VHF wide open!!!

[Cheech]

Some of you may have heard the VHF band has been wide open for the past couple of nights. Lots of contacts on the 2 meter amateur band I heard from a friend who is licenced. I am not licenced but I was able to make some out of state contacts on the MURS band running just 40 watts FM.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

Well..

Now that am finally home from hospital (been there past 11 days)
Hopefully will start to get my voice back
(oh and i look foward to being able to get more then a hour sleep a night..lol)

I look foward to trying some DX on VHF and even on UHF

as it stands
i now am staying home this week as well
in order to get past all this BS (that started as simple bronkitis)

Doing DX/skip on VHF and UHF is pretty cool when one can do so

 

[Sonwatcher]

I am getting NYC right now on 144.210 ssb. Around 300 miles.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

i have no voice

i typiclly can get 300 to 400 miles out on VHF
(without persay conditions)

hopefully within the next couple of days
conditions will stay and my voice will return

 

[Sonwatcher]

Let me know when you want to give it a try

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

you got it

was hard for me to use my HT at the hospital due to my lack of voice

 

[CDX1220]

what freq are you going to be on?

 

[Sonwatcher]

How about 144.200 ssb ?

 

[CDX1220]

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME

 

[petey_racer]

From over 100 miles upstate my scanner is FULL of NYC traffic in the 154's.

 

[Sonwatcher]

Conditions are pretty good/ I heard a Ham on a repeater from Richmond, VA.on 70cm. Last night and today I heard NYC and around Atlantic city NJ on 2m ssb. Tonight I heard a guy on 70cm saying he was hitting a repeater in Manhatan.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I live in a VHF hole :evil: :x :evil: I did manage to copy VE1HD about 100 miles away while he worked lots of W1's. :evil: I even copied the VE1CGC beacon in Sydney 200 miles away but did I here ANYone else. Noooooooooooo............. :evil: :x :evil: My 11 element horizontle at 43 feet fed with Andrews 1/2 inch Heliax is still not enough to do the job. The fact that my preamp is toast does not help either. :evil: I need a good mobile tower/antenna combo for those 2m openings. 6m is not too bad from here although a lot of stations do hear more than I do it is not as frustrating as missing a 2m opening. :?

 

[Sonwatcher]

I talked to Hopewell, NJ tonight on 2m ssb. He was running 1500 watts. I was doing 10 watts with 8 element yagi in the attic and giving him an s9. Almost 200 miles.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

what 1500 watt linear was he using for 2 meters

 

[Sonwatcher]

He said he was using 2 amps together. Can't remember the name of them.