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We are near the bottom of the 11 year solar cycle
thus very poor "skip" conditions on the upper bands See URL: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/solcycle.html Or http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/2006/04/mid.pdf One might hear some local line of sight signals but not like the "old" days -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "Dave Edwards" wrote in message ... I have not had an 11 meter antenna up in the air since around 1972 or so. I have a clear memory of all the heterodynes and yacking on every channel that used to go on. I plugged one in again around 1985 or so, because a buddy of mine had one in his boat, and used it keep it on channel 5. Not much difference. Anyway, last weekend...for yucks, I hooked one up to a longwire. I did not hear a single person on any channel! Perhaps it is the cross polarized wire antenna. So, I shot a wire over a branch, and hoisted a CB vertical antenna ..Astron or Antron...something like that...a pretty good fiberglass antenna! Still, other than a general high noise level...no signals! Channel 19 used to be jammed...even with a handheld whip antenna! Is CB no longer?? Perhaps it might be useful again!!! Anyone check the band out lately? ....Dave |
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