----- Original Message -----
From: "Thom LaCosta" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:26 PM
Subject: [Drakelist] Checking the List or Boy are the bands
dead
Remember tuning around the bands, hearing nothing and
assuming the bands are dead?
The list is like that.... if no one posts, you won't see
anything at all.
For What's it worth....the spammers send over 100 messages
a day to the list....but, since it's a closed list, their
messages never make it through.
Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas....I'm
politically incorrect enough to post that.
73,
Thom k3hrn
Speaking of which, there was a contest on 10 meters on
the weekend. Amazing! I was listening mostly on an RCA AR-88
and a sort of indoor antenna run over the rafters of the
wooden garage where I have my shack. Among other places I
heard loud signals from central Russia and Cape Verde. Lots
of stations from all over the U.S. About a million years
ago, when I was a kid I had a 40 meter dipole up and
listened on a Hallicrafters S-38B, not your most sensitive
HF receiver. I could hear the world on that thing. 10 is
probably open a lot of the time but no one is listening.
There are a couple of beacon stations on 10 and I do check
to see if I can hear them. I did fire up the Drake station
(R4B and T4XB and better antenna than is on the AR-88) but I
am not a contester so didn't try to work anybody. FWIW, the
AR-88 was recently restored by moi and will hear anything
the R4B will. Its quite amazing but the R4B still has better
selectivity.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
[email protected]
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