Ditto Rick.
Today with much less SSB DXing on 3.8mc and less rare DXpedition guys are looking in our “old window”, traditions begin to fade. Local NA “conversations” tend to be up and down from 3805 to 3795, but we DID run them off in the old days when dozens of NA DX chasers would be calling on ‘their’ yaking frequency and blowing their 4-5 nightly guys upwards to 3810+.. It worked then and we old timers can swear to it!! 😊
It is obvious to me that TOO MANY DXpeditions do not know the “established” listening frequencies for the low bands, especially 160-80 and also 60m. They don’t know our NA 60m fixed frequencies or ‘traditional’ calling frequencies during DX chasing on our low bands. Things are changing rapidly to disrupt our decades of “sharing spaces” with the nightly nets and such. IIWII
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Back in the day, we’d just move adjacent to them and show’em who’s boss. (Hi) Some group of DXers better reclaim the window before the squatters get established.
I’ve worked a lot of rare stuff around 3795, so keep an eye out, Trent.
Rick - K5UR
Last night there was a US roundtable, 4 or 5 stations, parked squarely on 3.795. One of the reasons I upgraded to Extra was to have access to the DX window on 80m. These guys are either oblivious to the band plan or just don't care.
Different, but about the same....
I was listening to the TU5 on SSB last month. He was "listening UP 5 to 10". I was doing what ICOM calls "Dual-Watch", monitoring his calling freq. & checking for where he was listening on the other VFO... You know the drill".
Well, "UP TEN" some guy was trying to start a Net. He was telling everyone if they were not standing by for the net they should QSY, because that was "an established daily net frequency".
The guys calling TU5PCT could not hear him Screaming at them because they were listening "ten down".
THEN, The Net guy went down ten Khz and was yelling at the DXpedition trying to tell him to QUIT TELLING stations to call you on "OUR ESTABLISHED NET FREQUENCY".
Obviously, The TU5 Op could not hear the net guy yelling, He was listening "ten up".
No end to my story.......
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