best HF band?

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:57 pm

Hi everyone.
for those people out there who are active on the HF bands, just woundering out of the 80 40 15 and 10 meter band which is the best, most popular, most longest distance during the day band to use?

Post by **vk6hgr** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:10 pm

slipknot wrote:Hi everyone.
for those people out there who are active on the HF bands, just woundering out of the 80 40 15 and 10 meter band which is the best, most popular, most longest distance during the day band to use?

Broadly speaking, the higher the frequency, the better it is as a day band.

Check this thread out which will answer your question in more depth:

http://warsug.info/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4885

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:32 pm

thanks gavin

Post by **meg** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:06 pm

slipknot wrote:Hi everyone.
for those people out there who are active on the HF bands, just woundering out of the 80 40 15 and 10 meter band which is the best, most popular, most longest distance during the day band to use?

Are you thinking of getting an antenna(s) for a specific band? If so, I'll be interested to hear what you decide on

I'm a bit taken by this dudes idea at the moment, but don't have 17 acres handy...

http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/wieser/future.htm

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:11 pm

mayby 15 meters meg, i had a look at that page on the wia website and it says that on 15 meters you can get world wide coverage during the day, well thats what it says anyway so i think i might go for that. as soon as i get my next pay check ill be sending the order through for my radio, unfortunatly my work only pays us once a fornight

just at a glance thats guys ambitions looked big meg

Post by **robbage** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:13 pm

Holy heck, that's 268 metres diameter.

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:14 pm

wow this guy is insane what hes trying to accomplish

oh and guess what, everyone prommised not to get angry at me for bad spelling anymore

Post by **VK6ZMS** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:20 pm

slipknot wrote:mayby 15 meters meg, i had a look at that page on the wia website and it says that on 15 meters you can get world wide coverage during the day,

15 meters is good when the 11 year solar cycle stars to pick up.
At the moment we are at the bottom of it with no sunspots as I write this.

Post by **meg** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:21 pm

It certainly is enormous. I'd have to convince 3 neighbours to have wires over their properties (as well as ours) to put up that one!

Cool idea though

I've found that there seems to be more activity at night than day, and since I'm at home at night I'll have a look at what bands do better then. The dipole (once it's higher) should be OK for general all band stuff though. Well, it's working now so long as I don't want to hear people in WA

We do have the best AM radio reception in the area now though.

Post by **meg** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:22 pm

VK6ZMS wrote: 15 meters is good when the 11 year solar cycle stars to pick up.
At the moment we are at the bottom of it with no sunspots as I write this.

NASA are predicting the drought has broken!

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... list199309

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:22 pm

thanks meg

so i guess that means its ok

Post by **meg** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:29 pm

I think it just means it's going to improve.

I looked at some charts of sunspot activity across the solar cycles at some stage, and I recall that once it starts up again it ramps up fairly quickly. Definitely a better time to be getting into it now than a year ago when the sunspot activity was slowly dwindling down to the nothing it's been for the last month.

Post by **VK6ZMS** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:30 pm

meg wrote:
VK6ZMS wrote: 15 meters is good when the 11 year solar cycle stars to pick up.
At the moment we are at the bottom of it with no sunspots as I write this.
NASA are predicting the drought has broken!

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... list199309

Good news but we need a lot more sunspots before the fun starts.

Post by **meg** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:33 pm

VK6ZMS wrote:Good news but we need a lot more sunspots before the fun starts.

Hopefully by the time it does, both slipknot and I will be ready for it

This is the chart (or similar to) that I was referring to of sunspot cycles previously.

http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Radio ... -19-23.gif

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:54 am

is there a particular band on hf that everyone here on warsug likes and uses the most? mayby I should start a poll.

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