[Elecraft] 160m activity?

[Jim Brassell]

Hey, Mark.

I also hear a very weak carrier around 1830.  There is a South American AM 
station at 1820 that I hear when the band is open to my south.  Other than 
that, no birdies or other stuff.

73,

Jim, K4ZMV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark J. Schreiner" <vze3v8dt at verizon.net>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 160m activity?


> Hmm, interesting to note about the every 10 kHz.  I have no such problems 
> here and wonder if others have noted the same that Jim has. I'd be happy 
> to conclude that my radio isn't broken if it doesn't pick up those 
> carriers, though, HI HI!  I'll check it out again tonight but this morning 
> I did a quick scan and found an annoying S3-4 carriers around 1841.25, and 
> 1854.62 but don't remember hearing them normally.  I also heard a fainter 
> carrier around 1830.0, however I don't ever remember these being an issue 
> in the past while operating during the evening hours.  Of course, maybe my 
> saturation level of AM Broadcast is not so prevalent here in PA as it 
> could be in CA.
> I didn't even know that folk still listened to AM Broadcast anymore, HI 
> HI!  Just as a side note I've even found FM to become more annoying to 
> listen to and have recently switched to one of the satellite based radios 
> which I thought I would never do, but it is much more pleasant to listen 
> to what I intend to tune into rather than the many commercials that plague 
> the commercial broadcast stations otherwise.  I used to constantly switch 
> between various FM stations whenever I heard a commercial, and found that 
> I was doing that more than I was listening to music, but not anymore.  It 
> seemed that radio stations were coordinating their commercial times, as it 
> seems that TV stations do as well.  Oh, sorry for my digression from the 
> Elecraft topic at hand, though, that of 160m QRP activity.
>
> Mark, NK8Q
>
> Jim Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:37:22 +0000, Mark J. Schreiner wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The CW QRP calling frequency is 1810 kHz.
>>
>> Any frequency that divides by 10 kHz can be a poor choice on 160 (and on 
>> 80 too), especially if you're running QRP, thanks to intermod from 
>> broadcast stations. I almost always hear a carrier on 1810, often on 
>> 1820, 1830, and 1840. Most of the time they're down around S3, but not 
>> always. And the guys around Fresno are struggling with an intermod 
>> product that used to be 30 dB over 9, but last I heard, is now down 
>> around S6.
>> 73,
>>
>> Jim Brown K9YC
>>
>>
>
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