I don't think I am a bother to the neighbors, but I don't know. Nobody
has said anything, but it sounds like you have quite the active
neighborhood! I had an analyzer here a few years ago, and had fun playing
tricks on my neighbors with tones on 900 MHz testing, and with my mom and
step dad, but that has been about all. Right now my equipment consists of
a THF6A and a magmount, and even charged up I doubt I bother anyone, but I
managed to get into an unknown repeater, and all I knew was that it had a
different PL here in Michigan that is different from the norm here in the
Detroit area of 100 HZ and was getting someone from Northern Michigan.
Scanning is fun too, and in a state where you have a digital APCO-25
trunking system things can be interesting during the summer, and at any
time when someone from out of the area roams to the cites near you, or
someone in your area switches their radio to an out of the area talk
group. I have even managed to get a low power TRS about 50 miles or so
from me in use at a federal prison.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Kevin Kwan wrote:
> The band conditions have been wonderful at night. I've had fun with 15
> meters and I worked a 6y5 station on 20 meters at three this morning. That
> was a station in Jamaica. I love working Caribbean dx, so I was happy about
> first the time in which I heard this guy, and of course the location in
> which I contacted. For that time of day on twenty is pretty strange, but of
> course summer is like that. So keep your ears open at night time. Since it
> summer you're going to get weird things like that. I have to operate at
> night cuz it's the only way I can loose my neibor 3 doors away. That guy
> likes working 40 threw the day so just to please his sorry ass, I operate at
> night since he's not much of a night hawk. I mean this guy sits on a 40
> meter net all day so I try not to bother him on 40. I might be able to duck
> him if I use eighty. I haven't tested out eighty during the day really since
> on this vertical, eighty is noisy. I can usually avoid my friend if I jump
> around from 17, 15, and 10. Of course he's my immediate problem but that's
> not all. A few doors from that guy there two operators that use 10 meter
> slow scan. A few doors away from them are 3 cb operators. So you people are
> lucky if you haven't neibors that are radio operators. That's one reason why
> I like echo link, I'll never get bothered by these people. Thank god they
> usually don't operate at night, then I have a fighting chance. Anyways,
> speratic openings are fun and there are lots now so keep listening.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:23 PM
> Subject: recent openings in the midwest
>
>
> Hi everyone, how have the band openings been in other areas of the
> country? Over field day weekend they were great, and I am referring to
> the tropo ones that we have experienced in Michigan and Ohio. Though I
> didn't get to participate in field day type things because of other
> comittments this weekend I did manage some long distance contacts with
> 2-meters!
>
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