[SixClub] 6M must be open

[Roger (K8RI)]

peter oesterle wrote:
>   Channel  2  is  gone  from  Baltimore !
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>> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:19:37 -0600
>> From: donroden at hiwaay.net
>> To: sixclub at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [SixClub] 6M must be open
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>> Good news is that six meters won't produce the recognizable "monkey  
>> chatter" TVI on digital TVs .... just a freezing or an occasional  
>> dropout.
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And pixelization.

73

Roger (K8RI)
>> Don WA4NPL
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>> Quoting "Roger (K8RI)" <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>:
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>>> kd4e wrote:
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>>>> Not all analog stations are gone, just most of them.
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>>> And there are high power digital on ch 2 here in the states. Ch 2
>>> moved from Detroit to Kalamazoo, but they are active. There are also
>>> other low VHF here in Michigan. Our so called local channels in the
>>> Saginaw, Midland area are all UHF, but with my antennas at 90 plus feet,
>>> my local area is a lot larger than most.
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>>> Although stations are migrating from low VHF to high VHF, Digital did
>>> not all go to UHF. IIRC there are still 20 some Ch 2's in the US let
>>> alone low VHF as a whole.
>>>       
>>>> Certain "repeaters" into more remote areas and low
>>>> power special purpose stations we allowed to stay on
>>>> analog.
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>>>> I would think that were 6M open the beacons would be
>>>> showing up.
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>>>> Does anyone have a system of online receivers that
>>>> monitors the beacons and graphically displays them
>>>> by repeater location and monitoring receiver location?
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>>>> If not that would be a really valuable resource.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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?
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>>> Yup, There was a lot of channel shuffling, but digital is not just UHF.
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>>> 73
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>>> Roger (Please do not cross post between groups)
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>>>>> As far as a 6M opening I received no alerts at all today.
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>> KB7TBT
>>>>> www.kb7tbt.com
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>>>>>> 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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