11 meter is very quiet?

[S&W357]

Works for me as well. Anyone else? I probably won't be by the radio anymore today. But there are other days!

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

27.4250 ?

Sounds good to me. USB or LSB?

 

[2NC995]

I say we stick with lower so it's just a roll of the dial for anyone that usually monitors 38lsb....waddayasay?

 

[S&W357]

Works for me

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Sounds good

 

[Rick330man]

One of the issues we've had in the past is that there are plenty of folks on here that are operating unmodified, stock CB radios. That means 27.425 would not work for them. Some guys are even still running old 23 channel rigs, which is one of the reasons we were pushing LSB 16 for a while.

With all of the noise on LSB 38, I think it might be a good idea to try to stake out another channel for WDX users. I know there's another group that uses 39. What about us WDX folks using LSB 36 or LSB 35?

 

[L2]

Skip is rolling. I'm on 37 LSB. Spoke to Archie Bunker in Cape Cod and 373 Great Lakes Michigan. I also hear stations from Wisconsin.

 

[2NC995]

One of the issues we've had in the past is that there are plenty of folks on here that are operating unmodified, stock CB radios. That means 27.425 would not work for them. Some guys are even still running old 23 channel rigs, which is one of the reasons we were pushing LSB 16 for a while.

With all of the noise on LSB 38, I think it might be a good idea to try to stake out another channel for WDX users. I know there's another group that uses 39. What about us WDX folks using LSB 36 or LSB 35?

.

Wouldn’t work for me. 35 is a very busy local trucker channel and they all bleed over in both directions...

That said, I can certainly understand wanting to keep it on the regular 40, and I know there’s not really anything that would work for every single person all the time.

I usually make a call on 16lsb every time the DX is rolling, just to see who is out there. It’s always very quiet and I’ll usually get one or two responses at best...yesterday was none.

 

[S&W357]

Same thing here. I call out on 16 LSB when DX is rolling but no replies.

Truckers here also often use 35 AM. 40 LSB usually seems to have the least amount of DX.

How about 27.405 and 27.425 and see how it goes?

 

[2NC995]

40 would be a great freq for me(always quiet) and I think .425 as an out of band alt is good too.

 

[2NC995]

Speaking of DX, the NE is booming in here again today.

 

[S&W357]

That's good. Let's do those if OK with the others. 40 & 42

 

[xm49north7]

ZIP here in my part of Ontario, no skip, no local, think the season is over till spring, unless the sun really gets it's game on with some sunspots. Have had nothing in over 4 weeks. I have had days where I can just make out the Southern U.S.A., but conditions not good enough for me to get out. Had a few days where the skip was strong, but it was on a very fast roll, so it would roll in for like 25 seconds, then roll out, skip tide I call this.

 

[2NC995]

Anyone in the east on now? 40 is very busy here.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Between .155, .405, and .425 we would have a good chance of having an open channel. Sounds good to me.