11 meter is very quiet?

[ForestRunner98]

Not bad tonight in SoCal!!

So Oregon on lsb38 and am6
Tucson AZ on usb36

Also heard 163 Hardrive in New Mexico(pay attention!!) I have to admit his radio did sound great. But so did Oregon and Arizona...LOL

 

[Big Kahuna]

DX is running in CA and OR and to HI but not hearing anything in the Midwest, SE.

Motormouth is out there today on the bowl.

A little Texas coming into California and HI as well.

 

[S&W357]

really quiet here today and tonight

 

[Slowmover]

Lots of talk thru and across the eastern New Mexico plateau on IH40 via AM-19 last night thru today. Snow and almost ice. Got south of the ‘dillo towards FTW onto US-287 and with “weather” turned to just rain . . . it got quiet again.

Sunday never is much of a day for chat.
No impressively stupid accidents didn’t help, either.


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[S&W357]

Last few days sporadic Skip taking place at unexpected times. Mostly from Massachusetts, New York, Missouri & Texas.

 

[S&W357]

DX came in tonight and lasted about one hour. New York & Ontario.

 

[Crawdad]

DX came in tonight and lasted about one hour. New York & Ontario.

Still have some now in the Midwest, all Northeast, New England. Heard a WWDX member Viking77 in CT earlier on .385, but QSB took him out on my end before I could make the contact.

73

 

[S&W357]

Smokin' Hot Stateside DX this morning.

Many QSO's on both SSB and AM with operators in....New York, New Jersey, Ontario, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Indiana, Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois.

All on inverted V dipole

 

[Crawdad]

All on inverted V dipole

No way you did all that on a dipole. Don't you know that dipoles suck??

Seriously now, great looking install. Feedpoint about a wavelength up?

73

 

[snippits75]

Got my inverted V dipole up to about 27 ft. in an oak tree, and skip was great here all morning here in NC. Most was coming from the northeast, and my dipole ends are pointed north, and I was still talking and receiving good. Going to get it up about 50 feet in the next few days. Friend of mine has a slingshot with fishing reel attached!

 

[S&W357]

With a balun and 20' to the feed point. Fiberglass pole sections. Seems to work pretty good on DX if in the right radiating directions.

Some times the A99 works better.



Took a flat top lazy V dipole down in another spot to have a tree removed. Center point and each end are at same elevation but in a boomerang shape for no reason other than easy mounting points...I'll put it back up in a week or two. It worked great also.

 

[S&W357]

Here's a cut & paste from an email I just received. Some of you guys will remember him. RedBeard U812 a former member here on the forum.

I never heard a Texas station this morning but I guess that inverted V was makin the one way trip.

Ralph,
I hear you down here in Texas. You sure made the trip down here clear as hell. I'm still on my Starbuster 102" Homebrew. Have a quad but haven't gotten it up. Things dropped off after 11:00 here.

Respectfully,

John D. Stephens
U812 South Texas

 

[BJ radionut]

Friend of mine has a slingshot with fishing reel attached!

I use a 7 foot carbon fiber deep sea pole or Crappie Noodle rod and LARGE Olympia/Shimano spinning reel...rigged with 50 pound pulling string... and BIG Bell lead sinker!!!!

 

[Slowmover]

USN-spec M14 with MK 87 ship-to-ship line-throwing attachment is standing by

(I wish)

 

[Rick330man]

Very regionally specific propagation yesterday.

I picked up a lot of Texas stations yesterday. A QSO between several San Antonio stations was clogging up LSB38 for a while. 1202 outside of Dallas and I were able to make contact. A couple of stations in Cincinnati also cut through.