[AMRadio] 40 meters

[Jay Bromley]

HI Guys,
I've been tuning around a lot the last couple of days and looking for QSO's
to listen to while I am working in the shack.  I sure miss those 15m
openings from the Spring!  However I bet this fall that band will shorten
back up and tons of AM signals will return.  I was up last night and heard
some 4's on 3.885.  It was hard to understand them at times, but they were
talking about broadcast gear and lack thereof.  

In time the signals built up and the noise, while high, slowly went down
some.  It was around 3 a.m. when I went to bed.  

So it was fun to lurk while soldering.

73 de w5jay..

-----Original Message-----
From: amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:amradio- Yesterday morning I
noticed the signals with the local group were down considerably on 75
meters.  I think things are supposed to get better by the end of this
weekend.

Brian / w5ami



On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jim,
> Have not had a rig fired up in a few weeks but friend told me tonight 
> that 75 m. was in the toilet today.  Almost no signals at all.
> However he said the high bands seemed okay.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Jim Wilhite <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:
> > I have a regular contact daily with a station about 100 miles away.
>  Today he suggested that we might not make the schedule because of a 
> solar flare.
> >
> > So just after lunch, I tuned from 7.1 to 7.3 and heard only one 
> > station
> very weak that I could not hear well enough to get the call.  I just 
> tuned from 7.0 to 7.3 and heard only two CW signals one IDed while I 
> was listening and he was a 9 station.  Both were very weak and 
> atmospheric noise is high.
> >
> > Anyone else's receiver devoid of signals?  I am in Central Oklahoma.
> >
> > Jim
> > W5JO