PLEASE KEEP SIDE-BAND ALIVE!!!

[Stinger]

Side band is the best way to go for LD contacts...I do everything I can to keep it alive! If you have any frequencies that you hit please let me know so I can try to meet you there!

606 Stinger Dallas, TX

[316]

Not to many in Dallas on SSB, but you can make a lot of contact on 38LSB.

[triple7wva]

38lsb too. just about everyday i can get canada and the islands barefoot....jas.

[316]

Not to many in Dallas on SSB, but you can make a lot of contact on 38LSB.

That's what I said

[triple7wva]

i was agreeing with you 316...jas

[316]

i was agreeing with you 316...jas

Oh ok sorry I just thought you didn't read my post.

[triple7wva]

no problme i work all the bands i can without getting on the hamwinkies nerves..lol but ive had some good action on the highbands as well there last week....but i agree. gotta keep sideband alive. true operators that run a good station is getting in short supply...jas.

[316]

Yeah every once in a while I'll go up on 27.415-27.555

[HonkyTonk]

Me I am gonna start using 11 LSB Y cuz the uppers seem to be full so try to check me out there

[ltmdl90]

37 lsb here in western pa. My contact is 627. We have a 8-10 persons run around here.

[385]

27.385lsb, 27.425lsb, 27.555usb, Thats my regular ssb freq's but with driving a truck I'm mainly on 19.

[ram1500]

havent really talked much on side band whats beter USB or LSB i normaly talk on AM thinking about starting to talk im in south east WI if anyones around here

[ltmdl90]

Lsb is far better in my book.

[ram1500]

ok cool ill have to check it out

[385]

To be quite honest I don't think there is any difference between usb and lsb but the difference in AM and SSB is like night and day. It takes a little getting use to but once you get the hang of it you'll love it.

[De_Wildfire]

38 LSB around this area. I hear the skip the strongest there.

[bigjames]

just got my first SSB radio (a refurbed 949 from Sparkys) and I'm hooked already. I've been easily making DX contacts barefoot with a Little Will antenna, its so much easier than trying to bust through the mud on AM, don't know why I didn't try it earlier.

[jessejamesdallas]

SSB is OK I guess if your talking on a Base...But in a mobile, there's just too much fine tuning involved on SSB to talk and drive at the same time. (IMO)

All but one of my radios have SSB...And I think I have talked SSB maybe 4 or 5 times in the past couple of years.

[Sporty Mike]

I don't know what I would do without SSB. Although it pays to have a good SSB rig, not all ssb equipped radios are capable SSB talkers. I have a Cobra 142 with an unlocked clarifier, and I wouldn't trade it for the world....well, maybe for a 2000 gtl setup the same!! LOL
Once you try SSB with a capable rig....you'll never go back.


Mike

[Nagant]

I use my President Lincoln on SSB more than my other SSB radios. Very stable, no drift, and thus very little to do with the clarifier unless the other person is off freq. I love SSB and hit 38 LSB often when DX conditions are good.

Problem is most of today's exports have a fair amount of drift on SSB which is a pain. Especially in a mobile. I can handle the drifters OK on a base.

[715minigrass]

try 27.355 LSB AUSTRALIA DX channel....

[rotts4u]

Side band is the best way to go for LD contacts...I do everything I can to keep it alive! If you have any frequencies that you hit please let me know so I can try to meet you there!

606 Stinger Dallas, TX

I heard you loud and clear in Chattanooga TN one evening this week. I tried to get you back but there was so much traffic and I doubt my little mobile setup would make the trip.

204 in Chattanooga TN

[siamskip]

On the European side of the pond most SSB stations opperate on 27.555 USB. some monitor 26.835 or 26.905 LSB.
If you have set up correctly, RX,& TX performance should be exactly the same on USB and LSB.
A lot of 11meter band DXers in the UK drive to elivated locations and set up a mobile static stations,normally using a 5/8 wave vertical to work the skip.
They make an all day field trip of it , particually at this time of the year. Normally June ,July , August, Is when the skip is running
strongest in Northern Europe, and the weather is warm. Alot of these well known high locations have beautiful views worth the
drive alone. Makes a lot of sense persuing your hobby and getting out and about absorbing the great outdoors.

[likes2grill]

Since I only have an old sears ssb 23 channel I try every channel on USB and LSB but try to stay up on 23 the most. 1394 in the sunshine state said that.

[smooth16]

Try 16 lsb in the early morning.
That is the old channel for SSB from the 23 channel days. I talk to a lot of Canada from SC on barefoot in the early ( 5-7 ) am.