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Title: Not Too Shabby Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 21, 2012, 05:11:32 PM Hearing W2VW work stations out west. I just talked to OJ, K0OJ. He was S9 running 25 watts to an 80/40 dipole. I think I heard WA1SOV talking to a station in HI.
Where's all those big AM mauls? Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on November 21, 2012, 05:24:56 PM I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away.
Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 21, 2012, 05:44:41 PM The band was open to the Pacific around 3PM. On slop bucket I worked two HI stations (one a mobile), a ZL and E51C South Cook Island. Sigs from HI were noticeably lower about an hour later.
Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: W2VW on November 21, 2012, 06:00:59 PM I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away. The wideband noise u heard was KF0OW's rig crapping out. I set a new personal best. Lost 6 stations in a row. Signals were very loud. The kind of loud you get just before the band folds. That's exactly what happened. One guy checked in twice about a half hour apart. Still better than cruising internet forums all day. Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: W2VW on November 21, 2012, 06:03:11 PM Hearing W2VW work stations out west. I just talked to OJ, K0OJ. He was S9 running 25 watts to an 80/40 dipole. I think I heard WA1SOV talking to a station in HI. Where's all those big AM mauls? You must have been on first culling CQ. The first guy I worked was actually calling you with no contact. He had some equipment to warm up first. Either the band changed of you moved elsewhere. Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 21, 2012, 06:11:24 PM I must have tuned off before he called me or I just didn't hear him. I did not hear some of the stations your were working. I could hear you Q5. I called a few times but you didn't hear me.
Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: W2VW on November 21, 2012, 06:56:59 PM I must have tuned off before he called me or I just didn't hear him. I did not hear some of the stations your were working. I could hear you Q5. I called a few times but you didn't hear me. Such was the opening. I had trouble hearing some of the guys you were working. Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: kb3ouk on November 21, 2012, 07:22:55 PM I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away. The wideband noise u heard was KF0OW's rig crapping out. Must've been quite the crapout. I need a good antenna for 10 meters, 15 watts should do something up there with a decent antenna. Amp won't work up that high, tried and it crapped out on me. It might work now that it's been worked on. Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 22, 2012, 11:44:17 AM The band is open again today. Just finished up with K3IAN in Albuquerque, NM and was immediately called by GW3TMP in Wales/UK. Nice to have propagation both east and west.
Title: Re: Not Too Shabby Post by: Steve - K4HX on November 22, 2012, 11:55:36 AM Now hearing CT1EHI station quite loud on 29015. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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