[BARC-List] Northeast Tropo Ducting forecast for FIELD DAY

[Bill Ricker N1VUX]

[Special forecast for AR Field Day ... BCC BARC, CEMARC, SKYWARN, SME2.
 Please excuse dups.]

FDNY booming into Hingham all night last night. KC2FYA left a message for me
on the Boston repeater from Hackensack NJY, relayed by the midnight madness
net.  RUC forecasts that it should fade shortly, and return after 19Z or 20Z
(3-4PM).  

The weather for amateur radio Field Day (July 26-27, in a park near you, see
http://ema.arrl.org/fd ) is not looking so good, as the weather will bring
ductable layers to the area as frontal passages, so enhancement is not in
phase, enhancement will be directionaly, front-aligned, and shortlived. The
good news is that prime operating times Saturday 4-10PM however (26/20Z-
27/02Z) looks like a strong possibility for 2m SSB+FM ducted propagation.
North country might even get 6m ducting, and LI Sound might also.  Opening
will close norty&west-to-south&east, cutting ALBANY as early as 7pm (23Z),
ISLIP staying open until Midnight (27/04Z) and PLYMOUTH(MASS) until the wee
hours.  \
[Eta/Mid 25/06, Eta 25/00, GFS 25/06]

(For the scanner folks, monitor 146.550 + 52.525 for Field Day if you don't
have SSB; 144.150 through 144.300 and 50.100-50.200 for USB. Plus of course
the 10,15,20,40,80m HF ham bands, and UHF even. And come visit us! Guests are
more than welcome. The website http://ema.arrl.org/fd  has a clickable map of
all Easter Mass field day sites open to the public. In Worcester County, the
Worcester EOC and Mt.Wachusett will be up too.)

Please send reports of VHF/UHF DX.  Reports of great DX on Field Day may be
included in my talk on this topic at ARRL NE DIV Convention, www.boxboro.org,
in August.

73 de BILL N1VUX
This is an experimental forecast product based on Navy formulae applied to NWS
computer model forecast sounding files (Eta/EtaM & AVN/GFS Bufkit).