Hi All
I worked w 0 O Special event station from Frankenstine MO on 7045 at 1800
EDT tonight, weak but readable.
73, Albert, W A 7 F X B / 4
Greenville NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Band Conditions
> Phil:
>
> Well, if we hang in there, increased solar activity will come.
>
> We just happen to be at the bottom of the cycle still, and, as far as I
> can
> remember, the bottom of this cycle has been especially long.
>
> Maybe that will mean the peak will be long too.
>
> Here's hoping!
>
> 73 from Tom NBehler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>
>
> It sure sounds like something like a flare but I don't follow the reports
> like I used to. I just tune the bands, check the beacon frequencies, and
> can easily tell what's going on with most of the bands that way. I got my
> novice and general about 6 months apart back in 1966. Early in 1967, I
> started getting on 20, 15, and 10 meters. Man, I worked thousands,
> literally, thousands of DX stations that last half of the sixties just
> running about 150 watts output with my Drake TR4, wire antennas, and a
> little 3 element tri bander at 28 feet on the roof. In the early
> eighties,
> I had a 4 element 20 meter beam only at 40 feet but in one year, mixing
> sideband and CW together on 20 meters, and running 700 watts output with
> an
> old Heathkit Warrior, 4 811A amp, I worked 295 countries just in that one
> year on that one band. Worked 20 meter long path every morning and got
> Russians and Europeans giving me literally 50 over S9 reports at times.
> That was back in the days you had to work around the wood pecker, too.
> Then
> in the early nineties, with my 2 element 40 meter beam at 70 feet, and
> running 1,000 watts output, I worked stuff on 40 I never knew was
> possible.
> First Russian sideband signal I work during a CQ Worldwide phone contest
> was
> literally 40 over 9. I actually checked my band switch because I thought
> I
> was on 20 instead by mistake, haw. These kind of conditions makes the HF
> ham dream of more sunspot activity; lots more.
>
> Phil.
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Band Conditions
>
>
>> Hey, Phil:
>>
>> That's interesting. At first, I thought the snow did in my dipole, but
>> my
>> swr's are still good. Wonder if there was a solar flare or something.
>>
>> The bands really shouldn't be this crappy, given what people have been
>> telling me over the last few days.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:42 PM
>> Subject: Band Conditions
>>
>>
>> Tuned 17 meters mid morning and copied some side band activity, nothing
>> strong, and heard a few CW signals including a couple of weak Europeans
>> and
>> a few stateside signals. By afternoon, every band I tuned was terribly
>> weak. I normally, no matter how bad the conditions are, hear at least
>> one
>> or two S9 signals at the least. Not today; all day.
>>
>> Phil.
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>>
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