What happened to 75??????

[kc2ifr]

I cant believe it......its 6:45PM here in upstate NY and 75 is COMPLETELY dead.......I thought my antenna fell down.
Even the noise is gone!!!!!!

[Mike/W8BAC]

Stay tuned. It's going to be a good night for DX I think. Your mileage will very.

[k4kyv]

T-storms in the Gulf area, off the coast of TX and LA.

http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html

[WA1GFZ]

I was listening to you guys when it died. Only guy coming in was Grant.

[KL7OF]

I will be calling CQ from somewhere in the GHETTO tonight on 75 and 160 at 1945, 1925 and possibly 1915  (if I find the crystal).....FROM tum tum< wa

[WQ9E]

I have been spending a little time on the low end of 80 keeping my ears in shape for high speed CW (the CQWW CW contest).  Conditions have been great to Europe and N. Africa on 80 and absolutely lousy to EU on 40 meters.  The Hy Tower and homebrew amp (3 4CX800's with P. Dahl iron and 56 uf of oil caps running very comfortably at 1500 watts out on CW) are doing a nice job of getting out and keeping the barn shack warm.

I figured I might as well sandwich some CW in between having been net control for the MidWest Classic Radio net this morning and being net control for a local AM net on 160 Sunday morning.  I did operate the Ranger/Desk KW and SX-88 on 40 for a little bit of CW contesting 1950's style.  I am definitely not a serious contester for this weekend but it is more fun and less work than writing.

Rodger WQ9E

[KL7OF]

condx on 75 tonite (up till now @11;20 PM westcoast time) are not good... a few sigs from Calif and nev but nothing to the east.......very quiet......

[WU2D]

I worked Don on Thanksgiving but signals were down.

I heard a few stations calling CQ last night (Saturday) on 75M, including K5YHS. But I had to use the beverage to hear him clearly - it was a no go on the inverted L and nobody was hearing me. 150W was not cutting it. I think there were storms down south or to the West or both!

Beyond the noise, the band was "soft" and long with generally poor propagation.

40M was little better today in the late morning. I worked a couple of people but everybody was complaining about weak signals and that was on single hop on 40M!

Geez, I am getting sick of these fuzzy conditions.

Mike WU2D

[KA1ZGC]

Sorry guys, I forgot it was my turn to pay the propagation bill.

I just took care of it. Should be all better now.