[MAMS] Hepburn troop forecast

[Dave Sublette]

Hi Zack,

Bob and I were on. I think we were on about the time you were.  We 
didn't hear you.  Sorry.  The 1296 beacon near Dayton was strong this 
morning. There should have been N-S enhancement from Wisconsin to the 
South.  Bob tried CQing to the SW after 8 AM EDT, but I didn't hear him 
work much of anything.

Maybe next time.

73,

Dave, K4TO


On 8/1/2012 10:54 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I got set up on a hilltop in EN60af this morning at about 6:30 am CDT. I
> listened around on 2m and heard the WD9BGA beacon very strong and a new one
> I'd never heard before - N9SS/B on 144.275 in EN50es. I called you and
> K8TQK on 144.135 and 144.200 and heard nothing. I heard nothing at all on
> 144 MHz anywhere other than the beacons I noted.
>
> I listened for the K9MOT beacon in EN52 on 1296 and didn't hear it. I
> listened for the St. Louis beacon on 10368.900 and thought I heard it in
> and out of the noise at 6:30, but it rapidly disappeared completely. I
> tried to work AF4JF and K0PFX who were in EM48sq in St. Louis, on 10 GHz.
> We had no luck.
>
> So this morning was a washout and the tropo that was predicted didn't seem
> to materialize for me anyway. Maybe next time.
>
> I haven't been up to the hill in the area of EN50xf/EN60af in a while. They
> are building wind generators in that area now. Hopefully they won't be a
> deterrent to signals. I suspect that hill is not the greatest place for
> microwave operation anyway except maybe for rainscatter. But I can get
> there quickly.
>
> I'll be on the big hill in EN50rl for the ARRL UHF contest on Sunday from 6
> or 7 am CDT through contest end. Maybe we'll have some tropo then. I can
> always hope.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>