Does the band suck out east...it sucks out west

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Boy howdy is the band ever noisey and signals way down. I haven't made any contacts outside the local area.

What's it like in your world?

Paul

[WA3VJB]

Signals are gorgeous.
W8MAQ, KB3AHE, W9T, K4K, W3A, W9T, W8R, WA3JYU
3729

0341Z

[W9GT]

Signals are gorgeous.
W8MAQ, KB3AHE, W9T, K4K, W3A
3729

Great sounding signals on this end as well.  Wow, W3A that Ranger sure sounds nice!  K3V pounding in here with really nice sound on the 300G, and K4K...sure like the sound of those Bauer 707s.  Frank...nice sounding 4 by 1K strapping into Indiana!  Larry...just heard you for first time...sounding loud and wonderful..Sorry but I can't hear Jim....no propagation....too close?

73,  Jack, W9GT

[AF9J]

Jack,

I know you are. You were just slamming in here, in that roundtable you and W8W were in on 3885.  I tried calling, and I couldn't break in.  Then you all dropped out within the space of maybe 5 minutes!  I just heard Steve, WA1QIX down around 3870 or 3875  talking with somebody in my neck of the woods.  His Class E sure sounds good.  I couldn't even hear the W9 he was talking to.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Finally hearing some eastern stations, W2ZM, WA1QIX and that's it. Damn local power line noise is just wiping everything out,...of all nights.

cheers

Paul

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Anyone made any cross country contacts yet? I only see reports halfway across the continent.

PW

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Finally an eastern contact...W2ZM Bob is 10-20 +9 and we worked for 10 minutes.

Nice condx finally.

cheers

Paul

[WA3VJB]

At 0500GMT will be hitting 3705Kc to look for Henk and the others across the pond.
Maybe catch you in that ?

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Sorry Paul, way out of my tuning range on the Bauer. No other rigs either.

Thx

Paul

[AF9J]

At 0500GMT will be hitting 3705Kc to look for Henk and the others across the pond.
Maybe catch you in that ?

Hi Paul,

I tried breaking into the roundtable you were in, around 0600z (on 3705 or 3725 kc), with the mighty PW, Globe Scout.  I finally worked out my VFO problems (including VFO muting/keying), and gave you a call. The antenna was bigtime mismatched from the rig (I had it set up for the Stew Perry corntest on 160m, so I had to just use the Scout's Pi-network to keep things happy). I heard you say "I think I heard somebody trying to break in".  That was me.  Unfortunately, the mighty 30W of carrier just didn't cut it.  Sorry about that.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

[The Slab Bacon]

Propagation was a bit strange into B-more last night. But when It was good, it was very good!! Full scale signals pinning the guess meter on my SX-28!! Big signals, good audio, and a little hijinks to boot!! I was just along for the QSO!

But I did come up with a fairly good analogy of propagation conditions. "The swiss cheese ionosphere" One station would be full strap, then another from the same area running similar power would be piss weak!! and it would change from one round to the next.
Frank (GFZ) was even hitting the full scale pin occasionally running only 100w out of his
V-2!!. all in all it was a great night of late night radio!! 

                                                                                         the Slab Bacon

[WA1GFZ]

Hope it is good tonight. Bottle of Ruffino red stuff and we are making a big pot of the other red stuff.
Now if the _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _  at work leave me alone might have a good time.

[k4kyv]

Tuesday evening 01JA08/Wednesday morning 02JA08.

Signals on 75/80 are  down a little from usual  strength.

Throughout the band I hear a uniform white-noise hiss in the background.  Not static or line noise.  Some type of ionospheric background noise.

I was talking to Tim WA1HLR, and noticed that with the beverage receiving antenna (main lobe is to the northeast), the background hiss is almost gone.  But receiving with the transmitting antenna (dipole 110' high, broadside in Tim's direction), the hiss is very strong, even audible over Tim's S9+20 carrier.