[Fists] 30metres

[Chris Redding]

Gents,
It always surprises me that you Americans do not make more use of 30m. If
you lay out the 30m skip 'footprint' of an average night over a map of the
USA, it allows easy working between quite widely-separated US states, and I
know
that if I lived in the Land of the Free, I would be on there most every
night.
Sadly, the UK is just a bit too small for this (except when short-skip
conditions are very good) and we Brits usually have to resort to 40m or 80m
instead to talk to each other.
30m doesn't get used much over here, except during major contests, when many
non-contest-minded 'rag-chewers' and QRPers tend to migrate onto the band
from 40m and 20m.
If I am doing a late session on a winters night, I often finish up by
listening (at around midnight UTC) for stations from your side of the pond.
I have heard several VE stations, and worked a good few in the NE USA/New
England.
I have also heard French stations regularly working into Quebec a little
later on.
Perhaps when the cold dark nights come round again (shiver) we can get a
00:00
UTC Transatlantic FISTS net together and give this under-rated band a good
bashing.
What would REALLY be useful would be a beacon of some sort, say in upstate
NY, to give us an indication when the path is open. (you of course have the
benefit of the DK0WCY SunInfo beacon (German-Danish border: 10.144MHz) to do
the reverse.
73s
Chris G4PDJ




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