11 meter is very quiet?

[Shadetree Mechanic]

i have had 9 pounds of noise for the passed few weeks. usually it is around 3 or 4.

 

[144inBama]

i have had 9 pounds of noise for the passed few weeks. usually it is around 3 or 4.

I have some kind of Hi/Lo tone going on, 3 seconds hi 3 seconds low. It's in the noise floor because when I have the ANL on, it's totally gone but when it's off, it's dang near unbearable and I'm only seeing about 2dB.

 

[RT431]

Been quiet here for weeks. Kind of annoying.

 

[BJ radionut]

Spotless days
Last 365 days 284 days
2020 199 days (73%)
Current stretch 5 days

Last X-flare 2017/09/10 X8.2
Last M-flare 2020/05/29 M1.1
Last geomagnetic storm 2020/09/28 Kp5 (G1)

 

[ForestRunner98]

What a difference a day made. Night before was great and last night was dead silent.

 

[Unit 75]

Got my 45 foot long 6 element up at the 10 foot (half way point). I had a 1.03 to 1 at knee high height but as soon as I checked it at 4 foot it shot up to 1.53 to 1. At 10 feet it has dropped down some to 1.46 to 1. I think Im just gonna re match it at the 10 foot height while I can reach stuff then put it on top so its 20 feet up. I did get a decent check against my 5 element (26ft boom) Radioman 101 is north of me, I swung the 5 element at him and he recorded my signal. The 5 is 25 foot up on a tower. Radio said I went up 1 S unit on him using the 6 element compared to my 5. He also said I went up 4 S units compared to my scatter stick at 30 feet. I guess its working good. I had no skip from up north coming in. At least I can talk north on this thing for now. Im calling the antenna Locomotive Breath. Yes, JT fans lol
Trainman steppin'

 

[Tokin]

Its been pretty dead here though yesterday out of nowhere comes Mr. Kilowatt out of Guatemala City on channel 19 hahaha. We talked for a minute or 3 and conditions were gone.

 

[Eldorado828]

Nothing but noise and tons of it! Not a voice one, randomly on AM 19 a local or passing trucks but aside from that just lots of noise on both AM & SSB ..... Pretty wild how high the noise levels are

 

[ForestRunner98]

^ Same thing here for me. Had to lower my RF gain because there was so much noise. I know it not the radio. Just noisy atmosphere I guess.

 

[Rick330man]

Being surrounded by water, the skip is great when conditions are favorable. Unfortunately, however, it has been dead - really dead - quiet down here for weeks.

 

[Slowmover]

Nothing but noise and tons of it! Not a voice one, randomly on AM 19 a local or passing trucks but aside from that just lots of noise on both AM & SSBView attachment 40753 ..... Pretty wild how high the noise levels are[/QUO


I’m not showing above 3-S on IH95 and IH81 over on East Coast from Norfolk, VA to Albany, NY until right into metro areas on AM-19.

Sideband quieter, but dead.

5-10/miles easily (to 24-miles a few nights ago) on AM. No lack of yackety-yakkers out here.

I do have a boxful of filters & ferrites installed, maybe that’s part of it.

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[Tokin]

You can hear a mouse queef on 19 today...

 

[S&W357]

That mouse queef you heard may have been transmitted from my place.

 

[Tokin]

Blah Blah So-cal San Diego and Yuma Az for a hot minute...

 

[ForestRunner98]

Central Florida came into SoCal this evening! Pretty cool! I tried making contact but no dice. Base stations were getting in no problem. Did make contact with someone in Mexico though! A few hundred miles at least.