I don't "chase DX" but over the years have had a number of great, albeit short CW rag chews with various DX stations on a dead band. Usually the DX responds to my CQ, noting that they were surprised to hear me because the band seemed dead. So we chat for a few minutes. Unfortunately (depending upon your point of view) the various spotters would notice us, alert the 'net and soon there would be tuners on top of us so we'd QRT. As one DX station noted, "Sigh, here we go again..." and sure 'nuf pandemonium would erupt on the frequency with the DX station sending "UP 2 UP 2 UP 2..." while I set down my 'phones, refreshed my cup of tea and wrote him a thank you note on an old-fashioned paper QSL card.
73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of stan levandowski Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:54 PM To: k6...@foothill.net Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Propagation Well, science provides predictions and suggests outcomes but I'm still a hopeless romantic who tunes the bands in spite of the numbers. Tonight I found a completely dead 20M band at 0220Z except for a single CW QSO in progress between WB6UIA (QRZ says Wyoming) and XE2HOE in Baja California (La Paz). When they were finished, I gave XE2HOE a call and got a 579. He was a steady S9 and the guy in Wyoming was S6. I live in NY, my antenna is a 67' doublet in my attic and my rig is a KX2 and it was running at 5 watts (I'm 100% CW and QRP). Afterward, I tuned the band again but heard nothing. Guess everyone read the prop stats and turned off their radios.... 73, Stan WB2LQF On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 09:35 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > There have been a string of M-class flares for the last 30 hours or > so. Initial ones were in the M.8-M.9 range, recent ones somewhat > smaller. A was 8, Kp was 3 earlier this afternoon which wouldn't > normally suggest terrible conditions, but I guess if the ionization is > already very weak, any disturbance can have a large effect. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW> - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016 > - www.cqp.org > > On 7/24/2016 6:28 PM, Kurt Cramer wrote: >> Today was the most difficult Elacraft SSB net I have ever seen. Two >> nets were running at the same time.. One on the East coast, the other >> on the west coast! They couldn’t hear each other. About half past the >> hour I started hearing Eric in Chicago here in Arizona. I guess there >> were a couple of solar flares. >> >> 73 Kurt W7QHD > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to sjl...@optonline.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to r...@elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
