BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 1, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.

Join us as we make contacts from BITX40 to BITX40 on 7.277 MHz in 40 meters!

This is a worldwide event for BITX40 stations starting at 7pm in each time zone. To participate, call CQ BITX on Sunday, starting at?3PM and/or 7PM?your local time. The BITX QSO Night continues through the evening and conditions usually improve after sunset, so it is worthwhile to participate later in the evening.

Suggested Best Operating Practices:

Work at QRP power levels unless conditions require more power.
Call and listen for CQ BITX on the hour and every quarter hour.
It is helpful if you call CQ BITX with your callsign, name and location.?
Repeat your callsign a number of times during your CQ BITX and during QSO's.
Start a QSO by confirming the callsign, location, name and signal report of the other operator.
Say the callsign, name and location of the other operator so others can hear.
If the frequency is busy, avoid long conversations.
After your initial QSO is complete, ask if there are any other stations who would like to contact.

Report your QSO's, discuss propagation, noise, signal reports, audio reports, antenna type, etc. in this thread.

This is an undirected, scheduled event.? The BITX QSO Night relies on you to call CQ BITX to initiate contacts with other stations, so warm up that final and transmit a few calls on Sunday evening.? Talk to you then!
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John - WA2FZW

Will be running portable qrp/100W with end fed wire and poss 40M dipole wx permitting this weekend from EN96. Will be on 7.277 - extremely quiet on friday up here - no broadcast QRM so far. Try freq anytime day or night - call CQ ... Let's get talking!
73 Tom VE3THR/p

where are you guys hanging out today? what frequecy?

7277 Is pretty quiet here!
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John - WA2FZW

I'm on!
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John - WA2FZW

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just put up the monster - 80M OCFD into the trees? -? 30 deg F and 6" fresh snow- perfect antenna wx! - will be listening 7.277 to 7.278 unless someone wants to try another band. Should be on all day now.
73 Tom

I'm on 7277 again! Pretty quiet here!
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John - WA2FZW

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Tom, your signal here was about the same first time you called on the other antenna. Not hearing you now.

Could just barely hear Rick (KN4AIE) before.
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John - WA2FZW

Could hear WI1B talking to Tom
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John - WA2FZW

I could hear several conversations. ?Didn't catch any call signs. ? Didn't hear any responses to my CQ calls.
Doug
AC9RZ ?

Well things picked up nicely this evening, had confirmed qso's with KN4AIE Rick in TN, N6ORS Keith in WI, N8DLP Kevin in OH, AC9PD Larry in WI, W1LY Willy in RI, WA2FZW John in MA and WI1B Ken in Ma. Congratulations to a couple of 1st time uBITXer's. Some great sounding, some at the noise level and some light audio. Conditions were a heck of a lot better today than in the past months. Keep working them BITX's. So far the BITX40 is proving to be a solid monoband rig.
73 Tom VE3THR/p in EN96

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 06:36 pm, Tom VE3THR wrote:

WA2FZW John in MA

Never?believe everything you read on the internet! I'm still in NJ (home of the never-ending winter)!
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John - WA2FZW

I heard several voices Rhode Island, Chattanooga, Canada and some others. We had a snow storm during the day maybe my antenna was a bit shorted. Called cq bitx quite a bit and no response. Wasn't able to get out at all yesterday evening even though the band seemed pretty good.?
ke0pvo
dave

Well John, I left green grass and + temps for a snow storm and - temps up north here...who wooda thunk??? She ain't over yet - snow again tomorrow!
Maybe next week or some eve...give me a call on 7.277 anytime.
73 Tom

It even snowed here today!?
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John - WA2FZW