[SOC] Digital crowding (and other myths)

[AL7JK John]

 During the first couple of hours of the SKN, worked stn's in
eastern Siberia, Japan and eastern China on 20 mtrs cw.
Looking forward to logging some cw qso's with the lower 48
later today.
 Yesterday morning, signals peaked from the west coast
at 22 utc, During my cw qso with N6WT, Kent he peaked
at 20 db over S9 on 14057 khz. Within two hours, the
signals from the lower 48 had vanished. My ham stn is
quite modest, various long wire antennas, a 20 mtr Zero
Five vertical & elevated radials on the roof.
 Anyways, my meager contribution to the " digital crowding
(and other myths) " study.

73 & HNY
AL7JK




On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:47 PM Joseph B Cotton <cottonj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Refering to the well known Law of Empty Bands - every band is empty until
> the contest starts.
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:39 AM Dr Jim Kennedy via SOC <
> soc at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps this test should be weighed against the overall terrible band
> > conditions across the globe and time of year?
> >
> > From a purely scientific point of view if one were desirous to determine
> > band usage it might be more accurate to conduct the testing at various
> > times of the year, from different locations, and across sunspot cycles.
> >
> > I do however agree, somewhat, that at least this year that band usage is
> > less than in years past.
> >
> > 73 and regards,
> > Doc - K2PHD
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr. Jim Kennedy, MCTE, MRP, CEH, CHPA-IV, CRISC, Security+
> > Retired Diplomate American Bd for Certification in Homeland Security
> > Retired Instructor American College of Forensic Examiners
> > Master Certified Telecommunications Engineer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:26 AM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Spent some hours the past two days looking for crowding on the prime CW
> > > territory on 20M, 14.000 to 14.065MHz.
> > >
> > > Except for the W1AW signals at 14.0475, mostly you could shoot off a
> > cannon
> > > loaded with grapeshot in that spectrum and hit nothing — CW, digital,
> or
> > > red-nosed reindeer.
> > >
> > > 14.065 to 14.095 consistently held a few scattered little colonies of
> > > digital signals.  Then from there to 14.350 a great swath of silence
> > except
> > > for a lonely soul at 14.300 “keeping the frequency clear” in
> anticipation
> > > of a great maritime disaster.
> > >
> > > 73, de SOC Hans, K0HB/W7
> > > “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 07:35 g4jht <g4jht at eircom.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Best defense of "CW spectrum" is to get in there a occupy it with lots
> > >> of close packed "legal limit" CW QSOs. Digimode signals are no match
> for
> > >> a raft of strong CW, I understand.
> > >>
> > >> As for so called intruders see my previous email today.
> > >>
> > >> 73, Dave
> > >>
> > >>> On 12/18/2018 12:43 AM, Carl Strode wrote:
> > >>> Someone better report this . . . I won't.
> > >>>
> > >>> My ARRL membership was cancelled after over 45 years when Dave Sumner
> > >>> accused me of being greedy asking him to defend our CW spectrum.
> ARRL
> > >> will
> > >>> be hard pressed to do anything that doesn't bring in money with no
> > effort
> > >>> expended.
> > >>>
> > >>> On 4:26PM, Mon, Dec 17, 2018 Quikhooligan via SOC <
> soc at mailman.qth.net
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>> On 12/17/2018 5:34 PM, Dr Jim Kennedy via SOC wrote:
> > >>>>> And what, if anything, is the ARRL doing to investigate and rectify
> > >> this
> > >>>> matter?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Dr. Jim Kennedy - K2PHD
> > >>>> http://www.arrl.org/intruder-watch
> > >>>>
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