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public:blog:2025:a_60m_ssb_qso [27/03/25 18:38 GMT] – created johnpublic:blog:2025:a_60m_ssb_qso [27/03/25 18:52 GMT] (current) – [Thu 27/03/25 : A 60m SSB QSO] john
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 I **will** have more SSB contacts. I have even put my morse keys and bugs away for a while and am waiting for delivery of a new HF radio, FT-891, bought with the express intention to use it purely for SSB.  I **will** have more SSB contacts. I have even put my morse keys and bugs away for a while and am waiting for delivery of a new HF radio, FT-891, bought with the express intention to use it purely for SSB. 
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 +I've been using the 60m band since we first got access via a Notice of Variation, but 90% of this has been in digimodes (mostly Olivia) with some CW and a little SSB. 
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 +But.... I'm also interested in the use of 60m for "normal" phone QSOs - I listen a LOT to 60m SSB operation, be it amateur or commercial/aeronuatical (and in the past to the Cadets, where have they all gone??) I now want to get more involved in things instead of listening/watching from the sidelines.
  
 Onwards and upwards. Onwards and upwards.
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