[HCRA] More good news on the ducts!

[Daniel Sullivan]

Has anyone spotted the other end and the extent of the ducts?

Dan S.
KO1D


----Original Message Follows----
From: "DJ Toman" <don at toman.com>
Reply-To: DJ Toman <don at toman.com>
To: "Jerry Muller" <k0tv at arrl.net>, <k5ma at capecod.net>
CC: YCCC <yccc at yccc.org>
Subject: Re: [YCCC] Coastal Tropo Enhancement
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:38:00 -0400

Out here in the water (in the middle of the duct)
I have been having trouble with LOCAL FM stations
being drowned (well...smothered) by DX. For example, the local Cape
station (WXTK, 95.1 ) is being eaten by one on 94.9.
The local NPR station (WCAI) on 90.1 in Woods Hole is being devoured
by WGBH on 89.7. The FM band sounds
like 20M on the top of the sunspot cycle in CQ WW weekend.

My inexpensive FM radios don't have a lot of selectivity.

Conditions like this are more normally seen the second weekend
in June. Usually, the water has warmed by now...but I guess not this
year.

Don...    K2KQ-east, Martha's Vineyard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Muller" <bushmustgo at k0tv.com>
To: <k5ma at capecod.net>
Cc: "YCCC" <yccc at yccc.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [YCCC] Coastal Tropo Enhancement


 > Jan,
 >
 > If it's coastal tropo and the FM stations are open, then everything from 
2
 > meters up is open. You probably can't hear the W3CCX beacons because the
 > tropo isn't going that far inland.
 >
 > Normally that type of tropo ducting starts at the higher frequencies and
 > works its way down. As the duct starts small and gets bigger with time,
the
 > first band to open is the highest one. Odds are 144, 222, 432, 902, 1296,
 > and 2304 are all open.
 >
 > 73, Jerry, K0TV
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "K5MA" <k5ma at capecod.net>
 > To: <yccc at yccc.org>
 > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:20 PM
 > Subject: [YCCC] Coastal Tropo Enhancement
 >
 >
 > > Strange coastal tropo today (noon +) -- FM broadcast stations in CT and
on
 > > Long Island are much, much louder than normal today here on the
southwest
 > > side of Cape Cod (FN41QO).  BUT.. I don't see any enhancement on the
W3CCX
 > > beacons (Philadelphia FM29) on 50, 144 and the higher bands.  The
beacons
 > > are their normal strength, but the FM BC stations are really super loud
 > here
 > > (WLIU 88.3, and all of the CT Public Radio stations (89.1, 90.5, etc).
 > >
 > > Maybe the ham bands will open later!.. dunno
 > >
 > > de Jan, K5MA
 > > k5ma at capecod.net
 > >
 > >
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