[MAMS] Hepburn troop forecast

[Zack Widup]

I was wondering about the 144.135 frequency but since that is what I saw in
an earlier e-mail, I gave a shout there. I also shouted on 144.200 and
144.260. I didn't hear any answers.
:-(

I don't know how others found the conditions this morning, but I didn't
notice anything spectacular. The Hepburn forecast for Sunday at 1200Z is
unstable but possible enhancement in a band from my area to the west and
southwest. Maybe that will really materialize. Hard to say now.

The N9SS beacon on 144.275 is an odd little beacon. When I first heard it,
I thought it was someone tuning up. It's located in Peoria (EN50es). It's a
very low power beacon but I was hearing it well this morning in EN60af.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, mary boller <w9obg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was up here this morning as well, got to listening at 6AM  CDT and
> listened for a half hour, tuning all around 144-135Heard Zack and a few
> others after 7 but nothing far out.Are you always on or about 135?? and I
> do believe I have it right, you start at 7AM EDT which should be 6 AM here
> in the black hole of DX
> Wally W9OBG
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Dave Sublette <k4to at arrl.net>
> To: Mid-America Microwave Society <mams at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [MAMS] Hepburn troop forecast
>
> 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
> >
> >
>
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