Brett N2DTS comments: <<Bob, Not sure how it is there, but in the past, 40 meters was great to operate on in the daytime on weekends. I would spend winter weekend mornings on 40, you could very often get by with 25 watts, 100 watts was a strong station!
Short wave broadcast did not start till about 2 or 3pm, just in time to start cooking dinner! Of late, I suspect the sunspot cycle has eaten 40 meters in the daytime, at night there seems to be plenty of CW. I never actually tried 40 AM at night as it was filled up with broadcast, I wonder what kind of skip you would have... You might just have to wait, but when it comes around again, your indoor antenna and some little rig may work great on 40.>> I will start leaving the Rx on 7290 weekend and see if I can hear anything. I have 3 HF receivers so I may just leave one on 7280, one on 7285, and one on 7290. Wish I had a panadapter for the SB-301. It's easier to look over at the scope every few minutes than trying to tune around all day. Because I live in this valley I feel I will have a better chance on 40M because of my antenna limitation. I know I am not the only one with this problem. The predominent AM activity seems to be on 75M. This is supposed to be the best night time band. But I hear more CW on 40M than on 80M. Again it may be the antenna. But I do hear W1AW (sometimes) and I do hear the West Coast RTTY net on a regular bassis. Is 20M AM just being ignored? I never read any comments about it anymore. Bob Macklin K5MYJ Near Seattle, Wa "Real Radios Glow In The Dark" ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
