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?
best HF band?
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Re: best HF band?
Broadly speaking, the higher the frequency, the better it is as a day band.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?
Check this thread out which will answer your question in more depth:
http://warsug.info/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4885
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Re: best HF band?
Are you thinking of getting an antenna(s) for a specific band? If so, I'll be interested to hear what you decide onslipknot 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?
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
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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
just at a glance thats guys ambitions looked big meg
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15 meters is good when the 11 year solar cycle stars to pick up.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,
At the moment we are at the bottom of it with no sunspots as I write this.
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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.
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.
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NASA are predicting the drought has broken!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.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... list199309
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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.
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.
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Good news but we need a lot more sunspots before the fun starts.meg wrote:NASA are predicting the drought has broken!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.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... list199309
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Hopefully by the time it does, both slipknot and I will be ready for itVK6ZMS wrote:Good news but we need a lot more sunspots before the fun starts.
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
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