[50mhz] 50mhz Digest, Vol 77, Issue 23
K3ZXL
dan-schaaf at att.net
Tue Jun 29 13:10:11 EDT 2010
When is the proposed RV Grid Run?
Dan Schaaf
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> 1. Talk about timing! (John Geiger)
> 2. UT4XXA (r miles)
> 3. Re: [FFMA] Talk about timing! (Al)
> 4. noise problem on 6 (Joe De Gregorio)
> 5. KC2AQU on 50140 Calling CQ (doc at kd4e.com)
> 6. NN7J Calling CQ on 50138 (doc at kd4e.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [50mhz] Talk about timing!
> To: ffma at yahoogroups.com, sixclub at mailman.qth.net,
> 6meter at yahoogroups.com, 50mhz at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: WD5USA <wd5usa at sbcglobal.net>
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> FM25 has long been a blank spot in my 6 meter grid map. It looks like it
> contains part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina and some (probably
> marshy) mainland. I can't recall even hearing a station on from FM25
> before.
>
> This morning I was on pingjockey.net getting some things set up to run
> WSJT (If necessary) for the K5N expedition to DL88. WB3BEL was logged in
> there and listed his grid as FM25 but it didn't click at that time. He
> had a successful 6m QSO with EM13 which is just to my southeast. I then
> go to the DX cluster and see WB3BEL being spotted on 50.153 and as being
> in FM25. Suddenly that clicks! He was just on pingjockey.net. I go
> there and send a message to him but he has logged out. Have the radio on
> 50.153 but not hearing a thing.
>
> Figure it is time for the morning shower. It is already 11 am but hey, I
> am on summer break. Can't do that, the XYL is in the bathroom but I do
> hear my Daughter's Guinea Pig, Lollipop, squeaking loudly because I
> haven't given him his daily carrot yet, so I go to the kitched to get
> them. Feed Lollipop one carrot and realize it is pretty big, so I figure
> I will save the other piece for later since we are almost out of carrots.
> I walk through the shack on the way to the kitched to put the other carrot
> back in the refrigerator and and suddenly on a Es burst I hear WB3BEL
> weakly calling CQ! Work him quickly, he gives me a 52, and he is about
> the same here. By the end of the QSO he is back in the noise and gone,
> but I have FM25 in the log!
>
> Out pets give us many wonderful things in life, mine just gave me a rare
> grid square!
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:15:05 -0400
> From: r miles <greenacres113 at charter.net>
> Subject: [50mhz] UT4XXA
> To: 6m <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <20100628181505.42TBM.8250086.root at mp17>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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>>From the big opening Sunday a week ago. They are now listed on QRZ
>
> K9IL
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>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:38:08 -0500
> From: "Al" <wa4ewv at wa4ewv.net>
> Subject: Re: [50mhz] [FFMA] Talk about timing!
> To: <ffma at yahoogroups.com>, <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>,
> <6meter at yahoogroups.com>, <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: WD5USA <wd5usa at sbcglobal.net>
> Message-ID: <F5346B9E76B140D78041A0B9A04E7908 at wa4ewv.net>
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> Good Morning John and the FFMA group.
> When I read John's email about FM25, I immediately went to my worksheet
> for the below mentioned trip! I'll be there.
> Even though I am not very active on 6 meters from home, my XYL and I for
> the past two years have been planning an RV trip from EM70 (home) up the
> east coast all the way to Nova Scotia. Our plans are to try to stop in
> almost every square we pass through for at least one night. The "rare"
> ones more.
>
> Even though our departure is not scheduled until mid August, and I don't
> think Es is real good, I will do my best on SSB. HSMS is my 'forte', hi.
> N5SIX is going to loan me his 6M brick, and I will run either a 3 element
> beam or if possible a 5 element beam. I have a push-up mast that is (can
> be) mounted on the back of the RV with a rotor.
>
> I will have internet all the way, and will be on PingJockey.
>
> Here are the proposed grids in order. (Note that the return trip has not
> been planned, but will come south through the smokies.)
> EM90, 91
> 4 grids: EM92, 93 and FM02, 03 intersection hopefully. Never been there,
> so don't know the lay of the land.
> FM13, 14, 25, 26, 27,28
> FN21, 43, 54
> Cross the border into Canada
> ==
> FN65, 75, 85, 84
> FN74.
> ==
> I think FM13 is the rarest, and since there is no RV park there, we will
> stay in a motel for about 3 days and operate from the RV in the parking
> lot.
>
> Total route distance up is 2,700 miles.
>
> I hope that this trip comes to fruition! Like I said, we have been
> planning to do this for a couple of years.
>
> You know, when people from the "north" come south, they are called
> "snow-birds". Now, when we, who live on the gulf coast, go north, we are
> called "oil-birds"!
>
> Best 73,
> Al
> WA4EWV
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Geiger
> To: ffma at yahoogroups.com ; sixclub at mailman.qth.net ;
> 6meter at yahoogroups.com ; 50mhz at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: WD5USA ; stanw5zf at hotmail.com
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 11:31 AM
> Subject: [FFMA] Talk about timing!
>
>
>
> FM25 has long been a blank spot in my 6 meter grid map. It looks like it
> contains part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina and some (probably
> marshy) mainland. I can't recall even hearing a station on from FM25
> before.
>
> This morning I was on pingjockey.net getting some things set up to run
> WSJT (If necessary) for the K5N expedition to DL88. WB3BEL was logged in
> there and listed his grid as FM25 but it didn't click at that time. He had
> a successful 6m QSO with EM13 which is just to my southeast. I then go to
> the DX cluster and see WB3BEL being spotted on 50.153 and as being in
> FM25. Suddenly that clicks! He was just on pingjockey.net. I go there and
> send a message to him but he has logged out. Have the radio on 50.153 but
> not hearing a thing.
>
> Figure it is time for the morning shower. It is already 11 am but hey, I
> am on summer break. Can't do that, the XYL is in the bathroom but I do
> hear my Daughter's Guinea Pig, Lollipop, squeaking loudly because I
> haven't given him his daily carrot yet, so I go to the kitched to get
> them. Feed Lollipop one carrot and realize it is pretty big, so I figure I
> will save the other piece for later since we are almost out of carrots. I
> walk through the shack on the way to the kitched to put the other carrot
> back in the refrigerator and and suddenly on a Es burst I hear WB3BEL
> weakly calling CQ! Work him quickly, he gives me a 52, and he is about the
> same here. By the end of the QSO he is back in the noise and gone, but I
> have FM25 in the log!
>
> Out pets give us many wonderful things in life, mine just gave me a rare
> grid square!
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:49:07 -0400
> From: "Joe De Gregorio" <w3jo at verizon.net>
> Subject: [50mhz] noise problem on 6
> To: <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
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> I assume everybody knows what power line leakage noise sounds like.
>
> I have a problem for about a year now, and wonder if someone else has
> had this situation and can offer some help.
>
> This 'noise' appears about every 40 kHz. and is about 5 kHz wide, all
> through the 6 meter band, and down to about 48 mhz. It has a small drift.
>
> It is evidently on a timer, as it comes on daily at the same time, and
> off at the same time.
>
> Recently the on/off time has changed.
>
> I can get an approximate direction of the source, but cannot locate it
> while driving around in that location.
>
> Any suggestions for my problem would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Joe...W3JO
>
> w3jo at verizon.net
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:57:00 -0400
> From: "doc at kd4e.com" <doc at kd4e.com>
> Subject: [50mhz] KC2AQU on 50140 Calling CQ
> To: World Wide Six Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: "'Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW'" <w5tfw at arrl.net>, 6m
> <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <4C29FBAC.4060109 at kd4e.com>
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> KC2AQU on 50140 Calling CQ
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
> "Communicators must defend free speech
> or risk losing freedom entirely."
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:16:43 -0400
> From: "doc at kd4e.com" <doc at kd4e.com>
> Subject: [50mhz] NN7J Calling CQ on 50138
> To: "Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW" <w5tfw at arrl.net>, World Wide Six
> Meter Club <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: 6m <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
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> NN7J Calling CQ on 50138
>
> --
>
> Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
> "Communicators must defend free speech
> or risk losing freedom entirely."
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