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« on: December 31, 2009, 06:12:46 PM »
What crappy condx!
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 01:32:55 AM »
condx were truly craptastic on 75. Good on 160, but nothing I can even listen on here. I think the 160 xtal quit oscillating in the Yeasu. no rx or tx now on that band.

I'll be glad when I can go back to separate rx and tx setups.
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« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 01:38:49 AM »
 I blame it on the  blue moon Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2010, 10:20:43 AM »
Quote from: KA0ARA on January 01, 2010, 01:38:49 AM
I blame it on the  blue moon Roll Eyes

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2009/12/blue-earth-blue-moon.html
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2010, 07:27:39 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avJPsuArgs
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2010, 08:24:47 AM »
Right, it's okay in the daytime but around 5 or 6 p.m. local, that goes away.  I was working a few guys in IL, Mich. and Ohio but what happens is they start getting hit with rapid fading and disappear.  Then I hear WB3HUZ coming in; tried to give him a call but he faded out as fast as he faded in, then the window is just sort of a swamp of indistinct sigs jumbled together.  I go to 160 and everything FB.  Listened to W9AD and KB0HG around 9 p.m.  On top of all of that though I have my local noise issues.  I manage to null out the constant line noise but then there is something else that is a random burp of what sounds like AC noise but it is every 20 KHz and it keeps jumping around in frequency and time so it is impossible to null.   Dealing with this stuff distracts me from working on building circuits and learning so I may have to just forget about operating and devote my time to building and studying.

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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2010, 11:40:34 AM »
I heard fantastic signals on the WFD net on 3730 y'day afternoon on the QS1R. By the time I got the 813's fired up and blasted in with "Can you hear me now," I got only a few replies before things really went south.
HUZ went from -45dbm to  -70 almost between comments....  and with his setup that takes some doing.

Sorry I didn't get in sooner. Even 'JN' sounded good.  Grin
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2010, 02:08:15 PM »
It was bad last New Years Eve - even SKN was shot on 80M. I thought that my receiver had broken into super-regeneration.
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