Hi Pete
Repent ye all, for the end is nigh!!!! The
four horsemen cometh!!
It’s sunny bbq time so I’m out
enjoying the UV while it lasts!! Do the rest of us go into the “pit of
doom” when you go QRT to fiddle with your cars? J No.
Its time we upped your meds a bit, I think
you may have FAD (Frequency Affected Disorder)!! J
Anyway, a little bird (or rather a tall
one) told me had a CW QSO with you this weekend so all your talk of ethereal
wastelands is a bit overblown!
Also a quick look on the WSPR database
will reveal that there’s only ZJO beaconing stalwartly and he is vQRP and
occassionaly I am on with also QRP lash up so its not exactly the QRO scrum it
was sat least until XIZ fires up his beast.
I’ve got a big job interview this
week ( :-O) so am off air until weds but I’ll make you a deal, send me
some sked times and I will have a CW QSO with you and if you want you can even
do a shack visit for biscuits!
It's a dead band like the parrot it's an ex band.
Since the Data curse has fallen upon 600m, CW is dead. I was hoping that
600m would be a nice band to develop what little skill I have as a CW
op working stations like Mal, Chris and others but it is not to be.
CW qso's are few and far between and a lot of (wasted) time is spent
either calling or listening for these few treasured contacts on 600m. The
ludicrous one way non communication using old Joe Taylor's PC
software defeats my comprehension. I am very tempted to say it's a bad
job and Jack 600m in but I will maintain my CW tx and I may even
press ahead with my WSPR plans God help me. Now QSYing to 60m and
40m for further CW practise because 600m has not turned out to be the
band I was hoping for. Ten Metres is opening up regularly now with
Sporadic E openings to EU but very fast and powerful QSB so short overs
are the order of the day. A lot of ex Eastern Europeans booming in with
massive beams and probably power to match! (Ever wondered what happened
to all those old QRO jammers?).
Not a signal in QSO mode on 600 but some lovely signals on
6 metres, best dx worked a few minutes ago UZ5DZ on cw
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