On Feb 8, 2008 10:34 AM, JT Croteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd, or anyone, what is the activity like on 40M AM these days? Is > there any?
Absolutely! Most activity takes place mornings-mid afternoon on weekends (I work weekdays, so can't comment beyond Sat-Sun) when the band starts to get noisy with international broadcast stations. Sometimes it's very late in the day, and occasionally band conditions are good at night. Noise and interference affects us east coast types more and earlier than the gang in the midwest. 7.280-7.295 has regular activity, though some reports have been made of AM activity in the new, expanded phone portion as well. I've just never gotten down there. > When I get my AM station on the air, I will likely be > sending a fair amount of time on 40 (if there is activity) as my > current antenna is a resonant 40M dipole. Exactly the route I took when returning to the air in 2006 after 11-12 years away. Spent about 2 months on 40 until getting the old 75m dipole up in late April. Ashtabula Bill hangs out on 40 a lot, had a very nice chat with him and W0VMC a couple weekends back. Planning to be on there over the weekend, if you get things working by then. If not, give a yell later if you want to do some on air testing as I'm not terribly far from your location. 73, Todd KA1KAQ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio 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.
