[Elecraft] Experiment: can we create an instant "band opening" on 40 meters?

[al_lorona at agilent.com]

> 
> Suppose everyone listening on the reflector now decided to get on 40 
> meters all at the same time--SSB and CW? It's not a contest: 
> call it a spontaneous operating event. 

> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> ---

This is so cool. I have often thought of this same exact situation. I
bet that at least 30% of the time, when a band sounds dead, there are
actually hordes of radio amateurs listening and thinking to themselves,
"Boy, the band is dead."

(This is one reason why contests are frequently surprising. It isn't
that conditions are any better, but there are just many more people on
the air, making it sound like it's really hot.)

I'm only sorry that I didn't see Wayne's message until much later
tonight, otherwise I would have been there. 

I just spun my VFO knob at it came up on an odd number! 


Al W6LX