the altoona repeater is 147.15 I believe the pl is 123.  
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From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!


> Hi there,
> What was the frequency of the Altoona repeater?
> Trippy, ac8s
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>  From: PATRICK GORMLEY=20
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 7:56 PM
>  Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
> 
> 
>  Back in 1974, I was tuning around the fm band and heard Tulsa Oklahoma =
> 
>  Galveston Texas and port arthur texas.  When I got my ham ticket, =
> perhaps=20
>  the wildest sporadic e I heard was when weather for St. Louis, Kansas =
> City=20
>  and Galveston Texas came in and I was able to work stations on 52 =
> simplex=20
>  from the d.c. are with an omni at 70 feet in Little Rock, St. Louis, =
> Kansas=20
>  CIty, Galveston and Port Arthur Texas and juarez mexico.  Back in 1979 =
> we=20
>  had band openings associated with Huricanes Frederick and David =
> allowing me=20
>  to work a fellow running a 1-watt handitalkie going into Metropolitan=20
>  Airport in Detroit via the altoona repeater all from Deale Maryland =
> about 20=20
>  miles south of Annapolis.
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>  From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
>  To: <[log in to unmask]>
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:51 PM
>  Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
> 
> 
>  > Yeah, I enjoy that also.  Back in 1978 I think it was, the sporadic =
> E was=20
>  > so
>  > good that there were Florida stations on our Central Michigan =
> repeater.  I
>  > listened to a couple Florida stations on FM broadcast band, and the =
> weird
>  > thing was, when the  ionization level started to disintegrate, it =
> did so=20
>  > at
>  > a pretty rapid pace, but it was still slow enough that I caught some
>  > Virginia FM stations as the skip completely disappeared.
>  >
>  > Steve, K8SP
>  > ----- Original Message -----=20
>  > From: "Gary Ketler" <[log in to unmask]>
>  > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>  > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 5:53 PM
>  > Subject: Re: It's Sporadic E time, Folks!
>  >
>  >
>  >>I liked to do FM broadcast dx.  I haven't had any sporadic E =
> openings in a
>  >> few years now.
>  >
>