Finally got some good propagation in these parts, Vermont and Massachusetts are coming in strong!
Very very nice
Very very nice
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11 meter is very quiet?
- Thread starter Tweetybird
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Yeah I had a nice chat with one of your neighbors around Houston. Calls himself USDA ( UpSideDownArmadillo ) or Dog. Chatted for awhile on 33 LSB
36-39LSB is a train wreck here in SoCal!! Tons of stations!!
I don't doubt that one bit the way it was here today. I'm beginning to think if you want to talk to someone when it's like this it would be best to jump up to USB but have never tried it but will start giving it some thought.
Oh ya gotta to come up to the upper channels!! It’s real fun. Besides you’re not really competing with the super watt, bye bye bye crowd…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
AmericanEagle575
Supporting Sr. Member WDX-1863
Well Radio Friends,made contact with the Following:
WR #303 or 373 Colorado(was a little bit of qrm,hard to make out at first)
178 Washington State ,Mount Vernon (Larry, he's a WWDX member,can't seem to remember his screen name,my apologies) great talking with him!!
Unit # 5 out of San Diego, California
Conditions finally started to pick up for me in the late afternoon and it was good meeting new contacts and just having Fun on the Radio,hope all of you were able to make some good contacts today and have a great week ahead and God Bless you all!!
73
Steve
I did. it worked, upgrade antenna if you can .we found local friends, prepper kids, retirees, and just found skip! Cool stuff!
AmericanEagle575
Supporting Sr. Member WDX-1863
That's pretty cool, thanks Jeff for letting me know,I remember now he had asked first if I was part of the World radio group,must have slipped my mind, LoL....
73
Steve
"And I just got cotton picken down....Bye...Bye...Bye...Byeeeee...."
Your spot in the 404 DX log book is now officially reserved! The walkie talkie you see in the picture, a Cherokee AH-100 is the unit I was talking to you on. I was using a very modest Radio Shack headset mic and was sending all of my mighty 8.6 watts to my A99.
Looking forward to doing it again.
As close as they are to me I never really hear from that area of the country. Must be the landscape barriers block their signals from me.
That congestion is part of why I think we need to bring LSB 16 back to life. When the skip is hopping, there's just too much traffic on the frequencies the SSB crowd likes to use.
They are too close to you. Signals are going straight over you. The most difficult states to work are generally the ones next door. You need a different propagation mode to work them. Sporadic E may allow short skip like that but backscatter is a rare occurrence but can have interesting results. I am in Nova Scotia and could never work Prince Edward Island which is only about 100 miles away. One day while working a station in Venezuela with the beam pointed south, away from P.E.I. I heard a station in Charlottetown P.E.I. I turned the beam north and lost her. Back south and picked her up fine. Ended up talking to her with the beam pointed in the "wrong" direction. Signals were going south to Venezuela and a portion of what arrived there was being scattered back towards us. She really was in P.E.I as I got her QSL card later. Propagation is weird and amazing at times.
you just said what ive thought for all my years with radios. talk local or waaay out there