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

BDK wrote:

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

Hmmmmmm... That's nice. But all I said was that some of you folks out there
have awfully generous S meters! ;-)

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

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