[CW] A report for those who are considering 475 kHz

Sun Oct 12 19:32:24 EDT 2014

Benny wrote:

>IS THERE A WAY YOU EXPERIMENTAL FOLKS CAN LET US LISTENERS 
>KNOW WHEN YOU WILL BE ON THE AIR IN CW?

Thanks, Benny.  There are a couple email groups where the experimental operators sometimes may post their schedules.  

 One I've been using for a while:
     http://w7ekb.com/mailman/listinfo/600mrg_w7ekb.com
One I heard about today:
     https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/600m/info

I should post to this group when I run the CW beacon as well.

Two-way CW contacts are more haphazard - when someone sees that WSPR signals are getting strong then its time to break out the key.

Steve WD8DAS / WH2XHY

sbjohnston at aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Benny Owens <k5kvm5 at gmail.com>
To: sbjohnston <sbjohnston at aol.com>; CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Oct 12, 2014 5:15 pm
Subject: Re: [CW] A report for those who are considering 475 kHz

HI STEVE

INTERESTING.  I COULD HEAR A STATION NEAR DALLAS ABOUT 125 MILES FROM ME WITH MY OLD DRAKE SPR4 WHEN HE WAS USING CW.  IS THERE A WAY YOU EXPERIMENTAL FOLKS CAN LET US LISTENERS KNOW WHEN YOU WILL BE ON THE AIR IN CW?

CONGRATS ON YOUR RT LICENSE AND OPERATING AT KSM.  I HAD A SECOND RT FROM 81 THRU 91 AND LET IT GO.  I TRIED TO GET IT BACK A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER AND THE FCC WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT BACK THEN.  I AM HAPPY YOU WERE ABLE TO DO IT.

73

BENNY K5KV

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Steve WD8DAS via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

 Here's a report for those who are considering getting active on 475 kHz. 630m isn't a ham band yet but there is already ham-style activity...

Last night I had a lot of fun on 630 meters.  Quite a few experimental-licensed stations were transmitting in the WSPR mode, and even more non-licensed stations were receiving and reporting.

Here's a map showing everyone my station heard, or was heard by, on the WSPR mode...

     http://www.wd8das.net/WSPR-WH2XHY.jpg

Here's a map showing everyone that was active on 630m WSPR last night...

     http://www.wd8das.net/WSPRactivity.jpg

Notice the reports from Europe, Alaska, and Hawaii.  Very cool!

WSPR's S/N reporting is useful to know when propagation is good enough to support normal contacts.  When the S/N ratios are higher then it is time to go to CW... where I made two CW contacts with Pennsylvania and Texas experimental stations.  Conditions seem to be getting better as we move into winter.

Details on my 630m station...

     http://www.wd8das.net/630m.html

Steve WD8DAS / WH2XHY

sbjohnston at aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
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