[AMRadio] Bands open, 40m

[Robert]

Excellent observation, Don.  I've been on that section of 40 meters 
listening at night.

Ye, no free lunch on keeping/goingto a clear frequency, but it's almost 
that way.

Gotta stay light on ye toes, ready to wiggle ya VFO, huh?

Note: The band conditions recently on 40 meters AM have been great, 
haven't they.

73 Robert W4RL


On 8/20/2013 12:01 PM, Donald Chester wrote:
> For those interested in 40m, I  have made the following observations the
> past few evenings.
>
> I hear the AM group on 7290 about every evening, but most participants seem
> to sign out around 0300 GMT. That's a good time to start up a smaller
> roundtable or a one-on-one. Sometimes some of the gang stays around longer
> if someone new calls in after the main group goes away.
>
> The problem is the broadcast station on 7295. A very strong one, apparently
> from somewhere in the middle east, fires up promptly every evening at 0358Z.
> Its  lower sideband wipes out 7290. Earlier in the evening there is another
> broadcaster on 7285, weak, but still enough to make 7290 a better frequency.
> I have noticed it is completely gone by 0400, so when the 7295 station comes
> on, one can easily continue the QSO by QSYing 5 kc/s down, to 7285 and enjoy
> a clear frequency. That lasts almost another hour, until about 0455, when a
> strong broadcaster fires up on 7285, but nevertheless it opens a window for
> another full hour after 7290 is blown away.
>
> After 0500Z, broadcasters can be heard on 7295, 7285, 7275 and 7250 pretty
> much wiping out  the top end of the band, but there usually are clear spots
> in the vicinity of 7260 and a whole swathe of clear frequency around
> 7220-40, if there are no slopbucketeers using it.
>
> The past couple of evenings I have been operating 7290 until just before the
> top of the hour at 0400 GMT, then shifting down 5 kc/s for one more hour. By
> the time the 7285 BC station comes on, I'm usually ready to call it a night
> anyway.
>
> Of course, there is no guarantee this will last, since the BC stations tend
> to shift around often and change times and frequencies.
>
> Don k4kyv
>
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