Not Too Shabby

[Steve - K4HX]

Hearing W2VW work stations out west. I just talked to OJ, K0OJ. He was S9 running 25 watts to an 80/40 dipole. I think I heard WA1SOV talking to a station in HI.

Where's all those big AM mauls?

[Pete, WA2CWA]

I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working  W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away.

[Steve - K4HX]

The band was open to the Pacific around 3PM. On slop bucket I worked two HI stations (one a mobile), a ZL and E51C South Cook Island. Sigs from HI were noticeably lower about an hour later.

[W2VW]

I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working  W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away.

The wideband noise u heard was KF0OW's rig crapping out.

I set a new personal best. Lost 6 stations in a row.

Signals were very loud. The kind of loud you get just before the band folds. That's exactly what happened.

One guy checked in twice about a half hour apart.

Still better than cruising internet forums all day.

[W2VW]

Hearing W2VW work stations out west. I just talked to OJ, K0OJ. He was S9 running 25 watts to an 80/40 dipole. I think I heard WA1SOV talking to a station in HI.

Where's all those big AM mauls?

You must have been on first culling CQ. The first guy I worked was actually calling you with no contact.

He had some equipment to warm up first. Either the band changed of you moved elsewhere.

[Steve - K4HX]

I must have tuned off before he called me or I just didn't hear him. I did not hear some of the stations your were working. I could hear you Q5. I called a few times but you didn't hear me.

[W2VW]

I must have tuned off before he called me or I just didn't hear him. I did not hear some of the stations your were working. I could hear you Q5. I called a few times but you didn't hear me.

Such was the opening. I had trouble hearing some of the guys you were working.

[kb3ouk]

I came in briefly from doing yard work and hooked up the scanner discone antenna to the 756 PRO II and heard KB0(something something) on 29.017, wall-to-wall, working  W2VW on 29.020, pissweak, around 4 PM. Then I heard some loud bursts of wide-band interference and signals started to fade away.

The wideband noise u heard was KF0OW's rig crapping out.

Must've been quite the crapout. I need a good antenna for 10 meters, 15 watts should do something up there with a decent antenna. Amp won't work up that high, tried and it crapped out on me. It might work now that it's been worked on.

[Steve - K4HX]

The band is open again today. Just finished up with K3IAN in Albuquerque, NM and was immediately called by GW3TMP in Wales/UK. Nice to have propagation both east and west.

[Steve - K4HX]

Now hearing CT1EHI station quite loud on 29015.