CHANNEL SURFING IN THE

UK

11m is alive and well in the US and Canada but what about England? Well, as previously reported, "Fred-In-The-Shed" and the group he talks with on 27.305 USB is fairly active in the South Eastern part of the UK.

But there's more...

While checking out several of my bookmarked UK SDR sites yesterday I happened to notice some waterfall activity just below the Triple Nickel. It was Sunday morning around 9:30 a.m. (CST) and a local UK group was in the middle of their afternoon Net near Derby (because I was listening to an SDR site based in Derby and their signals were fairly strong I figured they were close by).

So where was I?  On 27.515 USB

I was listening to the East Midlands SSB DX Group which was running their usual Sunday afternoon Net (UK Time). At least a half dozen operators were in attendance, as well as a "guest" check-in from a YL named Emma. 

She was using her boyfriends setup but seemed pretty well acquainted with the lingo, and after the Net ended she QSY'd a few kc's "UP" to initiate a QSO with another station. Shortly after that, the SDR waterfall lit up with activity from France, and then much later - Italy.

While this isn't an exact recording of the Italian traffic I heard, this YouTube post is pretty darn close!

It's good to know that many frequencies aren't as empty as they seem- you just have to listen for awhile...

73,
Woody