[Elecraft] Re: 30m

[Rod N0RC]

Folks,

Had to put my money where my mouth was....

Went down stairs around 0530z and tuned around 30m, heard sigs! A
Phoenix station calling CQ, a Seattle station working a JA! didn't
hear the JA, shucks. After a while I set up shop around 10115 and
called CQ. A few minutes later a very weak (339) station calls me and
we have a nice chat for 10 min, until the QSB gobbled him up. The
station was WB4DCW, Mike in TN. He was running 1 watt! And, it was the
first contact he made with the rig he was using!! I think we all know
how cool that feels. So there you go, 30m works late at night under
poor solar CONDX (SFI ~120, K=4 YUK!).

I'm taking the results of this little experiment as a sign that 30m
should not be ignored. Any time of day, any time of year, any phase of
the current sunspot cycle!

Are you in?

*** Happy Holidays ***
73, Rod N0RC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod N0RC" <rod@n0rc.us>
To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" <qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: 30m


> While calling CQ during the Flea Fest tonight I got to thinking, had
a
> lot of time to do that. ;-) Why don't we play on 30m more?
>
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