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Band Watch => 15 Meters => Topic started by: W1AEX on March 07, 2016, 01:42:29 PM



Title: 15 Meter AM open again - 3/7/2016
Post by: W1AEX on March 07, 2016, 01:42:29 PM
Another nice opening today on 15 meters. While running 10 watts of carrier I called CQ on 21.430 today at around 1600 UTC and Ralph - KD6OS came right back. Signals ranged from S-6 to just over S-9 during the course of our 45 minute chat. There didn't seem to be any activity anywhere up and down the band but of course a sideband station tried calling CQ right on top of us for reasons that defy logic. He left after a minute or so. At any rate, it looks like the band is in decent shape at the moment. The link below leads to a 45 second YouTube video of Ralph's Flex 5K this morning.

Rob W1AEX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5R8cvuMQI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5R8cvuMQI)


Title: Re: 15 Meter AM open again - 3/7/2016
Post by: KB2WIG on March 07, 2016, 04:44:42 PM

Its still open now,  4.44p est, 21.44 gmt


klc


Title: Re: 15 Meter AM open again - 3/7/2016
Post by: n1eu on March 09, 2016, 01:00:55 PM
Great recording Rob!


Title: Re: 15 Meter AM open again - 3/7/2016
Post by: W7NGA on March 10, 2016, 09:55:37 AM
I decided to take a break from modern technology SDR ... for a while, and have the Drake T4XC and R4C on the bench.
Conditions have been good enough to have a few QSO's with my 20 watts and Shure 444.
I might throw the L4B into the mix later today, so give a listen if you can.

W7NGA  dan
San Juan Island, Wa.
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