LSB 16 Revival Effort - July 4th

[Rick330man]

July 4th is Independence Day here in the U.S. Many of us will have the day off. How about we give the LSB 16 revival effort another shot then? My recommendation is that folks work around the following hailing schedule:

9:00A.M. eastern/8:00A.M. central/6:00A.M. pacific;
12:00 noon eastern/11:00A.M. central/9:00A.M. pacific;
3:00P.M. eastern/2:00P.M. central/12:00 noon pacific;
6:00P.M. eastern/5:00P.M. central/3:00P.M. pacific; and
9:00P.M. eastern/8:00P.M. central/6:00P.M. pacific.

The skip has been decent these last three days. Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll hold.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Sounds good. I am going to move one of my side band radios to the garage station so I can monitor when I am out in the yard.

 

[Rick330man]

I made 11 contacts yesterday with a totally barefoot set up: an old Uniden PC 122 to a Radio Shack Archer Crossbow 1/2 wave base antenna, which is just a Shakespeare Big Stick dyed in sky blue so it could be sold as a Radio Shack product. If Mother Nature cooperates on the 4th there will be a few more contacts added to my DX log...and yours too!

 

[Alan Blackmon]

I have a Uniden Pro 810e I think I will use that day. I have been putting up a lot of Ameture band antennas around my property so I don't have a 11 meter antenna right now. I think I will install a quarter wave fiberglass Shakespeare whip on my truck and use that as my antenna that day. Big A Boise 521 will be calling out for you. If I sound weak I am most likely just using stock output. Right about 10 watts PEP on that radio.

 

[Rooster74]

I heard some stuff rolling on 16LSB today, hopefully it all comes together tomorrow.

 

[Rick330man]

As they say at NASA: "T minus 10 hours and 56 minutes."

 

[314]

314 Indiana will be listening

 

[xm49north7]

I will be on today for sure, come on conditions.

 

[sunbulls]

EB300 from Western NY will be listening. This effort totally coincides with my sweet spot for old radio restoration. Since I didn’t use any additional power back in my 16LSB days, I’ll be barefoot with my recent Rat Shack TRC- 451 re-cap job

 

[Rick330man]

At 9:00A.M. eastern, it was about as dead as I have ever heard it down here. I mean I heard absolutely no other stations at all...none. That is rare. There's usually somebody rolling in on the DX from somewhere. Over the last 2 hours, it hasn't changed.

But the day is still young! Let's keep trying.

Sunbulls:
I had one of those TRC 451s. When I was a teenager, my dad had 38' motorsailer. In the days before cell phones, I convinced him to let me mount the TRC 451 permanently in there as a way for us to be able to talk from the house to the boat. It was an excellent sounding radio even totally stock and untouched.

 

[2315 Robert]

At 9:00A.M. eastern, it was about as dead as I have ever heard it down here. I mean I heard absolutely no other stations at all...none. That is rare. There's usually somebody rolling in on the DX from somewhere. Over the last 2 hours, it hasn't changed.

But the day is still young! Let's keep trying.

Sunbulls:
I had one of those TRC 451s. When I was a teenager, my dad had 38' motorsailer. In the days before cell phones, I convinced him to let me mount the TRC 451 permanently in there as a way for us to be able to talk from the house to the boat. It was an excellent sounding radio even totally stock and untouched.

Tried about 0745 Pacific(I know not on schedule) on my way work. Super dead out here. Happy 4th.

 

[loosecannon]

calling now
LC

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

All I hear is a Roger beep
Nobody hears me.

 

[Klondike Mike]

I just tried 16/38 LSB, no response, nothing going on up here in Western Canada. 11m SDR on CT/Mass border is busy though.

 

[mrgumby]

No conditions here