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BITX QSO Night, Sunday, May 7, 9pm Local Time, 7.179 MHz
Join us as we make contacts from BITX40 to BITX40 on 7.179 MHz in 40 meters!
To participate, call CQ BITX at 9pm 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 9pm in each time zone.? You may participate in any time zone, regardless of your location, so you may wish to call in at 8pm, 9pm and 10pm, your local time, whether you are on Daylight Savings Time or not. Feel free to call at other times on this frequency as well, however try to make yourself available at 9pm local time to call and listen.
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 those finals and transmit a few calls at 9pm on Sunday.? Talk to you then!
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This sounds like a fun event. I?ll try to remember to give it a try.? Chris WS5B
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I think this is a great idea, and I intend to give it a try now and then. But being a QRP activity, we might want to reach for the maximum advantage. Selecting a time near dusk in every time zone would add Greyline enhancement to the activity. My suggestion would be to try calling at local sundown, what ever the season might be. That 9 PM time will be good later this spring, but where I am located dusk is about 7:30 PM (CDT) right now. Speaking as a JT Op with WAS on several bands, when I picked up Alaska and Hawaii on 80-20m was just as the terminator crossed the stations at those locations (usually in November or December). Thats also when I got JA, VK, and ZL.
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I agree that we should try to use the best time for propagation.? However noise levels and propagation vary so much, the best strategy for QRP is always going to be jump in when conditions are good. Let's see if the QSO night becomes popular, if so, we might add local sunset to the schedule. Are the best conditions just after sunset?? From watching my WSPR beacon, I was spotted by stations to the east before dark, then later in the evening had long distance spots to the west.
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Well, I had my first "real" QSO with my bitx40 tonight. By "real" I mean that I called CQ and got a reply! Thanks to KK6QCV, Brad, who replied to my 7 watt call. The band was up and down, but we ended up having a very nice 10 minute QSO, and he reported that my bitx40 had very nice audio. Definitely worth the assembly effort and the Arduino hacking to use the rotary encoder! I was on 7.192 MHz. Carson City, NV to Riverside, CA on 7 watts. Not bad..
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Congratulations Dave!? 73? Bill N2CQR
On Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:18 AM, davetelling . <davetelling@...> wrote:
Well, I had my first "real" QSO with my bitx40 tonight. By "real" I mean that I called CQ and got a reply! Thanks to KK6QCV, Brad, who replied to my 7 watt call. The band was up and down, but we ended up having a very nice 10 minute QSO, and he reported that my bitx40 had very nice audio. Definitely worth the assembly effort and the Arduino hacking to use the rotary encoder! I was on 7.192 MHz. Carson City, NV to Riverside, CA on 7 watts. Not bad..
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I have been amazed at how far qrp ssb can reach.
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I have it on my calendar! I totally want to join in but, I live in an apartment, and because of space, I am not sure what type of an antenna to put up. The arrow is where I can operate from.
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It could be challenging this weekend? http://www.neqp.org/
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The QSO parties did not overload the bands with signals this evening, so hopefully there will be no interference tomorrow night.? I was able to make a few contacts MI to MA, CT and IN.? I had to fight my way in through minor pileups to get the QSO's so I am proud of them.? I think they get extra points for QRP QSO's, so I made sure to report QRP.
I put up a 270 foot delta loop on my workshop radio a few days ago, and it seems to be working. Looking forward to tomorrow's QSO night.
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We are switching to 9PM local right? I'll be on here in CA PST time.
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Yes, and you may wish to try at 7pm and 8pm as well to get the neighboring time zones.
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I will be listening/ calling from RI. Worked west coast with excption of AZ and NV last night with the BitX40 running 7 watts with battery pwr. Have worked 16 DX countries in last week with inverted V at 50 feet. This thing is amazing. There is something that sounds like over horizon radar hr in RI from 7.185 to 7.2 MHz. Willy W1LY
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:44 PM, KC8WBK via Groups.Io <cruisenewsnet@...> wrote: Yes, and you may wish to try at 7pm and 8pm as well to get the neighboring time zones.
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I only heard static here, sorry if missed anyone.
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Conditions not bad in Cleveland, a few contacts made in the NEQP
Kevin
I only heard static here, sorry if missed anyone.
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'Evening! ? I made a few calls on 7179. ?A guy in OK City fired up with 600W on 7178 and is wiping out any possibility of using 7179 at the moment. ?I'll see what happens after 9 central.
Andy KG5RKP
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Heavy sigh... heard nothing, no reply to multiple CQ's. I tried moving around a bit, but heard only a very strong station at 7176 or so.
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Same here Dave heard nothing. I just checked in to the 3905 late net, you should give it a shot the frequency is 7188.
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I made many CQ BITX calls between 2130 and 2200 CDT. ?No responses and no other stations heard other than at about 2138 when a male voice called "BITX40 awww-dio" twice. ?He didn't respond to a call. Next week. ;)
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Confirming two good contacts during the Eastern session: - WA9DOH, Larry (MA to IL). ?55, but readable.
- VE3RRD, Al (MA to Ontario Canada). ?Solid 57.
Thanks guys! Strong QRO stations on 7180 and later on 7178 made for tough sledding. 73s, Bruce KC1FSZ?
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Chris Viningre
Bob KV4PC
Willy