11 meter is very quiet?

[codeman]

Got home from work and turned the Madison on. On .415 I heard 304 Australia having a QSO with a few stations here on the east coast. He was down in the grass, but the Madison was pulling him out. So I plugged in the Powermax, and fired up the DX500v and waited. I caught the end of his QSO and called out. He came back saying that I was 20 over, wow! We talked for a minute, exchanged names, then let him return to the pile up he was working. This was my first Australian contact, and put the pin on the map. What a great birthday present!

That had to be a good 10,000 mile trip!! Happy Birthday for sure.

 

[Brother DXer]

Got home from work and turned the Madison on. On .415 I heard 304 Australia having a QSO with a few stations here on the east coast. He was down in the grass, but the Madison was pulling him out. So I plugged in the Powermax, and fired up the DX500v and waited. I caught the end of his QSO and called out. He came back saying that I was 20 over, wow! We talked for a minute, exchanged names, then let him return to the pile up he was working. This was my first Australian contact, and put the pin on the map. What a great birthday present!

Happy Birthday!!!

 

[Eldorado828]

Happy birthday to @Shadetree Mechanic
And we wish you many many more qso's

 

[whiteastro]

Well I'm off to work tomorrow, so I won't be on here as much the next two weeks. I've had a blast talking DX the last week hopefully it continues. I need a good SSB radio to go in my rig ride, I have a Uniden Bearcat that I could use but to be honest I really don't care much for it, but it works. 73s to all.

Good luck at work. The Uniden 980 was my first sideband mobile I used as a base with a KL=200P and started to make my first DX contacts with. The radio still works but like you I grew tired of it especially that loud beep when you changed channels ( what a stupid idea ) and it was the first version so it wasn't easy to shut off. And their menu system left something to be desired. It still works great with the wireless mic. Thinking about putting it on Graiges List. Some guys love that radio and think I'm crazy. LOL

 

[ForestRunner98]

Nice contact with Radio Canada 010 and 955 in the Carolinas. Both sounded great!!

 

[AxlMyk]

Sunup to sundown, 1111111111111111111 on 38lsb. I don't get it.
Perhaps it's a Russian attempt to jam/control the channel, and use it for their military coms. I understand they have 10s of thousands of Radio Shack walkie talkies from the 80s. So they run the 11111111111111111 scenario all day, and try to make it so we can't hear them.

 

[Eldorado828]

Surprisingly, I had no conditions in my part of the world today. After such a long a good streak today was an unexpected bust.

 

[Brother DXer]

Surprisingly, I had no conditions in my part of the world today. After such a long a good streak today was an unexpected bust.

Same here in my part of the State.

 

[bigred222]

Putnam CT in a triaxle dump truck, tuned stock final cobra 140gtl mirror mounted wilson 2k North England Station 656. 37lsb with 1.7swr fixed the swr to below 1.5 and putting my little Chinese 2 pill in tomorrow. See how we do. Norway and Italy were 5 by 7 also recieve only.

 

[ForestRunner98]

Drove to work later this morn and conditions are way better. Contacts from up north, Midwest and east coast. Happy guy here!!!

 

[AxlMyk]

Made a brief contact with 593, Joe down at the border of Mexico and Honduras @12:30 est on 36L. Then jumped over to Newfoundland, then Alberta. Seems to be north-south today.

 

[Eldorado828]

Conditions today slightly better than yesterday but not great. We'll try again tomorrow.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

[whiteastro]

Conditions poor yesterday and nothing so far this morning in my make-shift kitchen radio system.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Don't forget to try the zeros.

 

[The20poundhammer]

It was wide open here in Ky again this morning out of Europe and Scandinavia. Made about 45 contacts all over. There been great for 3 months.