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LSB 16 NET: April 29th-30th The skips gods have been unkind to us the last two (2) week-ends. Let's try again this week-end and see if we can make LSB 16 great again!

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I can't think of a day this year where I have heard less daytime skip than today. Occasionally, someone from DX-land will come across the receiver. However, the skip has been pretty much non-existent today on LSB 16, LSB 38 and any other channel I frequent for the purpose of talking across a...

Well, the Puerto Rico contact gave me a chance to practice my Spanish. Hoping today lets me bone up on my English.

Let's try our luck tomorrow: Sunday, April 23rd.

Some guys in Puerto Rico are dominating AM 16 down here. I made a solid contact with one, but I'm not hearing any WDX stations at all.

APRIL 22-23, 2023 LSB 16 NET: We'll start at noon eastern/9:00 pacific and follow our protocol of using every hour on the hour for our primary hailing times.

I'm going to try something different tonight and have the mobile on LSB 16 from about 8:00P.M. eastern to 11:00P.M. eastern. Let's see if I can get the DX gods to work a few over-time hours.

My first base antenna was the 1/2 wave omni-directional ground plane. It was a decent antenna, but I wanted better performance and purchased the .64 wave. The difference in performance was quite notable. The .64 was taken out of action when a lightning strike fried the tuning coil. By then...

I went out on my boat today and strategically dropped anchored off of Geiger Key, from where I watched the U.S. Navy's Key West Air Show. What a (jet) blast! But shortly after dropping anchor, I mounted the 4' "tactical" antenna on my Cherokee AH-100 did my DX thing. Several stations in...

APRIL 15th-16th LSB NET: We'll start at noon eastern time on Saturday and aim for hailing every hour on the hour after that. We'll repeat that protocol on Sunday. Only you can make LSB 16 great again!

Careful with that Chevy turbo. Get it checked out. Wise mechanic friend tells me they don't last if pushed even modestly. Antietam is an impressive sight and represents a piece of our history that no American should be without knowledge of.

LSB 16 was dead quiet today.

Boston stations booming in down here and clogging up LSB 38.

I made a good, steady contact with 428 at 2:48P.M. eastern. QTH: 65 miles west of Austin, TX. Signal strength was respectable but the signal would increasingly distort as he spoke. 1 ADAM 12 from Syracuse, NY was hearing the QSO. He chimed in as soon as we wrapped it up. His signal was...

I made my first contact with 134 in Nebraska at about 1:09 eastern time. That contact was made on my Starduster clone. The switch to the IMAX 2000 didn't produce any better results. I made contact with 221 in Hartford, CT at 1:16 P.M. eastern. That QSO had pretty consistent signals back and...

The term "snow" in South Florida means something very different than what it does in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

APRIL 8th & 9th LSB 16 NET BEGINS AT NOON: Propagation for this week-end on 12-10 meters is predicted to be in the "FAIR" range. That's not ideal, but experience has shown us that your mileage may vary. We'll do our usual noon eastern start time with every on the hour after that as primary...

Well, the bottom pretty much dropped out of the DX propagation. 16 was dead both on AM and LSB. I was able to make a contact with 31 mobile in Iowa on LSB 38 around 6:04P.M. Stations from Nebraska and Iowa along with Nova Scotia were coming in on LSB 38, but that was it. Then that went flat...

I'm in Miami today running the TRC 490 with the Super Sidekick. The noise floor today is only around 2 "S" units, but bleed-over from AM 15 is an occasional nuisance. A Mexican dispatcher was also clogging things up for about 15 minutes, but has fortunately faded away. At 3:15P.M. eastern, I...