Reclaim LSB 16

[AmericanEagle575]

Hopefully this weekend will have good DX Propagation for snagging some good stations out there,May you all have a Blessed Memorial Day weekend and let us all take a minute or 2 to remember those who gave their lives so that we might all enjoy our God Given Freedoms with our Family's,God Bless all of you!!

73's
WDX -1863
Steve

 

[Brother DXer]

You as well, my friend!

And yes, hopefully we will all get some good radio time this weekend.
73's

 

[Rick330man]

Mother Nature is playing hard to get again. The domestic skip has been almost non-existent all afternoon. On the other hand, I am hearing Germany, Australia and New Zealand on LSB 38.

 

[Brother DXer]

It definitely hasn't been good here. I have noticed the band slightly opening. A short qso on 38 lsb with 1 South Dakota and now hearing Jamaica.

 

[whiteastro]

Was someone playing bird chirps on 16 LSB around 6:45 PM EST and a sound like a Wood Pecker ?

 

[Brother DXer]

Was someone playing bird chirps on 16 LSB around 6:45 PM EST and a sound like a Wood Pecker ?

Did you leave the back door open? Haha...
My radio has been off since 5:00 CST and before that was solid static on 16. Ssssssssss..

 

[whiteastro]

Did you leave the back door open? Haha...
My radio has been off since 5:00 CST and before that was solid static on 16. Ssssssssss..

DX has picked up a little. Get tuned in !

 

[ForestRunner98]

Nothing over here.

 

[whiteastro]

Nothing over here.

We all got spoiled over the Winter with DX. Our trees (Many) are full out with leaves now so can help but think that has some effect.

 

[Brother DXer]

DX has picked up a little. Get tuned in !

After reading your post, I did tune in. Thanks for the heads up!
It wasn't the best conditions but I was able to make a couple of contacts.
73's

 

[Rick330man]

Local hams around me were talking about how 10 meters was hopping.

 

[Rick330man]

Lake Eerie club starts their net at 10:00A.M. - in just a few minutes. After that, I'll be looking at our noon start time and hoping for some good luck. It is not that there wasn't Dx propagation yesterday. There was. I could hear Australia, New Zealand and Germany but I couldn't hear much of North America. Interesting but not unheard of.

 

[Holydvr]

Skip on the way home from work this morning was only Oklahoma and Texas from what I heard.

 

[Rick330man]

For about the last month, the skip my way has been strong along very specific arcs only. It hasn't been the domestic North America free-for-all type we used to hear on LSB 38 all the time. Instead, I'll have low noise floors with areas much farther away - like California, Washington state, Germany, Australia, etc. - making the trip with the shorter hop skip out of the picture.

That troposphere is messing with us!

 

[Brother DXer]

Yep, I've been experiencing about the same. Low noise floor and very distant chatter.
I'll put a work order in and see if we can't get this going again.