N8KDV wrote in message ...
Diverd4777 wrote:

S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

Nothing really unusual about that. They generally put in a good signal
here on 9580.

What was unusual this morning was having to go out and do some minor
antenna repairs. The PL-259 on my 200' wire must have worked its way out
of the matching transformer due to repeated heating and cooling. This
mornings 9 degree temp put the finishing touches on it and it was not
making a good connection. At first I thought my coax had failed (it's
buried), but after doing some continuity checks, and finding out that
the PL-259 seemed just a tad loose, I quickly got it up and running
again.

It's damn cold out there in the wind and snow!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B
"I swear by, not at, Drake receivers"

Seems evry time I do antenna work it is winter. Minnesota style. Out
of all my work I only remember one time doing summer antenna work.
Guess what I have plans to do in a couple of weeks?

John
BRRRRRRRR.

How do you like the R7?

WetOne wrote:

N8KDV wrote in message ...
Diverd4777 wrote:

S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

Nothing really unusual about that. They generally put in a good signal
here on 9580.

What was unusual this morning was having to go out and do some minor
antenna repairs. The PL-259 on my 200' wire must have worked its way out
of the matching transformer due to repeated heating and cooling. This
mornings 9 degree temp put the finishing touches on it and it was not
making a good connection. At first I thought my coax had failed (it's
buried), but after doing some continuity checks, and finding out that
the PL-259 seemed just a tad loose, I quickly got it up and running
again.

It's damn cold out there in the wind and snow!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B
"I swear by, not at, Drake receivers"

Seems evry time I do antenna work it is winter. Minnesota style. Out
of all my work I only remember one time doing summer antenna work.
Guess what I have plans to do in a couple of weeks?

John
BRRRRRRRR.

How do you like the R7?

It's a good receiver for when DX conditions are truly tough.

And now after 1400 they have switched to 9590. Also in // 5995 with a
good signal too.

Diverd4777 wrote:

S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

- Check it out !

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
And now after 1400 they have switched to 9590. Also in // 5995 with a
good signal too.

Diverd4777 wrote:

S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

- Check it out !

I'm hearing them as well on that frequency.
--
73's
Rick

Drake R8 R8B
ICOM R75
Yaesu 7700
Hammarlund SP-600-JX-17

"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"

S4 -S5 on 9590/11660/9475. Traditional (drum, sing) music
S2 -S3 on 11750

grtz,
Hans, Amsterdam the Netherlands

"Rick KB1KIL" schreef in bericht
...

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
And now after 1400 they have switched to 9590. Also in // 5995 with a
good signal too.

Diverd4777 wrote:

S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

- Check it out !

I'm hearing them as well on that frequency.
--
73's
Rick

Drake R8 R8B
ICOM R75
Yaesu 7700
Hammarlund SP-600-JX-17

"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"

In article , diverd4777
@aol.com says...
S-5 S- 7 here on the east coast
Almost as clear as a local / regional AM Station

- Check it out !


In Ohio, on my R71a sitting on the kitchen table with a 10' hunk of wire
shoved into the center of the SO-239, without the preamp, it was 30 over
on 9580, with it, it was pegged out. I haven't seen signal strength like
that for a long time. I went into the other room and put the 515 on
11.175 USB, and the base (Just went out of my head, can't remember where
it was at, as soon as I hit send, it will come back) was 60 over on my
sloper, and the attic dipole, AND the short dipole too! I could hear all
kinds of planes talking in the background. If I ran the volume up, they
were all totally copiable, but when one of the strong ones keyed up, it
bloew my head off.

It's really strong everywhere I tried today, must be the cold temp and
snow cover. It sure is quiet too...

Too bad it's not like this in the summer..

BDK

Some of you folks out there have awfully generous S meters! ;-)

Steve
Holland, MI

In article , N8KDV
writes:


Some of you folks out there have awfully generous S meters! ;-)

Steve
Holland, MI

Must be them pills you get from the Internet...!;-)

- Actually, it Might be all the snow / rain in the west is adding to the
reflectivity of the ground..


dan ( NYC)

Diverd4777 wrote:

In article , N8KDV
writes:


Some of you folks out there have awfully generous S meters! ;-)


Must be them pills you get from the Internet...!;-)

- Actually, it Might be all the snow / rain in the west is adding to the
reflectivity of the ground..

The snow and the rain have very little if anything to do with propagation at HF
frequencies. They may have an effect at VHF and above.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

In article ,
says...
Some of you folks out there have awfully generous S meters! ;-)

Steve
Holland, MI




Did you listen today?? For the 3 or so hours I did, from 7-10, signal
strengths were huge, way above normal, at least here. I also hear a lot
more traffic than normal on the ATC freqs, lots of pacific, hell, lots
of everywhere!

BDK