[NLRS] The New Normal?

[Mary Brown]

I was watching it on FT8... hurting too much to jump in, tweaked my back
again... Sigs weren't strong, -15 was about the best I saw and I was looking
into some nasty electric fence hash(let the neighbor know he probably has a
bad ground again, he needs to quit using whatever random hunk of rebar he
can find in the scrap pile, told him a real ground rod is only $10). 

-----Original Message-----
From: nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Arliss
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:15 PM
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [NLRS] The New Normal?

Speaking of unexpected Qs, did anyone else take part in the 6m opening to
Alaska and Japan last night? I don't know when it started, but it lasted
until 0730 UTC last night/this morning.

All my 6m antennas were down, but I was still able to work Alaska using my
30m beam on 6m. I was seeing up to 25 Japanese calls per
15 second period on FT8, but was unable to work any of the JAs. 
Most of the JAs were -10 to -20; I'm sure that I could have worked some if I
had had one of the 6m antennas up in the air.

I, too, miss the CW and SSB activity, but as Jon mentioned in his note, FT8
isn't all bad.


73, Arliss  W7XU
     EN13


On 5/31/2020 12:55 PM, Jon Platt via NLRS wrote:
> ... Also, FT8 has shown that amazing contacts can be made
> that never would/could have occurred before except maybe at
> the peak of a good solar cycle (ie, via F2).  When FT8 started
> to make big gains on 6m, I was stunned to see what was being
> worked.  Who would have thought that working Europe would be
> possible at the bottom of the solar cycle (albeit it helps if
> you live in a favored location like northern Texas, etc)...
>
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