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Some of the on-line services are indicating propagation conditions today, May 4th to be in the "GOOD" range for 12-10 meters. I'm listening to LSB 38 right now and do not hear a single U.S. station. However, I am hearing "zero-zero-seven" in England (Mr. Bond, himself?), 972 in Germany and...

Some of the on-line services are indicating propagation conditions today, May 4th to be in the "GOOD" range for 12-10 meters. I'm listening to LSB 38 right now and do not hear a single U.S. station. However, I am hearing "zero-zero-seven" in England (Mr. Bond, himself?) and 972 in Germany...

Note Rule 95.531(c). It says: "FRS units normally communicate with other FRS units but may also be used to communicate with General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) stations." Conclusion: the FCC is explicitly O.K. with FRS (license-by-rule) and GMRS (licensed units) talking to each other over the...

It has been pretty dead down here, too. There is occasionally some skip coming in, but it is pretty tenuous. This is the second week-end in a row where the skip propagation has been disappointing.

The skip started to pick up a bit from about 3:30 P.M. eastern onwards. There's a Mexican dispatcher I get all too often when the skip rolls in. She was coming in and so were some guys on AM. But my effort to communicate with the WDX crowd were a bust.

I'm not hearing single station on 16 AM or LSB nor on 35-40 LSB.

UPDATE: Daytime propagation conditions for 12-10 meters are in the GOOD range according to various websites. We'll start testing those predictions tomorrow at noon and follow our usual protocol of looking to the top of each hour as the prime times for hailing. We'll do it again Sunday. May...

LSB 16 NET: April 29th-30th The skips gods have been unkind to us the last two (2) week-ends. Let's try again this week-end and see if we can make LSB 16 great again!

soon part ways...

I can't think of a day this year where I have heard less daytime skip than today. Occasionally, someone from DX-land will come across the receiver. However, the skip has been pretty much non-existent today on LSB 16, LSB 38 and any other channel I frequent for the purpose of talking across a...

Well, the Puerto Rico contact gave me a chance to practice my Spanish. Hoping today lets me bone up on my English.

Let's try our luck tomorrow: Sunday, April 23rd.

Some guys in Puerto Rico are dominating AM 16 down here. I made a solid contact with one, but I'm not hearing any WDX stations at all.

APRIL 22-23, 2023 LSB 16 NET: We'll start at noon eastern/9:00 pacific and follow our protocol of using every hour on the hour for our primary hailing times.

I'm going to try something different tonight and have the mobile on LSB 16 from about 8:00P.M. eastern to 11:00P.M. eastern. Let's see if I can get the DX gods to work a few over-time hours.

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.