTH in Colorado. It's an Alpha Delta DXCC
>>> multi-band
>>> dipole. The center is about 35 feet off the ground, and the ends run
>>> toward
>>> opposite ends of the small lot here that we are renting.
>>>
>>> What I'm proposing is that we try 40 meter lower sideband. I think from
>>> our
>>> previous nets, we found a good frequency to be 7.230 MHZ, give or take a
>>> few
>>> KC's because of QRM.
>>>
>>> As for times, I'm thinking of 5 o'clock my time, which is Mountain
>>> Daylight
>>> time. So, folks in the midwest would be one hour later than me, while
>>> those
>>> of you on the east coast would be 2 hours later. Those in the western
>>> states will either be on mountain time like me, or maybe an hour
>>> earlier.
>>>
>>> Would that work for anyone?
>>>
>>> If we have enough folks who are willing to give it a try, I'll be there!
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, now in Colorado
>>>
>>>
>>
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