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From Melbourne, Florida to Melbourne, Australia.

We had a couple of week-ends back in October and November where folks would go from one Dx contact to another. Funny thing happens down here with our summer pattern of daily afternoon thunderstorms. We wind up getting lots of short hop skip and make contacts in Tampa or Orlando or maybe...

I tried a few times yesterday (Sunday) afternoon and drew goose eggs. It was so quiet I went outside just to make sure my antenna wasn't damaged. At one point, two stations could barely be heard way in the background. LSB 38 wasn't much better. The lack of Dx propagation these last few...

Nor is there free use to all UHF and VHF repeaters. GMRS utilizes strictly GMRS repeaters with the user typically needing the consent of the repeater owner to use it. Some GMRS repeaters are open. Others are private. Some are free. Some require you to pay to use them. Different radio...

For about the last month, the skip my way has been strong along very specific arcs only. It hasn't been the domestic North America free-for-all type we used to hear on LSB 38 all the time. Instead, I'll have low noise floors with areas much farther away - like California, Washington state...

Lake Eerie club starts their net at 10:00A.M. - in just a few minutes. After that, I'll be looking at our noon start time and hoping for some good luck. It is not that there wasn't Dx propagation yesterday. There was. I could hear Australia, New Zealand and Germany but I couldn't hear much...

Local hams around me were talking about how 10 meters was hopping.

Mother Nature is playing hard to get again. The domestic skip has been almost non-existent all afternoon. On the other hand, I am hearing Germany, Australia and New Zealand on LSB 38.

GMRS brings something different to the party. It has developed quite a loyal following. The way folks operate on their reminds me a lot of CB in the pre-Convoy days when you'd hear call signs from operators who had paid for their FCC licenses. The FM mode, UHF 462-467 span, authorizing up to...

MEMORIAL DAY WEEK-END ON LSB 16: We are overdue for a good week-end of solid Dx propagation.

No luck today yet. Lake Eerie SSB club wasn't coming in at 10:00A.M. I've had LSB 16 on while doing things around the house. There has been absolutely no activity on LSB 16 at all.

I tried a few times yesterday and continued into the early evening. Skip propagation was dead. Lake Eerie SSB club starts their net in just over an hour at 10:00A.M. I'm going to give them a shot and then try on our net at our usual noon school schedule.

T minus 14 minutes until LSB 16 Net's start time. May the skip gods be with us.

Some of the on-line services are indicating propagation conditions today, May 4th to be in the "GOOD" range for 12-10 meters. I'm listening to LSB 38 right now and do not hear a single U.S. station. However, I am hearing "zero-zero-seven" in England (Mr. Bond, himself?), 972 in Germany and...

Some of the on-line services are indicating propagation conditions today, May 4th to be in the "GOOD" range for 12-10 meters. I'm listening to LSB 38 right now and do not hear a single U.S. station. However, I am hearing "zero-zero-seven" in England (Mr. Bond, himself?) and 972 in Germany...

Note Rule 95.531(c). It says: "FRS units normally communicate with other FRS units but may also be used to communicate with General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) stations." Conclusion: the FCC is explicitly O.K. with FRS (license-by-rule) and GMRS (licensed units) talking to each other over the...

It has been pretty dead down here, too. There is occasionally some skip coming in, but it is pretty tenuous. This is the second week-end in a row where the skip propagation has been disappointing.

The skip started to pick up a bit from about 3:30 P.M. eastern onwards. There's a Mexican dispatcher I get all too often when the skip rolls in. She was coming in and so were some guys on AM. But my effort to communicate with the WDX crowd were a bust.

I'm not hearing single station on 16 AM or LSB nor on 35-40 LSB.

UPDATE: Daytime propagation conditions for 12-10 meters are in the GOOD range according to various websites. We'll start testing those predictions tomorrow at noon and follow our usual protocol of looking to the top of each hour as the prime times for hailing. We'll do it again Sunday. May...