[10m] Re: Anybody Out There? (KG6EMF Richard Friedman)

[Mark Cobbeldick [KB4CVN]]

Hi Richard,
29.600 is the FM calling frequency.  
29.500 is a secondary.

There are four ARRL "recommended" repeater pairs:

Output/Input
---------------
29.620/29.520
29.640/29.540
29.660/29.560
29.680/29.580


But there also some 'splinter' repeater pairs too:

Output/Input
---------------
29.610/29.510
29.630/29.530
29.650/29.550
29.670/29.570
29.690/29.590


You will also hear fm mode simplex traffic following frequencies:

29.200 (Japan's version of our 29.600)
29.300
29.400
29.450 (lots of UK stations here)
29.475 ("""""""""""""""""""""""")

I have only ever heard AM mode traffic on 29.000 to about 29.200 MHz,
SSB and CW from 28.000 to 28.999 MHz.


73,
Mark C.  KB4CVN




> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:00:40 -0700
> From: KG6EMF Richard Friedman <kg6emf at rchrd.com>
> Subject: Re: [10m] Re: Anybody Out There?!?!?!? (Charmaster)
> To: 10m at mailman.qth.net
> 
>   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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