11 meter is very quiet?

[Illahe]

I talked to Belize and Trinidad on 38 LSB yesterday....but the condition came and went in 15 minutes. Then it was quiet again.....

Did you get the Buffalo Soldier out of the Carribean?

 

[Illahe]

What are your thoughts on out door MLA, would they out perform, a full wave loop antenna I get about 3 dbi over a dipole with one of my loops, and my 2 loops together get me 6 dbi, in a directional pattern. I have no experience with MLA, some people post they are great some say they are not so good. I am always looking for new things to play with, even did a loop array for my tv set, and it is working amazingly well. Yes making antennas is a serious hobby here for the last year or so.

Does the set up use a common Balun?

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Sitting in the parking lot at work during my lunch break, I managed to make contact with a guy in Cincinnati Ohio. Surprised the heck out of me when he came back to me, the conditions were a garbled mess with at least two or more people talking at the same time. Just what I needed, today is Friday but I swear it was a Monday until I caught that DX. Just what the doctor ordered, DX therapy!

 

[FlyBoy50]

Sitting in the parking lot at work during my lunch break, I managed to make contact with a guy in Cincinnati Ohio. Surprised the heck out of me when he came back to me, the conditions were a garbled mess with at least two or more people talking at the same time. Just what I needed, today is Friday but I swear it was a Monday until I caught that DX. Just what the doctor ordered, DX therapy!

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I know the feeling. A couple days ago DX was lousy but I managed to squeeze out a contact with my DX 2547 and the Turner Super Sidekick that I re-wired and I did get the Side Kick sounded good. So I was thrilled to hear that. The Old Dogs chasing a Bone ! LOL

 

[Geoexplorer69]

Yeah well it’s time everyone figured out that there is a major solar event that has been going on for days your noise floor and the blocking of the layers that normally bounce your signal are not getting charged up.all you can hope for until this passes is a sporadic E opening. My big yagi has spun in circles the 5/8 vertical is noisy yesterday I worked two stations in Australia and one in New Zealand a couple of West coaster that I hardly ever get a guy way up in New York but nothing across the pond to the east. Having that Yaggy way up in the air on a rotor, I work the gray line but has been finicky lately.

 

[FlyBoy50]

Yeah well it’s time everyone figured out that there is a major solar event that has been going on for days your noise floor and the blocking of the layers that normally bounce your signal are not getting charged up.all you can hope for until this passes is a sporadic E opening. My big yagi has spun in circles the 5/8 vertical is noisy yesterday I worked two stations in Australia and one in New Zealand a couple of West coaster that I hardly ever get a guy way up in New York but nothing across the pond to the east. Having that Yaggy way up in the air on a rotor, I work the gray line but has been finicky lately.

Thanks for the heads up but I disconnected my antenna a couple days ago because they keep predicting scattered thunder storms & where there is thunder there is lightening. The weather has been crazy lately. First it was hot and dry & the lawns burnt up. Now we're back to crazy rain storms with threats of flooding but the lawns are coming back so we can feed our lawn mower that expensive gas. A man just can't win! LOL

 

[BC Coyote]

Way out here on the far west coast of Canada it's been an almost non-stop E-skip pipeline to California and nearby states for several weeks now. Hawaii is in everyday for hours as well. Even in the middle of the night there is skip drifting in from California! It drifts in for an hour or two, then it drifts out again, then back in. Been talking to the folks around Lake Tahoe and the northern part of the High Sierra's almost everyday it seems! A lot of it is what I call "spotlight" skip. You'll get just two or three stations coming in really strong from a fairly small geographic area, and nothing else at all. E-skip is a strange beast to be sure! Also some longer skip around.......been hearing the Gulf coast and southeast states fairly often as well.

 

[FlyBoy50]

Way out here on the far west coast of Canada it's been an almost non-stop E-skip pipeline to California and nearby states for several weeks now. Hawaii is in everyday for hours as well. Even in the middle of the night there is skip drifting in from California! It drifts in for an hour or two, then it drifts out again, then back in. Been talking to the folks around Lake Tahoe and the northern part of the High Sierra's almost everyday it seems! A lot of it is what I call "spotlight" skip. You'll get just two or three stations coming in really strong from a fairly small geographic area, and nothing else at all. E-skip is a strange beast to be sure! Also some longer skip around.......been hearing the Gulf coast and southeast states fairly often as well.

Was thinking of you and hoping you weren't in that wild fire area. I don't wish that on anybody !

 

[BC Coyote]

Was thinking of you and hoping you weren't in that wild fire area

Thanks FlyBoy50! Thankfully, we are on the coast and well away from the fire zone which is in the interior of the province.......about 150 miles to my east and on the other side of the Coast Mountains. Lucky for us, the prevailing winds here are off the ocean and that blows the smoke away from us.

I do have a daughter living just a few miles away from the Summerland fire, and she is on evacuation alert at the moment. Terrible situation up there with entire cities evacuated to the tune of 22,000 people and hundreds of homes and businesses burned!

 

[murdog]

Way out here on the far west coast of Canada it's been an almost non-stop E-skip pipeline to California and nearby states for several weeks now. Hawaii is in everyday for hours as well. Even in the middle of the night there is skip drifting in from California! It drifts in for an hour or two, then it drifts out again, then back in. Been talking to the folks around Lake Tahoe and the northern part of the High Sierra's almost everyday it seems! A lot of it is what I call "spotlight" skip. You'll get just two or three stations coming in really strong from a fairly small geographic area, and nothing else at all. E-skip is a strange beast to be sure! Also some longer skip around.......been hearing the Gulf coast and southeast states fairly often as well.

Hey Guy's I am one of the summerland residents that was evacuated Saturday am stayed around till it wasn't safe my first experience of being that close to a fire storm , very lucky our neighborhood is still intact one street to the west was impacted not sure how many homes where lost

 

[BC Coyote]

Hey Guy's I am one of the summerland residents that was evacuated Saturday

I had no idea you were a fellow BC resident Murdog! One of my daughters is on the west side of Penticton and on evacuation alert. Fire seems to be moving in that direction.......Shingle Creek and Brent Lake got the evac order within the last hour. Scary times! Glad to hear your home survived! My kids spent part of their childhood in Garnet Valley which has been devastated by this fire.

 

[Rick330man]

Skip down here has been dead all week-end.

Good luck to you guys dealing with these fire threats.

 

[FlyBoy50]

Skip was suppose to be poor today but as I was showering to get ready to go to a friends viewing that passed away the 2547 was banging it out but the plate was full today so could only listen even on the mobile. I will say as much as I don't really care for my location I feel fortunate I don't deal with all the natural disasters. Make you sick to hear what people lose and have to start all over again !