11 meter is very quiet?

Just made several contacts in Fla its dying out now only one in there now on my end is 429 in Delray Beach he has a great station

The20poundhammer said:

Just made several contacts in Fla its dying out now only one in there now on my end is 429 in Delray Beach he has a great station

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Yeah I'm hearing him too.

My neighbor 286 is killing it...so I’m staying clear out of the way.

If any has the means to pass a five, tell Gary that 995 says hello

Now hearing Montego Bay Jamaica.

Channel 40 in the New York metro area has been busy lately. Local base and mobile stations from Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey can be heard daily.

Talking to the locals on ch20, not much else out there. Then suddenly the background noise went from an s5 to an s3. Still nobody else out there.

About 11:30 this morning the background noise suddenly got louder, then the stations starting booming in within a couple of minutes. Like somebody had flipped a switch.
Didn't hear a thing on 10, though.

The skip was hopping big-time from lunch hour until around 2:00P.M. I made contact with 963 in Panama City, FL; 101 in Pensacola, FL; 361 around Huntsville, AL; 077 in Dawsonville, GA, KY 100 in London, KY; Alpha Charlie in Cincinnati, OH; 025 in Knoxville, TN and a few others.

The skip gods are smiling down on us today. Simply put: this is the best skip day I've had down here in months.

Had somebody in a mobile come though town and caused a keydown. all the locals started flipping their switches. sounded like ch6. ten minuets later it was done. and now nothing again.

Dead here all day in Phoenix.

Got my 980 hooked up a few days ago. Had some great local chats today. I don't seem to hear the skip you guys in the east mention. I am guessing it has a lot to do with our less population out this direction. Not so many people and even less with radios.

Riverman said:

Okay, Slowmover, now you sound like Woody Guthrie.
Bet if one were to go back and read past posts (or just start paying attention) he/she would find the voices of a plethora of great songwriters/storytellers in your offerings. Just offhand, I recall experiencing the cadence and visual representations of Steinbeck in several. And another of my favorites (although not nearly as famous), William Least Heat-Moon, the author of Blue Highways and River-Horse.

Might be time to park the rig and pick up a pen.

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Agreed I wouldn’t call the in-perspiration’s original. Tired, should be my middle name. 3-5 books per week for almost fifty years left a gully to walk where it’s easier to hear the drumbeats from the past. The ones taken to heart.

Your ear is that good (yes, authors are familiar) means I’m not the only one should be in the choir. I’ll reverse the mirror of compliment with pleasure.

I think the next step is to practice reading aloud. Some way to record myself and have decent playback. The obligation to do justice to well-said or well-written description. Authors worth reading. I like to think I’ve been a diligent reader. Proof, they say, is in the pudding. A listener should hear what I’ve heard (read) by my being well-spoken when that’s the right thing.

Many years ago I was struck by a public service spot for the Radio Advertising Bureau

Radio, the appetizer of the mind

I found it self-evident truth.

To be on the road and at the wheel with changing vistas all about, the well-spoken phrase from across the radio could start one making a turn down an imaginary road. One was now in two places at once.

The desire for more of this experience led our people to create works of stage, be they plays or readings. We’d started by listening to our father, listened next to the pastor, and found even the raconteur at the tavern engaging.

The hall given to spoken voice was a natural progression. That there were men who made that writing a livelihood meant quality had become timeless.

It isn’t a fluke or happy accident.

To tie this to radio (Citizen’s Band) has been hearing the occasional host of a few minutes or over several evenings I'm passing by that any number have raised tired eyes from their beer when a blessing (often disguised) has been heard.

I’m not interested in a soliloquy on the hailing channel (19), but there is —for everyone reading this — that need for all of us to put to words what the heart knows. Make it, well said.

What good is the equipment with nothing to say? Rather, when we know it’s important (the fleeting instant), being ready to recite is more than sounding words.

Arise from your school desk. The content is the form.
The recital is of using the equipment well.

(A tough crowd at this joint. Knowing)

Confidence in one’s radio equipment is natural. Worthy of pursuit. It’s said that the meek shall inherit the earth. Not the reticent or the dumb. But to him who holds back in action and lets words impart what’s true. Thus, the well-modulated voice. In all things.

If the whole of physics is in the end naught but sound & light, then what matters is in the beat of the heart and the control of breath for them to dance.

The music is in the spaces between the notes.

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Reminds me of a man I used to hear on 75 Meters AM; 3885 kc. He was a retired broadcast engineer IIRC, and I think he was running an old Gates broadcast transmitter. But really made him stand out much more so than a professional quality signal were his recitals of radio shows.
I specifically remember hearing him do Amos 'n Andy, but he might have done others as well. He sounded like listening to the actual show. Wish I could remember his callsign.

Out in the sticks where I live , the mobile cb' s put out just as good if not better than base station. Some of them guys got big watts.