[Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Greetings all; I have been having a lot of fun with the KX3, but thought I would try the challenge of QRP to QRP contacts. Currently they occur randomly; are there QRP watering holes (Frequency ranges that QRPers congregate around) that I might improve the odds? I ask this both for CW and SSB... Thanks 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Try these, Dave: http://www.qrparci.org/content/view/4304/128/ With best regards, Pete W1PNS - Original Message - From: David F. Reed w5sv.d...@gmail.com To: elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:03:20 AM Subject: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes? Greetings all; I have been having a lot of fun with the KX3, but thought I would try the challenge of QRP to QRP contacts. Currently they occur randomly; are there QRP watering holes (Frequency ranges that QRPers congregate around) that I might improve the odds? I ask this both for CW and SSB... Thanks 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Dave, in addition to QRP ARCI, there is NAQCC (North American QRP CW CLub) at http://naqcc.info/ 73, Stan WB2LQF On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM, David F. Reed wrote: Greetings all; I have been having a lot of fun with the KX3, but thought I would try the challenge of QRP to QRP contacts. Currently they occur randomly; are there QRP watering holes (Frequency ranges that QRPers congregate around) that I might improve the odds? I ask this both for CW and SSB... Thanks 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Thanks all, those were good suggestions! 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
There is also HFPack - and since these guys are often pedestrian, they are usually QRP. So try also try HFPack calling frequencies. 14.060, 7030, 10160, 3560, ... Are typically reserved for QRP CW For sideband there is 14385 and a few others Ariel NY4G Sent from my iPad On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:26 AM, David F. Reed w5sv.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all, those were good suggestions! 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
10160? 14385? Guess these must be typos... ny4g wrote 14.060, 7030, 10160, 3560, ... Are typically reserved for QRP CW For sideband there is 14385 and a few others 73 Richard - Richard - HB9ANM -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-QRP-watering-holes-tp7559821p7559830.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Should be 14.060, 7040, 10106, 10116, 3560. Matt -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Squire - HB9ANM Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:10 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes? 10160? 14385? Guess these must be typos... ny4g wrote 14.060, 7030, 10160, 3560, ... Are typically reserved for QRP CW For sideband there is 14385 and a few others 73 Richard - Richard - HB9ANM -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-QRP-watering-holes-tp7559821p7559830.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Give the QRP Fox Hunts a try. Details here: http://www.qrpfoxhunt.org/ It's a weekly blast. For 90 minutes you, along with many other hounds try to make contact with two foxes. A QSO with proper exchange of info - RST, State, Name, Power - earns you a pelt. Maximum power is 5 watts but you can try QRPp - 1 watt or less - to earn your pelt. The Summer season is in full swing on 20 meters with Thursday night hunts. There is also a winter season with hunts on 80 and 40 meters on Tuesday and Thursday nights respectively. Check out the website for rules, tips and schedules. And join the QFox Yahoo group - q...@yahoogroups.com - for hunt announcements and chat. You'll love it! Brian, K0DTJ On 7/26/2012 8:24 AM, stan levandowski wrote: Dave, in addition to QRP ARCI, there is NAQCC (North American QRP CW CLub) at http://naqcc.info/ 73, Stan WB2LQF On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM, David F. Reed wrote: Greetings all; I have been having a lot of fun with the KX3, but thought I would try the challenge of QRP to QRP contacts. Currently they occur randomly; are there QRP watering holes (Frequency ranges that QRPers congregate around) that I might improve the odds? I ask this both for CW and SSB... Thanks 73 de Dave, W5SV __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Also, there is activity on both 7030 and 7040. For many years 7040 was *the* CW QRP frequency in the USA, but Europeans used 7030 because, IIRC, 7040 was right on the bottom end of their phone band. So North American hams started shifting to 7030 to work them. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Zilmer Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:29 AM To: Richard Squire - HB9ANM; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes? Should be 14.060, 7040, 10106, 10116, 3560. Matt __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Hello, Hams using the little Rock-Mite 500mw pocket radios are a bit below the usual frequencies, mostly around 7029 and 14059, CW. There are about 9000 of these floating around... Gil. -- New site: http://radiopreppers.com PGP Key: http://keskydee.com/gil.asc __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
Whenever I work the QRP frequencies, I assume the other station may be rock-bound or using a very simple direct-conversion receiver that has no offset control so their transmit frequency is off of their receive frequency by the frequency of the beat note. I always assume they may be spread out as much as 1 kHz. If I call CQ, I tune up a kHz or two and down a kHz or two listening for calls. Also, when running QRO I stay at least 1 kHz above or below the QRP frequency to avoid 'stepping on' a QRP operator using a simple receiver with minimal selectivity. That's a nice feature of 30 meters. Once can only crush 200 watt rocks there, Hi! 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Hello, Hams using the little Rock-Mite 500mw pocket radios are a bit below the usual frequencies, mostly around 7029 and 14059, CW. There are about 9000 of these floating around... Gil. -- __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
On 7/26/2012 11:05 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Also, there is activity on both 7030 and 7040. For many years 7040 was *the* CW QRP frequency in the USA, but Europeans used 7030 because, IIRC, 7040 was right on the bottom end of their phone band. So North American hams started shifting to 7030 to work them. There's also an increasing amount of digital stuff just above 7030, at least here on the west coast. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: QRP watering holes?
7038-7050 is very badly plagued by untouchable intruders (Москва), here in EU, so pretty much unusable. I think this is why nobody plans anything in that range. I wish they would realize the Cold War was over. 73, Thomas M0TRN On 26 July 2012 23:33, Fred Jensen k6...@foothill.net wrote: On 7/26/2012 11:05 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Also, there is activity on both 7030 and 7040. For many years 7040 was *the* CW QRP frequency in the USA, but Europeans used 7030 because, IIRC, 7040 was right on the bottom end of their phone band. So North American hams started shifting to 7030 to work them. There's also an increasing amount of digital stuff just above 7030, at least here on the west coast. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
