[CQ-Contest] 40 meters on Saturday evening

Tree tree at kkn.net
Fri Feb 10 00:07:05 EST 2006


>From about 0100 to 0300 UTC, 40 meters should be very interesting.  There 
will likely be 3 major events all taking place at the same time - and the 
band will be very crowded.  

The three activities are the RTTY contest - the CW Sprint and the 3Y0PI 
pileup (or whomever it is that has that pileup - they never send their call).

In the past, the CW Sprinters have moved down the band and things worked 
out.  However, there is likely going to be a hornets nest of stations calling
the 3Y from 7025 up to about 7045.   Just this evening, I worked them when I
was on 7042.

I suspect you will find the CW Sprint operators splitting their time between
the extra band and up above the RTTY activity.  

Just a heads up so you won't be totally shocked when you QSY from 20 meters
down to 40 and wonder what the heck is going on.

73 Tree N6TR
tree at kkn.net


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