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Knottyboy
Junior Member
Username: Knottyboy
Post Number: 18
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 1:20 pm: | 
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does any cef members ever use cluster.dk for tracking dx.
73 |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 8187
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 2:08 am: |
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Knottyboy,
Nope, since Channel 13 / 27.115 AM/LSB is the Official CEF Radio Club STANDBY Channel, I just leave the Radios set on Channel 13 / 27.115 AM and Channel 13 / 27.115LSB. 
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN |
Hoskinmage
Junior Member
Username: Hoskinmage
Post Number: 35
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 12:59 pm: |
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this my be odd but i was wondering how many people have heard me on the radio? i live in eastern kentucky and i go by 273,crybaby. i hope my poor little radio is getting out? im just curous. all i have is a vr9000,palamar 400. any one heard me?
hoskinmage(cry baby) |
2ec837
Member
Username: 2ec837
Post Number: 89
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 2:34 pm: |
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Knottyboy "does any cef members ever use cluster.dk for tracking dx.
73"
Only when the band is open. |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1833
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 4:13 pm: |
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talked to coyote/cef443 in tennessee today, along with LOTS of others, including a bunch from kentucky. but no 273/crybaby 
call during tomorrows net time & see who hears ya!
i don't track dx either. before i shut my radio off, i turn it to channel 6. if i turn it on & the meter is in the RED, dx is probably running  |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 785
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 12:55 am: |
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pat, that's the exact way i do it!
except i use 19. if 19 is at 5 or more S units, i know the DX is rolling.
i'll start on 26.835, then hit ch.13, then move up to 27.515, 535, or 555.
then start over if the conditions are still rolling.
i keep a US map on the wall by the radio, and after about three or four contacts, you can look at the map and see where the conditions are.
and how they change throughout the day.
matt |
Coyote
Advanced Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 508
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 4:06 pm: |
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Im going to have to start checking those free bands more often, maybe then I can make contact with KV. I occasonally check 835 looking for Pat. 
CEF-443 |
Kid_vicious
Advanced Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 793
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 07, 2005 - 12:11 am: |
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coyote,
26.835 can get pretty competitive. when i hear two or more stations key up at s-9 plus, i just back off and listen. those guys are running BIG TIME power!
try to get me on 27.515lsb, or 27.475lsb, or 27.535usb.
those are the uppers that i will sit and monitor.
lately, DX has been running from about 9am pacific to 12pm. so try me around 10AM pacific time tomorrow on 27.515. i'll be there listening.
matt |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 1852
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 07, 2005 - 11:01 am: |
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when i started using 26.835 in the 70's it was 'the baby bowl'-the guys who hung out on ch 6 but didn't have the fl2100 or sb220 to be able to get into the mix. it's still the baby bowl, guys who can't get out on ch 6, but even the baby bowl has more then its share of 21-pill mobiles & multi KW bases...i need another job
27.385 LSB for most US DX, 515, 535, 555 for exotic. will check LSB 515 as well kid. an hour ago in mobile DX was all georgia. |
Coyote
Advanced Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 517
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 07, 2005 - 12:32 pm: |
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Hey KV, well durn.. I guess I need to mod that 148 GTL and put it in my truck, cause I'll be at work at that time. It would be my lunch time though. Guess I need to get to work on that radio so I can go to those channels in the mobile. My TRC-453 COULD do it if I replace the PLL chip. Don't think I'm up to doing that mod. That little radio is in to good a shape and talks good the way it is. I'll just switch radios and put the TRC in my wifes van. |
