11 meter is very quiet?

[unit_399]

I was tuning down thru the channels to check out chan 16, when I heard some clear ssb audio on chans 28 & 29. I was going to meet some one on 16 and didn't stop the listen or chat. Forgot about it 'til now. Anybody using 28/29 for Dxing ??

J.J. 399

 

[Eldorado828]

I was tuning down thru the channels to check out chan 16, when I heard some clear ssb audio on chans 28 & 29. I was going to meet some one on 16 and didn't stop the listen or chat. Forgot about it 'til now. Anybody using 28/29 for Dxing ??

J.J. 399

No sir, it's usually packed with the big am superbowlers and no way to bounce a signal into the chatter. That's most anytime the band is active and I pass through there anyway.

 

[unit_399]

Eldo -
that's what I thought too. I should have stopped to look at my freq counter. Maybe my Hi-Freq button was pushed and I was on some 40+ freqs. I'll check again manana. Strange.

 

[Eldorado828]

Am was surprisingly loaded with skip this morning. I was hearing truck washes, cb shops advertising and some fella called cornbread dominating channel 19. O'l cornbread had people so screwed up that all the locals here were answering him because they all thought he was talking to them

Quite comical and entertaining

 

[DelR]

Was just on LSB38 and it was jumping. Talked to Virginia and Pittsburgh. Things was rather rough there and some idiot called himself gladiator, talking stupid and nasty. He needs a pin in his coax.

 

[Brother DXer]

@DelR , where is "here"?

Edit: Never mind, DelR. I see you're in Arkansas.

 

[unit_399]

, Dx is strong this morning. So I called CQ and had a hornet nest of stations come back. Impossible to pull any one out of that mess. Finally gave up and will try later. Channel 37. Maybe at noon (EST).
- J. J. 399

 

[BC Coyote]

Totally dead here today. It's been hit and miss the last couple weeks.
Pretty poor conditions for the most part lately, mostly short E-skip and Australia.

 

[unit_399]

Coyote -
I will be on After 5pm EST to night. I'll point my quad in you direction and call for you on 37LSB and 27.555 USB. I'll crank it up and maybe we can hook up.

J.J. 399

 

[BC Coyote]

Hey 399! Just saw your post now. It was dead all day here other than a little bit of Utah and Montana on 38.... nothing further afield than that....

Truth be told, I haven't been spending much time on the radio lately.....conditions are not great and the garden, homestead chores and visiting adult children have been occupying my attention. The beach and the mountains are beckoning too...

Once things settle down in the fall I'm sure I'll be spending way too much time on the radio yet again LOL!

 

[unit_399]

I tried, but wasn't able to connect with BC Coyote tonight. Had some short QSOs with stations in Tennesseee, Ohio, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and several in North Carolina. After 7 pm, had some nice long QSOs with Larry (125) in Harlan County, Kentucky, Ken (944) in Savannah, Georgia, and Ralph (203) in Aberdine, N. Carolina. Earlier, I heard a lot of stations in the northern states and Canada, but couldn't pull them out. I guess Mother Nature liked being down South Today.

- J.J. 399

 

[rixdafix]

DX is hopping near St Louis right now. A half hour sitting in my Jeep on the barefoot McKinley has netted the most contacts I've ever made.

 

[whiteastro]

Totally dead here today. It's been hit and miss the last couple weeks.
Pretty poor conditions for the most part lately, mostly short E-skip and Australia.

I have to ask because I never heard of it. What is E-skip ? I talked 3 states away one time on a bare bones Cobra 29 before and a radio man called it Back Scatter so I'm still learning for a Old Guy ! LOL

 

[whiteastro]

DX is hopping near St Louis right now. A half hour sitting in my Jeep on the barefoot McKinley has netted the most contacts I've ever made.

Dx has been banging in here all morning on my Base Station & my mobile but been busy and my Cry baby neighbor is home so I won't run my Base unit because he would be the first to complain because he would love to get my property. It's called Bite Your Tongue. LOL

 

[BC Coyote]

What is E-skip ?

There are several different layers in the ionosphere that reflect 11 meter band signals. The most common reflector is the F2 layer, and that is the one that produces the long range (over 2000 miles) skip. F2 is also the layer most affected by the sun and the 11 year sunspot cycle.

The E layer is lower down, is less affected by the sun (and more by seasonal variations), and produces much shorter skip. Single hop E skip is generally around 1000 to 1500 miles (but can be as little as 500 miles). We tend to have strong E-skip seasons in spring and fall every year.......
When you hear states that are closer to you, that is E-skip. When you hear the other side of the country, or South America or Europe that is F2 skip.

There are of course, a number of other skip modes, but E and F2 are by far the most common. Hope that all made sense !