[K3CAL] NVIS Day

Wade Mahaffey kb3vle at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 16:55:15 EDT 2024


Cool. I tried 7.175 around noonish from Leesburg, but wasn't able to make
contact.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 15:52 Dale Sollars <dsollars21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good time had by all!  Dale KC3RKP
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 15:43 Andrew Charland <acharland182 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well... weather didn't turn out to be what was being predicted all week.
>> Shocker!!! About 10 degrees cooler then forecasted and a lot of rain
>> clouds. Around 1:30 the lightning detector started sounding off and radar
>> showed a sizable cell moving in so we packed it up and called it a day.
>>
>> Didn't sound like 40 meters was very active. Couple, not many folks, were
>> calling CQ and they weren't getting much of a response at all. Didn't try
>> 80. Maybe we should've. We did get a couple of "NVIS" contacts. Baltimore,
>> Western Pa, and 3 others using both QRP and full power so the NVIS approach
>> was working and we got a chance to get out. Better then nothing I suppose.
>>
>> Thanks to those who came out and joined in. Dave W3PQS, Dale KC3RKP, Dick
>> W3RBR, Ed WB6NCO, Brian KB3WFV and Lisa, Abe KC3WOA. Thanks to Dale for
>> bringing his 710 and some portable power and Dave for bringing power.
>> Prolly could've run the parking lot lights off all the power we had!
>>
>> Hopefully next year will be better.
>>
>> Next outing will be Field Day. Broome's Island Community Center June 22nd
>> and 23rd. Mark your calenders! Should be a great time.
>>
>> Andy
>> KC3WRX
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