[Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.

[Dale Parfitt]

Hi Bob,
I am hearing decent DX on the AM broadcast band up through 40M at night. I use a Shared Apex Loop Array which always helps as I can steer it to place its null towards a thunderstorm. But, signals are there.
What  freq is your 30M beacon on? During the day I often watch (using ARGO)  to the QRPp stations on 13.555MHz and they also seem unaffected.
Dale W4OP

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Nickels
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:16 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.

On 9/5/2017 3:22 PM, Brian Hemmis wrote:
>   JT-65 and now FT-8 digital modes.

My wspr beacon has been running all day on 30 meters with the whopping power of 40 milliwatts into a dipole and is being heard all over the eastern US and Canada, in Texas and just outside Edmunton in the past 12 hours.   Wspr stands for "weak signal propagation reporter", so if weak signals can be heard it stands to reason that propagation is favorable forstronger ones to the same area.  Anyone can go to www.wsprnet.org and look at the map to see who is being heard where on any given band.

I'm on 40 meters with a group most every night and know very well how the conditions on that band change from day to day, week to week.   But with stations scattered all around the US there's never a night that at least some of us can hear others and have a QSO, typically using 100 watts or so, and oftentimes using portable setups with compromise antennas.

73, Bob W9RAN

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