Hello Andy, I am sorry that I missed you, but I was busy with a 5 watt QRP 160 meter operating event last night. I was way down on about 1.810 looking for weak 5 watt signals. I called "CQ FOX"and w
I managed to get on 160 CW starting at 05:30 UT and figured I might catch a few early risers on the "Continent". I was quite surprised at the level of activity. I did not hear many stateside calle
Hello Cecil I'll bet you had a rough time with the QRN between you and the DX!! I wonder if the QRN dropped off between 0000 and 05;30 UT? When I was on, it was bad, but I could get calls after mayb
Hello Andy, It looks like some form of man made QRM, and not power line noise. I am very familiar with powerline noise, but our noise is at 120 Hz and yours will be at 100 Hz, 60 vs 50 Hz) so it shou
Hello Roger Well, Monday night had very good conditions. There were hardly any stations on, but those that were sounded great. I worked a DL station who was QRP, and he was peaking at 559. Then ON4W
I was happy to see this video. I have put on hundreds of these connectors, but was unsure of the proper method. I used the brute force method and usually found myself pushing the connector against a
Wow! That is quite an impressive contact and you managed to copy it all in some audio files. How often does that happen? Those audio files are great! Congratulations, Steve. I am always amazed at h
I have to reluctantly miss the Spring Stew. All of my gear is operational, but but I have huge amounts of RFI from grow lights. One source is 0.75 miles South of me, while source #2 is 1.08 miles NE
Hi Wes That is a good idea to contact Susan Collins office. My approach is that our resources include land, water, air, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Everybody gets their undies in a knot when so
Hello Kenny I have been playing around with antennas and feedlines over many years and have found that your ears cannot immediately tell the difference between a 1 dB change due to fading, atmospheri
I am starting to feel "shell- shocked". I had two storms come through here in rapid succession. Storm #1 produced incredibly heavy wet snow. It caused many trees to suffer with large broken limbs.
I listened this evening at 2345 UT Jan 4, and hear the best strength with a southwest beverage. I live in Southern Maine. Signal was about S9 and sounded distorted with possibly two station audio str
I am hearing three different stations here in Maine on 1610 KHz during the day. One is the Maine turnpike public service station, but another seems to be a Spanish speaking station out to the West. T
I had a similar situation on VHF. I operate on 222 MHz among other nose bleed bands, and was greeted by a very large chunk of RFI in the SSB/CW portion of 220. Others in northern New England were hea
All the flare action normally happens on the downslope of the cycle. Who knows what will happen then!! Roger, I am still trying to fix my 160 rx antennas 73 Dave K1WHS the higher bands. Roger, I so
Hi Ron. I got on about when you worked DF2PY. I thought Wolf was rather loud at the time. Earlier, I had tried calling OK1DOT but he could barely copy me and fractured my call. I did not see any cha
I was on for EU Sunrise on Monday night/Tuesday morning, and found condx excellent. I got home from a long 12 hour road trip at 05:30 UT and found signals were great. I even worked SM4IVE who was on
Hello Michael I have an old Bendix MN-26C Aircraft Navigation receiver and use it in my workshop that also doubles as my 160 meter ham shack. Of course, I use my Beverage wires on the BC band and hav
I have been repairing my beverages this fall and listened for AA7JV in American Samoa in the morning on Nov 8th. I had a bad birdie on 1822.5 that sounded liked gurgling Scottish bagpipes. but did he
Hello George Thanks for the excellent summary. I was only able to listen in on two sun rises here in Maine. Nov 8th and 10th. I had limited time on the 8th and heard KH8/AA7JV weakly with times that