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11 meter is very quiet?

2NC995 said:
I actually park at a spot where my bumper hangs over the ICW. The ICW, or rather a bay along on its path, is about 6’ directly below my bumper.

I’ve done this before and I’m not sure it made a difference to be honest. Just being at the water seems to make a huge difference. I can be 1/4 mile away and barely hear anything, and then everything is S9 and traffic in every freq in my radio as I pull up...straight back to nothing when I pull away.

As we sometimes post about no propagation (title of thread), it’s just not like that here. There is international propagation to some extent nearly every day here. I typically spend only a couple hours a day and have logged 140 international contacts in the past 3 weeks...all from my mobile.
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I agree Dan, something about the water, I have the ocean 150 feet to the east, and the Pamlico Sound to the west, Antenna mast's are in salt marsh, I'd mention some of the places I hear signals from but no one would believe me,lol. My guess is extended ground wave, I can talk to S america with better reception than my cell phone,lol. Only downside of this huge amount of water is with it comes a lot of ground noise also, and I mean a lot. Beams help some but not a lot. I have heard stations in S America talking to you, but I have no luck raising you about 50 miles away, go figure,lol. 73's
Ocean One Cape Hatteras
 
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ENC Pirate said:
I agree Dan, something about the water, I have the ocean 150 feet to the east, and the Pamlico Sound to the west, Antenna mast's are in salt marsh, I'd mention some of the places I hear signals from but no one would believe me,lol. My guess is extended ground wave, I can talk to S america with better reception than my cell phone,lol. Only downside of this huge amount of water is with it comes a lot of ground noise also, and I mean a lot. Beams help some but not a lot. I have heard stations in S America talking to you, but I have no luck raising you about 50 miles away, go figure,lol. 73's
Ocean One Cape Hatteras
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years back when i trucked coast to coast,i carried my grundig yacht boy.id get as close to ocean as possible n not get stuck.seemed sortwave improved immencly. Much more foreign broadcasts n even north american broadcasts
 
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Litening to ch6 27.0250 and the ship is rolling from Jamaica to Iowa!!
Everybody YAK-YAC walkin all over each other!! NOBODY listening!!
Did make contact 156 in Oklahoma,,,Nothing like the 70's where you
could actually get a break!!
 
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Jumped on just to see what would happen and qso with Montana and Missouri. Not bad for a 5 minute sneak into the shack. If it would only open up when I have the freedom to spend some time in the shack....

Really loving the anytone 6666, it's impressive
 
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Here comes the front.....lightning and all. Unplugged and disconnected antenna. Don't want the blue smoke like my Stryker. I need to get that repaired, something like $80 for the amp board that got toasted, but wtf else is fried, who knows.
 
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