Recent content by BC Coyote

Absolutely booming out here on the west coast of Canada today! Over two dozen contacts since mid-morning. Pretty much everything east of the Mississippi is coming in with huge signals. Lots of Central and South America on the upper frequencies as well. Best radio day in ages! Hope it...

I had some conditions again yesterday for an hour or two as well. Mexico City, Jamaica, Big Island of Hawaii and a little bit of Florida. Then it all faded away again.

Yep. Up here the only station I've heard all week is 102 from Mexico City. Worked him once and heard him again yesterday. Nothing else but static for days..........

Band died here on August 30. Had pretty decent conditions up until then. Only DX contact I've had since the 30th was 102 in Mexico City a couple days ago. Dead as can be here right now.......

That is an absolutely ancient radio. Maybe time for a new one? Cobra 29 can be found on sale at many truck stops and there are lots of deals on Amazon too!

Not sure which is less classy. Pissing on the wall, or taking a picture of someone pissing on a wall and posting it on a radio forum..........

I guess Trump must have put tariffs on the skip and that's why you guys aren't hearing anything LOL! :LOL: Still lots of action up here on the west coast of Canada......and still pretty much the same areas coming in; mostly California, Hawaii, and especially Australia. Had several long QSO's...

And no filter either. In other words, a splatterbox. Especially when overdriven, which it very probably was...........

I have an original 5555N2 long case radio with the firmware upgrade and it goes down to 24.715 MHz. It did this even before I upgraded it! In channel mode it will only go down to 25.615 but I can manually scan downward from there to 24.715

I talked to you a couple times briefly 45! It may have been on one of those occasions that Rick organized where we all tried to reach other WWDX members. And Cable Guy I definately remember talking to you as well!

I've been on and off 11 meters from western Canada for over 40 years now. While there is way way way less happening during the bottom of the cycle I don't remember the band ever being completely dead for more than a week or two....maybe a month at most. There's no F2 skip to speak of during...

No change here. Skip comes in for at least part of every day...in and out, in and out. Mostly California, other western states, Canadian prarie provinces, and Jack on the Big Island of Hawaii. A few weak Aussies in last night as well.

Thanks for the invite TheRATT! Port Orchard is just about 204 miles from me, so it wouldn't be possible on groundwave and it's a little bit too close for E-skip. I have talked to people around Puget Sound on backscatter and aurora skip a few times over the years so it can definately be...

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...

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...