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Last night was an incredible night for ducting on the East Coast.

I talked from Baltimore to Long Island on 146.505 simplex using a
three element coathanger yagi at 15 feet off the ground with 50 watts.

Radio is an Icom 2100H. Nothing fancy here.

I was bringing up repeaters by the threes and fours calling CQ.

Also, 11 meters was active yesterday afternoon, and I talked to
Indiana from my mobile on 38 LSB. Now calling as 104 in Baltimore.

Can't say I'm not radio active.

Now that the weather has changed, I don't expect good ducting tonight.

According to the Hepburn Tropo prediction page
http://www.iprimus.ca/~hepburnw/tropo.html
things may be good anyway. If it's not raining, I'll set up again tonight.

This guy does a real good job predicting tropo ducting.

6-meters has been ROCKIN' here in the Northeast as well. ALOT of
'double-hop' from 2-land to 6/7- land.


"Scott in Baltimore" wrote in message
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Last night was an incredible night for ducting on the East Coast.

I talked from Baltimore to Long Island on 146.505 simplex using a
three element coathanger yagi at 15 feet off the ground with 50 watts.

Radio is an Icom 2100H. Nothing fancy here.

I was bringing up repeaters by the threes and fours calling CQ.

Also, 11 meters was active yesterday afternoon, and I talked to
Indiana from my mobile on 38 LSB. Now calling as 104 in Baltimore.

Can't say I'm not radio active.

Now that the weather has changed, I don't expect good ducting tonight.

According to the Hepburn Tropo prediction page
http://www.iprimus.ca/~hepburnw/tropo.html
things may be good anyway. If it's not raining, I'll set up again tonight.

This guy does a real good job predicting tropo ducting.

Hello Hamguy:

Keep talking like this and I'll have to put up my 6 meter Intercepter
10K Ground Plane Antenna and give ya alls a call. What freq, I usually
listen in on 50.125 USB

Jay in the Mojave

Hamguy wrote:

6-meters has been ROCKIN' here in the Northeast as well. ALOT of
'double-hop' from 2-land to 6/7- land.


"Scott in Baltimore" wrote in message
...

Last night was an incredible night for ducting on the East Coast.

I talked from Baltimore to Long Island on 146.505 simplex using a
three element coathanger yagi at 15 feet off the ground with 50 watts.

Radio is an Icom 2100H. Nothing fancy here.

I was bringing up repeaters by the threes and fours calling CQ.

Also, 11 meters was active yesterday afternoon, and I talked to
Indiana from my mobile on 38 LSB. Now calling as 104 in Baltimore.

Can't say I'm not radio active.

Now that the weather has changed, I don't expect good ducting tonight.

According to the Hepburn Tropo prediction page
http://www.iprimus.ca/~hepburnw/tropo.html
things may be good anyway. If it's not raining, I'll set up again tonight.

This guy does a real good job predicting tropo ducting.

Keep talking like this and I'll have to put up my 6 meter Intercepter
10K Ground Plane Antenna and give ya alls a call. What freq, I usually
listen in on 50.125 USB

Anybody got an RCI5054 that they bought thinking it was a 2950?
I'll try one through a cheap 2 pill linear I've got sitting around.

-Scott, from the land of the 3.