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BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 30, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere

 

BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 30, 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!

To participate, call CQ BITX at 7pm sharp, your local time, on Sunday. Call off and on for about 15 minutes. It is helpful if you call CQ BITX with your name and location.? Repeat your call a number of times if conditions are weak.

This is a worldwide event at 7pm in each time zone.? You may participate in any time zone, regardless of your location, so you may wish to call in at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm, your local time, to contact hams in adjacent time zones.

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 at 7pm on Sunday.? Talk to you then!
 

OK, we are on.? Let's hope for good band conditions.
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I called CQ, no response.? I listened and heard a W4.??Then I heard?N2CQR (VA) in QSO, later he called CQ, I answered and heard him return my call, then nothing.? After about 1/2 hour, I went QRT.? CU next week, 73, de Karl, KO8S
 

Conditions are tough, they may improve later in the evening.
 

I heard the first part of the KO8? call, but just couldn't get the suffix letter.? We can try again next week.? Thanks for the call.? 73? Bill?


On Sunday, July 30, 2017 7:58 PM, ktschwab via Groups.Io <ktschwab@...> wrote:


I called CQ, no response.? I listened and heard a W4.??Then I heard?N2CQR (VA) in QSO, later he called CQ, I answered and heard him return my call, then nothing.? After about 1/2 hour, I went QRT.? CU next week, 73, de Karl, KO8S


John P
 

Called CQ from 7 EDT until 7:15. Nothing heard!
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John - WA2FZW
 

Worked W4OBY (he was not on a BITX, but he HAS one in the works). ? Also worked KN4EAR and? KC8WBK. ?? Also talked to KI4PSR but he was not on his BITX (but he has 4!). ? 73? Bill N2CQR ?


On Sunday, July 30, 2017 8:06 PM, KC8WBK via Groups.Io <cruisenewsnet@...> wrote:


Conditions are tough, they may improve later in the evening.


 

Lots of QSB and QRM, but worked Tom VE3THR and Paul KC8WBK. Heard N2CQR, KC1FSZ and KI4PSR plus a couple of others.
Conditions didn't start to improve until about 7:30 or 8pm.
AL - VE3RRD
 

I heard Bill N2CQR and a couple others. I called CQ but got no responses (that I could hear).

John
KC9OJV
 

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N2CQR, KA4KXX,

I try to work one or two stations each Sunday night. Just to make sure my BitX40 is still working….

Last night was second Sunday in a row contact with N2CQR, this time heard him both amped and not. ?

QSO with KA4KXX, very interesting QRZ page….me being a new Ham…..I am going to have to work on mine.

W4OBY, I am guilty of finally getting him on the air on Sunday nights, he will be on that BitX40 really soon. ?

At the not too distant, WCARS hamfest the day before Sundays net, while sitting in his booth, I overheard him and another ham discussing which one had been licensed first….don’t recall which one, but both were before I was born (1955).

I am super excited about your QSO with Jim….our club has started a Builders Group, after I couldn’t get anyone to play with me (as readily as I wanted to play- which is all the time) so I pushed for and got it going. ?Jim is one of our Elmers. At our last builders group meeting Jim helped with the unboxing of two more BitX’s in the hands of new hams with nothing but questions.

This is such an exciting time….

Although I built a crystal radio in the sixties, and worked on a tube type radar in the 70’s….I just got my ham lic’s last oct….

So….things like soldersmoke, arduinos, 6L6’s, pixies, 49r’s, BitX’s, AD9850’s, TFT’s, B40’s, Ant Analyzers, oh my…..homebrewing….all exciting.

So, a while back, I came up with a building track of pixie to 49r to BitX40, with an arduino parallel track…..all of these things are getting hams to ask? what is behind the knob?

The one that is getting everyone involved? The BitX40…..of course I won’t tell them, until they are sitting down, that it has an arduino in it. ?And because of the BitX40…..Jim has all of the above, and the renewed sparkle in the eye interest in these new things…..still working on the smartphone with him, when I am not learning from him.

Just wanted to share….

The BitX40 has our club on fire….hard to keep track of how many have one…must be approaching 20.

So, keep these Sunday Nights going…..and listen for calls from East TN
Lakeway Amateur Radio Club W2IQ
WeCanHams ? Builders Group

Craig
KM4YEC


On Jul 31, 2017, at 4:33 AM, Bill Meara via Groups.Io <n2cqr@...> wrote:

Worked W4OBY (he was not on a BITX, but he HAS one in the works). ? Also worked KN4EAR and? KC8WBK. ?? Also talked to KI4PSR but he was not on his BITX (but he has 4!). ? 73? Bill N2CQR ?


On Sunday, July 30, 2017 8:06 PM, KC8WBK via Groups.Io <cruisenewsnet@...> wrote:


Conditions are tough, they may improve later in the evening.



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