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No argument here.  I've only had my General 5 months or so, and an HF rig for only 2 months, so I'm nowhere nearly as experienced as a lot on ARFCOM.  As I understand it QRP tends to work better in the winter time, which would lead me to believe 100 watts would fall right in line.  I do know a few things:





1.  The two contacts I almost made were a net and a pileup.  The NCS could not make out my call and I didn't really try too long to break through the pileup.





2.  Most QSOs I hear on 80 are good-old-boy rag chews that I want no part of.  They all seem to be old CB ops who have moved to Ham to have a quieter place to spew forth their profanity.  





3.  My antenna is in the attic.  I could run it out to the backyard, and I should, but I'm lazy and the attic provides pretty good lightening protection.  If it was outside I'm sure I'd have much better luck,  but so far it hasn't stopped me from working DX on 40 and 20.


 

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Sorry Dave,   I came home about a half hour after you posted that last night.  By that time  I needed to go to bed.  

How about that we set an arfcom net time where we get as many stations as possible on at the same time one night a week.

That way there should be someone who can hear a weak station.  I'm open for other suggestions but will throw out

Tuesday evenings local... 0130z on or close to 3898.Tuesday evenings won't work for me much earlier than that.   later may be past bedtime for some eastern stations.

IF that doesn't work for you post a suggestion and we will see what works for the most of us.  

With hams on from all over the country weak stations could be relayed in if necessary and everyone could compare and see what antennas and methods are working for others.

There will be only 3 rules.

1. have fun

2.  maybe learn something

3.refer to rule 1





Edited the time.  I intended to suggest 0130z but typed it wrong.  I have another schedule at 0030z.

All we need is a time that some of us can get on at the same time.