The band seemed good till about 10:30, then took a nose dive. I was on 7295 after K3MSB and N8YHY got off 7992.
W8VYZ was loud (and wide like usual), calling cq on top of a qso, band conditions or a receiver problem... I heard Paul, VJB, he was strong into south Jersey, but what he has been running on 40 lately SEEMS to be wide in my receivers, not like the usual (very clean) signal. K3MSB, your audio looked very low on the scope, like 20% modulated, and N8YHY was very distorted and restricted sounding. Not sure what he was running, but it sounded bad... Why did you guys pick 7292? I could not squeeze in above or below you, from 7280 to 7300 was taken up with 2 qso's... Anyway, band conditions were much worse then last weekend. It seems to me that 40 meters seems to have a crap load of people running their equipment poorly, I hear (and see on the scope) loads of people running very low audio, or way to much, very wide splattering signals, people being 2 or 3 kc off frequency, etc. Overmodulation and wide signals seems to be really common lately, not sure why. Brett N2DTS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Carling Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 7:04 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 7285Kc tomorrow/Saturday I wemnt back to W8VYZ in Ashtabula, OH twice but he couldn't hear me. Gary WD4NKA near me worked N4RGR on 7295. Lousy lousy condx today! On 7 Jan 2006 at 18:30, Mark K3MSB wrote: > Bry (et al): > > How'd ya make out? I was on 40 shortly after 9 AM but heard no AM > activity. I called CQ several times on 7290 and a very weak station > came back (w4am ??) but couldn't get his call. Afterwards N8YHY came > back and we yakked for about 45 minutes. Wandered down the band > afterwards to chat with VJB for a few minutes, but didn't hear you. > > Paul -- You were very strong up here when I fist heard ya which was > surprising on 40M considering that we're only about 60 miles apart. > Ashtabula Bill plopped right on top of ya and what a monster > heterodyne that made!! Bill finally wandered off (either because > nobody answered him or he heard me tell him the freq was busy....). > Had to jockey the controls to hear you throught that one.... argh!! > > Mark K3MSB > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net > AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb
