11 meter is very quiet?

[cralt]

There are a few different groups of local guys on 38LSB I hear on any given day around Connecticut. Also a few super stations calling out on 6 regularly.

I can be driving all day and not hear a peep on 19 until I call out then everyone comes out of the woodwork. Sometimes you have to make some noise to get people to wake up.

 

[338_MtRushmore]

A few years ago 38lsb was silent for hours. I randomly keyed up and said "jibber jabber, jibber jabber, I just got down" within a few seconds I started hearing stations and within 30 seconds it was a mad house.

Was it incredible timing? Maybe, but I will never forget it.

 

[Tokin]

There are a few different groups of local guys on 38LSB I hear on any given day around Connecticut. Also a few super stations calling out on 6 regularly.

I can be driving all day and not hear a peep on 19 until I call out then everyone comes out of the woodwork. Sometimes you have to make some noise to get people to wake up.

Sandbaggers...

 

[cralt]

Was it incredible timing? Maybe, but I will never forget it.

No I think this is normal.
My theory is at any given moment there are 1000 guys around the county just parked on 38LSB or on 19 over the road. They never bother to speak. Just a bunch of people waiting for some else to key 1st and then no one ever keys. And then we all get on the internet and say how radio is dead
Same way on 2meters "52". I hear nothing for weeks. Then drop my call and get all sorts of people.
Where I used to live there was a pretty big simplex group on 2meters that was at least a decade old. It was all started by this guy who just got on the air every night and basically talked to himself about what he had for dinner or the weather. Eventually someone came back and then someone else joined in and it snowballed from there.

Activity spawns more activity.

 

[Slowmover]

TV Generation. Ha! Boomers.

This is what I repeat to drivers all the time: start talking about anything.

No I think this is normal.
My theory is at any given moment there are 1000 guys around the county just parked on 38LSB or on 19 over the road. They never bother to speak. Just a bunch of people waiting for some else to key 1st and then no one ever keys. And then we all get on the internet and say how radio is dead
Same way on 2meters "52". I hear nothing for weeks. Then drop my call and get all sorts of people.
Where I used to live there was a pretty big simplex group on 2meters that was at least a decade old. It was all started by this guy who just got on the air every night and basically talked to himself about what he had for dinner or the weather. Eventually someone came back and then someone else joined in and it snowballed from there.

Activity spawns more activity.

 

[144inBama]

I usually just make a comment like "There's GOT to be more to life than this"... and there's usually a couple of hands that come back and we just go from there. Talked to one hand from Mobile to Montgomery about absolutely nothing, just keeping each other awake.

 

[Rwb]

How did bugs bunny say it? Baadee baadeee thats all folks

 

[ForestRunner98]

How did bugs bunny say it? Baadee baadeee thats all folks

Wasn’t that Porky Pig??

 

[Unit 75]

Where in the Bam you at 144?

 

[144inBama]

Where in the Bam you at 144?

Lil town named McIntosh... Roughly 60 miles North of Mobile on hwy 43

 

[Unit 75]

Cool. I'm in Calhoun County off I20

 

[144inBama]

Cool. I'm in Calhoun County off I20

Been through there a few times headed to Atlanta from B'Ham.

 

[Unit 75]

Im always on ch 20. Give a holler for trainman around the 178 exit and I will come back

 

[144inBama]

You got it! I'm playing on 20 now but I doubt seriously I'm making THAT trip.. LOL

 

[secret squirrel]

Whenever skip opens up I copy Bama pretty clear in SW Penna on a regular basis.