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NEXT WEEK-END, December 13th and 14th. From the suggestions previously offered, let's tighten up next week-end's 11 meter skip schedule. Saturday, LSB 16 from noon eastern/11:00AM central/9:00A.M. pacific until 6:00P.M. eastern/5:00P.M. central/3:00P.M. pacific. Sunday, USB 40 from noon...

Dog. BBQ. Never heard the dog again. ???

Should we try to schedule a coordinated CB skip week-end for like mid-December? How about December 13-14th, a full month away? This much lead time will give us time to get the word out. LSB 38 and LSB 37 are becoming chronic train wrecks. A frequency that isn't regularly over-run would make...

Repeat after me: Realistic TRC-30A Navaho. My Realistic Navaho TRC-490 SSB base purchased in 1981 is still pluggin' away. So is the Turner Super Sidekick mic I bought back then to go with it. My 1992 Cobra 148GTL is still alive and kickin'. So is my 30 year old Cherokee AH-100 SSB walkie...

Once we got to sundown, the skip dropped like a a brick.

11 meters was hopping this afternoon. I'm on a boat with a walkie talkie hooked up to a 3' marine CB antenna and I'm hearing England, Hawaii, Calfornia, Texas, Maine, the midwest, etc. Of course, this rig can't compete with the big guns, but I did manage to connect with a station in Nashville...

Lots of Wisconsin and Minnesota stations coming in down here today. Good QSO with 988. When my barefoot TRC465 and marine CB antenna are connecting, you know the skip was hopping (on LSB 36, LSB 37 and LSB 38).

I must have been riding a specific arc because I spoke to several Michigan stations on my Shakespeare 5223 Marine CB antenna and the 12 watts coming out of my TRC 465. I also heard a guy talking about how he was pushing 400 watts, but I couldn't hear his neighbor the guy pushing a wimpy 100...

Skip was moderately strong around 11:30A.M. eastern this morning. LSB 37 was particularly active. It has dropped off noticeably right now. Looks like one of those days where we have in and out episodes.

I recall talking to those folks a few times in the past. Glad to hear that they are still up and running. I'm going to make the effort to catch them. Thanks for the tip. There are still a few pockets of local SSB traffic on CB. It might be helpful if folks chimed in with information on...

The zero frequencies are widely used in eastern Europe. If Nigel Tufnel were on WWDX, he'd tell us to unlock our clarifiers and turn them to 11. But here on WWDX, we still have plenty of operators - myself included - using relatively stock CB radios. They don't have VFOs, unlocked clarifiers...

We've tried to get something going on USB 35 and USB 40. There was some success, but folks haven't kept it going.

Just heard you dominating LSB 36 about 15 minutes ago.

Just heard 399 JJ from Medellin, Colombia making a few contacts on LSB 36 around 3:15P.M. eastern time. There was a pile up of Canadian, Wisonsin and Michigan stations trying to get back to him.

I had one of those many years ago. Matched up with a Turner +3, it was my base radio for many years. Great talker. Excellent unit. Rock solid on frequency. Audio quality with that Turner was superb. Folks would seriously modify these. Mine was kept 100% stock and never tweaked. Good luck.

JJ: You were just booming in on LSB 37around 5:05P.M. eastern time. The only down side is that you've got some distortion in your audio quality, but no station came in stronger. 828: I heard you too, but you apparently could not hear me trying to get back to you. My barefoot TRC-465 with...

It has been pretty quiet this early afternoon. Not much going on with LSB 38, but that 1-1-1-1... dummy keeps popping up. I'm hearing very little activity on LSB 37. The usual activity on LSB 39 and LSB 36 is just not there. It is a very tame day for 11 meter DX.

I suggest we all just learn español. That would be easier and more useful than petitioning the FCC.

Conditions today were not particularly favorable. There wasn't a lot of traffic. However, I was hearing stations in Arizona and California. One California station was talking to someone in Hawaii. I was picking them up both, but nobody was hearing me and my barefoot base.

I've got a Midland MXTA26 and the Luiton version. Excellent antennas.