[MRCA] [MMRCG] morning conditions 1010 this morning

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

When I cannot get up a quarter wavelength wire antenna I use a Hustler whip against 4 radial wires and get decent reports on 60, 40 and the higher bands. It find it isn't efficient on 80 meters. I got it 35 odd years ago to use on a sailboat when cruising with a friend and it has held up over the years. If you have a Hustler try it out.

Mike N2MS

> On 01/31/2026 3:01 PM EST Meir Ben-Dror WF2U <wf2u at ws19ops.com> wrote:
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> I went out to the shack through 6" of fresh snow and got on 18.145 (I set up the Harris RF-350/355 station on that frequency after the end of the net on 7.296) at 13:07 EST and heard Dale KW1I calling, with 57 signal, ambient noise was S3. Dale heard me also 57. Then I heard him call K2MS, who was mostly under the noise, and I couldn't make out much of his transmission. Ilistened until 13:25 but I heard no further stations.
> My antenna is definitely not optimal for 17 meters - I used my 80 meter EFHW antenna, which works OK on 40 meters, and that's what I use on the MMRCG net, but at least it was very easy to tune it with the manual antenna tuner, for the SWR to get down to 1:1 to make the RF-355 autotune happy.
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> By the writing of this email we have 8" of snow on the ground.
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> 73, Meir WF2U
> Landrum, SC
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> On January 31, 2026, at 14:09, Ray Fantini via groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> wrote:
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> > When I am wrong, I am wrong! And I was big time wrong about seventeen meters. 18.145 is not a practical alternative for forty; several took part in today's test, and I was only able to copy and work K9WT down in Florida. He was able to copy KW1I, KE8ULR, N2MS and WM6P Go figure, just like I was told. Did also have a short QSO with KF5FOM down in Arkansas just like he was next door but no love from the north or west.
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> > Ray F/KA3EKH
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> >  Ray,
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> >  Good day to stay indoors and run a test. As expected 17 is long.
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> >  I worked:
> >  WM6P
> >  K9WT
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> >  I did not hear:
> >  KW1I
> >  KE8ULR
> >  KA3EKH
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> >  Mike N2MS
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> >  > On 01/31/2026 10:11 AM EST Ray Fantini via groups.io <rafantini=salisbury.edu at groups.io> wrote:
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> >  > AM station right on 7280 but they just signed, LSB station on 7284 and AM QSO on 7295. May listen to 7280 for a bit but splatter from the 7284 slop buckets is all I hear.
> >  > Will be trying 18.145 at 1300 hours local and seeing if anyone else wants to try that band.
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> >  > Ray F/KA3EKH
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