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Interesting Comment
Richard Rohrer
I found this comment posted on another group.
"The new regime at the 070 Club lost sight of the 070 Club traditions several years ago. A lot of the OT’s quit or went SK. The ‘we know better’ newbies killed the premiere PSK club and it has not recovered. " I did not know the 070 group was dead and who killed it? 73 Dick - KC3EF
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Re: 6 meter?
Stephen Melachrinos <melachri@...>
I called CQ for a while too, but haven't seen anything on the waterfall.
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Steve
W3HF
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From: John Hendry <archer@...> To: 070Club <070Club@groups.io> Sent: Fri, Jul 6, 2018 12:07 am Subject: Re: [070Club] 6 meter? I'm CQing like crazy at 35 watts. I did a few FT8 before I fired up PSK.
Im at 50.291412 mHz John
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Re: 6 meter?
Not seeing much
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From: 070Club@groups.io [mailto:070Club@groups.io] On Behalf Of John Hendry
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 7:44 PM To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: [070Club] 6 meter?
6 meter might be open. Anyone interested in trying 50.290? i'm going to send out some CQs around 0000.
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Re: 6 meter?
I'm CQing like crazy at 35 watts. I did a few FT8 before I fired up PSK.
Im at 50.291412 mHz John
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Re: 6 meter?
Stephen Melachrinos <melachri@...>
I'm here.
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Steve
W3HF
FN20
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hendry <archer@...> To: 070Club <070Club@groups.io> Sent: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 11:44 pm Subject: [070Club] 6 meter? 6 meter might be open. Anyone interested in trying 50.290? i'm going to send out some CQs around 0000.
John KG5OIB
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6 meter?
6 meter might be open. Anyone interested in trying 50.290? i'm going to send out some CQs around 0000.
John KG5OIB
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Welcome
Please join me in
welcoming our new PODXS070 member(s).
2644 Ray W8CON -- Jim, K5SP #483 Member Services Director
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J32FIFA
JORDI TARRIDA
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Re: OT: The Chase!
Have not even heard them once yet Tom
------ Original Message ------
From: "K8TOM" <tsingle@...>
Sent: 7/3/2018 11:00:02 AM
Subject: [070Club] OT: The Chase! Ray, -- Scotty W7PSK Everett, Washington 070 #138
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
I was going on K9WIS's statement. As stated , it would have been illegal, but it is open to interpretation. Jerry n9avy
From: Ray Clements <r.clements@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent When you use the Expedition mode, you have to attend the station at all times. The software will transmit 4 or 5 times and then quits. You have to click the button that enables transmit to reinitiate. Otherwise, your station goes silent. If you are going to criticize the mode, at least get your facts right. Ray N9RWC -------- Original Message -------- From: Jerry N9AVY Sent: Tue, Jul 3, 2018 07:07 PM To: 070Club@groups.io CC: Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent That could be construed as an "unattended beacon" which by definition is is not legal. But am sure no one knows or cares. Jerry n9avy From: B C <k9wis@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Cc: Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent I also noticed a new DXing technique since the advent of FT-8 and the KH1/KH7 dxpedition...Apparently you just start calling KH7 and leave it on for 30 minutes at a time hoping they notice you and respond..I see the beacons running all day here.. Brian K9WIS ---- Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> wrote: ============= Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm feeling better now. Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
Ray Clements
When you use the Expedition mode, you have to attend the station at all times. The software will transmit 4 or 5 times and then quits. You have to click the button that enables transmit to reinitiate. Otherwise, your station goes silent.
-------- Original Message -------- From: Jerry N9AVY Sent: Tue, Jul 3, 2018 07:07 PM To: 070Club@groups.io CC: Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent That could be construed as an "unattended beacon" which by definition is is not legal. But am sure no one knows or cares. Jerry n9avy From: B C <k9wis@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Cc: Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent I also noticed a new DXing technique since the advent of FT-8 and the KH1/KH7 dxpedition...Apparently you just start calling KH7 and leave it on for 30 minutes at a time hoping they notice you and respond..I see the beacons running all day here.. Brian K9WIS ---- Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> wrote: ============= Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm feeling better now. Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
Wonder how there doing that
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I can only call for about 2 minutes without restarting if I get no reply ======================== de N2MLP Brian Monroe County PA ========================
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From: 070Club@groups.io [mailto:070Club@groups.io] On Behalf Of B C Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 7:44 PM To: 070Club@groups.io Cc: Rick - N7WE Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent I also noticed a new DXing technique since the advent of FT-8 and the KH1/KH7 dxpedition...Apparently you just start calling KH7 and leave it on for 30 minutes at a time hoping they notice you and respond..I see the beacons running all day here.. Brian K9WIS ---- Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@gmail.com> wrote: ============= Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm feeling better now. Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
That could be construed as an "unattended beacon" which by definition is is not legal. But am sure no one knows or cares. Jerry n9avy
From: B C <k9wis@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Cc: Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent I also noticed a new DXing technique since the advent of FT-8 and the KH1/KH7 dxpedition...Apparently you just start calling KH7 and leave it on for 30 minutes at a time hoping they notice you and respond..I see the beacons running all day here.. Brian K9WIS ---- Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@...> wrote: ============= Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm feeling better now. Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
B C <k9wis@...>
I also noticed a new DXing technique since the advent of FT-8 and the KH1/KH7 dxpedition...Apparently you just start calling KH7 and leave it on for 30 minutes at a time hoping they notice you and respond..I see the beacons running all day here..
Brian K9WIS ---- Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@gmail.com> wrote: ============= Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm feeling better now. Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
Wow! And to think I worked New Zealand last week on FT-8 with a measly 40 watts. The most I've used on PSK is 80 watts, and that was to reach a contact in Venezuela.
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Re: N2MLP broke through (from PA!)
David Yockey
They are on 40 CW EVERY MORNING between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Dave, K8CMO
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Steve R via Groups.Io <oldjavadrinker@...> wrote:
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Is this ...
...becoming an FT-8 Club ???
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Re: OT - But I have to vent
People can run all the power (in KW) that they feel they need, but they have to be able to hear the other end of QSO. Think this may be the "Tim 'the tool man' Taylor" syndrome, uh, uh, uh ! Or we can attribute it to CB mentality. The only time one needs extra power is when they're trying to break a "pile up". Worked my 300+ DXCC on SSB & CW using 100 watts. Plus , a friend of mine told me a long time ago that many of the high power (10 kw.) guys had/will die from brain cancer. Jerry n9avy
From: Brian Wolf Leverich <leverich@...> To: 070Club@groups.io Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [070Club] OT - But I have to vent FWIW, that's fairly normal. There are plenty of stations on FT-8 running legal limit. And some Russians at 20KW, I suspect. hihihihi FT-8 is a "weak signal" mode, not a "low power" mode. Since the beginning, people have been running Taylor's creations at legal limit, often with ultra-high-gain antennas and very low noise figure preamps on the RX side. Now when the propagation gods are with you, you can work the world on QRP. But we're approaching a nasty solar minimum, and good openings are not that common. Stations with good ears and running QRO give the rest of the FT-8 community the opportunity to work DX in even fairly abysmal conditions ... It's a pity that (I think) PSK is much more fragile than FT-8 with respect to QRO, or I'd be really yanking the PSK folks who can hear well (have quiet QTHs) to go QRO just so we have somebody to talk with. As it is, the PSK bands look pretty much dead most of the time out here on the Left Coast. Even in contests when you can be pretty sure there will be someone on the air on the other side of any openings, right now making QSOs on PSK is like pulling teeth. :( 73 de WA6I On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 06:46:37AM -0700, Rick - N7WE wrote: > Just saw this on a different group that I'm subscribed to. "I'm running my > (deleted to protect innocent equipment) on FT-8 mode at about 400 watts > output, what is the recommended setting for..." Part 97 says minimum power > to maintain communications. Wonder if he is communicating with the Mars > Rover? Or maybe it is his light bulb antenna. But probably just trying to > break the Fox and Hound pileup for KH1/KH7Z. Thanks for the vent... I'm > feeling better now. > > Rick - N7WE > 070 - #1602
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Re: N2MLP broke through (from PA!)
Steve VA3FLF/KM4FLF
I understand the PSK reporter site and how that ties together with most digital modes.
Can someone give me a down and dirty readers digest version of how all the other spotting programs are tied together. I use HRD and there are several nodes the most common is WA9PIE. I have used DX Summit and it seems to be very much in line with WA9. I think there are others such as HRDlognet, and DX cluster, etc. How do all these guys / sites link together and is there one better than another?
Steve VA3FLF 2301
From: Ray Clements
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 1:06 PM To: 070Club@groups.io Subject: Re: [070Club] N2MLP broke through (from PA!)
Tom
The official Baker Island web site lists the various frequencies that they are using for each band and mode.
http://baker2018.net/pages/plan.html
You can also use one of the spotting websites like DX Summit to check to see where they are working at any given time. This link below shows spots only for KH1.
http://dxsummit.fi/#/?dx_calls=KH1
Ray N9RWC
------ Original Message ------ Congratulations on putting three KH7Z contacts in the log, Brian. I've been checking now and then on their announced FT8 QRGs but haven't seen them active on any band besides 20M (phone and digital), which I already have in the log. I am assuming your three bands are FT8 contacts...
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OT: The Chase!
Ray,
RR, I had earlier set up the FT-8 frequency selection list so that I can easily bounce to each of the KH7Z listed frequencies one at a time to check activity. I had checked the DX Summit page and set up a tab for that as well. I guess that its just a matter of timing.... At least a Pac NW QTH should certainly work in my and Scotty's favor for this one! And Milt in SoCal probably has them on 11 bands and all modes already, HI. Thanks for the helpful response and GL to all. 73, Tom K8TOM 815
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