I had the same issues with the SSB nets. (The CW nets come
during the dinner hour, and today I was at a family picnic dinner.)
On 20M I could hear over half of the stations, some at ESP
levels, but only Steve, WM6P managed to hear me and relayed my
checkin. This was running 100W from my K3 to a 2 element wire
beam. I was hearing Eric, WB9JNZ at 55 to 57, but he couldn't
hear me. I've always assumed that being in Chicago, he has a
fairly high local noise floor. I'm out in the country and can
hear quite well.
40M was a total bust. I could barely hear anyone, and no one
could hear my 100W to a dipole.
The K3 and the two antennas worked well during Field Day, so I
put it down to propagation. The question on 20M is why I could
hear well and others couldn't hear me. It may be worthwhile to
swap out the 20M antenna for another one and see if that
improves things.
Of course, on Field Day, I did most of my Qs on CW or digital --
two points per Q vs. one after all. And, CW and digital can
punch through when conditions aren't good enough for SSB.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 7/5/20 at 10:28 PM, [email protected] (Ed Muns) wrote:
Actually, the K4 I am currently using is Wayne's SN 2. Mine is
SN 11 and Wayne swapped with me to investigate something on my
radio. Dick's, K6KR probably has a SN between our two radios.
You were 599 at the beginning, then dropped down to about S7.
I was running 100 watts. I couldn't find/hear you on 20m at
22Z which surprised me. It should have been an easy path.
Unfortunately, the marginal propagation these days is driving
most activity to FT8.
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