How active is the freeband?

[parallax]

I have been hearing alot of traffic this week from 27.415 thru 27.915 its been mostly south america and mexico.. L.S.B. ( i live in oregon).. I am sure the F.C.C. frowns on using free band so i never transmit .. has anyone that we know ever been busted for operating out of band? I use an imax 2000 and I use it for c.b. and ham 10 meters..suprisingly it is in tune on both bands without any adjustments. 1.1 to 1,,10 meters and 1.3 to 1. on 27 mhz

 

[T23]

Nice..Right now I am working on building a 102' vertical for DX on 11 meters, just need a few more parts, it will be built on top of a camera tripod, I took the camera bit off the tripod and theres this little threded hole for a bolt and the base of the antenna screws into this part. And the antenna itself will be inside some half inch PVC.

T23

 

[jazzsinger]

Most SSB traffic up their is LSB. That radio only has USB and CW? Thats kinda odd.

Since when, most ssb traffic above 27.405 is on usb worldwide, with most activity centred around 27.555 usb.

Above 27.600 you may find a hell of a lot of qrm from the uk as the uk legal fm band runs from 27.60125 - 27.99125 and many uk stations have reasonable setups capable of worldwide dx even if they dont realise/utilise it. Running power levels up to 400w is quite common on ukfm.

around 26.285 usb can be productive too when the frequencies around 27.555 are crowded as many european,s.americans and others drop to the low bands for better quality qso's with less qrm.