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K4PQC Preliminary Log for 40 Meters 1-22-2025 some observations

Phil All Messages By This Member #32516 Fellow Hounds, Besides having lots of QRN from the snow storm I am plagued?with line noise that raises the noise floor at least 20 dB from an S-1 or 2 to S-5 to 7.? What I did at the start was to narrow the band spread from 50+ kHz to 5 kHz.? The most obvious thing I first noticed was the ganging up in the lower 500 Hz of the 1 kHz window.? So, I started picking up callers on both the upper and lower edges thinking that Ops would get the hint to spread out.? I use my diversity option on the receiver but this doesn't help when?folks are on top?of one another.? I also use the B receiver to monitor my own frequency sometimes just to advise callers that are out of "band" but, I didn't need to do this last evening.? ?One thing I did notice was that there were several stations that were well below the 1 kHz QRPFox band.? Again I didn't answer these callers.? Was I wrong?? Are there hardened rules?? I am sure if I wasn't in the middle of a rare southern snow storm I could have handed out many more pelts.?? Again, thank you for your patience and allowing me to participate. 72/73 ,? Phil - K4PQC
Mike Olbrisch All Messages By This Member #32519 开云体育 Well, and FWIW, I will often slip down to like 0.95 offset.? I have in the past seen foxes answering hounds down at like 0.6 offset, on a wide filter you could hear the FOX and the HOUND on the main receiver.? I do not know that there is a “RULE” for that.? If there is, I don’t know of it.? I move around myself.? Sometimes I go a little lower than the lowest, sometimes I go a little higher than the highest.? Sometimes the waterfall shows a gap in the middle and I’ll try to slip in there. I do not remember where you heard me last night.? But whatever I did, you must have approved because you rewarded me with a contact. Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC. El Paso, Texas - DM61rt. SOTA W5T-Texas Association Manager. ? ? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil via groups.io Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [qfox] K4PQC Preliminary Log for 40 Meters 1-22-2025 some observations ? ? Fellow Hounds, ? Besides having lots of QRN from the snow storm I am plagued?with line noise that raises the noise floor at least 20 dB from an S-1 or 2 to S-5 to 7.? What I did at the start was to narrow the band spread from 50+ kHz to 5 kHz.? The most obvious thing I first noticed was the ganging up in the lower 500 Hz of the 1 kHz window.? So, I started picking up callers on both the upper and lower edges thinking that Ops would get the hint to spread out.? I use my diversity option on the receiver but this doesn't help when?folks are on top?of one another.? I also use the B receiver to monitor my own frequency sometimes just to advise callers that are out of "band" but, I didn't need to do this last evening.? ?One thing I did notice was that there were several stations that were well below the 1 kHz QRPFox band.? Again I didn't answer these callers.? Was I wrong?? Are there hardened rules?? I am sure if I wasn't in the middle of a rare southern snow storm I could have handed out many more pelts.?? ? Again, thank you for your patience and allowing me to participate. ? 72/73 ? ,? Phil - K4PQC
Pat Whelton All Messages By This Member #32520 开云体育 Hi Phil.? Since you were operating at approximately 7.033.14 I’m assuming you mean the Hounds were calling you below 7.030.? I’m just not sure what you mean by the QRPFox band.? If I was the Fox and I’ve been the Fox on several occasions I would go ahead and work them.? I don’t recall anything in the rules about the Hound having to be in a particular portion of the band.? I would even venture to say the Hound could call you cross band if he wanted to.? I don’t know how you would know if he was calling you or not though. ? Now if you mean you were listening up from your TX frequency to 1K up then I would suggest widening your listening range.? For example rather than listening from 7033.00 to 7034.00 while TXing on 7033.00 listen from 3034 to 7035 or 7036. ? Than again maybe I’m just full of it and need to take a nap.? One tends to get that way later in life. ? Regards, ? Pat – KZ5J ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil via groups.io Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 12:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [qfox] K4PQC Preliminary Log for 40 Meters 1-22-2025 some observations ? ? Fellow Hounds, ? Besides having lots of QRN from the snow storm I am plagued?with line noise that raises the noise floor at least 20 dB from an S-1 or 2 to S-5 to 7.? What I did at the start was to narrow the band spread from 50+ kHz to 5 kHz.? The most obvious thing I first noticed was the ganging up in the lower 500 Hz of the 1 kHz window.? So, I started picking up callers on both the upper and lower edges thinking that Ops would get the hint to spread out.? I use my diversity option on the receiver but this doesn't help when?folks are on top?of one another.? I also use the B receiver to monitor my own frequency sometimes just to advise callers that are out of "band" but, I didn't need to do this last evening.? ?One thing I did notice was that there were several stations that were well below the 1 kHz QRPFox band.? Again I didn't answer these callers.? Was I wrong?? Are there hardened rules?? I am sure if I wasn't in the middle of a rare southern snow storm I could have handed out many more pelts.?? ? Again, thank you for your patience and allowing me to participate. ? 72/73 ? ,? Phil - K4PQC

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