Hi there,
What was the frequency of the Altoona repeater?
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PATRICK GORMLEY 
  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 
  the wildest sporadic e I heard was when weather for St. Louis, Kansas City 
  and Galveston Texas came in and I was able to work stations on 52 simplex 
  from the d.c. are with an omni at 70 feet in Little Rock, St. Louis, Kansas 
  CIty, Galveston and Port Arthur Texas and juarez mexico.  Back in 1979 we 
  had band openings associated with Huricanes Frederick and David allowing me 
  to work a fellow running a 1-watt handitalkie going into Metropolitan 
  Airport in Detroit via the altoona repeater all from Deale Maryland about 20 
  miles south of Annapolis.
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  From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
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  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 
  > 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 
  > 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
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  > From: "Gary Ketler" <[log in to unmask]>
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  > 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.
  >