How many use HAM vs C/B for rig to rig etc?
Ladies and Gents, The subject of C/Bs gets brought up every so often and is debated whether or not folks still install and use them. But, not many mention too much about HAM radios. I know and under...
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From Florida, I just worked Mexico and several stations in Texas on 6 meter SSB this past weekend. Back in February and March, I worked hundreds of stations on 160 meters with a simple wire inverted L antenna. That's about as low band as you can get. In Florida, 160 meters gets noisy during the summer because of thunderstorms but I continue to work 80 meters into Europe all year long during the evenings. I was on 80 meters last night and worked a station in Wales and Sable Island on 40 meters.
It's not just the weekends that stations are on the air but you obviously have more activity on weekends then you do during the week. Unfortunately, some of us still have to work! :)
The Tampa bay area has dozens of repeaters that are active all day long. To say the bands are empty is just not true. I have been licensed since 1995 and I have never turned on the radio and gone to one of the HF ham bands and not heard at least several stations. Some bands might be dead during low sunspot activity (6 and 10 meters) but 6 meters in open a lot during the summer months with sporatic E conditions.
Anyway, sorry for getting off topic but I didn't want a non-ham to think the bands are empty because that is simply not the case. If I can think of it when I get home, I will take a picture of some of the bands from my panadapter on my Flex-radio and you will see all the signals on the band.
Burch
K4QXX
It's not just the weekends that stations are on the air but you obviously have more activity on weekends then you do during the week. Unfortunately, some of us still have to work! :)
The Tampa bay area has dozens of repeaters that are active all day long. To say the bands are empty is just not true. I have been licensed since 1995 and I have never turned on the radio and gone to one of the HF ham bands and not heard at least several stations. Some bands might be dead during low sunspot activity (6 and 10 meters) but 6 meters in open a lot during the summer months with sporatic E conditions.
Anyway, sorry for getting off topic but I didn't want a non-ham to think the bands are empty because that is simply not the case. If I can think of it when I get home, I will take a picture of some of the bands from my panadapter on my Flex-radio and you will see all the signals on the band.
Burch
K4QXX
