[ILQSO] Suggested frequencies?

[James Funk]

I think this is great idea.  80 during yhe day works.  When I am ouy running counties during the week I am often amazed at what's possible during the day on 80 cw.

(Pardon the spelling...bumpy road. Teensy keyboard... And no, I am not doing the driving!)  Jim N9JF

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:


FWIW in the Ohio QSO Party this past August  we used on 80 meter CW during
the daytime, when there would normally be little  activity, a "mini-window"
of exactly 3545, the official center frequency.   We asked fixed stations to
avoid that, plus or minus about 1 KHz.

That  way a station could have a second receiver sitting on 3545, possibly
with a  speaker in the background, and if any activity was heard it would
likely be a  mobile or somebody working a mobile. A station without a second
radio could just  punch that frequency from a memory, and in a few seconds
determine if there was  any mobile activity.

It seemed to work pretty well. As a mobile I could  do a few CQs on 3545
and usually stir up some activity. If nothing in several  CQs I was back to
another band.  I was mobile in 25 counties, and had 80  meter CW contacts from
24 of them. There were only a few counties where I had  fewer than 5 qsos.
(By the same token, I did not have much more than 5 qsos per  county until
dark.)

Until we get some sunspots and accompanying short  propagation on 40 or
above, I believe strategies like this will be necessary for  mobiles to work
other in-state stations.

Meanwhile I'm looking to hearing  all you guys in Illinois just fine for
most of the day on 40 meters, even if you  can't hear each other  :>)


Separately, thanks to the ILQP  gang for the "edible eatable" which showed
up in my mailbox today. Things must  be going good out there, as the Riley's
seasoning container was twice the size  of the one I got a couple of years
ago.  Much good seasoning lies  ahead.



73  -   Jim     K8MR





In a message dated 10/16/2009 5:08:21 P.M. Eastern  Daylight Time,
kj9c at iquest.net writes:
Took a quick look and did not find  suggested operating frequencies for
this weekend.

Is there a mobile  window (i.e.  for only mobiles to call CQ in the
window)? We set one up for  INQP that made it a bit easier to find the mobiles with
their weak signals (how  about  3545, 7045, 14045 and 5 khz up?)....

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