[SixClub] 6M must be open
donroden at hiwaay.net
donroden at hiwaay.net
Tue Mar 9 13:39:49 EST 2010
Turning off channel57 and channel67 Trinity Broadcast low power
analogs this month. Need any 720mhz to 800 mhz solid state amps ?
Don WA4NPL
Quoting "Chris Boone" <Cboone at earthlink.net>:
> There are some hi power digital still on LB VHF TV ...so he could have been
> watching a DTV...
>
> Yes, LP, CA (class A/higher power LPs with bigger protection area) and
> translators in analog mode are still around, but not for long.. The Class A
> is highest in power...300 to 5000 W on LB IIRC..
> If you are getting a lowband digital low power, then 50MHz should be open..
>
> Chris
> WB5ITT
> Frequency Coordinator of the Society of Broadcast Engineers
> Chapter 134 SE TX and SW La
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sixclub-
>> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of kd4e
>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:49 PM
>> To: themagicband at yahoogroups.co.uk; World Wide Six Meter Club
>> Subject: Re: [SixClub] 6M must be open
>>
>> Not all analog stations are gone, just most of them.
>>
>> Certain "repeaters" into more remote areas and low
>> power special purpose stations we allowed to stay on
>> analog.
>>
>> I would think that were 6M open the beacons would be
>> showing up.
>>
>> Does anyone have a system of online receivers that
>> monitors the beacons and graphically displays them
>> by repeater location and monitoring receiver location?
>>
>> If not that would be a really valuable resource.
>>
>> I could probably put a 6M and 10M receiver online and
>> hook it to the Internet to feed such monitoring network.
>>
>> Note: The themagicband at yahoogroups.co.uk is a UK-based
>> list, so not everyone here is USA-centered. The other
>> list World Wide Six Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>> is USA-based, though there are members who are not in the
>> USA. The FM-focused list AR52MHZ at yahoogroups.com I
>> believe is also US-based but international in membership.
>>
>>
>> > How are you picking up stations if there all gone?
>> > As far as I knew all the stations have cleared off to go digital.
>> > Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > As far as a 6M opening I received no alerts at all today.
>> >
>> > James
>> > KB7TBT
>> > www.kb7tbt.com
>> >
>> >> I'm picking up TV stations all over two states, but there's not
>> >> a soul on 6M! No spots on the DX cluster either! Man, it's
>> >> bad to be the only guy on the air when the band is open!
>> >> I'm in South Carolina. Temps are supposed to be near 70
>> >> tomorrow, so I bet it's going to be wide open tomorrow too!
>> >>
>> >> 73, -Web (AJ4VM)
>
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