Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2009-12-26 Thread Barry N1EU 



David Y. wrote:
> 
> Where is everybody?  40 meters was mostly a wasteland yesterday, and again 
> this morning.  
> 
4S7NE, VU2BGS and VU2PHD were all workable between 7000-7005Khz at 0200Z
from the east coast Dave.  No wasteland here.

73/HNY,
Barry N1EU

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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2009-12-26 Thread James Sarte 
No wasteland here either... 40 was good to me today.  No complaints from the
peanut gallery.

73 de James K2QI

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David Y. wrote:
> 
> Where is everybody?  40 meters was mostly a wasteland yesterday, and again

> this morning.  
> 
4S7NE, VU2BGS and VU2PHD were all workable between 7000-7005Khz at 0200Z
from the east coast Dave.  No wasteland here.

73/HNY,
Barry N1EU

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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2016-07-24 Thread Fred Jensen 
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

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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2016-07-24 Thread kev...@coho.net 
Just completed the second Elecraft CW Net.  40 meters was good from here 
to ND as well as into ID & CA.  Twenty meters was pretty long but I did 
get one CA op as well as TX, ND, GA, & MI.  Both bands had QSB while 
forty also had some noise which rose as the net went on.  Scanning 
around there were quite a few signals to be found on each band.


73,

  Kevin.  KD5ONS  ECN net control


On 7/24/2016 6:35 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

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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2016-07-24 Thread stan levandowski 
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

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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2016-07-25 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire 
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



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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
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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation

2016-07-25 Thread stan levandowski 
Ah, yes Ron -- Paper QSLs!  On my QRZ page it says "No LoTW, no eQSL and 
no Buro."  I still revere old fashioned QSL cards, with handwritten 
notes and some evidence that our QSO was something more than just "599 
TU".  Try showing your grandchildren a printout of your LoTW contacts 
and see how many oohs and aahs you get ;-)



73, Stan WB2LQF


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 01:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

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



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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

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Re: [Elecraft] propagation

2011-04-16 Thread Fred Jensen 
On 4/16/2011 8:15 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
> I know this isn't directly elecraft related, but propagation affects
> everything -- anyway, it's 10 p.m here and I can hear Hawaii, Vietnam,
> Russia, and South America all within a few Khz on 15 meters! Bring back the
> good ole days!

Not so cool out here in on the Colonial Western Frontier Tony.  EU has 
been "there" but weak today, not much else.  It's 2115 here, and 15 is 
deadsville, so is 20 except for about 3 weak SA's.  They're far east of 
us, they'll hit the rack soon.

Propagation is sooo magic.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
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Re: [Elecraft] propagation

2011-04-16 Thread Geoff Wolf 
I can mirror your statements.

Over here in Pennsylvania, we've been seeing the same occurrence of rather
rare Asian DX popping up. I'm a regular member up at K3MJW, the Skyview
Radio Society (http://www.skyviewradio.net).

Over the past two weeks, we've heard the following countries between 20 and
15 meters (mostly 20):

China
Hong Kong
Asiatic Russia
South Korea
Vietnam
Cambodia
India
Bangladesh
Mauritius
Madagascar
Lots of Australia
New Zealand
United Arab Emirates (2 stations)
Qatar
Kuwait (S9+40dB)
Galapagos
The Falklands
Egypt
Libya (not sure if this was a pirate or not HI HI)
Taiwan

And lots of other 'local' stuff.

The bands have really been shaping up lately. I can't wait to see if we get
some decent 10 and 6 meter openings mid-summer (Field Day possibly??). Time
to work some DX mobile on 6.

-
Geoffrey Wolf
AB3LS ­ Amateur Radio Callsign
University of Pittsburgh '14
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On 4/16/11 11:15 PM, "Tony Estep" mailto:estept...@gmail.com> > wrote:

> I know this isn't directly elecraft related, but propagation affects
> everything -- anyway, it's 10 p.m here and I can hear Hawaii, Vietnam,
> Russia, and South America all within a few Khz on 15 meters! Bring back the
> good ole days!
> 
> Tony KT0NY
> 
> 
> "We don't want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to
> become a derivatives trader." -- Barack Obama
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Re: [Elecraft] propagation

2011-04-17 Thread Ken Roberson 
Tony,

AOK on the propagation , worked JT5DX on 40M Phone from Oklahoma,
Worked them on cw before , but first time on phone.

73 Ken K5DNL

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--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Tony Estep  wrote:

> From: Tony Estep 
> Subject: [Elecraft] propagation
> To: "Elecraft" 
> Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 10:15 PM
> I know this isn't directly elecraft
> related, but propagation affects
> everything -- anyway, it's 10 p.m here and I can hear
> Hawaii, Vietnam,
> Russia, and South America all within a few Khz on 15
> meters! Bring back the
> good ole days!
> 
> Tony KT0NY
> 
> 
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> aptitude to
> become a derivatives trader." -- Barack Obama
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Re: [Elecraft] Propagation and further DX News

2006-05-26 Thread Bob Nielsen 


On May 26, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Bekir Kemal Ataman wrote:

I finally managed to contact a US station (KP4BME) yesterday with  
10 Watts

on 20 meters. The propagation is just beautiful nowadays.

As for the special event stations I'll be running, the callsigns  
TC150HP
and TC150DD have been approved. I expect to setup the antenna on  
Monday and
start calling CQ on Tuesday as TC150HP from Haydar Pasha train  
station.
I'll be on the air between 30 May and 30 June, mainly after 14:00Z  
until
the time I get tired or XYL starts shouting on the phone, which  
ever is
earlier ;-) However I may not be able te get on the air everyday.  
So, do
look out. I intend to call at frequencies around 7.092 and 14.270,  
if they
are available, since these are the national calling freq.s I expect  
to be
on 20 and 40 m mainly but I might give other bands a try, too, to  
make good

use of the propagation.

I'll probably be using a Yaesu FT-857, since my K2 lacks the 100W  
option.

However, I am just too fond of the K2, so you never know ;-)

Hope to meet you on the air.

73!
deTA2RX



If there is any way you could activate one of those callsigns over  
the 27-28 May weekend, you could probably make a large number of  
contacts in the WPX-CW contest:


 

That prefix would be quite popular in this contest.  I operated that  
contest in the QRP category from France two years ago with my K2 and  
a small coil-loaded vertical antenna inside my hotel room.  I had  
limited operating time and didn't make very many contacts (enough to  
receive a certificate however), but it was a lot of fun experiencing  
contesting from a non-US perspective.


73 - Bob, N7XY






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