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by KC0ZRX on April 13, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Recently I've heard several VU's on 20 meter phone calling CQ but have not had any luck getting them to answer my call. I have fair station with an amp and a triband Yagi and can generally work anything I hear. Other than waiting for the sunspots to improve are there any other "tricks" to working VU's?

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by N3OX on April 13, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
"I've heard several VU's on 20 meter phone calling CQ but have not had any luck getting them to answer my call. I have fair station with an amp and a triband Yagi" Huh. Do you also have a very quiet location pretty free of manmade noise? Are you getting CQed at or do the VU stations always come back to someone instead of you? There shouldn't be any tricks... but if you're trying to work a VU who has a lot of noise, you might just not be strong enough. Keep trying, you'll make it. Dan

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by K8AC on April 13, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Which direction are you pointing the beam? In the mornings, the long path often produces better signals and you might have a better chance of being heard that way.

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by WB2WIK on April 16, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
>RE: Working VU (India) Reply by K8AC on April 13, 2008 Mail this to a friend! Which direction are you pointing the beam? In the mornings, the long path often produces better signals and you might have a better chance of being heard that way.< ::Yep. Long path is often better at both gray lines, near sunrise and sunset. LP is roughly "south" from you. WB2WIK/6

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by W7ETA on April 28, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Once you know when 20 meters opens between you and "regular" VU ops, you just gotta be there when it favors your part of the USA. Remember, VU, twice the pop of the USA with half the land area (VU is big). Many times, I'd here W6s talking to VUs, and I'd hear the VUs, but the band was open to 6 land and not here. Ran into the same thing on 40 and 75 meters when I lived in W1; I could hear the VUs after sunrise, but they were working west of W1. 73 Bob

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