[10m] Re: Anybody Out There?!?!?!? (Charmaster)

[KG6EMF Richard Friedman]

  Mark: What's so special about 29.6?  I thought that was in the AM part of  the band.
So were the stations AM or SSB?
-- Richard  KG6EMF


Mark Cobbeldick [KB4CVN] wrote:
> Yes the band has been very quiet.  But I think the band has been open,
> just nobody was aware of it...
> 
> 
> 
> EXAMPLE:
> This past Sunday afternoon the YL and I were sitting in the car, I had
> a the 10m-FM rig on 29.600.  Had not heard anything for hours.  
> 
> I heard a KB7 station in Scottsdale, Arizona calling CQ.  We had a nice
> QSO for about 30 minutes.  Soon afterwards I started hearing 8-Land
> stations and even a CE8 station (Chile) calling CQ on 29.600.
> 
> No one was hearing any traffic on the band, assuming the band was dead.
>  
> 
> UNTIL SOMEONE CALLED CQ !!!   
> 
> Apparently the band WAS open...just nobody knew it.
> 
> 
> 73,
> Mark Cobbeldick, KB4CVN
> Monroe, Virginia
> 
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