40 meters

[WA3VJB]

Lighting the filaments now.

Should be up by 11:30EDT.

QRZ ?   QTF, over ?

[KX5JT]

Darn sorry to have missed you Paul.  Don, K4KYV and I are carrying on presently on 7.160

I wake up late...

[ke7trp]

I am up on 7293.  Stop by. Dont want to retune this rig.

C

[N3DRB The Derb]

for some reason the DT-101 has decided to crAP oUt on 40 meters, I think the crystal went poof, no rx and no tx, all other bands ok.

I'm thinking it might be time for a new rig to pair up with Uncle Ray.

[KX5JT]

I am up on 7293.  Stop by. Dont want to retune this rig.

C

I did stop by and I could hear some weak carriers on 7.293... threw my call out but got no responses... went up a couple kc's and snagged a couple qso's there.

[ke7trp]

I was talking to K3IAN.  40 over. Band was short. 

C

[k4kyv]

Here is a strategy worth trying, when there is a QuaRMfest on.  Most QuaRMfests end promptly at 2400 GMT Sunday evening. Just as soon as the Q-test activity shuts down, there is usually a short lull in activity until the non-QuaRMfesters get fired up or the QuaRMfesters take a breather from operating, leaving many open frequencies to choose from. I was still tuned up on 7160 from earlier this afternoon, so promptly at 0000Z I started the automated CQ and snagged an AM station in SC first try. After we ended our QSO another AM station, in Utica, NY, called, and we carried on for a few more minutes.  The frequency was still vacant as I left the shack to take my own break from radio.

[KX5JT]

I love my little drill press!  Half price from Harbor Freight, they honored an expired coupon from the back of an old Flying magazine.  The supervisor was cool about it.

Yeah Don I heard you in there this evening while working on my coil project,  calling CQ a few minutes after you left.  In fact still monitoring and calling from time to time.  Not sure if this contest is over yet but I like your idea about operating right after it ends.... makes sense that the slopbucketeers might be pooped out. 

John

[AJ1G]

40 seems long this evening - just checked ReverseBeacon.net to see who spotted my CW CQs from the mobile on the way home tonight  - shocked to see a spot by a VK in Perth, Western Australia!  He is spotting quite a few east coast stations around now.

[k4kyv]

I didn't try 40 Monday evening/Tuesday morning. About 0315Z I ran the automated CQ on 3705 and had a station in Green Bay come back.  He was a broadcast engineer and knows Steve, N9FOY whom I used to talk to on 160 all the time, but this was the first time he had tried his ham rig on AM.  After that, Jean, F6AQK  called me and we talked for about a half hour.

It was early for Jean; I usually don't hear him till about 0500Z, but the sun is rising earlier in Europe and sure enough, by 0430 or so rapid QSB was setting in and his signal was dropping in strength, so we called it quits while we were still ahead.

Jean tells me that France still doesn't have access to 7100-7200 kHz.  Some bureaucrat still hasn't bothered to sign some kind of document required before French licensees can use that segment, even though just about every other European country now  has access.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?