> > By the way, since I moved about 30-40 miles away from my former QTH > which was centrally located to our club's Wednesday night chat net, we > have tried many different HF frequencies to see what works the best for > voice. We initially started on 28.400 for the last year or two but the > reason for selecting 10 meter phone was so that the Tech + and Novices > could be part of the group. Guess what? At no time have we ever had any > of them come to the well publicized net. So recently we have been trying > other bands, and 80 tends to go long and you get too many distant > stations wanting to contact us, 40 and 20 are outside the NVIS range and > have a weaker ground wave. Unfortunately same for 6 meters:( We thought > that might work OK for direct/skywave, but very mediocre results with > our mediocre antennas. > > The bands that really work the best are: > > 160 if the other stations are willing to install an antenna ... and ... > 15 meters was the best "ground"/direct wave of all the bands we tried. > Even with Butternut and R7 type verticals. I still can not quite figure > out the reason. > > I sure wish I could get some of the stations to try digital, especially > on 6 meters and 160 meters, but it seems nearly impossible out of 150 + > hams in the greater area, we have very few that will even try digital > modes at all:(
Rick, I have been having some of the same frustrations. I have tried to find bands that will work for ham within 20-40 miles of me and have found it very difficult. Tell us more about your 15M experiments? Andy K3UK Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
