Dennis,

If you’ve seen any of W3LPL’s recent F2 predictions for 6 meters this fall and winter you know to BE READY!!

If you haven’t seen them, let me know and I’ll forward them to you. They were distributed by Mr. Bernie, W3UR.

73 Joel W5ZN

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2024 9:57 PM
To: ADXA <[email protected]>
Subject: [ADXA] rotator solution

Boring alert - this isn’t interesting to anyone but me…..   My VHF rotator quit turning and it was a cable problem.  I didn’t look forward to finding the break because the cable goes through a tunnel made of plastic gutters, and then underground.   When I started looking at it, it took about 5 seconds to see where the jacket was cut, right outside the window at ground level.   It was probably a weedeater incident.   Anyway, it’s fixed now except for reinstalling the motor.  

It’s a little late in the year to put the 6M yagi back up but that’s probably what I’ll do.  With high sunspot numbers, I wonder if we’ll have any F2 on 6M this fall and winter.   2M isn’t very exciting.   There is very little CW or SSB activity, and I can easily work the same dozen or so stations out to <>400 miles most mornings on FT8.   I don’t plan to put 432 back up either, at least for now

Just got Jarvis on 17M CW - not many callers.  Didn’t hear him well enough on 12 CW to call.

73,

Dennis/RZ