RE: K1 Band Choices - Skipping 20 meters.

[Darwin, Keith]

 

-----Original Message-----
 Mike Morrow said:

... I guess the assumption is that no one would ever forgo 20m coverage.


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Yea, I hear you.  You'd think 20 meters is the band nobody would skip
but, I find I use other bands more.  20 Meters is where the big guns
seem to play.  Lots of KW signals making my 5-15 watts seem pretty weak.
Lots of big beams too.

And I can see skipping 20 from an antenna point of view.  30/40/80 work
great with a vertical.  It's easy for me to get a dipole 1/2 wave high
on 15/12/10.  17 & 20 (esp 20) are the in between bands where neither
the vertical nor the dipole are optimal at my QTH.

- Keith KD1E -
- K2 5411 -
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[roncasa]

It's all smoke and mirrors.
Don't believe that myth about 20 meters for "big guns".
We QRP'ers have equal share of the fun!
Their sigs and ours is fair game because propagation is King.
I've heard QRO stations in the noise too. Amazing!

see you on the airwaves!
Ron wb1hga

Darwin, Keith wrote:

>
> Yea, I hear you.  You'd think 20 meters is the band nobody would skip
> but, I find I use other bands more.  20 Meters is where the big guns
> seem to play.  Lots of KW signals making my 5-15 watts seem pretty weak.
> Lots of big beams too.

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