[600MRG] License progressing

[Eric NO3M]

Looking forward to some QSOs with all the new license grants and 
returning veterans!  John, WG2XIQ, (TX) and I (PA) had great 
success last fall/winter with dozens of CW QSOs and many of those 
ragchew sessions.  He ran 1W ERP for each one.

The station here is quite a mess at the moment.  It's a dice roll 
if the RX antenna switching works, much of the time just dead.  
Probably a few relays or microprocessors zapped during a storm in 
the remote boxes (600 ft from house in woods).  Haven't checked 
the beverages in 6 months, so half of them are probably shorted 
out on each other or snapped.  TX antenna snapped around same 
time as my 80M dipole this summer, but much easier to hoist the 
80M dipole up in the 630M antennas place for now.  Hopefully find 
time to get things back in order by Sept.  Thinking about trying 
a pair of broadside (1200ft spacing) re-dimensioned K9AY loops 
aimed west to pull the guys out in that direction better on RX 
(YSE, LF, 8Z, etc.).

WSPR-2 is a good place to start.  Plenty of guys monitoring 
throughout the year and unless something is terribly wrong, 
you'll get spotted/decoded.

73 - CU 630M - Eric NO3M, WG2XJM

On 08/09/13 00:59, Mike-WE0H wrote:
> Regular CW works excellent on the band year round. Just a bit 
> noisier in the warm months.
>
> Mike
> WE0H
> WD2XSH/16
>
>> Great:  I submitted mine May 30 and call assigned sometime 
>> last week.
>>
>> For the 472 KHz band:  any preference to using QRSS, WSPR-X, 
>> whatever to
>> start with?  From Kansas.  N0UU
>