Five in the log tonight, but called it quits fairly early. Seemed like there was more qsb than usual. Thinking about putting together a new antenna and getting it a little higher up than the current
Hi Ron and 222 ops, Good Buddy Al came over for 222 night. Wemanaged to drive up as the heavy rains had not washed out the road. I dodged a bullet. I mentioned that he was a Good Buddy because he bro
Reasonably good night here in the "Black Hole" of propagation: W1GHZ CW 2304 275.7 mi (443.7 km) WA3EOQ CW 2327 216.2 mi (348.0 km) W1XR CW 2330 216.3 mi WZ1V USB 2332 231.6 mi (372.8 km) WA3NUF USB
I did hear Ron several times. But he was never very loud and I called him several times. My 100 watts was not enough. I expect conditions were not very good. 73 John, WW1Z ___________________________
Hi John I think things were quite depressed by the heavy rains. The atmosphere was all roiled up and everybody's antennas were soaking wet which can detune some antennas. My 222 array was tweaked so
That is quite a list Ron. I took some time and paid attention to the ON4KST chat page. There was lots of activity beyond the northeast and mid Atlantic states, Here are some calls who were in there
I had fun too, but was relegated to my fixed yagi that just aimed SW at 220 degrees .I think I worked just about everyone that Good Buddy Ron WZ1V worked except for K3SK in FM07. That is a big stretc
Hello Ron, That is a good list of stations on 222 MHz for a November evening! It was good to see the activity. The midwest contingent was active along with N1GC and W5EME. All in all a good night fo
I would echo Good Buddy Ron's statement. The activity level was way up when you consider that it is winter and we are listening on 222 MHz. I had similar success but did not hear K3SK in FM07. That
Hello Pete, Well, I helped my cause by having my radio linked to the logging program all the time now. I needed a COM port managing software program to do that so two applications could use one COM p
Hello VHFers What an interesting evening on 222. There was a pile of snow on the ground and it is too deep for the truck to navigate, so my plans changed to using snow shoes and walking up to the sh
Well, I was hoping that today was going to be35 degrees and partly sunny. Alas, it is still cloudy, no Sun, and temps are still below freezing, so I am not out of the woods yet as far as the ice on t
Hi pete Wow! K3TUF was back on!!! Is he in Euphrata or remote from somewhere else? FN10 is getting rare on Tuesday nights. Phil always had a great signal on 144, 222, and 432 up here along with Len,
Hello Good Buddy Ron and fellow 222 fans, I had a challenging night. I had not been on the band since late February, and over the ensuing weeks we have had some terrible wind storms and heavy rain. W
Hello Ron, I was all excited to hear your signal on the 200 mw HT up here. It was just above the noise on sideband. So for miles per watt that works out to a 900 mile path if you ran 1 watt. Heh heh.
I was deservedly chastized for failing to log good buddy John K1OR FN42. On Tuesdays I don't computer-log, so all too often I miss someone transcribing my paper scribble to email. If I had used OCR i