[ARC5] dying hobby?

[sbjohnston at aol.com]

I've heard that military-deviation FM has a calling frequency of 29.4 MHz but I've not monitored it myself.


Steve WD8DAS

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On Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 06:05:31 PM CDT, Paul Thekan <pfthekan at gmail.com> wrote: 





I wish I could get my WW2 FM radios like the BC 1336, BC 685 xmtr(SCR 608) , BC 924 xmtr(SCR 808) on 10mtrs for some long distance contacts..but sadly the freq deviation is too great and sure it would cause problems.
Paul
N6FEG 

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 3:10 PM sbjohnston--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> I try to check ten meters frequently but thus far in spite of the sunspot numbers I'm not hearing much activity or openings.  
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> I have been spending most of my operating time on 17 and 15 meters but signals are generally low and I've not noted very many significant DX openings.  Most days there is some sporadic E hops across the states but I'm not hearing the bands acting like I would expect for the sunspot numbers.  Maybe there is something else going on that is increasing absorption at the same time the sunspots are increasing.  
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> I crave the wide-open upper bands (including 6m) that I remember from multiple decades ago.  
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> Don't mind me... I am the Ghost of Sunspot-Cycles-Past.
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