[SixClub] AM signals during band openings

[C. Ackley]

You know you can call like crazy to someone and they never hear you 
on 6, and someone down the street can contact them. Its just how it 
works sometimes.
It's quite common.

Carla
KD7JGJ

At 06:47 PM 7/1/2006, you wrote:

>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-
>>--
>>73,
>>John/K2UBG
>--
>
>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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>
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