[VHFcontesting] [VHF] Beacon Subbands and CW

James French w8iss at wideopenwest.com
Mon Jun 21 21:11:50 PDT 2010


Steve, how were they messing up QSO's? I heard beacons between 50.060 and 
50.080MHZ this weekend and not one station in there at all. The stations I did 
find were below the beacons I heard at 50.060MHz.

I even made a couple of CW contacts on 6m, a first for me...:)

James W8ISS
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On Sunday 20 June 2010 08:13:16 Crownhaven wrote:
> Actually, the beacons are messing up important QSOs......:)))))))  I
> guess the CW portion of the band is so crowded during this enhanced
> propagation that folks are moving lower and lower to find a place to
> operate.  I was seeing DX spotted down to 50070 yesterday.......I
> couldn't copy one of them due to a domestic beacon.
> 
> Steve, N4JQQ, EM55


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