[factoryrat]

What bands are getting the most traffic? QRP will only really reach out down below 40m. I’ll fire up the rig and see what I can pick up, being on the west coast I should get something.

[JRandomFreeper]

I don't have an antenna up, or I would listen in, too.

I had a dream about getting a vertical, so maybe I should get one. lol!

/johnny

[Greysard]

QRP will only really reach out down below 40m.

It's all QRP on V/UHF bands, unless you are into EME. I would presume that short range communications are carried out on V/UHF, and longer range is done on HF using NVIS, given that half of Nepal is a mountain country and most of their repeaters in high places are out of power by now. If they have enough power in the link, RTTY or PSK are preferred modes, as they can be serviced by minimally trained operators.

[TxAg1981]

QRP will only really reach out down below 40m.
Not so. I use my QRP rig and often use 20m, 17m, and 15m. My farthest contact is 5,300 miles to south Brazil. That is using phone, not CW.
I love QRP but if I really needed to make contact (like emergency situations), I would use PSK mode at 30 watts or, phone at 100 watts.

[markomalley]

“What bands are getting the most traffic? QRP will only really reach out down below 40m.”

I personally would guess 80 or 40. With any higher frequencies, they’d be QRM’d by lids trying to work on their DXCC.

Personally, I’d do 80m PSK31 if I was them.

[Sleepless in Jerusalem]

Flash and priority traffic is being handled by 9N1AA on
14.205 Mhz Secondary traffic is on 14.215 Mhz with various net control ops. Supposedly lots of Indian hams in to handle local comms on VHF. Monitoring here in Jerusalem with a ZS6BKW at 70 feet AGL. 73, 4X1SO/KE2SO