[AMRadio] Rally Question

[Paul Baldock]

Most of the AM these days on 40 is around 7330. 
During the event. No problem finding a spot here on the west coast.

- Paul W7A

At 05:22 PM 2/4/2019, Jim Candela wrote:
>  Ron, Â  Â I experienced the same thing here in 
> Texas. There were not too many big signals, and 
> the band was going long at times. I made a few 
> contacts on 7285. At times I saw blips every 5 
> Khz from 7265 to 7295. Most were from afar (or 
> too close), and not Q5. All in all though it 
> was good to see all them AM stations. 
> JimWd5JKOÂ      On Monday, February 4, 2019, 
> 6:30:48 PM CST, Ron.K3PID 
> <ron.k3pid at sbcglobal.net> wrote:  I had fun and 
> made a few contacts in the rally but got real 
> frustrated. Maybe it was just my area but it 
> seems a few big guns sort of took over the 
> AMÂ  frequencies between 7280 and 7295 and ran 
> a sort of roundtable nets passing exchange info 
> back and forth among “check-ins”! So if a 
> station is on 7290 and wide enough that I can 
> copy him from 7285 to 7295 what am I suppose to 
> do? I am certainly not going to compete so how 
> far astray do the participants usually wander 
> looking for QSOs? When the digital guys have a 
> contest they use all available band space as do 
> the CW guys. Why are the AMers restricted to a 
> small band? Shouldn’t we be able to use any 
> phone frequency that is not in use? Ron K3PID 
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