Oh yeah, I hear you, Lloyd.

I would really love to take a more active role in terms of running the 
20-meter net, but conditions have just not favored that for me lately.

In addition, we will now be spending as many week-ends as possible out at 
the RV, where I won't have access to my fixed set-up, including my 
amplifier.

At any rate, I'll try to participate and help out as much as I can over the 
summer, either on 40 meters, or maybe on 20 if conditions improve enough for 
me in the coming weeks.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: 20-Meter Net, May 6


>I thought I was hearing you, but your signal is usually pretty weak here on
> 20, and with the extra absorption and QRM it was really not possible to 
> copy
> you.  I didn't check 10 meters, but you probably had a combination of F2
> propagation to Pennsylvania and sporadic E to Texas.  Or maybe the east
> coast was double-hop E sub s.  DX conditions have been very good on 20 in
> the evenings, and 15 was still open to the Guam area after 11 PM last 
> night.
> But higher ionization brings more absorption on low frequencies, so this
> mostly makes sense.  We will never all hear each other on the 20-meter 
> net,
> but sometimes we come closer to that goal than others.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John J. Jacques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 12:10 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: 20-Meter Net, May 6
>>
>> Hi Lloyd, that was me, that you thought you heard after WA8YUZ, I could
>> hardly hear anyone from here.  It is interesting the way the lower bands
>> act when 10 meters is wide open!  GRIN!  We had several Pensylvania and
>> South Carolina stations check into our 10-10 net this evening wich is at
>> 1800 local time, or 01:00 Z.  At the same time, we were hearing stations
>> in Texas and Oklahoma.
>>
>> 73:
>> J.
>> John Jacques
>> Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
>> "Where Cat Is,  Is Civilization!"
>>
>>
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