11 meter is very quiet?

[Woody-202]

generally if the band open at any of the sites on the coast, then the open here too. I also used it to snoop on Europe and South America...pretty cool you can do that!

Now to find one for my iPhone...hadn’t even considered that before your post!

This is a good East coast SDR site for 11m:

http://na5b.com:8901/

 

[Woody-202]

When I checked spaceweather.com this morning it reported a new region which could give us a smattering of sunspots.

 

[Farmer Brown]

I really need my beam up soon ! The other day on 38 LSB I could hear them , but it really never set up for me & my A-99 to make any contacts . An op @ the other end of the state ( about 35 miles away ) was on a MR-4 & yacking to eveyone ! BTW 18* & windy here temps feel like it's in the single digits .

Magnum, I have a new IMAX up on a 18' pole. I dug out the Sirio Tornado 27 yesterday morning, never had it up. Right now I can talk further than I can hear, will be very interesting to see what the 27 will do. Hopefully within the next coupla weeks I'll get it up.

FB

 

[Slowmover]

Bands open: Full moon effect on the humans.

I couldn’t stop driving. Sure paid for it next day.

 

[Farmer Brown]

I just talked to someone in Central Virginia on 38 lower sideband, from the hog yard. I'll be back in a few minutes

 

[357magnum]

FB , I'm sure I know the results on the Sirio already ! Because my A-99 has crappy receive ! I can be mobile , pull in the yard , the same op's I was listening to on my Styker Mag Mount I can barely hear on my A-99 that's up 48' to the tip . But it gets out fine .

 

[2NC995]

I just talked to someone in Central Virginia on 38 lower sideband, from the hog yard. I'll be back in a few minutes

I hear a bit of the hog yard, but I might be late the the party. Conditions not very good.

 

[Farmer Brown]

I hear a bit of the hog yard, but I might be late the the party. Conditions not very good.

That was our 2nd contact, you weren't late aftera lol was you on the Lincoln +2 ?

 

[2NC995]

Not kidding, Farmer Brown, my receiver was quiet when you keyed, and your signal was 20 over 9 flashing 30. Smoking into the Carolinas. Good DXing.

 

[2NC995]

That was our 2nd contact, you weren't late aftera lol was you on the Lincoln +2 ?

Yea, same radio. I was driving or I would have ran the watergate. Haha.

 

[Farmer Brown]

I had been on my old Royce 642 earlier, but I had swapped over to the RCI 2980 to get a lower dk for the Gray 300. Had been on AM some also, made several contacts there and SSB.

That +2 is no slouch.

 

[2NC995]

I had been on my old Royce 642 earlier, but I had swapped over to the RCI 2980 to get a lower dk for the Gray 300. Had been on AM some also, made several contacts there and SSB.

That +2 is no slouch.

Gotcha that time:



Of course I bumped the clarifier in the wrong direction the second time you keyed, so no, that wasn’t on your end it was operator error right here

 

[S&W357]

" Unit 357 Farmer Brown"...getting it done.

WDX-556

 

[2NC995]

dled , You are fortunate ! I check the uppers daily ... Zip , Zilch , Nada !

After a week or so of silence, the band opened up for me yesterday. I had worked all of the stations I heard already, so I held off for countries I hadn’t heard, but didn’t manage to work any (I need Paraguay!).

Anyway, what I’ve been meaning to tell you is that 90% or more of the activity I’ve heard lately is from 1830-2130 UTC time. 27.555 is usually where I stay, but sometimes I’ll check 27.500- 27.600 in 5kc steps. 27.455 is a good beacon freq for conditions to Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

The remaining 10% is totally and completely random, day or night.

 

[Farmer Brown]

995
That's nice! I do believe that is after I swapped back to the Royce 642, Gray 300 swinging about 225. First time the Gray has been fired up in 8-9 years.

Thank you for that, made me smile hearing my 'sped up' slow talking self. lol