[SOC] Advanced SOC operating techniques for dead bands

[Peter Clough via SOC]

OR, you could be the only one foolish enough to reply to the call.
Pete WD4GPO 


-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Axeman <n8la at ymail.com>
To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Aug 1, 2015 12:22 pm
Subject: Re: [SOC] Advanced SOC operating techniques for dead bands


I often talk to -- and answer -- myself because I am the only one around with
whom I can hold an intelligent conversation.  I think I'll try having a QSO with
myself, perhaps giving a signal report to one of my selves that differs from the
one given to the other of my selves.  Thanks for the inspiration!!
Lou,N8LA
 



On Friday, July 31, 2015 10:25 PM, Ray Day <rayday at cox.net> wrote:
   


Whoo-hoo! Now we're cookin'! The next step would be to have fictitious
QSO's
with yourself - only one-sided, of course. Methinks whoever is
listening
will soon be tightening his PL-259's, checking coax and preamps, and
asking
for a lot of signal reports as he tries to figure out why he can't hear
"the
other half of the QSO." You could tell him it was a loooooooong delayed
LDE,
perhaps cubically polarized. 20 years delayed..and hey. you, with
your
sidetone set to 528 hz, might even really work yourself as a
youngster!
Better get a bigger eQSL inbox, though, and be prepared!

 

And for
sure, listen to the video, as least as much as you can stomach. Gets
really
strange pretty quick. And don't leave the rig on unattended with it
set for a
sidetone of 528 hz. I did, once, and according to LoTW, now have a
8-Band DXCC
(for each of SSB, CW, RTTY, PSK31, and PACTOR)on record and the
first EME QSO on
500 Hz spark, well, OK, the 500 Hz - 2.5 Ghz "spark" band.
Eat your heart out,
WSPR!

 

Oh, Nicola, if you could see us now..

 

Ray N6HE

 

*******ORIGINAL
MESSAGE******

 With the 528 hz sidetone going mainstream now (I haventwatched
the video)
wanted to ask other members of the SOCabout how they cope with poor
or
non-exsistant propagation ontheir favorite bands. 

 Me I like to call
stations I havent heard from in more than 20
years.Consulting my hand written
logbooks from back then, pick a favorite
out and start calling for them.
Interspersed with a numberof CQ's. It amazes
me just how many people are tuning
aimlesslyabout through static only to
listen to me call for someone
.......Station's with the fancy panoramic
displays of the spectrum arethe worst,
they instantly tune to the "spike" on
their display. Onlyto discover ... its me
again via groundwave. I'm not
trying to derail the current focus on 528 hz
sidetonediscussions in way. 

 

de AL7JK




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