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KX5JT and K4HX in QSO. Good signals. Come and join us.

Things have gotten busy! Now there are QSOs on 21420, 21430 and 21440. Hearing VE6CQ coming through loud and clear.

W0VMC is 20-over-9 at times on 21420!

No one will talk to me, but I still have value.

klc

I did not work KB2WIG this morning... but he still has value!

I just got back from errands... are you still on somewhere?

K1GUP and W0LS on 21.420 now.

Robert was working W0LS when I left. Worked 'VMC for the better part of an hour with a few deep fades, the rest of the time he was LOUD. The grid drive started acting up in the 32V so I signed. It tuned up pretty easily into the 40m dipole, though.

First 15m contact I can recall in about 20 years. TNX to Steve for the alert.

Its all dead here, now. everyone just fadded awayy.....  

klc

@@@@   Well, I heard you that time @@@@


Now  its making a liar out of me....  (21.430) W6PSS is 40/9 into C NY    and thars   Gary, w3am on .440


klc

Wellll its open again. 11:30 est  Which is something like 1630 hrs gmt or usb

klc

It's opened up just about every morning and afternoon lately sometimes with fading, sometimes pretty solid.

Who picked that spot .420?
Timtron?

Wassa matter w- 420?

You don't like freqs that end in a "0" or maybe a "5" ?

It's ON like DONKEY KONG on 15 AM today!

Not too strong of signals this afternoon... I can hear Clark TRP with a station that is unheard.... I tried with WA0FDV but it was difficult at best with signals on the "edge" of being received with fades in and out.

Funny how it can go.... W0VMC and I had an armchair copy QSO right after the difficulty with the other stations... but he was not his usual 30 over the entire time... there was some fading today.

I am monitoring and occasionally calling for AM on 21.420 this morning.

15 meter early evening activity may be something to check out with the slowly improving solar numbers. This evening I worked WA1OIR from 23:15 to about 23:50 GMT. He was running a barefoot DX-60 into his A4S beam. He was peaking S-7 into my simple 1/4 wave vertical.

There was plenty of elbow room without any slopbucket QRM. Nice "quiet" condx. It was a real treat and I think I'll be spending more early evening time on 15 as opposed to 40 since today saw an SFI of 140 with a sunspot count of 162.

Lots of TEP action (North/South direction) on both 15 and 10 meters late this afternoon. Now 15 and 10 are open from the west coast to the Far East and Australia and still some TEP action down into South America.

Calling CQ now on 21.420. Band appears open but no takers after 10 minutes. Would love some company/nice ragchew!

FYI, 15 has been in really good shape in the late afternoon and seems to be peaking near sundown. I have been on the past few nights on .420 and .425 working "first time AMers" who respond to my CQs. Condx seem to be running north/south at that time with ZERO noise level. Please check out!

I just tried calling on 21.420 and got nuttin.  It's not the end of the world, but I was hoping someone would have come back to me.  Never talked on 15 before.  That reminds me:  I have a 15 meter dipole that came with my first 735.  Never have put it up, but maybe I will. 

I know what you mean!

conditions here have been real bad, I keep hopeing 15 (or 10) will open up

Eric

Yeah.  I picked a heckuva time to get into AM.  Band conditions have been really bad lately.  Still, I'm not letting that deter me. 

15m is open.

Now.


Itsa bubblin.

21.420 or are you square?


klc

I was on 21.427 Mhz today mid afternoon. Worked several stations including Brad WS4B in Florida. My diagonal loop is getting out fairly well, 16' Horiz, 8' vertical, fed at a top corner. Zero RFI and low RCV noise. Same antenna on 20m does well with corner opposite feedpoint open circuit. Feeding with RG-8X + common mode choke. SWR on 15M is 2.5:1 about 15' away from feedpoint. On 20m it is higher, but the 'Z' is 75 ohms, easily matched with tuner. On 40m, the antenna as configured for 20m is an excellent RCV antenna as the noise is down about 40DB from my 80m Windom, but the signal is down only about 10 db from the Windom.

Jim
WD5JKO

We are all on 21.425 for heavy metal day

C

Yourmaking the trip to the east coast right now, Clark...

Thanks ralph.  The beam is wet and I cant run full power :(  But it is working!

C

Well that was short, a complete BUST...

I heard'  This is W3GL, shshsshshshs static pops, sshshshshs   Gone..   

C