Topband: SSB splatter problems during contest

JV kt4u@earthlink.net
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:25:54 -0500


         Wasn't me. I ran one watt, made eight contacts in thirty minutes, 
patted myself on the back and went to bed, hi hi. BTW, I like the band 
plan. Hope it catches on.
JV
QTH, the Blueridge Mountains of Virginia.

At 09:41 AM 26-02-02 -0500, gary nichols wrote:
> >         Ken, we should always be operating using properly adjusted
> > equipment...CW and SSB.  One interesting thing I noticed this weekend
> > was some very bad S9+20 splatter below 1825.  It must have been coming
> > from a station well up the band because I could not find a fundamental
> > signal to correlate it with nearby.
>
>Hi Bill,
>
>It was coming from a station in Virginia on 1912kHz. It took nearly
>a half-hour to find him!
>
>He was only 20 over 9 on 1912, and 10 over on 1820-24! That's why
>he was so hard to find.
>73, Tom W8JI