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My first base antenna was the 1/2 wave omni-directional ground plane. It was a decent antenna, but I wanted better performance and purchased the .64 wave. The difference in performance was quite notable. The .64 was taken out of action when a lightning strike fried the tuning coil. By then...

I went out on my boat today and strategically dropped anchored off of Geiger Key, from where I watched the U.S. Navy's Key West Air Show. What a (jet) blast! But shortly after dropping anchor, I mounted the 4' "tactical" antenna on my Cherokee AH-100 did my DX thing. Several stations in...

APRIL 15th-16th LSB NET: We'll start at noon eastern time on Saturday and aim for hailing every hour on the hour after that. We'll repeat that protocol on Sunday. Only you can make LSB 16 great again!

Careful with that Chevy turbo. Get it checked out. Wise mechanic friend tells me they don't last if pushed even modestly. Antietam is an impressive sight and represents a piece of our history that no American should be without knowledge of.

LSB 16 was dead quiet today.

Boston stations booming in down here and clogging up LSB 38.

I made a good, steady contact with 428 at 2:48P.M. eastern. QTH: 65 miles west of Austin, TX. Signal strength was respectable but the signal would increasingly distort as he spoke. 1 ADAM 12 from Syracuse, NY was hearing the QSO. He chimed in as soon as we wrapped it up. His signal was...

I made my first contact with 134 in Nebraska at about 1:09 eastern time. That contact was made on my Starduster clone. The switch to the IMAX 2000 didn't produce any better results. I made contact with 221 in Hartford, CT at 1:16 P.M. eastern. That QSO had pretty consistent signals back and...

The term "snow" in South Florida means something very different than what it does in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

APRIL 8th & 9th LSB 16 NET BEGINS AT NOON: Propagation for this week-end on 12-10 meters is predicted to be in the "FAIR" range. That's not ideal, but experience has shown us that your mileage may vary. We'll do our usual noon eastern start time with every on the hour after that as primary...

Well, the bottom pretty much dropped out of the DX propagation. 16 was dead both on AM and LSB. I was able to make a contact with 31 mobile in Iowa on LSB 38 around 6:04P.M. Stations from Nebraska and Iowa along with Nova Scotia were coming in on LSB 38, but that was it. Then that went flat...

I'm in Miami today running the TRC 490 with the Super Sidekick. The noise floor today is only around 2 "S" units, but bleed-over from AM 15 is an occasional nuisance. A Mexican dispatcher was also clogging things up for about 15 minutes, but has fortunately faded away. At 3:15P.M. eastern, I...

Propagation for 12-10 meters is categorized as "FAIR". I'll give it a few tries tomorrow and see what happens.

APRIL 1st-2nd LSB 16 NET: Start at noon eastern/9:00A.M. pacific both days with an emphasis on hailing every hour on the hour.

Note that I spoke to you Saturday from the lower Keys QTH. That's a Uniden Bearcat 980 with a Workman DM 502 base mic driving an A99. Sunday's contact was from the Miami QTH. That was done using my 42 year old Realistic TRC 490 with an even older Turner Super Sidekick driving an IMAX 2000...

I connected with 134 at around 5:12P.M. There was a station calling me, but they were buried in the noise floor. The biggest problem I had was the guys from Chicago clogging up LSB 16 as they talked to each other for almost an hour and a half. So, yes, there was propagation. No, it was not a...

I had a good contact with 933 at about 1:46 P.M. For the past few minutes, there have been a couple of guys on LSB 16 carrying on a conversation. It sounds like they are in the Chicago area.

I'm running 12 watts PEP. Your successful Florida contact might have been using a little more.

I mad contact with 134 at around 1:52 P.M. and then with 128 around 5:13 P.M. I heard 917, but had no luck getting back to him. Same with 431 and 969. It definitely has not been a great skip day, but there has been skip out there. There's a NY/NJ LSB 16 group that talks nightly around...

I've had the radio on as I've been taking care of things around the house. There has been a fair amount of AM traffic clogging up the channel at times. The only LSB 16 traffic I've heard was 134, who was coming in pretty consistently from about 1:30 eastern until after 2:00P.M. After that...