BITX QSO Night, Sunday, September 3, 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. Repeat your CQ call on the quarter hour (every 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 starting at 7pm in each time zone. The band tends to improve as the night goes on, so please call CQ and monitor through the evening.?

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!

Due to a fallen tree branch, my antenna is down and I will.be unable to participate for an undetermined amount of time.? :(

Sorry to hear that! Hope you get back on quickly!
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John - WA2FZW

Hope you are back soon Paul. I'll miss your reliable signal.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:34 pm, Ian Litchfield wrote:

I'm a little lost by this announcement. What exactly do you mean by local time??

Ian Litchfield KD2IXL

7PM in whatever time zone you are?in, although those of us in the Eastern time zone often hang around at 8PM local and 9PM local to see if we can contact anyone out west.

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John - WA2FZW

I consider 7.277 (and 7.177) a full time calling frequency for Bitx40.
I would encourage people to call any evening at anytime- someone may be monitoring.
If we only do this on Sunday evening we could hit bad propagation every week.

John
KC9OJV

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 02:59 pm, John KC9OJV wrote:

If we only do this on Sunday evening we could hit bad propagation every week

And, pretty much,?so far we have!
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John - WA2FZW

Agreed on the one night a week vs prop.

I too listen often either on my bitx or my Ft-891.

What I have noticed is 7.277 is very close to a few nets and rag chew watering holes.

Don't know what we can do about it as I would think most spots will have that QRM in one time zone or another.

But I am all for more nights a week as well as PSK31 and am happy to SKED most nights.

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73

? David

??? N8DAH

The band should be wide open since I ?will be away from the rig tonight. Y'all have fun.

Didn't hear anything on 7.277 when I tried at 7PM Eastern. Well, actually I heard major QRM from 7.265, the Tennessee QSO party. I made one contact on that frequency.

Then I tried again around 8:30 Eastern and made the following contacts:
W1LY - Willy - RI
VE3MLM - Robert - ON
VE3THR - Thomas - ON
N8DLP - Kevin - OH (the strongest I heard tonight)

73,
Kevin
KN4AAG

I was hearing a station off freq from 7.277 so I tuned up to find K4TCG in Tennessee doing the QSO party. He became my first QSO on the BitX!

On 7.277 I've only heard sounds of distant stations but can't make out a word of it.

Vince.

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Michigan VHF Corp.

?Been having a round going come join us.

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?W1LY

?VE3MLM

?W0PWE

?WA9DOH

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?? 73

?? David

???? N8DAH

Still not hearing anything intelligible. I *was* planning on making a postage stamp dipole today. Wound the coils last nite. This morning's plumbing project didn't finish till a few mins before 7pm and was quite costly!

Vince.

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Michigan VHF Corp.

I had a QSO with Jerry, W0PWE in Iowa at about 6:45 CDT.? Very good signal and audio.? The Tennessee QSO party interfered with my participation in the BitX net from then on. I made a couple of TN QSO party contacts as well. (K4CTG, AB4GG)
Dave, KI4PSR

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