Hello 222 ops. Tuesday night is coming up fast and that means it is time to get on222 MHz and experience real contacts with real people. Just imagine turning on the power switch of your VHF UHF sta
Hi Peter Wow, condx look quite good for 222 EME. 3 I'll be on a bit before 2300 UT and watching HB9Q along with ON4KST for the terrestrial stuff. I have been re working the setup with a band decoder
It seems that when ever KA6U decides to set up his portabopple 222 MHz antenna, it turns into a major operating event! So Tuesday night activity will also include an EME sub division. WA4NJP will b
222 Night was quite an experience. It was the shakedown cruise for the newly repaired diesel generator. Happily it ran solid for the entire evening with no trace of speed instability. It was steady
Hello Good Buddy Ron! I am in the middle of re vamping my VHF shack from multi-op to single-op and have just gotten started. Running 432 from a different operating spot posed some problems as the rot
Hi VHFers I just looked at the Hepburn tropo map and cringed. There is no evidence of any good tropo openings showing up anywhere in the country except in Florida and the Gulf Coast for almost a week
The ARRL EME contest was this weekend for moon bounce activity on the non nose bleed bands. I have not been serious about EME for many years. I do dabble with it on 222 MHz of late, but in the dim
Wow! That is great, Ron. Things must have been hopping for sure. I quit a tad before 7:30 PM and headed home for the Zoom meeting. It went very well, and I was very surprised and pleased to see Terr
I am sitting in a real fog bank, with visibility around 250 ft. It is overcast and wet. So it must be time for the fabulous 222 Activity Night this evening. I trust other parts of the country are h
Hi Al & vhfers The 10 GHz guys are all excited about the red blob this morning, but there is no activity. When I quit last night just before 02:00, the red blob was looking quite impressive. It went
Hi Jay The APRS map was what got everyone in a panic as it showed red (good) from Syracuse NY and Ottawa down to Florida in a long thin line. New England was out of it. I suspect it was only showi
Hello 222 folks ( and those who really want to be 222 folks but have yet to make the plunge and get on the band) This Tuesday promises to be an interesting evening. The Hepburn map shows some elevate
I had a great time hanging out in my shack in the woods last night. It all started a bit early, as KA6U in EL87 set up his portable EME system near Tampa and was on the air starting at 21:00 or so to
Hello fellow VHF devotees, Tonight is the night for getting on 222 MHz. I have been working at all sorts of "HAMster" projects and this note will be brief. KA6U promises to be on from Missouri tonig
Just got word that KA6U will not be QRV on 222 this evening. His 23 cm dish blew over last night, and that has messed up his plans temporarily. Dave K1WHS Tonight is the night for getting on 222 MHz
Hi Ron I managed to lose my internet connection on the hilltop VHF shack around 0100 UT . It turns out that my modem at the house has croaked, so I am off e mails until next Monday when they can send
Hi VHFers A very short note this time as a reminder to get on this evening for 222 Activity night. I'll be there just B4 00:00 UT on 222.100 looking for stations to work. ON4KST 144/432 Region 2 Chat
Hello 222 ops, I was watching the ON4KST Chat page during 222 Activity Night, and it was very gratifying to hear many stations on from the midwest and south. I knew that I would not remember all the
This is a friendly reminder that another Tuesday is upon us, and Tuesday means 222 Activity Night. So grease up those antennas with your best formulation of RF grease and and recharge the liquid ni
Well,after a relatively warm day, I got up to the shack at 23:30 and fired things up. It was 39 inside the room at first, but when the big diesel started up, the baseboard heater started warming up a