{"id":12014,"date":"2024-11-27T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:27:14","slug":"happy-to-be-back-on-80m-as-swl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/happy-to-be-back-on-80m-as-swl\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy to be back on 80m as SWL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFv1lu8Wy4s?si=0uX4BRSDP5BaitgF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to work on 80m in late 1980s when the solar cycle started going down and propagation on 40m started deteriorating. I made necessary changes in my homebrew 3 x 807 TX and used my Philips Prestige BC radio as RX. I could tie an 80m dipole on top of tall coconut trees at my parents&#8217; QTH then. I could work local stations on CW and AM and used to check in to the EC (East Coast) Net at 10 pm regularly controlled by VU2TTC (SK) and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently I am told that EC Net is no longer there. Only net on 80m currently is the morning net on 3.6 MHz at 7.15am. Today I was having a QSO with VU3WEW on 7.1 MHz when he told me that 80m net is due and moved to that frequency. I listened to 3.6 MHz with my 40-10m combination inverted V dipole antenna and could hear VU3WEW, VU2MIE and later VU2OJ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tried the autotuner of my FT-710, it would not tune to that frequency. Later I tried with my shortened EFHW for 20-10m, which also did not tune, as it had only 10m of wire up. On coming back to 7.1 MHz, VU3WEW told me that VU2XTO had worked 80m with a loading coil on his 20m antenna. I am on the look out for a similar option to come back on 80m as I do not have space to mount an 80m dipole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work on 80m in late 1980s when the solar cycle started going down and propagation on 40m started deteriorating. I made necessary changes in my homebrew 3 x 807 TX and used my Philips Prestige BC radio as RX. 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