Great contact, River man. Too bad the conditions are what they are on this end I have a lot of bleed from AM stations nearby.Made contact with Greg T (WDX 945).
He was booming into North Texas loud and clear.
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Reclaim LSB 16
- Thread starter Rick330man
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I could hear both of you in that conversation, but neither of you were picking me up. I also heard you about half an hour earlier. You are making the trip to Miami, FLA.Made contact with Greg T (WDX 945).
He was booming into North Texas loud and clear.
Just made a solid contact with Riverman on LSB 16. Swinging the needle into the cherry patch!
305 in Fresno, CA was next in line to chat with Riverman. I could hear him. Also picked him up yesterday.
305 in Fresno, CA was next in line to chat with Riverman. I could hear him. Also picked him up yesterday.
A 41 year old Realistic TRC 490 Navaho SSB and a Turner Super Sidekick driving a Workman "6 Hub" Starduster made up of a 30 year old Radio Shack 102" fiberglass whip for a vertical radiator and 3 Radio Shack downward sloping stainless steel 102" whips. No kicker, no peaks or tweaks: just legal everything and mother nature.
It works!
It works!
How was the audio on my back-up rig? It's hard to set up right when ya cant hear yourself.
Made contact with 404 earlier while the band was just heating up with AMers.
Your settings are on the mark. I recognized you the second your started hailing, so you sound like yourself. There's no distortion. Good audio quality.
Confirmed. Got it down for 1:11P.M. eastern time. By about 3:00P.M. the skip almost completely shut down, so our timing was good.
As you and others have noted, the biggest problems were (1) lots of AMers today and (2) splatter from AM 15 and AM 17. Nevertheless, contacts were made.
Made my first and only contact on 16LSB today with 572 Arizona mobile to mobile! There is a group of locals near me on 16 AM that operate pretty often and I don't operate sideband when they're talking. Sometimes I go to AM and join them, nice group...
YOUR OPINIONS TO IMPROVE OUR LSB 16 NET:
It has taken a few years, but we've been running this LSB 16 net regularly now for a few months. We've gone from monthly, to every 2 weeks to now being weekly. We operate two days a week - Saturday and Sunday - as opposed to at a given day and time each week. A few of you have commented on interference from either AM 16 traffic or bleed-over from AM 15 or AM 17. Two questions:
(1) Do you like the weekly week-end schedule or would you prefer something else?
(2) Considering the bleed-over from AM 6, AM 15 and AM 17; the traffic and potential bleed-over from AM 19; and our wanting to include the folks with 23 channel rigs: do we need to consider a back-up frequency to QSY to? LSB 23 (27.255) offers a fair amount of separation from the active channels, but I can see the potential for AM 28 bleed-over being a problem. Maybe LSB 22? Suggestions?
It has taken a few years, but we've been running this LSB 16 net regularly now for a few months. We've gone from monthly, to every 2 weeks to now being weekly. We operate two days a week - Saturday and Sunday - as opposed to at a given day and time each week. A few of you have commented on interference from either AM 16 traffic or bleed-over from AM 15 or AM 17. Two questions:
(1) Do you like the weekly week-end schedule or would you prefer something else?
(2) Considering the bleed-over from AM 6, AM 15 and AM 17; the traffic and potential bleed-over from AM 19; and our wanting to include the folks with 23 channel rigs: do we need to consider a back-up frequency to QSY to? LSB 23 (27.255) offers a fair amount of separation from the active channels, but I can see the potential for AM 28 bleed-over being a problem. Maybe LSB 22? Suggestions?
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I personally like the weekend schedule as we have right now , and I think it would be good to have a backup channel either 22 or 23 LSB just in case , either one works for me!!!! Really enjoy and look forward every weekend to firing up the Ranger and making new contacts and being able to talk with my Radio Friends!!!
73's
Steve
WDX -1863
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LSB16 has been the go to channel but with bleed over an alternate would be helpful. I like the schedule we have neen using. That said, if we try lsb 23 and it works better than 16 great. If not we find something that works and go with it.
Thanks,
Harry (WDX659)
Thanks,
Harry (WDX659)
I think you're on to something here. Experimenting with other other channels can only benefit the efforts, whether it works out or not. For me, LSB 16 always seems to be a hot mess on most days, so if there's another channel below 23 that works better, it would definitely help. Anyway.. just my 2 dollars. = (inflation)
I vote for Weekly Weekends and Ch 22 as a backup.
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