I made it to Frankfurt, Germany and tried to get 019 Germany but too much noise. I don't have a log so can't remember the number of the Irishman I contacted last week.
You guys are just too close. Study antennas a little to learn about angle of radiation and how the signal bounces of the ionosphere AND Earth for those DX CONTACTS. Maybe use a globe of the earth and mark your contacts to get an idea where you get the bounces.
Anyone hear the guy from Ireland in there yesterday on 38lsb ? He was hilarious he was sitting in the rocking chair drinking a Guinness an viewing the emerald isle . There was about 5 of us all over the US having a QSO with him . He was on around 5.00 pm.
DX is weird as I have found out sometimes. Being too close may not explain it completely. I hear guys from NY all the time. Closer than RI but never even hear RI. Talk to Italy and yet can't get NY even hearing them. Angle of the bounce does have to do with it but I tend to think it's more to do with conditions most of the time. Just my experience.
Anyone hear the guy from Ireland in there yesterday on 38lsb ? He was hilarious he was sitting in the rocking chair drinking a Guinness an viewing the emerald isle . There was about 5 of us all over the US having a QSO with him . He was on around 5.00 pm .
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I was one of the folks talking to him! I caught him once in the afternoon too. He was hitting me with +40. All I could hear was him.
def funny how i can talk 3-6000 miles and not hear most fl locals..i can talk to north fl 50 miles away a few times a week and 20 miles most the time,but hear other people from other countrys talking to guys that live all around me,,but can only hear the guys far away lol..
maybe the horizontal quad will get me the locals on the flat side..testing it out today hopefully:tongue:
W9cll i hope to hear my echo via longpath someday, as i didnt no that was possible..learn something everyday.
Dunno if it's just me, but conditions have totally dropped out today. I'm hardly getting anything. most of the skip i'm hearing is the mexicans.