Just for the heck of it I turned on my base station at 4:15 PM and the radio was dead as a door nail on both lsb and am. And when you can't even pick up the Stupid Bowl ( Toilet Bowl ) you might as well find something else to spend time on. LOL
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11 meter is very quiet?
- Thread starter Tweetybird
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nothing yesterday.no radioing last nite due to very rare occurance in my area.lots of rain n lightning in AUGUST. trying to remember last time we got much needed rain in august
Massive thunder storms every night this week. Listening to the rain pounding on our metal roof makes sleeping so good.
J.J. 399
J.J. 399
We could use some of that stuff right about now. Spring and early summer it rained almost every other day or a few days in a row. Made the grass grow like crazy and fight to get it mowed. Now the lawn is burning up and some trees are losing their leaves already. Last week we dealt with Wild Fire smoke from Canada. The weather is insane.
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I got a delightful surprise from the radio room this morning. Short skip rolling and made 4 contacts, some on the 2547 and others on the Lincoln II+. And wouldn't you know I have business to take care of so I couldn't hover in the room, but at least it looks like my Star Duster will be a winner. WOO HOO !
The skip is going to be what it is , it’s been spotty for awhile now and you just have to make contact when the opportunity presents itself. This is nothing new what most people complain about is they had great dx contacts when we were in the peak of the solar cycle (myself included) now we’re on a downward trajectory and will have good propagation for a couple more years. Then it’s going to be another 11 years before you see great conditions again.
Summer time is always hit and miss that hasn’t changed since before CB or ham radio . You can’t change Mother Nature.
So just enjoy the contacts you make and don’t sweat the small stuff. Your hair will last longer and maybe even your sanity as well .
A good site I check is “ham radio dx and pay attention to the 10m band it’s as clear as they get to 11m .
Cheers
Summer time is always hit and miss that hasn’t changed since before CB or ham radio . You can’t change Mother Nature.
So just enjoy the contacts you make and don’t sweat the small stuff. Your hair will last longer and maybe even your sanity as well .
A good site I check is “ham radio dx and pay attention to the 10m band it’s as clear as they get to 11m .
Cheers
I hear ya
My brother is the closest, and even he is over the mountain from me.
There are a handful of people left across the central valley, but not many, most are 70+ air miles that requires me to drive up to mount Bullion to reliably communicate with on 11 meters
About 45 years ago this area was a CB hot spot,had a local CB club, react members on channel 9 24/7 , channel 11 had the OTR guys on all the time and the net on sat, channel 15 had a bunch from Kerman, 17 was filled with drivers on the highway 99 corridor 24 hours a day, 20 was the local club channel for the central valley CB'ers, 22 was the channel the guys down in Fresno hung out....
Nothing like that now.
73
Jeff
Central valley of California, Bay area, and Arizona all booming in here the last few hours. No problem making contacts on a barefoot 5555N2 this afternoon.......
Hope others are getting some conditions as well; it's been awfully quiet the last few days!
Hope others are getting some conditions as well; it's been awfully quiet the last few days!
Yes, the band opened up today, I talked to @DXman mid day and several other stations up in the pacific north west, Gorden was booming out of Washington about 20 min later.
I could hear 178 talking to other stations here in CA, it was a nice little opening.
73
Jeff
sad part there are many still operatable stations everywhere but choose to rarely talk.
3 or 5 not far from me that talk skip but they never talk to anybody local. odd way to be but takes all kinds i guess
i had em again from 5 pm till way up in the night.odd we got 2 inches rain in our parched area. very very rare to see rain early august. usually at the end as we get ready to pick corn n get stuck
Not much happening around here but conditions are workable at about 9 o'clock cst. They're faint but I'm getting some short skip to Denver Co. while at the same time getting some Chicago in there. It's taking a little patience but it's doable despite what mother nature is holding out on.
I had the home base antenna disconnected most of the day because of thunderstorm forecast but heard lots of yakking on the mobile while I was driving. But couldn't make contacts. At one time I switched modes on the radio while driving and heard clear talking but when I got to my destination I checked the mode and it was in CW mode which confused me because I thought that should be Morris Code ?????
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you were diving? listening to radio? haha ive hit wrong keys also.i worked all day n got home radio was on but showered ,are n went to sleep
Yeah an old guy like me wishes I was Muff Diving in the car ! LOL
