Someone once told me a good time to take off is around 1:00 PM Sunday when the
NFL football games start. The numbers somewhat confirm this - from 1500Z to
1800Z the number of stations on 40 meters has dropped from 3094 to 170 by
1800Z. My assumption is most of the stations that would of been on 40 at that
time would of been on the east coast/midwest. This time period would be a good
one to take time off or just switch to 20 meters and higher and concentrate
your runs on the west states in that time period. I think off times from 8-11 Z
are a must. Almost anytime on Sunday for the remaining 2 hours would be good.
Avoid taking any off time from when SS starts to 0500Z if possible...
Jeff
>
> From: W4OC@aol.com
> Date: 2003/10/30 Thu PM 04:55:16 EST
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] CW SS Hourly Band Activity
>
> FYI....
>
> tnx to N6TR...
>
> HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 TOTAL
> 2100 0 66 2296 5240 7923 15367 30892
> 2200 0 1 2198 5333 11198 12770 31500
> 2300 0 2 2960 7748 13145 5727 29582
> 0000 0 79 5652 10082 10942 1765 28520
> 0100 0 863 8542 12488 5693 40 27626
> 0200 0 3244 11287 11552 772 11 26866
> 0300 0 5765 14532 5903 8 10 26218
> 0400 0 7101 15450 3414 0 0 25965
> 0500 0 7743 14495 1433 0 1 23672
> 0600 0 7369 11517 280 0 0 19166
> 0700 1 5747 7664 22 0 1 13435
> 0800 0 2618 3850 1 0 5 6474
> 0900 0 697 893 0 70 73 1733
> 1000 0 142 697 50 33 11 933
> 1100 0 916 1931 55 0 17 2919
> 1200 0 2640 6188 458 20 4 9310
> 1300 0 453 9461 4050 269 72 14305
> 1400 0 4 5277 8427 3276 70 17054
> 1500 0 1 3094 8886 7104 1334 20419
> 1600 0 0 965 7552 7602 5087 21206
> 1700 0 0 581 5294 6557 7255 19687
> 1800 0 0 170 4401 6403 7288 18262
> 1900 0 0 487 4672 6707 6832 18698
> 2000 0 26 746 5201 6339 6126 18438
> 2100 0 0 1834 5186 6404 5106 18530
> 2200 0 17 2796 5400 7760 2679 18652
> 2300 0 401 4163 6356 6367 443 17730
> 0000 0 1544 5310 6617 3120 31 16622
> 0100 0 2613 6952 6291 474 0 16330
> 0200 0 4164 6502 4115 0 0 14781
>
> plan your off times accordingly.
>
> 73
>
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