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27.3850 lsb call ch... 2hr qso, really?
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Because its not a call channel, its an open channel that anyone can use.
Exactly. Channel 38 is not a call channel and only became a somewhat defacto call channel only because some people thought that for some strange reason that DX was better and more common there and started to monitor it and call on it. I don't even know if a "gentleman's agreement" exists that it is to be a call channel despite many using it as such. Years ago we had such agreements about ch.11 being the AM call channel and ch 16 LSB was the SSB calling frequency but there was nothing stopping anyone from using either for long QSO's. If 38 is busy move to the opposite sideband or ch 37 or 39.
RatsoW8
Supporting Member, W9WDX ARC Member - WD8T
I though the rule was - everyone talk at once and the loudest signal wins. CQ heterodyne, etc.
DXman
Yes, that's 3100 degrees F. Nine yrs of hard work.
Ham operators don't consider any channel on 11 meters to be a call channel, but 11 meters operators do know that ch 38 is a call channel!
They probably don't know that ch. 27 ssb is a call ch. for S. Africa or that ch. 33 ssb is the main call ch. for all of the Kiribati Islands and the list goes on and on.....
There are lots of call channels on our portion of the 11 meters. Even Japan is using one our channels for a call channel.
They probably don't know that ch. 27 ssb is a call ch. for S. Africa or that ch. 33 ssb is the main call ch. for all of the Kiribati Islands and the list goes on and on.....
There are lots of call channels on our portion of the 11 meters. Even Japan is using one our channels for a call channel.
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27.555USB it the real call channel.
38 has always been the ragchew/superbowl on SSB
38 has always been the ragchew/superbowl on SSB
its common courtesy to qsy to another channel.
if your going to be jabbering for a long time.
just my thaughts
if your going to be jabbering for a long time.
just my thaughts
What I was really getting at Larry is that there is really no official international designation about any channel being a call channel on 11m. Any DX group or even local club can designate a channel as their own call channel but outside that area or group it means nothing. 27.555 is pretty much known as an international calling frequency and I think pretty much everyone knows that even hams. In the following link which is by no means all inclusive, there is only one frequency designated as being an INTERNATIONAL call frequency. With DX being international in nature and so many groups/clubs picking their own frequency it is pretty hard to occupy a frequency and NOT have someone say you are parked on a calling frequency as evidenced by the bottom of the page in the second link.
http://fldx.org/site/11m-call-frequencies-and-operating.php
http://sierraecho11mdx.tripod.com/43se144/id26.html
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DXers may have agreed to use it as a call frequency but that decision has no relevance to anyone who isn't a DXer, you simply don't have the authority to claim a channel as your own. Gentleman's agreements are only binding for those who were a part of the agreement.
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