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August 10-11 DX Contest - LSB 16
- Thread starter Rick330man
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Yeah Labor day weekend 2 Sept 2019. Will be calling on CH 38, LSB, 27.385 to QSY to CH 16 27.155 LSB. Will promise free beer.
Might have to take down the I-10K and put up the Crusader 10K 5 element beam, yeah.
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
Might have to take down the I-10K and put up the Crusader 10K 5 element beam, yeah.
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
This afternoon on 27.4450 USB there were several strong stations talking to each other. The language I couldn't understand. More than a few times they spoke of "Puerto Rico"...that I understood.
Then tonight on the news I saw the big storm Dorian was headed that way. Hopefully it won't come your way into the Florida Keys.
Then tonight on the news I saw the big storm Dorian was headed that way. Hopefully it won't come your way into the Florida Keys.
Wow we had conditions this evening as well as everyone else. Tried 16 lsb, 30 lsb, and 38 lsb. Made a contact on 38 lsb not qrp. The conditions were close range. Better than none for sure. 17 am blew my ears out 5 above and below. on 30 a quite clean station from south of the border wiped out my ears on 30 lsb. (on our friends from the north barefoot channel). I think everyone ran all they had so I am not worried. Heard alot folks. No desire to be in a 11m pileup.
Hello All: Wow yeah had some good conditions last night! Talked to 508 in Seattle Wa who was running a old time 23 channel tube radio net, on CH16 LSB just like the old days, very enjoyable to listen in on, and talk to. A lot of stations reporting their older 23 channel CB SSB Radios and such. They cleared the channel about 6:30 PM PST, and I gave several calls to see who's out there, no body heard.
On CH40 27.405 LSB was another net out of the Pacific Northwest with just check ins of a short list 312 was calling, great signal and audio. After he was done calling the list of stations and asked for any check ins I called back. Had a great yep yap QSO and I listened in on all the SSB channels 36 to 40, and above 40, it was all busy with radio traffic.
Nothing heard on the Marine HF Frequencies about Hurricane Dorian.
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
On CH40 27.405 LSB was another net out of the Pacific Northwest with just check ins of a short list 312 was calling, great signal and audio. After he was done calling the list of stations and asked for any check ins I called back. Had a great yep yap QSO and I listened in on all the SSB channels 36 to 40, and above 40, it was all busy with radio traffic.
Nothing heard on the Marine HF Frequencies about Hurricane Dorian.
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
I was doing some antenna testing Saturday during the Labor Day weekend. I have been having some RF getting into my house wiring so I moved my antenna to a new location. During the test to see if I solved the RF intrusion problem I got a comeback while doing the audio test on AM 14. Someone came back to me from central California. I am in Boise Idaho so that was a pretty good contact. He was running a 3 element yagi and I was on my new built starduster type vertical I hung in a tree and used two counterpoise with. Test results were no RF intrusion and I got a DX contact. Success I'd say.
Feed point is 21 feet high. Hook at top allows hanging in tree. Counterpoise attached to 6 foot high fence at bottom of tree. Turns out antenna is pretty wide banded. I could use it with my 10 meter HF section on Yeasu 450D if I wanted to.
Feed point is 21 feet high. Hook at top allows hanging in tree. Counterpoise attached to 6 foot high fence at bottom of tree. Turns out antenna is pretty wide banded. I could use it with my 10 meter HF section on Yeasu 450D if I wanted to.
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Yes, Seattle has an active core group! The channel 16 at 0630 local is the Old Timer's 23 SSB vintage check in... only classics!
At 0700 local, the Puget Sound 11m SSB net (lower 40) is run by my pal Joe, 312. We get between 20-40 people from the region who check in. Good peeps.
around here on anything its like eating a green persimmon.nobody talks on radios much.
Anyone have any insight at all about Lou Franklin and CBC international? I placed an order with him almost a month ago and have received nothing? No returned email? Phone calls? Nothing?
Well the old timers net was a real shot in the arm in radio enjoyment. I have a old early 1960's Mark Sidewinder 27 as shown in my avatar. Used one back in the 60's and 70's and had a great time of it all. All Tube and crystal controlled, 6 hole channels. Yeah another project!
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert
Jay in the Great Mojave Desert