[MRCA] M&S Today 1/6/26

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

My home QTH can be noisy and I found my 20 meter vertical delta loop has a much lower noise level by 15-30 dB than my Inverted-L transmit antenna. The receive signals are slightly lower but the signal to noise is much better than my transmit antennas. I keep on forgetting to switch to the transmit antenna when it is my turn so I got hold of an Apache Labs ANAN-100D which has diversity receivers and have been using that for the net with Thesis software.

Was there a net controller today? I did not hear one and on one relayed me a call.

I did hear and speak to the following stations who were Q5 here in Leonardo NJ:

- WA2EJT
- WA1VNO
- W2GIY
- KB1MCT/P in a park in Western CT
- WA3YRE

Temperature about 39 F and going up this week.

Hope conditions are better on Thursday.

Mike N2MS




> On 01/06/2026 12:20 PM EST MilComm Guy <m38inmaine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> All I could hear from DE Maine today were a couple of faint signals, received about an inch of snow overnight and currently 26DEG.
> 
> 73
> Mark
> K1HF
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