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Date: | Mon, 14 May 2007 13:37:59 -0500 |
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Howard Kaufman writes:
> Now is the time for sporadic E skip. 10 and 6 have been poping open
> during
> the last week. Check the beacons, or if you start hearing signals on 20
> meters that are with in 600 miles or so, start checking 10 6 and 2 meters.
If you have a TV audio receiver or TV set with an
antenna and one or more of the local TV channels between 2 and 6
are normally vacant, you can park that receiver on one of those
channels and wait for skip signals. Channel 2 is best for
skip with the chances of hearing something interesting less for
higher and higher channels.
If you have a ham transceiver with general wide-band coverage,
tune to the audio carrier frequency of the channel of interest
and set your squelch so it will open if something fades in. You
should be able to hear the audio and not have to listen to the
hiss when there isn't anybody there.
Even during a good Summer, there may be a day or so or
at least many hours in a day in which nothing is happening at
all. They don't call it sporadic for nothing.
This will be the second to the last Summer for this kind
of DX'ing. By the Summer of 2009, all the analog TV
transmitters in the United States should be off. Canada and
Mexico won't be far behind.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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