[ADXA] Band Conditions

[WB5JJJ]

Yesterday, I had unhooked all my antennas several times during the day.  At
one point, things kinda settled down a bit and I hooked up my 6m beam after
seeing plots showing several stations on in the middle part of the
country.

Not seeing any local activity, I went to 10m -- nothing, and several other
bands that should have been pretty active where I heard a couple of very
weak stations.  By that time another front moved through, so I went to the
shack and disconnected the 6m antenna and moved to my antenna switch box to
unhook those 6 antennas and realized that I had not even turn on the
antenna switch or connected the antennas.  No wonder the bands were
"dead".  So, what I was hearing was on a 10' of LMR400 cable dangling in
the air from my radio to the vicinity of the switch.

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73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
Cell - 479.857.7737


On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 9:02 PM Steven Rutledge via ADXA <
adxa at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Is my receiver broken or are we having the worst band conditions I think
> I have ever experienced.  I couldn't get a signal today on 10, 12, 15,
> 17 and barely on 20.  I'm on 40 right now and there is almost nothing on
> except the US.  I hope its the bands and not my radio.
>
> Steve, N4JQQ
>
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