[time-nuts] Amatuer Radio Information

[Luis Cupido]

 > Sorry for the extreme off-topic, but it's just to witness that VHF
 > isn't dead and many of us don't even have HF antennas and still enjoy
 > the activity in the VHF challenging bands all the year.

Yeap , you're right...

I'm only active from 1296MHz and above, and I could have activity (both 
building/setting-up and operating) orders of magnitude higher than I 
could possibly handle.

My 2cents to help changing the general misconception that above HF there
is very little do do... On the contrary...


 > many of us don't even have HF antennas

Hummm... What is HF ???  ;-) :-)


Luis Cupido
ct1dmk.
http://w3ref.cfn.ist.utl.pt/cupido/

..... Opssss... this one was very off-topic, my apologies.
Although I posted it at a very precise time ;-)



francesco messineo wrote:
> On 11/25/09, Robert Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>  Out here I'm almost exclusively on HF bands using the modern digital
>>  communications modes like PSK31.  The first license (Technician) will not
>>  get you on the HF bands unless you count 6 meter (50MHz) as HF.
> 
> well, 6m isn't anything like HF (imho).
> 
>>  In 10 years
>>  I haven't heard a soul on 6 so I don't really even bother with listening
>>  anymore.  To get on HF, the General license will get you 95% of what Extra
> 
> wow... I think I worked something like 90 dxcc countries with modest
> setup in less than three years (but that was in 2001-2003).
> For sure I worked all europe and all african active countries with 10W
> into a homemade vertical J-pole antenna back in the best years of the
> last solar cycle.
> Now with a medium-sized beam in the right months I can work from USA
> to Japan (with 100W only).
> I see from the cluster spots that USA and all american continent are
> also much more blessed with 6m propagation all the year with respect
> to europe in this very low cycle minimum.
> Sorry for the extreme off-topic, but it's just to witness that VHF
> isn't dead and many of us don't even have HF antennas and still enjoy
> the activity in the VHF challenging bands all the year.
> Amateur radio has so many different aspect that any technical person
> can find always new challenging aspects to explore.
> No band is dead if someone has the right interest in it!
> 
> best 73
> F
> 
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