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11 meter is very quiet?
- Thread starter Tweetybird
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Always try! You never know!
My 1st ssb contact ever in the tropics was on a barefoot mobile hooked to the 4' firestick on my pickup. Sometimes Mother Nature really helps you out
AmericanEagle575
Supporting Sr. Member WDX-1863
It's not always about how much power you run,it's if the Conditions in the sky and sunspot activity cooperates if I remember correctly, Keep trying,back in the 90s I had a Galaxy Saturn 25 Watt on SSB hooked to a antron 99,worked almost the entire world!!
This is one of the reasons I VERY much prefer SSB over AM. It makes things so much easier even with low power. I am on the east coast of Canada and my first DX was with a Midland 13-898B, 23 channel SSB base with a 5/8 wave groundplane and the stock 12 watts pep. My very first QSL card EVER was from Nanortalik Greenland. I worked all over Europe and well into the USA and some West Indies stations with that until I upgraded the antenna and radio and eventually built a small amplifier and ran 100 watts At that point it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
There's quite a few pieces to the DX puzzle and big radiated power is not the most important one. Location, location, location. Antenna, antenna, antenna.
A radio with a quality receiver is also important. Few CBs/Exports have one. Thought mine did until I was fortunate enough to get a quality receiver. Huge difference.
No doubt you will get there in the end.
73 sir
It's all about propagation. If you do not have conditions no amount of power is going to make the trip. I have worked a ton of stations from Europe and South America that were running 100 watts with a quality antenna that were booming in.
Lol
These idiots used to be members here.
They sit on 38 because they have nothing valid to do with there life, switching to another channel untill the band changes works well.
They park on 38 because they get a rise out of people dumb enough to argue with them on the air.
73
Jeff
Being in this hobby for a better part of 40 yrs I think I have a pretty good idea how things work.
I have a pretty good setup, it's not the greatest or best, but it works for me. I have had better setups but life changed and had to make sacrifices.
Now I sit here and wait for the cycle to change.
I have a pretty good setup, it's not the greatest or best, but it works for me. I have had better setups but life changed and had to make sacrifices.
Now I sit here and wait for the cycle to change.
Roger on your experience. Your posts made it sound as if you were not. Just trying to assist.
73