Reply With Quote7 MHz to 21 MHz CW slow speed with hand key. I use KENT engineering key.
20 to 50 watts with HF vertical ANT.
some 2 mtr FM simplex.
Any of you 15m people - whats it like??? I know the 20 is very often? occupied by contests so I was looking for a place that would get me a few contacts with 10w and a resonant dipole on SSB, but not would not be "manic" :-)
7 MHz to 21 MHz CW slow speed with hand key. I use KENT engineering key.
20 to 50 watts with HF vertical ANT.
some 2 mtr FM simplex.
40 20 and 15m is about my limit due to antenna. 20m was my first choice for a while but i'm now finding 40 just as much fun. As for mode, i'm a CW only op' so that's me across the board
10 Meters in the USA is probably the best band to work for a new radio operator.
It does not require a large antenna, " I have worked 3500 miles on a Solarcon 99a antenna up 20' off the ground, some real crappy RG 8 Radio Shack coax, A Ranger 2950 mobile 25 watt radio on SSB.
My furthest contact was Gibralter Spain 6 AM EST the morning of Field Days.
10 meters in the summertime is a lot of fun because technically after 6 meters is the largest band of all the Amateur Radio bands in the USA.
Unless there is a contest, there is not a lot of people on the 10 meters.
That is the downfall - when there is a contest, the 20 / 40 / 75 and 160 meters people comes down with their amplifiers and tries to talk over one another.
When there is not a contest - I hear people say all the time that the band is not open.
A very good indicator of band openings is to listen to the Citizens Band Radio, most popular channels in my area is channel 4 and channel 19 and channel 40.
If you can hear skip on those frequencies, then you should know that 10 meters is also open or is going to open soon, because one MHz of frequency is nothing in the amateur radio world.
The furthest that I have talked QRP was San Diego California on 5 watts, where the person talking to me was also using 5 watts.
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