11 meter is very quiet?

[Rick330man]

The skip was hopping yesterday. I spoke to 101 and 921 in Gulf Breeze, FL (Pensacola), 655 in Jackson, MS and 409 in the Keystone. Many others were out there, but I had to take care of other matters.

After months of drought, it looks like we're finally seeing some skip.

 

[S&W357]

Quiet here yesterday...and again today

 

[Rwb]

shhhh be qwiet im huntin wabbits ,elmer fudd quiet here today on 38lsb

 

[ForestRunner98]

LSB was dead but Belize was coming in on AM 6!!

 

[Big Kahuna]

Cali, HI, AUS were all talking to each other early this evening.

 

[codeman]

Well I am pretty stoked, I took a walk when mother nature told me to turn back home otherwise I would be squatting in somebodies bushes. Anyway I got home, heard Australia in the recieve and made 4 contacts to Australia. Two of them were real good plenty of signal! First contact with Australia from my base station. First one in about 6 years as well. This is with a Sirio boomerang antenna mounted at just 6 ft high. Well that and few hundred watts.

Yesterday evening I had all but given up on skip, however I made some quick contacts to Maine and New Hamshire on 37 LSB from central Texas with just my Lincoln 2 in the semi. I heard Australia in there but could not make contact.

 

[S&W357]

Great post “Codeman” !

 

[Slowmover]

Well I am pretty stoked, I took a walk when mother nature told me to turn back home otherwise I would be squatting in somebodies bushes. Anyway I got home, heard Australia in the recieve and made 4 contacts to Australia. Two of them were real good plenty of signal! First contact with Australia from my base station. First one in about 6 years as well. This is with a Sirio boomerang antenna mounted at just 6 ft high. Well that and few hundred watts.

Yesterday evening I had all but given up on skip, however I made some quick contacts to Maine and New Hamshire on 37 LSB from central Texas with just my Lincoln 2 in the semi. I heard Australia in there but could not make contact.

You wouldn’t believe the number of grim-faced truck drivers who just barely make that “dragging one leg” gimp to the building. Neither too fast nor too slow. (And usually make it).

Usually.

 

[jdchet]

Well I am pretty stoked, I took a walk when mother nature told me to turn back home otherwise I would be squatting in somebodies bushes. Anyway I got home, heard Australia in the recieve and made 4 contacts to Australia. Two of them were real good plenty of signal! First contact with Australia from my base station. First one in about 6 years as well. This is with a Sirio boomerang antenna mounted at just 6 ft high. Well that and few hundred watts.

Yesterday evening I had all but given up on skip, however I made some quick contacts to Maine and New Hamshire on 37 LSB from central Texas with just my Lincoln 2 in the semi. I heard Australia in there but could not make contact.

Nah....it wasn't the fire in the wire! It the Boomerang phoning home!

JD

 

[lonestarbandit]

I got nothing in Central TX but static.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Lots of skip this afternoon. On ch 38 lsb I talked to Florida, Georgia and Alabama. And then the blah blah guy started. So then I went back to ch 20 and soon had a direct line to Alabama. I talked to 101 and 601 then talked to Train Man, @Unit 75. Good to talk to you sir, I tried earlier when I heard you. But I guess mother nature made me wait my turn. It was worth waiting for though, I think I almost caused a pile up. Talking on my Cobra 148 with kl203 and star duster in the garage, I was working on the wife's truck and several times heard people calling me after I quit trying and started working on the truck again. I picked up the mic several times with a greasy hand so as not to miss a contact. Man, this DX stuff can be a lot of work! Haha!

Eight, Zero, Eight on my 148 Waving... Break, Break.....

 

[Unit 75]

That 100 watts you were running was really doing the trip, 808. I tried to go on the flat side to get you but couldn't hear anything and had to go back to my vertical. Sounded top shelf on that Cobra 148GTL

 

[S&W357]

Dang....never heard a bit of skip today. But then again I didn’t have the radio on dadgumit. Only thing I heard was the Kubota running running running......

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Dang....never heard a bit of skip today. But then again I didn’t have the radio on dadgumit. Only thing I heard was the Kubota running running running......

Sounds like the Kubota needs a radio....

 

[The20poundhammer]

Got 43 divison and the 172 divison absolutely booming here in to ky right now