[Clegg] Zeus and Interceptor.. .on the air.

[manualman at juno.com]

If you're going to monitor anything, I would monitor the prop maps. The
old days of just monitoring 50.125 really doesn't work anymore.
Right now Northern CA is working into Europe. Other openings across the
U.S.
http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/mapg.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&ML=M&Map=W2L&HF=N&DXC=
ING2&GL=N
Get on the air, call CQ, and make some noise.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 06:00:50 -0700 jim lockwood <jmlckwd at gmail.com>
writes:
> Haven't heard much activity here (Kalifornia).  I've had an SDR 
> dongle tuned to 50.125 most of the week and except for a few locals 
> 
> trying to force an opening, I haven't heard anything.  Of course, my 
> 
> luck, yesterday when the band might have been open, I wasn't 
> monitoring.
> 
> Jim - k4ccf
> 
> 
> At 09:42 PM 6/7/2017, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> >6 meters has been open daily for the last several weeks. Right now 
> 12:30
> >AM EDT, 6/8/17, it's still open big time up and down the West 
> coast,
> >Mountain states, Central states, a bit into the Southern states, 
> and
> >Canada. Also looks like there was a multihop sporadic E contact 
> from the
> >Northwest into England. Tuesday, band was open from all over the 
> U.S. and
> >to Japan, South Korea, China, Africa, and Europe. Although a lot of 
> the
> >contacts were done on JT65, the point is the band was open to 
> these
> >spots. Fire up the rigs and bellow out some CQ's. You can't make a 
> 6
> >meter AM contact unless you get on the air and make some noise.
> >
> >Pete, wa2cwa
> >
> >On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:10:36 -0700 jim lockwood 
> <jmlckwd at gmail.com>
> >writes:
> > > You're a "6" and I'm in 6-land... east of Placerville a short
> > > ways.  Where are you?  I haven't had any reason to fire up my 
> Zeus
> > > and Interceptor in a long time.
> > >
> > > Jim - k4ccf