[600MRG] License progressing

[John Langridge]

Eric,

You are going to have to get your priorities straight and take a week off work so you can get things in order HI!  I do understand the dilemma though... I will be back at the Uni starting next week so late night QSO's will have to be reserved for the weekends I am afraid.  I am looking forward to it!

To the other list members:  it goes without saying that Eric's fine station and rural location are what allows us to make numerous solid CW QSO's.  As I have been on a crusade this summer talking about the band at various conventions and club meetings around the state of Texas, there is a tremendous amount of interest and a lot of guys actively following the development on this band and those of us that are operating there now.  I've stressed quality RX systems first and there are guys locally that are taking this advice and tooling up accordingly.  That's exciting!

The number of guys popping up on WSPR2 these days to listen is amazing for being summer time.  To those guys continuing to show up and listen through the noisy, stormy nights, thank you.  Its good publicity for the band when guys casually checkwsprnet.org and see all of those stations out there and decide to try a decode with whatever antenna they have.  More often than not, they are successful.  I can't tell you the number of emails I get from people that show up to monitor on WSPR for the first time asking about the band and the stations (You can always tell the new guys because they show up listening on 501 when no one is listed as TXing there).

So the point here is that there is an enormous listener base already in place on WSPR and with the website, there is constant potential for more exposure, as Eric mentioned.

As much as I love CW, I think WSPR is a better long term station evaluation tool.  It may not have the same detection limit as the longer QRSS modes, but you are generally ensured a lot of potential receive opportunities.

73 and I hope those waiting for grants find success soon.  Looks like things are moving, just slowly.  Don't despair, it still noisy out there!  You are not missing too much yet!

John Langridge KB5NJD/WG2XIQ





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 From: Eric NO3M <no3m at no3m.net>
To: 600MRG <600mrg at w7ekb.com> 
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] License progressing
 

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
> 


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