You do when you have a metal roof and HOA height restrictions.
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11 meter is very quiet?
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You do when you have a metal roof and HOA height restrictions.
Yea it got going for a long while from Florida up the east coast, pretty quiet now, maybe a few hours it might pick up ? Ocean One Cape Hatteras, NC
It is a very quiet New Year's Day on 11 meters in Dx-land.
It’s the ocean swells.
Hard to sit up straight & still when at sea.
Thank G the gear seems lashed down . . .
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Shhh huntin wabbits. Even 2 meters,70 cm and 10 meters is quiet
Some very faint CQs out of Florida as I drove around this morning...and that is all.
A few contacts in 9 div and New England today.
Very localized...either S7 + and booming, or just barely audible.
Still a littler chatter here and there...neighbors killing me with QRM. Mowing dormant grass on 5 Jan? Lol...
Very localized...either S7 + and booming, or just barely audible.
Still a littler chatter here and there...neighbors killing me with QRM. Mowing dormant grass on 5 Jan? Lol...
This is why I got my license. Despite the dismal conditions on 11 meters, there is always activity on 20 meters during the day and 40 meters day and night. Making contacts is easy.
Still, I miss CB. And as beautiful and sophisticated as my FTDX-3000 is, I still drool over vintage CB base stations and antennas.
Given a good solar cycle, I might make a change.
Still, I miss CB. And as beautiful and sophisticated as my FTDX-3000 is, I still drool over vintage CB base stations and antennas.
Given a good solar cycle, I might make a change.
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Waited since last fall for early morning contacts to the UK an beyond, of course this morning at 4-30 am boom, signals all over the place and was so windy and stormy out here at the coast I was afraid to turn the beams into the ENE direction, no contacts made, tried the IMAX vertical, and the wire, but they just laughed and whistled in the wind,lol. Tomorrows another day !
73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
North / South dx all day on the western front.
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