[MRCA] M&S Today

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Last summer I could work the net with 20 watts and people could hear me. This year I need 80-100 watts to be readable. Recently I am having issues hearing stations in northern New England - VT NH and ME even when operating at low noise locations.

We are nearing or at the sunspot peak. Could the increased solar activity increase signal absorption in the D layer? 

I also particpate in a net at 5:30 PM local time and the conditions are much better as the sun sets.

Mike N2MS


> On 10/24/2024 1:41 PM EDT Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> Don’t know what’s happened to sixty the last couple years, can do communications within one hundred miles or so but not much beyond that. Often I hear stations like N2MS or K3TZJ a couple states over but almost never hear WB2JWU down here in MD. Couple years back he was always booming in down here. The 7296 Saturday USB net has had reduced coverage too but still works for most stations, at least it works if we don’t have issues from the AM community.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> Easy one today, not a single copy, just noise here in Maine.
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> 73
> K1HF
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