[AMRadio] cw

[K5MYJ]

It largely depends on  where you live. The only thing I ever hear between 
7100 and 7125 is CW. And that is rare.

Use the message boards to set up an operating schedule in the 7050-7100 
section and see what happens.

Propagation here in the PNW seems to be all East/West. Not much North/South.

The reverse beacons show it.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] cw


>I like the idea of vintage CW but it doesn't have to be limited to novice 
>speed sending. There is supposedly a vintage CW hang-out on 80m around 3550 
>but all the activity I hear seems to be run of the mill stuff with the 
>usual plastic radios.
>
> I think a better 40m frequency would be somewhere in 7060-7100. There is 
> rarely any kind of activity there at all except for an occasional digital 
> buzz and a Spanish speaking slopbucketeer. 7100-7125 is often filled with 
> foreign SSB and an occasional broadcaster.
>
> I wish  the FCC would extend the phone band down to 7100, and then all the 
> countries agree to a band plan that would put RTTY and other digital modes 
> somewhere  up around 7080-7100, and that CW ops would agree to spread out 
> a little more. As it is, they are mostly all clustered down in 7000-7040 
> or so, RTTY, cw, data and all, with a wide swathe of under-used 
> frequencies from 7060-7125, while the phone bands may be congested to the 
> hilt.
>
> I do hear a few CW sigs in the vicinity of 7060-80 at times, usually in 
> the  clear enough that you could copy them OK with an S-38. The 
> inefficiency in the way 40m frequencies worldwide are presently used, 
> since the broadcasters mostly moved out of 7100-7200, is ridiculous.
>
> Don
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