the altoona repeater is 147.15 I believe the pl is 123.
----- Original Message -----
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
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> 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!
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>
> 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.
> >
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