[VHFcontesting] [222Activity] 222 Night and possible aurora

Tue Jul 5 15:33:12 EDT 2022

Hi Dave RR on THAT!!! well I'll be around and it might even be worth setting the alarm clock!!

CU tonight!

bill
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From: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 7:31 PM
To: Bill Olson <callbill at hotmail.com>; vhfcontesting at contesting.com <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [222Activity] 222 Night and possible aurora

Hi Bill,

I checked and the Ghost buster plasma is due at about 0600 last time I
checked. Too bad, but I am hoping it might arrive early. I sure could
get used to actually hearing an aurora again!

73

Dave K1WHS

On 7/5/2022 1:47 PM, Bill Olson wrote:
> Hi all, similar to Aurora on 222 (recently anyway) this is a rare occurrance!! I will be on 222 tonight starting at 7PM local from FN54JQ in central Maine. Running 300 watts and 15-1/2 element K1FO Yagi at 125 ft.. Will monitor On4KST chat.. hope to see some of you there..
>
> bill, K1DY
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> Subject: [222Activity] 222 Night and possible aurora
>
> Hello VHFers
>
> You know the drill. It is Tuesday and you should be applying RF wax to
> your feedlines to get ready for 222 Activity Night. This evening
> promises to be a special evening for a bunch of reasons. Reason #1 is
> that Terry, W8ZN will be at his remote hideaway in the hills of FM09 and
> will be making noise with his 1500 watt Larcan amplificator.  From
> there, he can work the midwest as well as a fair distance down south
> too. As if that was not reason enough for the East Coast & Midwest boys
> to get on and make noise, I have it on good authority that W1ZC in Mason
> NH will be on after a long hiatus due to water filling up his yagi
> feedline . He has a new antenna and I am sure that he wants to work as
> many stations as possible to check out the new antenna.  Reason #3 is
> that there may be a pile of plasma similar to what the ghost busters
> were busting, heading for the Earth and it is scheduled to reach us late
> this evening. My advice to all is to not give up at 9 o'clock, but hang
> around in hopes of catching some aurora.  I hear that there was an
> aurora late Sunday evening. Not sure if it made it to 222, but the
> latest stream is more lined up with the Earth, so please pay attention
> this evening. I also hear that N1DPM has his new 222 yagi up on his
> recently revised tower, and I am sure that Fred wants to make a few
> contacts to check out his antenna. The return loss is so low on Fred's
> antenna, that he is getting nose bleeds from it.   So Tuesday is a very
> special night it seems!
>
> For my part, I need to get a 144 yagi up on some sort of pole so I can
> monitor that band to check for auroras. I'll be working on that today in
> between a few other VHF projects.  I made some progress on my fallen 144
> MHz tower that has been hung up in trees about 35 ft off the ground
> since last Summer.  I removed a largish white pine yesterday after re
> routing a few guy wires, and managed to drop the whole tower so it is
> now only 12 ft off the ground, and wedged against another huge white
> pine.  Now I can remove many of the cables, power dividers, and yagis
> that were previously un reachable, and I can now saw up what remains of
> the Rohn 45.  That thing is UGLY!
>
> There is another exciting bit of 222 MHz news for this evening, as KA6U
> will be blazing away on 222 EME from North Dakota between 2300 and 0000
> UT looking for contacts.  Years ago, in the 1980's, I worked Ron K0ALL
> in North Dakota on SSB meteor scatter and it was my easiest 220 MS
> contact by far.  We completed in under 2 minutes and the burst lasted
> more than a minute. It was the largest meteor burn on 220 MHz that I
> ever heard and it was over a 1300 mile path. Ron and I rag chewed on
> that burn!  Contrast that with today where we can get full calls and a
> report on a 0.3 second ping using FSK441 or MSK144!  I will be listening
> skyward between 2300 and 0000 UT for another N Dakota QSO.  EME on 222
> is a hoot and easily done with two small yagis or one big yagi. I have
> worked single yagi stations on their moonrise, so start thinking about
> how you can add to your state and grid totals with EME.  KA6U is now
> traveling around the entire US with 144, 222, 432 and 1296 setups!
>
> Gotta go. I hope to see many stations on 222 this evening.
>
> 73
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
>
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