[NLRS] Morning tropo

[VE3FAL-Fred]

I noticed the same this morning on my APRS map, I had stations that I copied 
direct from near Duluth and across the lake in MI..I see regular stations on 
the map from there that make variuos hops, but when I checked the paths they 
were direct..
10 meters is open as well again.


Fred
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:19:02 -0600
  Bill Davis Jr <cqbilld at msn.com> wrote:
  
  
  
  First ... no big QSO list ......
  
   Started my morning listening to the "Morning group" on 3.930Mhz about
7:50am. The group starts up at 8am but two guys were on early, the first 
words
to each other, "the guys on 2m SSB must be having a great morning" .... OH
CRAP! What am I doing listening to 75m.
  
   Quickly checked the FM rig ... yep Duluth repeater and Hibbing repeaters
loud and FQ off the back of the little cheap yagi 2m 3elem 2m FM antenna
pointed NW. 2 is up in that direction!
  
   I did have the 2m SoftRock panadapter on, (guess what antenna, yep EME
antenna again). Quickly went down to 144.200 called some (on correct antenna
as well as a couple on EME yagi) nil ... Logged onto the  ON4KST 144/432 
chat
and saw that some guys were on.... Worked KA0KYZ EN33 S-7 144.200 with my
antenna on Chicago, the direction of the APRS enhancement. Worked Vince 
K0SIX
5-9+ (direct heading) 144.200 then QSY `144.210.
  
   Gary time .... (W0GHZ) worked on 10Ghz sigs 15db above the noise. 
Slightly
better than "normal", but we have been skunked for a couple weeks on 10Ghz
except for snow scatter and an occasional QSO. Last night I discovered my 
dish
may have been a couple deg more easterly than it should be ... maybe "left
over" from snow scatter QSO. Gary had a keyer problem that took a bit of 
time
and I was fussing with the dish heading... maybe close to 10min later we go 
to
902.... 1296 wasn't on, I was distracted ...
  
   I call Gary and standby ..... B O O M ..... Gary is 65db above the 
noise!! I
may have heard him louder, but I doubt it! HUGE signal. 5-9+10 on FM. We go 
to
1296 (always weaker there) and he is 60db above the noise , or more on the 
K3
SoftRock panadapter. LOUD LOUD LOUD. We try 432 ... 5-9+10 then 2m. 2 wasn't
much above normal.
  
   We sign I do some more calling on Called W9ZIH on the phone, no answer,
Called Steve N4PZ on the phone no answer, Called Barry VE4MA .. out of the
shack, back in 20-30m. I fire up the 8877 and call toward KC and Chicago on
144.200 CW and nil ..... Barry calls. The RRV had tropo last night. checks 
on
432 and 1296 showed signals but nothing special. While I was trying to
optimize heading on 1296, for a while I was hearing Barry peaking straight
West 270deg vrs the normal heading 321deg ... it lasted a couple min and was
gone. Nice 20db above the noise steady sig, where direct was just above the
noise with lots of QSB. Aircraft scatter???
  
   So didn't work anyone out of the usual, BUT the signals from Vince and 
Gary
were far from usual!
  
   11:13am Duluth repeater still above normal but no longer FQ. Now 49deg 
and
sunny ... WOW
  
  73  Bill  K0AWU  EN37ed
  		 	   		
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