[SixClub] AM signals during band openings

[Howard Bingham]

At 08:21 PM 7/1/2006, K2UBG at att.net wrote:
>If you want to find each other on 6am or any mode-pick a freq and 
>leave the radio squelched and decide to call at the top of the hour 
>and/or just keep calling but keep a rig on that freq 24/7 or you too 
>will fall victim to the 706 syndrome. I tried that freq but didn't 
>hear anyone so I sat there and looked at the radio and tuned around 
>40, glug, glug, glug...
>        It is destroying ham radio and we are making it happen; more 
> on that later-
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>73,
>John/K2UBG
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On Field Day there was some station in Colorado that was CQ ing 
relentlessly on SSB just a bit above 50.125, yet when several STX 
stations tried to reply, they got zip except for more CQ calls...

I think this could be due to some green op that had squelched his SSB 
or had the volume turned down so low he couldn't hear replies.  (I 
worked one club Saturday & another club & location Sunday, but 
experienced the same problem both places.).

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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